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Another five-run penalty
last year, mid-OctoberNice 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.
Bowl out!!!
3 years ago, mid-JulyTonight, cricket saw its first “bowl out”! The Twenty20 game between Surrey and Warwickshire was tied - Warwickshire, who I can only presume were set a revised target (Duckworth / Lewis) due to rain, tied the game with Surrey…and a football-style penalty shoot-out (hence “bowl out”) took place.
I only saw the final two balls - but the goal, if you’ll pardon the pun, is fairly obvious. Each team has to bowl at, and hit, the stumps. Tim Murtagh sealed the win for Surrey 4-3 - each side having bowled 12 times! Not that difficult to hit the stumps, is it? 
Murtagh tore his shirt off, lampooning around the boundary like a football freak! Amazing scenes! Should be more news on this tomorrow.
