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Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Ton-up O'Brien stays a hair-raiser

IIreland match-winner Kevin O’Brien(R), seen here being contrulated by teammate John Mooney, pronounced his hair would be staying a intolerable shade of purple, notwithstanding a pleas of his girlfriend, after his record-breaking World Cup century opposite England.
©AFP – Indranil Mukherjee

BANGALORE, India (AFP) – Ireland match-winner Kevin O’Brien pronounced his hair would be staying a intolerable shade of purple, notwithstanding a pleas of his girlfriend, after his record-breaking World Cup century opposite England.

O’Brien scored a fastest World Cup hundred of all time, off only 50 balls, as join forces with republic Ireland stunningly degraded Test giants England by 3 wickets to chuck Group B far-reaching open during a Chinnaswamy Stadium Wednesday.

Together with multiform team-mates, O’Brien has painted his hair in await of a debate by a Irish Cancer Society.

Sportsmen have been demure to shift a winning regulation as well as O’Brien, who in all done 113 off 63 balls, said: “My partner doesn’t unequivocally rate it, she is vagrant me to trim it off though we competence only reason which for a integrate some-more weeks.”

O’Brien, whose hermit Niall is Ireland’s wicketkeeper, had family await in a stands Wednesday.

Both his relatives were during a belligerent to watch an innings which surpassed former Australia batsman Matthew Hayden’s 66-ball hit opposite South Africa during St Kitts 4 years ago as a fastest World Cup ton.

“There’s dual unapproachable people in a stands as well as substantially 4 million unapproachable people during home,” he said.

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