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March 19, 2008 England

Less tweediness from Strauss’s team mates

Remember how Andrew Strauss was going to GET THE JOB DONE? Ceci sent more pictures, saying: “Squire Hoggard and the chav Vaughan. KP however will always be an alien life form to me. I’d like to say the rough edges are there as an ironic statement, but of course I

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December 10, 2007 England / Sri Lanka

Bad decisions don’t decide a Test

England will be pretty disappointed to have only made 351 and they’ll point to a couple of rough decisions as being one cause, but if they’re a serious Test side, they should forget about them. It’s not like they’re going to get overturned after the match. Don’t dwell on it.

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September 14, 2007 England / Zimbabwe

Kevin Pietersen shows the Aussies how it’s done

‘It’ being ‘scoring runs against Zimbabwe’. Despite forgetting that he was right-handed for much of his innings, everyone’s most/least favourite bludgeoner hit 79 off 37 balls after England had lost a few early wickets. England also won by quite a margin, opening up the possibility that they could knock Australia

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September 10, 2007 England / Regulars

Kevin Pietersen with some bird on his arm

Ho ho ho. It’s an actual bird. We weren’t really referring to a woman as a bird because that would be demeaning. We were just alluding to that usage – which is of course perfectly acceptable. Worst post ever. Good job there’s absolutely no chance of our ever making this

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