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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas -- Michigan State spent the first 30 minutes playing with energy and building a huge lead, then the last 10 nearly giving it all away.Still, the 24th-ranked Spartans came away from the Battle 4 Atlantis with a win -- and the end of a brutally tough opening month of the schedule in sight.Miles Bridges scored 21 points to help Michigan State hold off Wichita State 77-72 on Friday in the Battle 4 Atlantis third-place game.Eron Harris added 13 points for the Spartans (4-3), who bounced back from Thursdays loss to No. 20 Baylor in a game that left coach Tom Izzo saying his injury-hit team looked awfully tired and maybe a bit overwhelmed by the early schedule.Theres no question that this team has been through a lot, Izzo said. But thats what I challenged them with. I dont challenge them with effort, heart, I dont challenge them very often with character issues. But I did challenge their character a little bit.Izzo said he sensed great focus from his players Friday morning.The most important thing is finding a way to get off the mat, he said. That is the most important lesson I can teach these guys whether it be in life or in basketball.Michigan State led by 18 midway through the half and held a 15-point lead with 8:05 left, only to see the Shockers (5-2) turn to fullcourt pressure to get back in it. Wichita State ran off a 14-0 run to get to 66-65 on Daishon Smiths layup over Bridges with 4:13 left.We got stops, Smith said. We were able to put our athleticism into the game, and thats what we did.But the Shockers couldnt quite push ahead. Bridges and fellow freshman Cassius Winston hit key 3-pointers. And when the Shockers had one more chance to tie it, Smith missed a long straightaway 3.Bridges grabbed the rebound and hit two clinching free throws with 4.7 seconds left.Darral Willis scored 16 points to lead Wichita State, which shot 36 percent.BIG PICTUREWichita State: As bad as things looked midway through the second half, the Shockers showed a downright scary fullcourt press to get back in it. Coach Gregg Marshall has tried to talk more about defense than the teams offensive potential during three days in Atlantis; that finish might have reinforced it to his team, too.Marshall also didnt rule out the possibility of using pressure defense more going forward.Ill just have to evaluate us and evaluate my coaching and evaluate our personnel and try to figure out a way to play more like the team in the second half than the team in the first half, he said.Michigan State: The Spartans looked fresh and showed a balanced offense for about 30 minutes. From there, they did just enough to hang on.We didnt beat the Lakers, but we won a big game, Izzo said, and we did it with old-style grit for 90 percent of that game.POLL IMPLICATIONSThe Spartans will give voters an interesting decision for the next AP Top 25 . Yes, all of the Spartans losses in this brutally tough opening month are to ranked teams. But will that be enough to keep a 4-3 team in the poll? Stay tuned.Wichita State had a shot to play its way in, but two straight losses to ranked opponents ended that chance for now.BRIDGES IN ATLANTISBridges, a 6-foot-7 freshman from Flint, Michigan, went 6 for 11 from the field and made 4 of 8 3-pointers.Once I get going, the basket opens up a little bit more for me, said Bridges, who scored 22 in the opener against St. Johns and had 15 against Baylor.UP NEXTWichita State: The Shockers return home for a Tuesday game against Southern Nazarene, a Division II program from Bethany, Oklahoma.Michigan State: Things dont get any easier for the Spartans. 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Tevez, who has had conflicts with coaches in the past, has not been called up since Sabella was named coach in 2011. Argentina boasts Lionel Messi, Gonzalo Higuain, Sergio Aguero, Ezequiel Lavezzi and Angel Di Maria. Perhaps doosra is the most significant word in cricket. After all, its the first term from a South Asian language to have entered the mainstream. English is full of South Asian words - shampoo, jungle, bungalow, pyjamas, chutney - but this is the first time that cricket has adopted a specialist term from a subcontinental language.Theres an argument for gully, I suppose. A galli is a narrow alley in Hindi, but a gully in English is a narrow cleft in a cliff, related to gullet, the throat. The etymology is from a French term for the neck of a bottle. I think we must put this down to commonality - the fact that English and Hindi are both members of the great family of Indo-European languages.So gully probably wasnt directly borrowed from a South Asian language. That makes doosra unique.It comes, of course, from Saqlain Mushtaq of Pakistan, who invented the offspinners wrongun in the 1990s. Or so he claimed. Sonny Ramadhin was turning em both ways with an offspinners action in the 1950s, much to the bemusement of the England batsmen.We have stump mikes to thank for the words move to the mainstream. Moin Khan, never the strong, silent type, kept wicket to Saqlain and would often audibly implore Saqlain to bowl the doosra.Tony Greig was a terrific television commentator, if never wholly calm. He was always mad for anything new, so he picked up the term and started to use it in commentary. Saqlain confirmed that yes, the delivery was the offspinners wrongun, and yes, he called it the doosra, which means the other one or the second one in both Hindi and Urdu (commonality again).The word has become an aspect of the division - the gully - that lies between Asian and non-Asian cricket nations. The fact that the doosra has an Asian name adds to the mystery - perhaps I mean the suspicion - that surrounds it. The Australian academy refuses to teach it, in the perverse belief that its impossible to bowl a doosra with a legal action.There was much speculation as to who would bowl the first doosra for England. Its generally agreed that this honour goes to Moeen Ali, who bowled it in 2014; though that same year he stopped, from fears about the legality of his action while bowling it and concerned that it might compromise his orthodox repertoire.I thinkk thats wrong.dddddddddddd I think the first England doosra was bowled by Kevin Pietersen. I cant find any record of it, alas, but I remember a time when he was asked to bowl at a relatively meaningless stage of a match, so, for a bit of jape, he bowled a ball with a contorted action - a clear chuck that wasnt called. That, I am prepared to bet, was the nearest he could get to a doosra.Saqlain went on to claim a third delivery, a teesra - the third one - sometimes interpreted as a disguised backspinning delivery bowled roundarm and a touch quicker. This term hasnt really taken off in English.Other Asian terms hover on the fringe of the mainstream.R Ashwins carrom ball has been called the sodukku.The Bombay school of batting, which is based on the principle that you must value your wicket highly, is routinely described as khadoos, which means mean or stingy: skinflint batting.A subcontinental term has been used for a very subcontinental phenomenon: the ultra-flat pitch that has nothing at all for the bowler. A paata wicket: a term that may well break into cricketing English. Jazba is a term associated with the Pakistan cricket team, and it means passion, the spirit of cornered tigers.Tamasha is creeping into English use. It means performance or spectacle and describes the mood and the crowds of limited-overs matches - especially at IPL fixtures - in India.Can you count Mankad? Probably not, since its a proper name, but the word - which can be used as a verb, to mankad, or a noun, to do a mankad - means running out a non-striker. Ive never understood the problem with mankading. Is the bowler supposed to allow the batsman to cheat at will?The word doosra is a symbolic invasion of the English language by Asia, and is clear indication that cricket is an Asian game these days. An Indian game that was accidentally discovered by the English, as sociologist Ashis Nandy famously remarked.The future of England cricket is increasingly bound up with the British South Asian community, which produces one terrific cricketer after another. The doosra, and a once-marginalised cricketing community, are both going mainstream. ' ' '