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Old 05-10-2007, 10:07 AM in reply to Nostromo's post starting "Well, they cleaned up this time. Good..."
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Yes amazing.

I was getting very irritated listening to Simon Mann and the Scottish one (Dougie Brown) commenting that Sri Lanka should effectively lay down and die as the match was over.

And all the while the last pair were scoring around eight and nine an over. I was utterly convinced that England would snatch defeat from the jaws of victory and go down with yet another appalling last over whimper.

Mr. Mann was particularly idiotic just after the batsmen ran a dodgy three when he said: "there's no urgency out there."

Mr. Mann really does need to take his patriotic head out of his patriotic bottom and look dispassionately at the action from time to time. He has the makings of a good commentator, despite the lightness of his voice.
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