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WILLS WORLD CUP DIARY
ISLAMABAD, Feb 18 (AFP): World Cup cricket Diary pn Sunday:
CAMEL IN CRICKET SACRIFICE
A camel has been sacrificed by a Pakistan social welfare group to try and improve the team's chances of winning the cricket World Cup.
Pasban. a group linked to the Jamaat-e-Islanii religious party, handed out the camel meat to. the poor after the offering.
Tne group is already touring a 50ft bat, signed by Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and the team's players, around the country to whip up support.
ENGLAND'S CUP SIX-BACK
ENGLAND can boast a pack of six players who have reached a World Cup final — Alec Stewart. Graeme Hick. Neil Fairbrother, Phil DeFreitas, Richard Illingworth and Robin Smith.'Not so Mike Atherton, who watched the 1992 tournament on television while recovering from a back operation.
FLAVIAN’S FLAVOUR FOR DRAMA
FLAVIAN Aponso was at the subject of the most dramatic sequence of the tournament so far at the weekend.
The Dutchman was facing Kiwi Robert Kennedy, his tail up after Just taking his first wicket.
The first ball was cracked to the long-on boundary. The second almost yorked the batsman.
He was bowled by the third but a ho-ball was called and he had to rush back to his crease to avoid being run out. Ball foiir saw Aponso survive a huge lbw appeal and the next ended with a gift Of four overthrows after a push into the covers.
■ The drama subsided with two dot balls but four overs later he was in the thick of things again, caught at short midwlcket. Again he set off for the pavilion, again he was called back bout this time the umpire, who had thought there were not enough fielders in the inner ring, changed his mind and raised his finger at last.
GREIG GOES FOR THOSE BALANCED AU8SIES
FORMER England captain Tony Greig has tipped Australia as the top JVorld Cup contenders, cljjspite their gamble of forfeiting two points against Sri Lanka.
Greigargued: The Australian team is good enough to beat any side tn thjs tournament. He added: They seem the ihoftt balanced side. They may have lost two crucial points but they are capable of overcoming this disadvantage."
Mark Taylor's men lost the points when Australia refused to travel to Colombo after a devastating suicide bombing in .the capital.
FANS FALL FOR DUTCH TRIERS
HOLLAND'S gutsy side are already a hit with India fans. They backed the Dutch all the way during their backs-to-the-wall, run chase against New Zealand at the weekend, even when defeat became unavoidable.
No wonder the Dutch enjoyed it. Most cricket matches in Holland attract no more than the proverbial one men and his dog but they were chewed on by 20.000 crowed at Baroda on Sat-urdmr. i "hh'TiR said: "Would love to take this ciwd away with us — even whm
we did not nm o a i .Nilotic chance they kept on enjoying themselves."