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Peter Roebuck calls for Ricky Ponting to be sacked<\/a>. He seems to like Harbhajan Singh, but I’m sure even young Bhajji would be amused at being called “an intemperate Sikh warrior.” Still, that’s Roebuck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Peter Roebuck calls for Ricky Ponting to be sacked<\/a>. He seems to like Harbhajan Singh, but I’m sure even young Bhajji would be amused at being called “an intemperate Sikh warrior.” Still, that’s Roebuck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\u201cIt is possible to love a country and not its cricket team\u201d - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/it-is-possible-to-love-a-country-and-not-its-cricket-team\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u201cIt is possible to love a country and not its cricket team\u201d - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Peter Roebuck calls for Ricky Ponting to be sacked. 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