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Look, I know everyone can get a bit peckish from time to time, but trying to eat a cricket ball as though it was a fruit of some kind is probably going just a wee bit far, no?

It's a shame too, as Afridi had been offering some good captaincy. Who knows, maybe he was the solution of Pakistan's ever-present captaincy difficulties. But how's he going to captain the team from the stands? Devouring leather won't get his team any victories....

An interesting thought posed by Stick Sports user Glinn. The question works for all team sports, so what are...

The brother of Australian One Day International opener, Shaun Marsh and son of former Australian opener and coach, Geoff Marsh, Mitchell Marsh is forging his own sparkling cricketing career. The 18 year old has impressed on the state scene recently for Western Australia, and was captain of the triumphant Australian U19 squad that won the U19 World Cup yesterday in New Zealand.

He had a fairly mediocre time of it over...

As we all know, Marcus North hasn't been up to scratch in that number 6 spot.

Truthfully, I don't think that he's going through a rough patch, I think that he's having technical problems: he has too high of a backlift. When his bat comes down to hit the ball, he can't time it right.

Plus, I've noticed that he doesn't block in front of his pad very often, hence how he gets out leg before wicket. For mine, drop Marcus North so he can gain...

Not all pot shots from the halfway line go horribly, horribly wrong...


... But the security team at this event must be the most inept bunch since the security guards at The Oval let The Web Millionaire, after 2853 pints, run on to the pitch to celebrate with England's Ashes winners in 2005:


Let's...