Tait has taken 30 wickets for South Australia in this season's first-class Pura Cup competition and last month was named the country's Young Cricketer of the Year.

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The South Australia star, the 2003-04 Bradman Young Cricketer of the Year, has taken 23 wickets in 12 Twenty20 games at an average of 14.08 runs.

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And it has two promising young bowlers, Saqlain Mushtaq and Shoaib Akhtar (Shoaib is the only cricketer to have bowled Tendulkar first ball in a Test).

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In those negotiations, Imran Khan, the ex-cricketer whose party has risen to an unlikely third place by appealing to young people and those disaffected from mainstream politics, is likely to play a critical role as a potential king-maker.

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