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Old May 16, 2005, 05:34 AM
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Default Tigers deserve their stripes: Read this Andrew Miller story spending half an hour

Read this Andrew Miller story - After watching BD on 429 for 3 wickets on live scorecard (and also after yesterday); I believe you'll enjoy reading this, I did.

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"Which sporting event in Britain this summer is going to hold the greatest significance for the greatest number of people?

At Lord's on July 21, a nation of 20 million of the most geographically blessed people in the world takes on its oldest, most privileged rivals - when Australia and England (UK population: 59 million) launch the 2005 Ashes. It could be a humdinger of a series, in which case a sizeable proportion of the cricket-watching world will also sit up and take note. But it is equally likely to be another damp squib to add to the eight that have gone before it, in which case 59 million Brits will give up their pretence for another four years and go back to watching football. Unless England can produce a miracle, this year's Ashes will become just another sub-plot in sport's oldest soap opera.


Now consider this. On May 26, Lord's opens its pavilion to 11 representatives of a nation of 150 million of the most wretched underachievers on the planet - a country with a tragic history, a desperate present and a far-from-certain future"

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