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Dhoni from the block Some wicketkeepers are conmens conmen. Eddie George Jersey . They practise grifting for griftings sake. It is an urge that suddenly possesses them when they put those big gloves on. Take MS Dhoni for example. He walks before he is given out, he withdraws run-out appeals against dozy batsmen, but the wicketkeeper within doesnt allow him to give up on trickery. More than the gains, it is about devotion to an art form. It is not like claiming grounded catches or flicking the bail when nobody is watching and appealing for a hit-wicket; the big joy is doing it legally and in full view.This one is from the back alleys of street cricket. Its anytown, India, during the hot summer, in one of those IPL matches that merges into many others. There is nothing to remember this match by, except this, the fifth ball of the last over of the first innings. Chennai Super Kings Joginder Sharma bowls a yorker that squeezes under the bat of Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Kolkata Knight Riders last recognised batsman. For some reason, Ishant Sharma, the No. 10 wants to steal a bye and take strike last ball. Shukla, on whose watch the first four balls have yielded 11, tries to send Ishant back but it is too late.Dhoni sees that both batsmen are at the strikers end, so he lobs the ball over their heads to Joginder, at the non-strikers end. This in itself shows some presence of mind, but the really shrewd thinking is yet to come. As Dhoni walks towards the stumps, he sees Shukla step out of his crease to pat Ishant on his shoulder, perhaps just to reassure him that its okay, that his intention was noble but not its timing. Dhoni raises his left hand, asking Joginder to wait before breaking the wicket. Only once he sees Ishant cross Shukla does Dhoni gesture with his right hand, like a traffic policeman, telling Joginder to break the wicket. Knight Riders have lost Shukla. Dhoni has waited till the last moment to take the slightest advantage.Saint SangaKumar Sangakkara has fooled much of the world with his polished accent and Spirit of Cricket lecture. He is not fooling me. Not if he does this to poor Ahmed Shehzad. This is 2013, a Pakistan-Sri Lanka ODI that could be any other, and perhaps Sangakkara knows Shehzad is going to become a selfie-taking menace soon. Shehzad looks to take advantage of the big boundaries in Dubai, and plays a nice chip over cover. He turns blind for the second, trusting Misbah-ul-Haqs call.Sangakkara knows Shehzad doesnt know where the ball is because he hasnt bothered looking, so well before the throw arrives, he mock-collects the ball as a prelude to pretending to whip the bails off. Shehzad panics and dives awkwardly. Sangakkara then collects the lobbed throw from the deep with the satisfied air of one who has robbed a man at gunpoint, except as Shehzad, looking on sheepishly, now understands, it was done with a stick not a gun. He needs treatment after hurting himself in the dive. Even Misbah smiles. Danny Morrison, on air then, sums it up: Oh Sangers, you old dog.Bouchers slick flickMark Boucher rarely got to stand up to the stumps, so when he did, as in this case, he might have thought, I dont care if it is the genial-looking Marvan Atapattu. All I care is about is entering the wicketkeepers trickery Hall Of Fame.Sri Lanka are chasing 264 in Adelaide. They need 147 off 143 with seven wickets in hand. Atapattu and Tillakaratne Dilshan have added 49. Johan Botha turns an offbreak past Atapattus inside edge. The ball lobs up towards the leg side. Boucher starts appealing for lbw even as the ball is in the air and he is moving towards it. It will probably land about a foot off the pitch. The appeal comes first. Then Boucher, his arms still up in appeal, catches the ball.Now as a batsman made nervous by an appeal - and it is a pretty good shout - you often look for a leg-bye, especially because if the wicketkeeper had collected the ball, he would already have done something with it. But Boucher keeps appealing, hands in the air. So Atapattu takes one step out to look for that leg-bye. He sees Dilshan looking at the umpire, so panics and looks to return. Exactly one second passes between that first step out and him looking to return. It is enough. Without even looking at the stumps or the batsman, Boucher flicks the ball down onto the base of leg stump. Botha is still appealing for lbw when Boucher, pissing himself, goes and tells him he has run Atapattu out.Sri Lanka go on to lose by nine runs. Dilshan was clean-shaven back then and, clearly traumatised, is still recovering by growing weird beards.The reverse Sanga If Sangakkara did what he did to Shehzad just for kicks, Dhoni often does the opposite to get run-outs. Here Mitchell Marsh should really have known better because Dhoni was doing this sort of thing to South African batsmen as far back as 2006-07. Nearly a decade on, chasing 296, Australia are cruising at 204 for 4 after 35 overs when Glenn Maxwell drives Barinder Sran past mid-off. Umesh Yadav gives spirited chase and fires in a throw at the keepers end. Marsh, running back for the third - which is, quite frankly, on - has his back to the action. He has no idea the throw is headed to his end because Dhoni looks like he might be conjuring his latest weird analogy to rubbish the DRS rather than getting ready to collect a throw. Suddenly, though, he springs into action, collects the ball without any preparation, and whips the bails off to catch Marsh short. Marsh can be blamed for not knowing that Dhoni is capable of this, but to give him the benefit of the doubt, no other wicketkeeper pulls the wool over batsmens eyes like Dhoni. At the least give him a walk-on part in The Sting if it is ever remade.The old dogThis is actually one of the more famous cases of absent-minded running by the batsman than pure trickery by the wicketkeeper. Virender Sehwag slashes to third man and strolls through for an easy single. Except that the stroll becomes a little too leisurely. He practises the shot as he goes, turns around and looks to take guard at the non-strikers end.Suddenly, to his horror, he hears his partner, Sourav Ganguly, shout Viru, Viru! but before he understands what is happening, he is out. To be fair, Sehwag has done what many do, but he has forgotten who is behind the stumps. The old dog, Sangers, has collected the lob where first slip would be and is about to send the ball to cover, when he notices that Sehwag is ambling. 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HARTFORD, Conn. -- Jay Fishman finds it more comfortable these days to use a wheelchair to get around, and has begun getting some help breathing from a portable ventilator.The former Travelers CEO says hes in the final innings of his battle with Lou Gehrigs disease, the terminal neurodegenerative condition also called ALS, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. But Fishman says he has no plans to slow down.He still goes to work almost daily in his role as board chairman -- even though he stepped down in December -- and is preparing for next months Travelers Championship PGA Tour golf tournament at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell. He and the company are using this years tournament as a megaphone to raise money and awareness about ALS.If I contemplated a retirement, it was going to be different from this, but it wasnt going to be sitting on a beach, he said in an interview with The Associated Press. I always wanted to stay active and involved.Fishman has been doing that through philanthropy.Hes helped fund a national project that is gathering information from hundreds of ALS patients to try and better understand the variations of the disease and how to fight it.Hes raised money for a Boston Childrens Hospital project that banks the voices of ALS patients. When they lose the ability to speak, they can use computers that will speak for them in their own voices. He and his wife recently gave $3 million to fund a University of Pennsylvania project that helps patients with at-home respiratory care.You can be a skeptic and say, `Well, the only reason hes doing it is that he has the disease, Fishman said. The answer is, `Yeah, of course. If not me than who? If Im not going to reflect all the good things that have happened to me in my life and find a way to plow that back to help people deal with what I personally know is a horrible disease, then shame on me.Fishman is under no illusions that what hes doing will save his life. What he is trying to do, he said, is move the needle toward a cure and make the lives of other ALS patients a little better. Thats where the golf tournament comes in.At Fishmans behest, the tournament, which donates 100 percent of its net proceedds to charity, has made New Britains Hospital for Special Care, which treats most of the ALS patients in Connecticut, as its primary charitable beneficiary this year. A.J. Brown Womens Jersey. This is going to provide us with additional funding to help hire more people in the clinical operation and also to expand our clinical trials program, said Dr. Kevin Felice, the hospitals chief of neuromuscular medicine.The tournament also is providing tickets to patients and their families. They will get valet parking and tournament officials are also building a large, wheelchair-friendly tent for them to watch the action and providing special dining options to accommodate those who have trouble swallowing -- a common problem for ALS patients.Players, caddies and tournament officials will wear red commemorative ribbons reading, Carry On, something Fishman is known to say when talking about the disease.Once Jay announced what he was battling, it made perfect sense for us to partner with them to fight this disease, said Nathan Grube, the tournaments director.The Travelers has already raised an additional $1 million for the Bruce Edwards Foundation, an ALS charity, by selling tables to a dinner during the tournament featuring a talk by golfing legend Tom Watson. Edwards, who was from Wethersfield and Watsons long-time caddie, died of the disease.The Travelers Championships previous primary charity, Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children with serious illnesses, will continue to be a charitable partner, and more than 140 charities will benefit from money raised, which last year totaled $1.5 million. Fourteen percent of the proceeds will go to the Hospital for Special Care.Fishman, who was diagnosed in 2014, says the progression of the disease has forced him to work at home on Fridays, but he plans to stay on the job until he can no longer contribute.The pleasure I get now is from understanding that my efforts are at least helping other people, he said. I make sure I finish each day with a martini or a glass of wine and thank God for giving me another day. 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