Cricket look-a-likes #1

OK, it’s not big, nor is it clever, but I feel there’s a definite need in the cricket world (or The Commonwealth, if you prefer the old nomenclature) to draw attention to certain cricketing look-a-likes, the perhaps non-obvious resemblances that come to me in feverish reveries and through patterns…patterns that emerge from tea-leaves, animal faeces, and the cosmic energy, chi. Here’s the first, featuring a current Pakistani middle-order tyro and someone destined to play nine T20 Internationals for England in the turbulent aftermath of the Andy Flower regime…

Asad Shafiq

Rory Hamilton-Brown

The internet has not been very forthcoming with images. But you can see it, right?