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Well Pitched - a cricket blog

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  My Love-Hate Relationship with Lala Pakistani

  Posted: January 4th, 2012, 8:51pm MST by SledgeHammer

  Contributed By Azfar Adil (guest blogger) I am not a Shahid Afridi fan. Quite the opposite. He is everything that I believe is wrong in Pakistani cricket and, by extension, Pakistan at large. He is the personification of our modern style-over-substance culture: a culture that values a 10 ball 24 over a well constructed 100, Afridi over Misbah. Hum ghaas khayein ge magar bum banayein ge. What's particularly galling is the undeniable talent on display every time he laces up a pair of cricket boots. He tantalizes us with sparse occurrences of sanity in

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