Word: abided
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...Abid Baig is a salesman in a dried-fruits shop in Lal Chowk, the central shopping district of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir's capital. But Baig's real calling is as a stone thrower. A familiar figure at protests for azadi, or freedom, that regularly clog Srinagar's streets, 21-year-old Baig is angry, blaming the pervasive Indian security presence for choking off his chance at a decent life. His parents pulled him out of school when he was just in 10th grade because they worried that their only child would be picked up by police trolling for militants. Baig...
...while away the boredom, a few exiled young Afghans began picking up cricket from Pakistanis. Abid was among them, and an unlikely source of national pride was born. Smashed concrete is all that remains of the Kacha Gari pitch now, and the boundary is marked only by lumps of piled-up dirt. But to many Afghans, it is a deeply moving place. On a recent return visit, Abid knelt down, kissed the ground and said, as if still astonished, "I started cricket here...
...long, deep, echoing sound that billows through the streets of Johannesburg's Mayfair district. Here in the heart of the city's Muslim enclave, the Afghan cricket team - the sporting world's favorite underdogs - are eating curry and naan. "It tastes just like home," says Hasti Gul Abid, a 25-year-old middle-order batsman...
...country, many into neighboring Pakistan (from which they only started returning after the U.S.-led invasion of 2001). "At the time when the Red troops (Soviets) came, we fled to Pakistan and lived in Kacha Gari refugee camp...We thought we would never come back to our country," Abid says. (Watch a video about cricket in India...
...Despite these handicaps, they have been able to draw on seemingly limitless reserves of drive and ambition to reach their present position. "We will crush all the teams," says Abid's brother Karim Saddiq, a 25-year-old opening batsman, with the unshakeable belief that typifies the squad. "It's my mission to be player of the tournament." The players have already shown their mettle in South Africa, winning their first two games against Denmark and Bermuda with poised batting and destructive bowling. If they finish in the top four of their group - which also includes, the Netherlands...