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175/6 off 26 overs.
Smth gone, Cairn gone.
Kumble 3 wickets, Harbhajan 2 wickets.
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looks like MCC is gonna win by big margin.
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Dravid gone. Harbhajan strikes again.
188/7
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Shoaib Akhtar 5 0 31 0 (3nb)
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INT XI needs 127 of 17.4 overs, 2 wickets in hands
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The bottom line is that shoaib was a total failure, absolutely toothless and devoid of any sort of serious venom……
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^ yaar, give it a rest. Continue Shoaib bashing in his dedicated thread if you have to.
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How can you say that he was a total failure?
Just because he didn't pick up a wicket
Did you watch the match?
Shoaib bowled with real pace and that why smith in the commentraty box was saying that shoiab was bowling with extreme pace and although the speed gun was showing 95 miles it felt more when he was bowling. Holding said the same thing about him.
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^ I didn't watch the match, I believe in your and Ehsan bhai's words. How did he end up yielding 31 runs in 5 overs? Were those runs by lucky edges/byes?
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oh bhai jan..what do you mean “did i watch the match”…bhai sahib, for your kind information, i was in the ground in lahore throughout the match…whatever
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Is he a bowler or BMW 7 series that ppl looking at 550+ HP ???
You are right, ppl come to get entertained by an ‘aeroplane’ running in the field, not to see wickets falling or run being scored etc etc.
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To all the Shoaib fan’s here is somethingto cheer about and for his critics this is just another example how quality players are treated with respect
Did it ever occur to ya all why Shoaib and Sami were invited for this tsunami Charity match and none of the current playing, virtuous, pious heavy weight-11 were not? Hmmmmmm…
Anyways, here are some excerpts of this report:
http://content.cricinfo.com/england/content/story/211113.html
MCC v International XI, Lord’s
Looking at the bigger picture
Roving Reporter by Andrew Miller at Lord’s
June 14, 2005
Twice in the space of 24 hours, the English summer has been graced by two remarkable matches, both of whose subtexts were more significant than the actual result. Down at the Rose Bowl on Monday evening, a baying amphitheatre was the setting for Australia’s humiliation in the Twenty20 Ashes curtain-raiser, a match of raw passion and startling possibilities. Ricky Ponting dismissed it as a bit of fun, but you could sense he doubted his own judgment.
Up at Lord’s, on the other hand, there was no doubting that fun was the primary concern for a sun-drenched audience of 20,000, not to mention the 22 luminaries mock-jousting out in the middle. Dressed all in white - a distinct rarity for a one-day match these days - we might at times have been witnessing the bicentenary of the Eton-Harrow match, which takes place at Lord’s this Saturday, especially when Brian Lara became the tenth and final member of the International XI to turn his arm over. It is not for nothing that he has been limited to 60 deliveries in his 15-year Test career.
But there was, of course, a serious side - and that wasn’t just the sight of Shoaib Akhtar hurtling in off his full run-up and bowling 93mph bouncers in a pointed, televised, prod to the Pakistani selectors. Six months have now passed since the devastation caused by the Asian Tsunami, but the suffering for the millions displaced on that day goes on. Cricket’s reaction then was magnificent, with the original disaster appeal match at the MCG taking place a mere fortnight after the waves had subsided. And it was magnificent now. By raising more than £465,000 in pre-sold tickets alone, the MCC fixture went a long way towards ensuring that the awareness lived on.
**He was quite right too - the game may have finished 15 overs early, but as the happy throngs wound their way back up to St John’s Wood, it was clear that the sight of Shoaib in full flight and Lara in exhibition mode had provided enough happy memories for one day. “I can’t claim I had much control over Shoaib!” Fleming joked. “I’m not sure it was entirely his pride at playing for MCC, but it was an interesting perspective to watch from first slip as he opened the throttle.” The embarrassment of losing to Bangladesh on his Worcestershire debut on Sunday might have provided a more pertinent incentive. **
But, for all the blood and guts imagery that poured forth in the papers this morning, only one was truly a matter of life and death.
Andrew Miller is UK editor of Cricinfo
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Anyone who watched the full match must have noticed something besides shoiab attitude in the match and that was the commentators comments. Although he bowled 5 overs and unlikesome people who base their comments only on the basis of the internet scorecards, the commentators were constantly praising him. There were alot of bowling performances which on scorecard were much better than shoaib’s such as kumble,harbhajan gayle but everyone who watched the match must have noticed that appreciation for the 3 spinners who took 9 wickets for MCC still wasn’t equal to the appreciation shownn by the commentators for shoaib. It was really good to see shoaib back in action. He was looking fitter and was bowling with firepower. Wish you best of luck shoaib
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Inzamam, Youhanna, Afridi, Malik, Razzaq, Rana were not invited (or was it that they were not selected for the XI?) and M Sami was in the playing XI 
speaks aloud about the nature of the event.
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yes… because the Inzi, Yoyo and Afridi who were invited couldn’t make visa arrangements in time owing to the WI series that concluded just days before the event.
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Bhai it was a Charity match, that is why all the charitable players were invited.
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Turning into another Shoaib thread. Best to close it.