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Hopefully he didn’t pick you up and lift you off the platform?

Oh, sorry to hear that. I had a prolapsed disc in 2014 and it was the most painful thing I have ever had in my life by a distance. I had to have immediate surgery and we had to delay my Dad’s funeral so I could attend after the operation, not a good time in my life. The surgery was broadly...

If you were compiling the stats, a bit of a schoolboy error for your stats not to have been just that bit better than everyone else’s! 😆

You sound very knowledgeable and reasonable, are you sure you are Australian 😉?

It really is only a game, high up on the list of non-important things sure but ultimately only a game. I feel the ups and downs of losses as much as anyone but can put it all into context ultimately, which some seem unable to do.

But for Ashley Giles being able to take a dolly catch ……

And as I said on another post, when we won it 4 years ago the Australians near me were odious in their mouthy behaviour about how Ben Stokes was a cheat and it was an embarrassment how we had won it. For a country that has now won it 6 times, which is worthy of high praise, a bit of class when...

Hmmm, not convinced, as you get more teams taking part, there do seem to be a lot of games where the outcome is a formality. Some exceptions yes, but it only gets properly competitive at the knock out stages. For the Euros in Germany, I am planning to go out from the 3rd group game onwards...

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Surely the direction of travel is to increase the number of dead games? Just as FIFA, UEFA and World Rugby are doing …😳

Yes, watching Smith and Labushagne pile on the runs there has scarred me for life! I went there in 2006 too when we had hope for 5 minutes when Monty came on to bowl just before lunch on day one, but that soon evaporated! I do plan to go again in 2025 and see a test at the new stadium, I’m not...

I got talking to him on the way to a recentish test match (2017?) at the WACA as we were walking in the same direction. I said something innocent like ‘good toss to win, looks like a batting day’ and I can only think he must have misheard me because he then piled in with comments like ‘you must...

My first test match was the Oval test against the Windies in 1976. I only went to day 5 but saw Holding rip through our batting and take 14 in the match.

I stopped watching - it was inevitable one of them was going to win ….. 😅

Do you dislike all the Sussex players or just him? 😆😆

Not actually out, but out in the scorebook and that’s all that matters!

Just had a one word WhatsApp from an Aussie I know in the crowd who I saw on the coverage - ‘nervous’……

One minute they’re defacing bridges, the next they’re playing in the World Cup final. So annoying.

Let’s see Southern Rail try coping with that 😆!

They might limp on to 250 or 275, I doubt that would be enough