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Cricket: I'm in the Mahmood to KO the Windies; CHAMPIONS TROPHY: ENGLAND v WEST INDIES, AHMEDABAD, SATURDAY PACEMAN SAJID READY TO CEMENT ASHES PLACE.


SAJID MAHMOOD is hoping to rough up the West Indies West Indies, archipelago, between North and South America, curving c.2,500 mi (4,020 km) from Florida to the coast of Venezuela and separating the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico from the Atlantic Ocean.  with the same ferocity his famous boxing cousin Amir Khan Amir Khan may refer to:
  • Amir Khan (boxer), British boxer
  • Ustad Amir Khan, Hindustani vocalist
  • Amir Khan (Pindari), Indian ruler
  • Amir Khan (cricketer), West Indian cricketer
  • Aamir Khan, Indian actor
  • Amir Khan Lepzerin, A Kurdish ruler of Beradost near Urmia.
 decks opponents.

The new England strike bowler knows a big performance is needed against the Windies at Ahmedabad on Saturday to force his name onto the teamsheet for the first Ashes Test next month.

Mahmood, 24, put the skids under Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist last weekend and plans to dish out To serve out of a dish; to distribute in portions at table.
(Arch.) To hollow out, as a gutter in stone or wood.
to dispense freely; - also used figuratively; as, to dish out punishment; to dish out abuse or insult s>.

See also: Dish Dish Dish
 the same harsh treatment to Brian Lara.

He is being groomed to fill the breach for a third strike bowler in the England attack caused by injury to Ashes hero Simon Jones, and he knows felling top batsmen like Lara is essential for him to get picked for Brisbane on November 23.

Mahmood said: "When I was a kid, I watched Lara on TV. Now I have the chance to bowl at him and see how exciting it is to be up against the best players in the world.

"It is a buzz getting out any top-class batsman, and to get Gilchrist and Ponting, who are on top of their games, was a real confidence booster.

"If I get my chance and do as well as Simon, I will be pretty happy."

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ER, WHAT 'S GOING ON, LADS? ALL is not what is seems as it looks like bowling coach Kevin Shine is instructing Rikki Clarke how to pick the seam, while Kevin Pietersen has a nose for the ball' JUST SPARRING: Sajid Mahmood and his cousin, boxer Amir Khan
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Title Annotation:Sport
Publication:The Mirror (London, England)
Date:Oct 26, 2006
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