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...billows through the streets of Johannesburg's Mayfair district. Here in the heart of the city's Muslim enclave, the Afghan cricket team - the sporting world's favorite underdogs - are eating curry and naan. "It tastes just like home," says Hasti Gul Abid, a 25-year-old middle-order batsman...
...Despite these handicaps, they have been able to draw on seemingly limitless reserves of drive and ambition to reach their present position. "We will crush all the teams," says Abid's brother Karim Saddiq, a 25-year-old opening batsman, with the unshakeable belief that typifies the squad. "It's my mission to be player of the tournament." The players have already shown their mettle in South Africa, winning their first two games against Denmark and Bermuda with poised batting and destructive bowling. If they finish in the top four of their group - which also includes, the Netherlands...
...Afghans - indeed cricket fans regardless of nationality - are hoping that the miraculous momentum will continue. Says batsman, Raees Ahmedzai, 24: "In the last year we have played very good cricket and God willing we will qualify for the 2011 World Cup. We want to do something for our country. It has lots of problems, but we are very proud...
...Aside from a hit batsman and a pair of seeing-eye singles, Perlman has been flawless on the mound against Yale and holds a 4-0 lead, with Bulldog second baseman Justin Ankney leading off the inning...
...belief that Bradman was inclined to betray team-mates and cover his tracks. Were these grievances playing on Fingleton when he wrote The Immortal Victor Trumper, a biography of his cricketing hero? He could wait no longer than its second paragraph to proclaim: "To me, Trumper remains the greatest batsman who ever lived. Bradman could be rightly advanced against him, but whereas Bradman ... operated upon bowlers like a butcher at the abattoirs ... Trumper was like a surgeon, dissecting everything that was offered against him." This analysis seems wilfully obtuse. Ultimately, batting is about numbers. And in Tests, Bradman averaged...