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Moin Khan is Cricket Analyst of the year


Former Pakistani Wicketkeeper Moin Khan was awarded the prestigious Cricket Analyst of the year award at a glittering ceremony held here at Faisalabad today. The award that had been instituted in 2003 by Mandira Bedi's Noodle Strap Association of Cricket Lovers carries a citation and a Book Prize - 'Understanding Cricket - C'mon Man' by the legendary Krish Shrikkanth. The award was presented to him by the erudite Javed Miandad, who had won this award in its inaugral year for having found an Irfan Pathan in every bylane of Pakistan.
Fellow students of the game like Rashid Latif, Ranjit Fernando, Navjot Siddhu and Mandira Bedi watched anxiously as the results were announced. Experts say that it was Moin Khan's vision that clinched it for him. His prophetic vision of the start of the decline of the the lowly Sachin Tendulkar is believed to be the clincher. This, because the novice Tendulkar walked after thinking he was out to some quality fast bowling on the leg side by the express fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar. However according the extremely knowledgeable Moin, Sachin walked only because he was scared of Shoaib '500 pound shoes' Akhtar. "It feels great to have received this award ahead of such students of the game as Ranjit Fernando and Navjot Siddhu. Now I can apply for a job to the PCB or may be even the ICC... yay", said the jobless Moin before regaling the audience with prophetic predictions about the game.
"Finally something is going into the Pakistani way", 'commented' former captain turned eloquent commentator Rameez Raza, a man of enviable profundity when it comes to the game of cricket, also a member of the jury that voted in favour of the famous wicketkeeper. Other members of the jury - Mohinder Amarnath, Javed Miandad, Shahid Afridi and Raju Chacha were unavailable for comment.
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Siddhu said…
Hahaha! Didn't know u blogged, dude
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u have a g8 sense of humour for cricket related issues:)
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