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[Mike On Cricket] More Shoaib Akhtar quotes: Luckily for Shoaib it turns out that he has lots of fans around the world to make him feel better. "Internationally, I am tagged as a hard worker and someone who wants to perform and that's why people love me", he said. Hmmm.

[India Uncut] Mercurial: "Mercurial" is a classic cricketing cliche: Shahid Afridi, they say, is mercurial; so is Yuvraj Singh; and so are ShoaibAkhtar and Zaheer Khan. Well, early this morning I discovered another meaning.... "Oh, I've turned them on," he said, "but they shall take some time to come on. They're not like

[Live Everyday To The Fullest!!] Tea With Deeps-1!!!: running all the way from Pakistan, ShoaibAkhtar and the glamorous Czech model, Yana Gupta !! Together they promise to create a fiery combination on the show!!! Dee: Shoaib, first i would like... a friend in Yana, ill escort her there next time!! Dee: Shoaib, accusations are present that u "chuck

Outside Edge: As usual, a hero-worshipping nation switches off it's TV sets as one and go out to watch the movies. The story of how Mohammad Kaif's family switched off the TV just as thier son walked in and went out to see Devdas is stuff of legend. I take the middle ground - although I keep the TV on I lose hope and promptly fall off to sleep on the sofa. By the time I wake up Yuvraj and Kaif are still going and India need 80-odd to win in 70-odd balls - what happens next is written in golden letters in the history of Indian cricket.

Cricinfo - Headless Ganguly, and the fair and lovely worm: if we spare a moment to look beyond cricket, the tour was a showcase to changing emotions and perceptions. It was a pity that spectators cooled off to Test cricket after thronging the grounds for the one-dayers, but the warmth for the Indians remained. Cricketers have always been received with grace and affection in both the countries, but if this tour hadn't happened, thousands of Indians would have never experienced first-hand the hospitality of a neighbouring nation which had been out of bounds for most of them. Goodwill and friendship are empty slogans unless the common man feels it in his heart, and while it will be simplistic to assume that cricket has brought about a seminal change, it will be fair to say that cricket provided the window for both Indian and Pakistanis to see and feel the change.

Cricinfo - Towards a posthuman sport, or a better world?: Most of us who are against doping in sport feel that way because of our belief in a level playing field. But the level playing field is an illusion, because sportspeople who excel do so not only because of the hard work they put in (after all, so many people work hard) but also because of some special talents that they are born with - and those talents come from their genes. Eero Mäntyranta was clearly one of them; so is Lance Armstrong: his heart is one-third larger than normal, his aerobic capacity twice that of you or me, and his lactic acid production (lactic acid is what causes that burning sensation in our muscles when we over-exert ourselves) far less than average. (Being born with such physical gifts, who needs drugs?) The level playing field, thus, is not impacted so much by the diligent efforts of sincere people, but by luck - the special skills that you happen to be born with.

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