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After Shane Warne's retirement the Aussie's are facing a serious drought of spinners, since they do not have any world class spinners at present the latest crop of their batsmen is seriously deficient in handling quality spin hence compounding their problems.
In order to find a solution, last month Cricket Australia center of Excellence in Brisbane organised a spin summit in which Shane Warne, Stuart MacGill, Jim Higgs, Gavin Robertson, Terry Jenner, Peter Philpott and Ashley Mallett were present as delegates.
The agenda of the summit was to discuss the problems faced by the Australian cricket team in the spin department and to find an effective solution.
All the delegates unanimously agreed to the solution and he Doosra got killed in Australia.
One of the delegates pointed out the mediocrity of Australia's current crop of spinners and raised the question that why our spinners haven't been able to master the "Doosra" when Asian Spinners have moved on to "Teesra" and "Chowtha"?
Terry Jenner said " the solution is simple, lets coach our bowlers.
All of a sudden everybody looked toward Shane Warne.
SW " Why are you fucktards looking toward me? I am a leggie and besides I have always said that "Doosra" is not legal."
Terry Jenner " is there anybody else who can coach our spinners these mystery balls.
Staurt MacGill said "I am also a leggie so don't look at me.
Ashley mallett said "I have never seen anybody bowl a doosra so how can I coach it."
After a brief silence, Terry Jenner said "how about we propose ICC to limit one Doosra per over, remember when our batsmen couldn't face the bouncers bowled by the West Indian bowlers in eighties, one bouncer an over limit really helped us."
Shane Warne: But Asian teams will still have an unfair advantage over us as our bowlers don't know how to bowl the "Doosra". I'm telling you guys Doosra is not legal lets just banish it in Australia and propose ICC to banish this delivery.
Terry Jenner: But Shane how is it illegal? When the bowlers are bowling within 15 degree limit.
SW: Damn you fucktards you will never understand. Murali is a chucker they are all chuckers and if you don't do anything now that master chuckster is going to take 1000 test wickets.
Terry: But Shane we are not discussing Murali here.
Shane: I am telling you there is no other solution lets kill the "Doosra".
If we can't bowl it and can't coach our bowlers to bowl it, lets banish it.
Lets take all the unfair advantage from other teams, thats the only way we can become #1 cricket team in the world again.
by Wasim
How the "Doosra" got killed in Australia.
Finally, Shahid Afridi to lead Pakistan in T20's
After almost a month of deliberation PCB has finally announced that Shahid Afridi will lead Pakistan in T20's. Afridi was competing with vice captain Misbah Ul Haq for the job but Misbah's indifferent form and Afridi's performance in the T20 WC became the decisive factor.
This will be the first time that Afridi will lead Pakistan in any format of the game. Finally his wish realized after a long struggle.
Afridi now is an integral part of Pakistan's Odi and T20 team, he has a charismatic personality and a huge fan following, he has been in and out of the team through out his career until he decided to focus on his bowling and created a niche for himself. Now that his dream has realized the big question is will he be able to live upto it?
His chances of becoming a successful captain will depend mostly on his man management skills, his domestic record as a captain has been quite good , if I am not mistaken his team Dolphins has never won any tournament but they always reached the finals.
He is naturally aggressive and is extremely active on the field, he is also experienced and smart enough to lead Pakistan at this level. But the big question is will he be able to demonstrate the maturity and temperament which is expected from a leader or will he continue to bat without having any match awareness.
I think if he retains the same level of maturity which he displayed during the T20 world cup he will be fine and if not then it won't take long before his dream will turn into his worst nightmare.
Shahid should use this opportunity to establish himself as the future Test and Odi captain of Pakistan team and he can only do that if the team gives better results under him in T20's.
As regards Misbah Ul Haq he should step down as the Vice Captain of Pakistan team and should focus just on improving his form.
by Wasim
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