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· ALLBLACKS.COM · GETTY IMAGES In the wake of their performance against the All Blacks in Dunedin, Fiji demonstrated their improvement in the last few years, and All Blacks halfback Brad Weber said he wouldn't mind playing a team of their quality every year. Whether that was in the Rugby Championship was above his pay grade, he said, but with so many players involved in European rugby and some of the best players in their clubs, they were a quality team.   Fiji showed, in Dunedin, they could compete at the highest level, and Weber said he was sur...

Fawad Alam celebrates his 100 against New Zealand in the first Test at the Bay Oval. He pulls Wagner’s short ball to the square leg boundary to reach his second Test century and immediately looks up heavenwards — whispers a prayer of thanks to the Almighty and takes off his helmet. Then Rizwan, his batting partner, hugs him. It was one of the most emotional hugs seen on a cricket ground, perhaps, barring the Imran-Miandad hug at the MCG after winning the World Cup in 1992. But the hug at the Bay Oval in New Zealand felt more personal. Rizwan physically expressed the elation at Fawad Alam�...

Fawad Alam. — AFP/File IT is seldom that anyone has to tolerate so much bitterness and anguish that Fawad Alam had to endure when he was unceremoniously thrown out of Pakistan Test side as long ago as November 2009 in New Zealand and since his return to the fold during the England tour this year, the left-hander with the most ungainly batting stance at the crease has literally lived on a knife’s edge. But who cares about how one approaches his batting rituals and how he stands when facing the bowlers. Shivnarine Chanderpaul was a prime example of someone having more or less the same unor...