The publicist pointed out Nick Cannon, at that very moment serving a ping-pong ball.

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Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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Meanwhile, reigning World Twenty20 champions Pakistan will be led by Shoaib Malik as regular Twenty20 captain Shahid Afridi is still serving a suspension for biting the ball in a one-day international in Australia.

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