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Indexed  March 8, 2011

We have seen spinners bowling with the new ball. Wicketkeepers doubling up as opening batsmen. Spinners bowling in the power play is also not new. In fact this World Cup it self has seen many of these innovations in play; including Munaf Patel holding a catch while sitting on his butt; allegedly because there was no other way to avoid getting hit by the ball.But Pakistan have gone "out of the box" with their innovation.Following their game against New Zealand, they have decided to play without a wicket keeper.No this is not like India in the past and South Africa today where specialist batsmen double up as wicket keeper...   See the complete post here

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