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Nov 2018
48m 48s

Sri Lankan politics enters the cricket f...

Bbc Radio 5 Live
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Before Isa jets off to Oz for the Australia and India Tests, Ankur and Aatif ask her if India can finally win Down Under? The team discuss Sri Lanka’s whitewash to England but Sri Lanka fan Mark Machado tells us how Politics has entered the fray in the world of Lankan Cricket. Aatif ponders why Pakistan have out-Pakistaned themselves but is glad Yasir Shah is back to his best. Isa busts her best Bollywood dance moves at an event where young South Asian girls are shown that they too can have a future in Cricket thanks to a new ECB programme.

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