Dubai, Feb. 28 -- Azmatullah Omarzai fondly narrates a story from his street cricket days when he made the most of a lucky break by picking up late wickets with his off-breaks to impress his elder brothers.
A decade later, Omarzai replicated the same trick at the highest stage, by picking up a spate of late wickets in Lahore to close the door on England's Champions Trophy hopes and keep Afghanistan in the hunt for the semi-finals.
Omarzai, now runs in with a much longer run up, swings the new ball and has blossomed into his country's leading fast bowling all-rounder. But the spotlight was turned on him on Wednesday night because he pulled out his old tricks, namely slow off-cutters - one banged in short to get the all-important wicket of ...