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Earlier on the Mendis trail, there was evidence of the player's duck fixation. Not Peking duck, but a good ol' Lankan duck - innings where he refuses to score. Today, yet again, Mendis remained not out for no score. And it took him only three balls. It must be disappointing that he wasn't dismissed. Get out!
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Duck Mendis Duck!
Mendis, you're in the army now!'
Sir!
This is not cricket, this is war!
Sir!
We're not balling a ball, we're balling a grenade at you!
Sir!
What will you do when we ball a grenade at you?
Sir!
You will duck Mendis duck!
And from that day, Mendis tried to Duck Mendis Duck. It wasn't easy. His first two ODI innings that he batted, he scored 15 and 15. Till date, he has batted in 15 innings. Rest of the 15 he played in, he Did Not Bat - basically he Duck Mendis Duck!
Twice he batted but remained not-out on Duck Mendis Duck. But best of all, were the four times, like today, when he got out on Duck Mendis Duck!
Sir!
Yusuf Pathan 005
Make that Yusuf Pathan has five ODI ducks. That's a fair strike rate from 16 innings. Add to that two innings of 3, and you know Yusuf's the lad for the long run. Of course two not-out 50s can make you think otherwise, but I'm convinced this kid will play long as he scores nothing along with the occasional cloudburst, mostly in the IPL. A closer look at Pathan's lack of numbers, and there's a curious DNB 8 times. Wonder what would have happened had he BATTED more. More servings of Peking Ducks!
India beaten by a liar, stabber, world record holder.
Of all the people in this world, India got Runako Morton to beat them. Morton is no ordinary cricketer. He is an extraordinarily ordinary cricketer. To talk of his agricultural batting would cause more peasants to take their lives. He is the drought.
He is also a liar, and once lied about his grandmother’s death to pull out of the ICC Champions Trophy. Sure it was ICC and not IPL but why kill your granny when you can just as easily tell the truth and say “my batting is dead”.
This is the Morton that beat India. He scored 80 odd runs, with a not-out to boot. Don’t ask how he scored them, you just can’t watch Morton bat – is that why India let him score so many, they weren’t watching him bat?
The very Morton that holds the World Record for the most prolific ODI duck – 31 balls no run. That is the Morton I know and loath.
He was once arrested in a stabbing incident, but then he should be arrested every time he bats – those ugly, hellish cross batted drags, no less painful than the stabs Caesar felt. And what is left to say now for Indian cricket, “Et tu, Morton?”
Can’t wait for Fidel Edwards to win a game, with the bat.
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