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User_gary Posted 16 years ago
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Flamboyant Pakistan all-rounder and vice-captain Shahid Afridi has opened up a new front with captain Mohammad Yousuf and other members accusing them of not playing as a unit in the ongoing one-day series in Australia.
"The thing is that we are losing because the players are not playing with unity," Afridi said on Geo Television after Pakistan suffered a 40-run defeat in the third one-dayer against Australia in Adelaide.
Source : http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/23611/Pakistan-team-lack-unity-Afridi
Could you please explain to me what "front" means in this context?
"The thing is that we are losing because the players are not playing with unity," Afridi said on Geo Television after Pakistan suffered a 40-run defeat in the third one-dayer against Australia in Adelaide.
Source : http://www.cricbuzz.com/cricket-news/23611/Pakistan-team-lack-unity-Afridi
Could you please explain to me what "front" means in this context?
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The sentence is muddled; as well as "has" presumably being a typo for "have", it appears to be incorrectly punctuated. However, "front" means something like "line of attack". In traditional military campaigns, troops line up along so-called "fronts" to face one other and do battle (as in the famous "Western Front" in World Wars I and II).
- The sentence is muddled; as well as "has" presumably being a typo for "have", it appears to be incorrectly punctuated.
- However, "front" means something like "line of attack".
- In traditional military campaigns, troops line up along so-called "fronts" to face one other and do battle (as in the famous "Western Front" in World Wars I and II).
- Here we have a figurative use of this sense.
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The sentence is muddled; as well as "has" presumably being a typo for "have", it appears to be incorrectly punctuated. However, "front" means something like "line of attack".
In traditional military campaigns, troops line up along so-called "fronts" to face one other and do battle (as in the famous "Western Front" in World Wars I and II). Here we have a figurative use of this sense.
In traditional military campaigns, troops line up along so-called "fronts" to face one other and do battle (as in the famous "Western Front" in World Wars I and II). Here we have a figurative use of this sense.
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