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July 3, 2020 Afghanistan / Features

Can we pause for a moment and try and take stock of Mohammad Nabi’s ridiculous career?

2 minute readMohammad Nabi didn’t play for Afghanistan against Scotland in April 2019. Nothing too unusual there. Nabi had been at the IPL, playing for Sunrisers Hyderabad, and they’d qualified for the closing stages. Except it is unusual. It’s highly unusual. It was Afghanistan’s 112th one-day international (ODI) and Mohammed Nabi played

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June 29, 2019 Afghanistan / Pakistan

Mohammad Nabi’s wicket celebration is our favourite wicket celebration

2 minute read2019 Cricket World Cup, Game 36, Afghanistan v Pakistan

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June 1, 2019 Afghanistan / Australia

Steve Smith: the most despicable cricketer in the entire world

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September 29, 2016 Extras

Mop-up of the day – Sweet, sour, bitter, savoury

2 minute readA bitter-sweet mop-up of the day today, like someone’s spilt a honey-and-lemon sore throat remedy. Actually, maybe that’s sweet and sour. A sour-sweet mop-up of the day today. Sour James Anderson is out of England’s tour of Bangladesh and probably won’t be back until halfway through the India tour. No

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March 23, 2016 Afghanistan / Associates / England

Afghanistan are pillaging England’s tile improvements

< 1 minute readEngland appear to have sold you a dummy. Just when you thought they might be transforming into some sort of competent modern T20 side, they conspire to lose three wickets in an over against Afghanistan. Masterful stuff. The bowler was Mohammad Nabi, one of our ten World Cup players to

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  1. King Cricket on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 15, 2025

    Yeah, that's the nature of highlights, isn't it? Very hard to convey the slowly building tension of things failing to…

  2. Bail-out on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 15, 2025

    The second-most irritating thing about this Test, for me, is how poorly the tension was captured in the telly highlights…

  3. sam on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 15, 2025

    Dawson's Tweak.

  4. A P Webster on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 15, 2025

    Some of those 4th innings bowling figures should be illegal.

  5. Sam on The bowel-churning thrill of the runs Ravindra Jadeja chose not to score and the wickets England failed to takeJuly 14, 2025

    Meanwhile at Sabina Park. Windies 27 all out. Starc fastest ever Test five-for. Boland hat-trick. Good job they can’t bat.

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