“Another one goes, and I'm so underwhelmed that I can't even be bothered to use the obligatory exclamation mark after 'wicket'. All it took was the most rudimentary wicket-to-wicket hustle from Reekers, who is something of a corpulent Ian Austin, and Haq was cleaned up as he played miserably around his pads.”

— Rob Smyth

Cricket World Cup 2007; Group A: Scotland v Netherlands; Over-by-over: Scotland innings http://sport.guardian.co.uk/cricketworldcup2007/story/0,,2040562,00.html (22 March 2007)

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