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Edward Craig: Shah comfortable in Champions role

October 13th, 2009 by Edward Craig in Champions League, England

As Rob Smyth has argued on this blog, Owais Shah has had a rough deal from England. So it has been fascinating seeing him go about his business for the Delhi Daredevils.

In Delhi he is a star – an unarguable hero to the locals. He’s not as big a name as Sehwag, Karthik or McGrath but they still love him. And, like any normal person, that makes him feel relaxed and happy.

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Edward Craig: Score and order in Delhi

October 13th, 2009 by Edward Craig in Champions League

The scoreboard at the Feroz Shah Kotla stadium in Delhi is almost as watchable as the cricket – and certainly more entertaining than that slow-low pitch.

It is a huge, old-fashioned thing that looms halfway up the side of the imposing north stand. All the players’ names are painted in white on big metal strips in a quazi-batting order – if someone moves up or down the order, chaos reigns – with the basic match information buried somewhere in the middle. There is sense there, it just took four Twenty20 games to work it out.

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