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    • ddtrashD
      ddtrash
      Haraki san Expert
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      One of my Australian work colleagues reckons the Aussies threw the Edgbaston game to make for a more interesting series. He was deadly serious as well.  Personally I just don't see the Aussies being that charitable, I am sure they would have been aiming for another white wash.  All makes for an interesting end to the series.

      There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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      • SreeniS
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        If England win this Ashes, so many experts will have to eat their words.

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        • GilesG
          Giles
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          @ddtrash:

          One of my Australian work colleagues reckons the Aussies threw the Edgbaston game to make for a more interesting series. He was deadly serious as well.

          Did he actually say that with a straight face?

          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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          • ddtrashD
            ddtrash
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            Deadpan straight!  He honestly thinks the Aussies turned it up at Lords and then backed off to make more of a series of it.  Not sure he is all there - the lack of logic is alarming !

            There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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            • GilesG
              Giles
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              Tell the feckin feckin arsehole not be so insulting  😃 😃

              "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                Maynard Friedman
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                Ask him if he has inside information through working as Michael Clarke's fluffer!

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                • SreeniS
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                  60 all out! I was cheering for England thinking they were the underdogs. I haven't been more wrong in all these years of watching cricket.

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                    All out for 60, that's weak as piss. There goes the ashes.

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                    • GilesG
                      Giles
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                      Surprised to see an Aussie in here at the moment… 😃 😃 😃

                      "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                        Yep… slightly embarassing effort from our boy's  :o I think a few retirement's/sacking's might be on the cards...  😶

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                        • GilesG
                          Giles
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                          Not that I want to gloat - not….. Courtesy BBC....

                          This is only the fourth time in Test history that a team has bowled first and been batting by lunch.

                          60 all out is Australia's joint seventh-lowest total in Test matches. It was the earliest fall of the fourth, fifth and sixth wicket in Test cricket

                          Stuart Broad's 8-15 was the third-cheapest eight-for in Test history. Extras top-scored for the first time in Ashes cricket

                          Test Match Special has just replayed every one of the 10 Australia wickets. It was almost impossible to hear the commentary over the roar of the Trent Bridge crowd. Andrew Samson is now running through all the remarkable statistics. It might take him all of the interval

                          Stuart Broad has the third-best Ashes bowling figures in history - behind Jim Laker's 10-53 and 9-37 in 1956

                          Cheapest eight-wicket hauls in Test cricket:

                          8-7: G Lohmann, England v SA, 1896
                          8-11: J Briggs, England v SA, 1889
                          8-15: S Broad, England v Aus, 2015
                          8-24: G McGrath, Aus v Pak, 2004

                          "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                            @Giles:

                            Extras top-scored for the first time in Ashes cricket

                            LOL

                            That about sums it up  😞

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                            • SreeniS
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                              Nasser Hussain made a wise comment: 5 mm of grass at Trent Bridge last year produced a boring draw with number 11 Anderson scoring 81. A year later, with 8 mm of grass and cloudy skies, Australia have been blown away for 60.
                              The difference a little grass makes.

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                              • SreeniS
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                                BTW, the club running Trent Bridge stadium won't make money as this game won't go into the fourth day. Hope they have insurance.

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                                • GilesG
                                  Giles
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                                  Lunches themselves have lasted longer. Hell, so have cups of coffee.

                                  "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                  • ddtrashD
                                    ddtrash
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                                    Just spoke to my Aussie work colleague and asked him how his teams strategy was working out now…............................it was a short conversation!

                                    There is no 'I' in team …............ however there are five in 'individual brilliance'.

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                                      RIP Aussie cricket  :o

                                      http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/index.html

                                      🙂

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                                      • GilesG
                                        Giles
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                                        Compelling listening if you are not Australian….

                                        http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02yy6mr/player

                                        "OK face up to it - you're useless but generally pretty honest and straightforward . . . it's a rare combination of qualities that I have come to admire in you" - Geo 2011

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                                        • GraemeG
                                          Graeme
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                                          Surprisingly I haven't been lynched and driven out of town today for being a perfidious Pommie! 😉

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                                            Maynard Friedman
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                                            The 'Pomicide' headline was hilarious, they're taking it well!

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