Word: bowler
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...Cronje scandal prompted the International Cricket Council to set up an Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to go after illegal bookmakers. But rumors of match fixing linger. Former Pakistani fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz believes that South Asia's bookmaking Mafia still manipulates results and that a bookie is probably behind Woolmer's murder. "Where there is gambling, there is money," he says, "and where there is money, there is murder." Using cell-phone numbers that they discard daily, and a series of codes when speaking to avoid police detection, bookies in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Karachi and across the Arabian...
...Even before police announced that Woolmer's death had been the result of foul play, former Pakistan bowler Sarfraz Nawaz publicly proclaimed not only that Woolmer had been murdered, but also charged that he had been killed in order to protect the ongoing scourge of match-fixing. Sarfraz accused a number of Pakistan players of being involved in betting, and suggested that the team's lackluster performances against the West Indies and Ireland had been more sinister than simply a failure of technique on match day. Pakistani cricket officials angrily rejected such allegations...
...Despite claims by the International Cricket Council that it has eradicated match-fixing, suspicions persist that the practice continues. After Cronje died in a small plane crash in South Africa in 2002, some people saw the hand of South Asian organized crime at work. Former Pakistan fast bowler Sarfraz Nawaz alleged to reporters earlier this week that one of South Asia's bookmaking mafia rings is probably behind Woolmer's murder. Sarfraz claims bookies were manipulating results, and that five members of the Pakistani squad were involved. The team's spokesman, Pervez Mir, angrily dismissed Sarfraz's allegations, telling...
Supposedly, skulls have some sort of history as preppy iconography. Recently I was told that they are some how tangentially connected with English prep schools. But this, my friends, is America. I can deal with cheeky, sniveling hipsters wrapping their skull print scarf over a bowler hat, in an effort to disguise an extremely unflattering Edie Sedgwick-style haircut...
...like to think that decades from now I will tell my grandchildren about Warne, regaling them - perhaps even boring them - with tales of the bowler's relentless, ruthless ability. But there is part of me that wants them to be able to experience the drama and splendor for themselves. At his best Warne seemed immortal, as if he could play forever. In stopping, he becomes too much like...