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Antonym of a modern cricketer

Munaf Patel has taken 11 wickets in 13 matches for the Rajasthan Royals and Varun Gupta, in profiling the injury-prone Indian bowler in the Hindustan Times , writes that he is the antonym of the modern dapper cricketer.

Nishi Narayanan
25-Feb-2013
Munaf Patel has taken 11 wickets in 13 matches for the Rajasthan Royals and Varun Gupta, in profiling the injury-prone Indian bowler in the Hindustan Times, writes that he is the antonym of the modern dapper cricketer.

But a town bereft of possibilities - Ikhar in Gujarat - has bred in him a desperate hunger to succeed, as well as a self-defeating vaule system based on living by one's will - as was apparent when he "fled" home to seek mental comfort before a Ranji Trophy game before informing anyone.

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Nishi Narayanan is a staff writer at ESPNcricinfo