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SEPANG, Malaysia -- Lewis Hamilton beat teammate Nico Rosberg to the fastest time in the second practice session for the Malaysian Grand Prix.Hamilton held a 0.233s over Rosberg as both drivers completed low-fuel runs on the soft tyres midway through the session. As expected, Mercedes held a comfortable advantage over the opposition, but it was Ferrari and not Red Bull that got closest.Sebastian Vettel finished the session third fastest 0.661s off Hamilton, with teammate Kimi Raikkonen 0.237s further back in fourth. Max Verstappen was fifth fastest as Red Bull used the soft tyres for the first time, but the gap of over a second to Hamilton -- half of which was lost in sector three on the long back straight -- suggests Red Bulls power deficit will be felt more in Sepang than two weeks ago in Singapore.Sergio Perez set the sixth fastest time in the Force India, just edging Fernando Alonsos McLaren by 0.012. Once again, Alonso was running the updated Honda power unit, but the team confirmed that he would use the same engine he used at Monza for the rest of the weekend. By using the new engine in Friday practice this weekend he will be hit with a 30-place grid penalty on Sunday, but on the plus side will be able to use the new engine penalty-free at Hondas home race in Suzuka next weekend.Alonsos effort was enough to beat Daniel Ricciardo to seventh by 0.041s, who in turn was 0.053s ahead of Nico Hulkenberg in the second Force India. Jenson Button was tenth fastest, without the updated Honda power unit, 0.419s off teammate Alonso.Carlos Sainz was 11th fastest ahead of Jolyon Palmer in 12th for Renault. The Williams remained outside the top ten and were split by the Haas of Esteban Gutierrez, who was 0.741s faster than teammate Romain Grosjean in 20th.Daniil Kvyat finished 16th, ahead of Sauber pair Marcus Ericsson and Felipe Nasr. 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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. ' ' '