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The wackiest earth? yes it

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The Cricket Paper Team
14 June 2019

Peter Hayter celebrates the ‘beautiful chaos’ of Pakistan cricket that showed itself again during the frenetic encounter with Australia in Taunton

Having a go: Wahab Riaz played well with the bat against Australia, but his efforts were all in vain after almost being run out, below
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With 51 runs needed from seven overs to pull off a memorable roller-coaster victory in their World Cup match against Australia at Taunton, and three wickets remaining, Wahab Riaz steered a slower-ball full-toss from Kane Richardson past backward point and set off like a ...

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