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    What have we learned from the 3rd test

    Whenever a commentator witters on about "momentum" in a test series, someone should tell them to shush. Feel free to post other life lessons from this series below.
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    5 worst centres of all time

    5) centre circles - why do they still exist? 4) central business districts - walking around soulless identikit sky-scrapers not my thing 3) Harlow town centre - just look it up on Google street view 2) central time zone - the worst bits of the US 1) The Centre-Right - destroyed the ****ing...
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    17 hours of test cricket

    If my calculation is right, we could have a few days of 17 hours of straight test cricket* across NZ v Eng, Australia v India and South Africa v SL. The time zones aren't great for England with a lot running overnight, but is anyone planning on a few test marathons? *With some overlap and...
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    High profile sightings of mundane people

    While on a summer holiday, my parents and I once bumped into another boy at my school and his parents 2000m up a mountain in the French Alps. We weren't even friends.
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    Where will Jacob Bethell end up being ranked?

    A wildcard pick of someone with the right attitude, even if lacking the stats, that reminds of when Australia selected a young leg-spinner in the 2010 Ashes who went on to become one of their greatest batters. We could be at the birth of greatness. Will Bethell's career take a similar but...
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    Gus Atkinson at Lord's

    From two tests he averages 44 with the bat and 10 with the ball, already has 4 mentions on the honours board and is only the eleventh player to feature on both. Given that the commonly agreed all-time greatest all-rounder averages 42 and 12 at the ground tells us just how elite Gus is.
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    Paralympic Thread

    Opening ceremony seems to be more relaxed than the Olympic version, being held at the Plas de Concorde. French team already having a party.
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    ESPN8 The Ocho - wacky sports thread

    Came across teqball today, which is a cross between football, table tennis and volleyball. Hungary and Thailand appear to be the dominant forces globally. Feel free to use this thread to post any updates on equal unusual but genuine sports.
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    Highlights of the games

    Personal highlights from the bits you saw? For me, the incredible performances included Jessica Fox and Nicolas Gestin in the canoe slaloms and Grace Brown in the women's road time trial; Duplantis in the pole vault- so far ahead of the competition so deserve HMs but Marchand's double gold in...
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    Southgate resigns

    Not unexpected. Sport is mostly a results business and that goes both for and against in terms of the evaluation of his tenure. He goes having ultimately failed to secure a trophy while at the same time having a tournament record that far exceeds any prior England manager and, tbh, most...
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    Out of context sports clothing

    At a recent vintage car rally in my local English market town I saw a guy in a 2012 Houston Texans AFC South champions jersey. Pretty niche stuff. Anyone else come across folks wearing sports clothes in a random context? Not just short, fat white guys in a LeBron jersey either
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    Leach, Ahmed, Hartley - terrible England spin "attacks" in the SC

    As we head into another India series with huge questions over our spin bowling, it's a good time to reflect on the **** we've had before. Like in 2001 when we went with Richard Dawson as sole spinner alongside four seamers in the first test, which we lost. Any of the combinations of Tuffers...
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    What should England do with their much needed time off?

    Turn social media off and go to the beach or stare into the mirror twelve hours a day?
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    Women's football stuff that doesn't deserve its own thread

    England playing Scotland in the UEFA nations tonight. Loving the flying headers from England, absolutely perfect on the two goals but Scotland have snuck one back at the break. Good match so far.
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    The Ishan Kishan adding a letter to your first name to make your second name thread

    Inspired by his 82 against Pakistan today There's an Owen Bowen, a Leeds born artist who lived in the 19/20th centuries. A few Alan Malans on LinkedIn. Any more?
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    Running, jumping, throwing n stuff

    World champ athletics started in Budapest. Is shot put the national sport behind rugby in New Zealand? Two guys competing for medals, although the American is Usain-Bolt levels shall of the field.
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    Asterisked cricketing victories

    There's a lot of obvious chat about whether the Manchester weather diminishes Australia retaining the Ashes this year. It being affected Ashes we've also had people referring back to McGrath's freak injury in 2005. Some people like to put a proverbial asterisk against such series, as if the...
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    Zak Crawley cricketing WUM

    His very presence in the England side angers quite a few of us but it's not just his mediocre record but how he gets the runs too. Turned on the cricket and in about five minutes, Crawley slashes one edge down to the third man, another over top of gully for four, a glorious straight drive to the...
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    Mitchell Marsh

    Surely this Ashes legend has to play over Cameron Green?

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