Following on from Afghanistan's qualification for the World Twenty20, as blogged about last week, the Guardian's weekly cricket roundup, The Spin, has a good piece about the various contributors from the cricketing world who have helped them get to where they are today. As the author Andy Bull points out in the comments below the piece, the team itself should get the bulk of the credit, but there are many people from the international community who have pitched in, and their work deserves some attention as well.
(Also in the comments is a fantastic response from one reader to the idea of Brian Blessed playing Mike Gatting in a film: "WHAT? Gatting's ALIVE!". Well it amused me anyway.)
Elsewhere in The Spin is the remarkable tale of New Zealand's Ewen Thompson and the kebab which hospitalised him, but not before he bowled 10 overs with it stuck in his throat. Much like the story of Afghan cricket, you couldn't make it up.
2 comments:
They just get better and better - http://www.cricinfo.com/icccont2010/engine/current/match/438893.html. That's astonishing.
It really is, the established minor nations are going to be looking over their shoulders now.
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