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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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        Hereforthebeer
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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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            Hereforthebeer
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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
                Sreeni
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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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                      Tone
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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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                            • GilesG
                              Giles
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                              "This has the feeling of Michael Clarke's General Custer moment. Plenty of proud victories in his past, all reduced to irrelevance as he scraps for his international life against the advancing England onslaught."

                              "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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                                Hereforthebeer
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                                It would be some save that's for sure. Can't see it happening though, he's not in the best of touch…

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                                  Tone
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                                  Not a massive cricket fan, but it does feel good.  😉

                                  Bring on the Rugby, we're gonna rule the World!  🙂

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                                    Maynard Friedman
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                                    Well, that didn't take long  😉

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                                    • GilesG
                                      Giles
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                                      Well done thus far Australia…...England in Boycotts words were pathetic....

                                      What he said about Butler:

                                      _"Jos Buttler is like a rabbit caught in the headlights of Ashes cricket. A seven-year-old schoolboy would have played better. He hasn't made a run all series.

                                      He hasn't shown any application whatsoever. It looks to me like his mind and confidence is shot for Test cricket - it's pathetic."_

                                      Oh, but of course @ddtrash 's colleague, we're trying to make it into a game….

                                      "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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                                      • SreeniS
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                                        Rest in peace Brian Close! Like most others outside England, I came to know about him after seeing a clip on YouTube in which Michael Holding battered him with short stuff aimed at the body.

                                        To face Holding & Co. at the age of 45 with no helmet on, the man had guts.

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                                        • SreeniS
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                                          Here is the video for those who haven't seen it:

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                                            Maynard Friedman
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                                            Nice one Sreeni. Too Close for comfort! RIP to a gentleman and fine cricketer.

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