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"I was not fast enough. But I was good at running. Some of my friends used to make fun that my run-up to the crease was faster than my deliveries."
The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, wanted to be a cricketer before he took up sprinting

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• de Villiers brawls but England scent victory
  A disciplined bowling performance by England limited their target to a gettable 197 on the penultimate day at The Oval. The one man to stand in their way was AB de Villiers who fell three short of a fine hundred, but with the weather forecast set fair, En
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Notes from the pavilion for October 22nd

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Links of note from the past 24 hours:

• Gatting’s MCC beat Cyprus…just - Mike’s actually getting <i>rounder</i>
• ‘We will have to play well to come out on top’ - So <i>that’s</i> how you win, John
• Why cricket? - New Zealand cricket | NZHistory - Some interesting notes on the history of New Zealand cricket, while doing a “brief history” of England and NZ for Cricinfo. ‘I tell the boys in summertime to play at cricket and play well, that those who are the best cricketers most likely will be the bes

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