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    Steve Harmison feels strongly about suggestions that he came out of one-day retirement in order to play the Stanford Twenty20 for 20

    Sep 7, 2008

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    Virender Sehwag goes a little bit bonkers

    By Will 6 months ago, 29 Comments »

    I suppose I should salvage what few Indian fans I have left by at least mentioning Sehwag’s blistering knock today. Truth is, I only caught brief glimpses of it - just as much fun can be had getting your head around the legalese of the ICL and county players - but it was the speed of his innings which most stood out. He only has two gears: quite fast and very fast. And his footwork - or lack of - was fascinating to watch. He barely moved them an inch, at least to those few scorching drives I witnessed, which tells us two things: he has a ridiculously good eye and fast hands, and the pitch is a screamer.

    There was one particularly deft back-cut (you can never have enough late cuts, I say) which sped past the lone slip for four - a model of timing, placement and bravado. His feet didn’t move, he just wafted the bat and it flew away for four. When you’re on a roll…

    Still, I was slightly alarmed by all the praise. “Sehwag is an all-time Indian great,” commentators gushed. Steady on. He’s unstoppable on his day, and if South Africa keep feeding him boundary balls he’ll give Brian Lara’s record a run for its money. But he’s no Lara.

    Is he?

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