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You can say whatever you wish, Trellis, it cannot hurt my simple feelings any more than the sight of appalling crikit already does,
. Indeed it really tickled a certain aged sense of humour to see that despite the loss of the first two days, South Africa rejected the offer of adding a day to the end of this, the third Test. Could have been an utter waste of time and effort to publicise as well as printing tickets and arranging Security etc, etc !!On another level, is it really so long ago that after two short pitched deliveries in an over the Umpires would step in and issue a Warning to both Captain & the offending bowler
?P.S. / Edit
I left it a while to react BUT as I understand it " Umble Pie " should be the main course not a sweet or dessert !!
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Brian, don't know if you listen to BBC Sounds, but there is a series on there called Sports Strangerst Crimes and one of them is about Alan Stanford -The Man Who Bought Cricket, in 7 episodes, which I think you would find very interesting.
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There is about 3.5 hrs listening on that one series alone, and there area number of other series about different sports crimes.
Hope you enjoyed what you have managed to listen to do far.
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Rawalpindi Test that will go down in the history as one of England's finest test victories. Now that was some result!! England scored nearly 1000 runs and took 20 wickets in a pitch that was flatter than a pancake and slower than a snail, with a team containing a last minute replacement wicketkeeper, a fast bowler over 40 years of age, two part time spinners, and not one player who had ever played a test match in Pakistan before.
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Brian I know you like the odd cricket related song. Here is one I came across today which I think you will give you a chuckle or two.
"Tortoises always come Last" by Cockersdale
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8WnOngyoMp8
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Thought you would appreciate the humour. Good to laugh after the year we all have had.
Happy New Year to you Brian
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Tried to perk myself up by listening to 50 over humiliation in South Africa on Friday and today but, alas, it did me no good whatsoever
. So tomorrow, Monday, I am being taken down to the Surgery for a severe lecture from Senior Diabetes Sister and, should I not make honest and real promises to improve I will force myself to listen to the third and final match at, I believe Johanneburg on Wednesday as penance 
. Its worse than usual since its on Talksport 2 { BBC Has gone into hibernation down south alas }0 -
Sadly, as most of you know, our CT friend Brian (ABM) innings has come to an end.
I was shocked to learn of his passing and saddened that we'll no longer read his friendly, witty remarks. His love of English Cricket and T'Alex was legendary. Hopefully he'll be applauding a remarkable Ashes victory from the stands in Heaven.
RIP CT friend. One of the Good guys.
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Very apt eulogy ExT. muscles will be & is missed already. It’s quite a shock when we realise a complete stranger(never met) is missed & has an impact on us. I certainly took some time to process it. Thanks for the reminder👍🏻
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, I will save that for tomorrow lunch time.
