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When Nasser Hussain first met Duncan Fletcher, it marked the beginning of a partnership that was to transform the English cricket team. They injected steel into the team; they gave it backbone. England became a hard team to beat - and they started to win test matches, at home and abroad. And yet Hussain, born in India to an English mother and Indian father was at first glance an unlikely choice for captain. There were, it s fair to say, doubts about his temperament. He was reckoned to be a hothead. Hussain wore his heart on his sleeve. The responsibility of captaincy kept him awake at night; he railed at critics of his hold on the No3 spot; and he took a stand in the moral morass over England s scheduled fixture in Zimbabwe during the last World Cup and he proved his doubters wrong. ....
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Will West Ham qualify for the Champions League? West Ham kept the dream alive by beating Burnley | Gareth Copley/Getty Images Back in 2005, England s cricketers took on Australia in The Ashes. There was a wave optimism ahead of the series, but that wasn t really anything new despite England s god awful record against the old enemy. In fact, it had been a good 18 years since that symbolic little urn had belonged to the Three Lions, with the subsequent couple of decades providing an unhealthy amount of heartache and toil. But something felt different that summer. England had renewed belief that they could take down an Australian side at the peak of their powers, largely because of the emergence of Kevin Pietersen and the increasingly consistent brilliance of all-rounder Andrew Flintoff. ....
10th anniversary of World Cup triumph: Didn't do anyone favours, time to move beyond 2011, says Gambhir | Cricket News indiatimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indiatimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Didn’t do anyone a favour by winning the 2011 World Cup, India needs to look forward: Gautam Gambhir The opening batsman was one of the heroes of the 2011 final on April 2, 2011, scoring 97 runs that set the platform for Mahendra Singh Dhoni to finish the game. Former Indian cricketer Gautam Gambhir | AFP File Photo Detachment comes easy to Gautam Gambhir just like the inside-out lofted shots over extra cover that he was famous for. And that’s one major reason why he cannot understand the immense sense of nostalgia around India’s 2011 World Cup conquest despite being among the chief architects of that momentous night that completes 10 years on Friday. ....