Rahane scores hundred for Hampshire on debut

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Ajinkya Rahane had a memorable English County debut, scoring a hundred for Hampshire against Nottinghamshire in a Division One game. Rahane thus became the third Indian to score a hundred on county debut after Piyush Chawla for Sussex against Worcestershire and Murali Vijay for Essex against Nottinghamshire. Rahane, who had scored just 10 in the first innings, struck a patient 119 off 260 balls, hit 14 boundaries and shared a 257-run stand for the third wicket with Sam Northeast at tea on the third day.

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She is beautiful: Anderson about Broad in his book

“My God, she’s beautiful,” was what Jimmy Anderson thought when he first saw Stuart Broad with his flowing blonde hair, striking blue eyes and a perfect figure. Anderson revealed this in his new book, Bowl. Sleep. Repeat. The 36-year-old also wrote about off-spinner Graeme Swann’s ‘loudest fart’ during a team meeting. “The first time Stuart Broad walked into the dressing room, with his flowing blonde hair, striking blue eyes and perfect figure, I thought: ‘My God, she’s beautiful’. It’s surreal we’ve taken more than 1,000 wickets between us,” Anderson wrote in the book. About Swann’s fart during a team meeting, Anderson wrote: “I remember when Andy Flower had taken over and we were having a team talk. Flower required a respectful silence when he was speaking. Halfway through, Swanny farted. It was loud. To this day, the loudest fart I’ve ever heard. Flower looked at him, in borderline shock, and then paused. Swanny apologised. Flower continued but then reconsidered, stopped and turned back to Swanny, pointing his finger in his face: ‘Actually, that is out of order’,” Anderson wrote. — Agencies