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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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America still making a big deal about Rounders

Sports fans around the world continue to be amazed that the United States has not yet run out of enthusiasm for the playground sport of rounders.

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Posted: Aug 16th, 2008
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Lord Hutton finds Pakistani cricket team ‘not guilty’ of using auto-tune

“In particular I was asked to establish whether the Pakistani players could have achieved such a pitch-perfect rendition of Katrina & the Waves’ 1983 classic Walking on Sunshine during their first innings without artificial help,” said the 79-year-old former Law Lord.

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Posted: Aug 11th, 2008
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