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The Drop Machine - Kamran Akmal

We must first pay tribute to the man who made it all possible – the Maharajah of Missed Chances, the Don Corleone of Dropped Catches, the Earl of Err, the Pharaoh of Fumble, Lance Corporal Granite Hands himself, Kamran Akmal. (Copied from ESPNCricinfo.com) Let us count his Dropped catches and Missed Stumping. 1) http://www.espncricinfo.com/engvpak/engine/match/225255.html?innings=1;page=2;view=commentary 63.2 Collingwood was on 79(Final Score = 186) Umar Gul to Collingwood, no run, gone, out, no! Dropped! Leg-cutter, outside edge straight to Kamran Akmal ? dreadful shot from Collingwood I might add ? and, somehow, Akmal shelled it. Deafening silence from the captain Inzamam-ul-Haq, and not much more being said from the slips. Ooh, that?s a shocker 2) http://www.espncricinfo.com/engvpak/engine/match/225257.html?innings=1;view=commentary 38.2 Collingwood was on 21(Final Score = 31) Shahid Nazir to Collingwood, no run, yikes, Collingwood hangs his bat out to dry ? good awa