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Giving ‘em the finger
First and best: Dravid water to the carrom-ball© AFP What is a carrom-ball?“Carrom-ball” is the favourite constituent for the middle-finger-flicked conveying bowled by the Sri Lankan shaper Ajantha Mendis. While bowling this delivery, he holds the ball along the bed - the bed commonly covering gully - between moulding and digit finger, and flicks it with
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Waking up the neighbours
Rumesh Ratnayake marked with figure wickets in the intend © Wisden Cricket Monthly When Rumesh Ratnayake dived crossways the movement midway into his follow-through to verify a convey grownup offered by Kapil Dev on a Sept period in Colombo 22 eld ago, the grandness of the time did not directly provide in. It was exclusive when his joyous team-mates hurried to Ratnayak