Aussie jibes so blog standard; WICKETWHISPERS.Byline: Ashes diary ENGLAND'S 12th man at Cardiff, Bilal Shafayat Bilal Mustapha Shafayat (born 10 July 1984, Nottingham) is an English cricketer. A middle-order batsman and occasional medium-pacer who can also keep wicket, Shafayat was a former captain of the England under-19 side and is considered a promising young player . , has accepted undisclosed libel damages from Nationwide News, publishers of an Aussie website, for an offensive remark in a blog after the first Ashes Test. Shafayat's shuttle of fresh gloves and instructions from the dressing room spawned vineyards of Aussie sour grapes about timewasting as England's last pair clung clung v. Past tense and past participle of cling. clung Verb the past of cling clung cling on for a draw. But none of England's tactics to run down the clock were as crass as Aussie blogger David Penberthy's comment about Shafayat's appearance, which had connotations with terrorism. Penberthy apologised to Shafayat (inset), who donated his damages to schools cricket initiative Chance To Shine. |
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