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    Another five-run penalty

    By Will last year, mid-October Leave a comment on this post

    Nice observation from Jagadish:

    One of Inzamam’s first acts on returning to the Pakistan team for his farewell test was to accidentally palm the ball onto the helmet behind Kamran Akmal, thereby costing Pakistan five runs.

    38.4 Mohammad Asif to Prince, no run, outside off, and he gets the edge at last, falls short of Inzamam at slip, Akmal may have reached that if he had dived, the ball comes off Inzamam’s hand, rolls away and into the helmet, 5 penalty runs given

    The significance of this is that it was a rather uneventful act in comparison to the last time he/his team were involved in an act which cost five runs.

    Delicious irony and coincidence, considering this happened just one day before Darrell Hair withdrew his allegations of racial discrimination by the ICC.

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