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“You’re Now Better Than Us” says Ricky Ponting as he starts Ashes mind games

In a clear attempt to unsettle the English players, Ponting has cunningly departed from the traditional claims that Australia will win the series 5-0, and is instead predicting a thrashing for the home team.

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Posted: Nov 2nd, 2010
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Women still buying the existence of ‘cricket’

men all over the world 'in on it'As the Ashes series gets underway in Cardiff, men from the world’s cricket-playing nations are congratulating themselves on another summer in which women seem prepared to continue believing that cricket is a genuine sport. Despite the rules being understood by no one and matches taking ages to complete, having breaks for meals and being halted should the sun go in, women appear happy to let their men-folk disappear for days on end to participate in or watch absolutely nothing happening at all.

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Posted: Jul 8th, 2009
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A&E departments put on red alert for two days without sport

Accident & Emergency departments were put on the highest alert yesterday morning at the start of two whole days without sport, amid reports of cack-handed men emerging from the sofa to tackle the backlog of DIY, often with devastating results.

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Posted: Jul 7th, 2009
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