Complete collapse of England’s top order for the second innings in a row. It seems to be a classic case of South Africans unable to cope with typical English conditions enabling swing.
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Were they using ‘hairy-bats’?
Sorry off topic but the DVMS stuff is too far back now. Mrs Mensch backtracks about her hacking slur against Piers Morgan. She has had a bad day after admitting to a drug taking session with Nigel Kennedy when she worked for EMI.
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http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/culture-media-sport/Trinity_Mirror_evidence_2.pdf
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Collapse of blonde party.
Thanks for the link to the letter.
Apart from the content, does anyone else think this is a very amateurish piece of writing, really not worthy of someone who is expected to be able to develop her thoughts coherently, and express them clearly?
The woman seems barely literate.
Saved by Broad (64) who had a 50 partnership with Swann. 221 all out and an Indian wicket first ball. With the wicket deteriorating this could be an interesting match…nice to see Boycott still commentating after the bankers blasphemy 😉
Off-topic – i’ve just finished a blog post on the causes of the famine in Africa, the solutions to it and the reasons why aid donations for famine victims will save lives – plus how development aid could changed to make it produce real development based on Ha Joon Chang’s book ‘Bad Samaritans’.
You can read it on either of the links below
http://alienatedleft.blogspot.com/2011/07/causes-of-famine-in-somalia-kenya-and.html
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http://inplaceoffear.blogspot.com/2011/07/causes-of-famine-in-somalia-kenya-and.html
Craig – in the 1970s I produdly discussed cricket when Clive LLoyd was captain.
Since the 1980s onwards, out here in the West Indies – not the sport of choice that I wanted to discuss ( shamed into silence).
Did someone say – Usain Bolt?
Next topic.
@Deepgreen. Yes and to think she was young poet of the year. She read Anglo Saxon and Norse at Oxford. Her novels written under her former name Bagshawe have sold 2 million copies!! Some of the titles Passion, Desire, Venus Envy. She objects to them being described as chick lit. She has no scruples. She was flogging one in a speech in the HOC which got her into trouble.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291597/The-chick-lit-T
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sorry love cricket and played it at an all girls’ school I attended!! but do not have Sky as I refuse to give a penny to Murdoch so do not see it these days. I see they are getting F1 motor racing. Good riddance.
Link – http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291597/The-chick-lit-T/index.html
There was also a missing word. Incorrigible.
Third time lucky. Sorry.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1291597/The-chick-lit-Tory-novel-speech-Commons.html
The explosion of this Louise Mensch bullshit is hilarious as well. Your country is a pit of despair.
Angrysoba, please tell me you’ll never return.
Thanks for the drollery Craig.
Strauss Pietersen & Trott actually form part of an unbroken chain dating back to Tony Grieg in the mid 70s, which also embraces Allan Lamb Robin Smith et al.
If Technicolour pops up on this thread he will doubtless claim that the employment of South Africans in shoring up the English batting order is an ‘indigenous tradition’ from time immemorial.
‘Your country is a pit of despair.’
If the politicos in his neck of the woods don’t sort things out by Tuesday, that statement by Yugo will trump all the other pot-kettle-black ramblings with which he likes to litter this blog.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14351148
Speak up Larry. We can’t hear you. I think you are too low down in your pit which is much bigger than ours.
@Oldmark
Don’t forget Basil D’Olivera !
I think it’s a bit unfair with Strauss as he came to England when he was only six and even went to Durham Uni 🙂