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September 6, 2007 England / India

Robin Uthappa totally unarsed by insane amount of pressure

< 1 minute readWhat is it with ridiculously young Indian batsmen? They just think they can come over here and chase down 300 plus one-day scores without so much as a hint of knock-kneed panic or paralysing defeatism. Yuvraj Singh and Mohammad Kaif are prime examples and yesterday Robin Uthappa, 21, shrugged his

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