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India's promising medium-pace bowler Irfan Pathan
who is going great guns in international cricket
over a period of last one year, has achieved a
milestone that has gone unnoticed. Until now, that
is!
During the recent Dhaka Test against Bangladesh, he
captured eleven wickets - his first haul of ten or
more victims in a Test - of which as many as seven
were dismissed leg-before. It gives an idea of his
accuracy over line and length. Only five other
bowlers in the 125 year-old history of test cricket
have the distinction of claiming seven or more lbws
in a Test match. Incidentally , all of them have
achieved the feat in the last two-and-a-half
decades.
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