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Thursday 28 August, 2008
By  Dinesh Nambisan   22:09 | 10/Apr/2007 |  2 Comment(s)
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Paris Hilton & Britney Spears

And what might they have to do with cricket, you might ask? Well, read what Osman Samiuddin @ Cricinfo has to say on this:

It's strange, in fact, how India and Pakistan resemble each other so. On the field, there has been a spooky sameness; results and performances in South Africa were nearly identical, the Champions Trophy and World Cup, both failures. Both batting line-ups struggle in alien conditions, as fielders both are poor and both leaders increasingly embattled and embittered. Both now rebuild.

Off it, they are cricket's Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. One, pure monied trash, influential for no other reason than having too much of it, the other straight-up trailer trash, cricket's true basket case. They are tabloid fodder, stumbling from one front page to another: religion, player factionalism, spats, coaching intrigues, politicking, doping and even possible murder. How much of the news that you have read about these two sides recently has been about their cricket?

Right. Hopefully, the comparisons stop right there :-)

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