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THE centurions had the right idea... and some of the vikings had a decent appreciation of when to give up on a bad job too. As for the remainder of a crowd who stayed to witness just six extra overs of day three of the third Ashes Test in bright evening sunshine - when confusing playing conditions had initially suggested twice as many might have been bowled - they could rightly claim to have been unjustly rewarded for their resilience.
It was when a heavy secondary burst of rain swept over south Manchester soon after 4.30pm that roughly a third of an unfortunate crowd, many clad in the outlandish fancy-dress garb which has become entirely ordinary for the Saturday of an English Test, decided there was little more point in waiting.See the full content of this document
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Cricket: Vaughan's Boys Bow to Weather and Warne
After all, they had already seen eight overs of decent cricket during which Geraint Jones had fluffed a routine stumping off Ashley Giles and therefore allowed S...
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