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Aww man. Very sorry to hear this. Condolences to you and your family.

AI overview 'In George Orwell's 1984, the proles, or proletarians, were kept content through a combination of ignorance, distraction, and a degree of freedom within their own sphere. The Party, while controlling their labor and ensuring their basic needs were met, largely ignored their lives...

Obviously 50 days more without a ceasefire means more civilian deaths, but no ceasefire means Russia's military continues to be under pressure and degrade. A ceasefire might actually be a welcome respite for Russia, allowing munitions to be rebuilt, forces to be moved, training to occur.

It was the site of one of the most brutal battles in WW2. It was the first city the allies captured on German soil. 85% of the city was destroyed by then. If there is anything on that, like a tour or museum section it might be worth seeing.

Broken hand according to Root.

Bashir has not really played a part so far. he might just become the hero. Jadega caught and bowled.

I'm sure I said before lunch this would still go right down to either India winning by 1 wicket or England winning by less than 25 runs.

The Headingley Test concluded at 6.28pm on the 5th day, Edgbaston finished at 5.10pm on the 5th day. Lords is going past 4.35pm on the 5th day. Maybe we should dial down the criticism of team selection, toss decisions, time wasting, umpiring, lack of attacking shots, too much attacking, poor...

It's just possible we get to a new ball at the current run rate.

It's going to be a long 9 days till the Old Trafford test.

In a low scoring game those 63 extras we got, look crucial. only 19 were leg byes, so at least 44 were down to poor play. We've given away 25 so far, of which 8 were leg byes.

When you read back the thread, in fact all the threads on this series, the one thing that comes across is just how premature the certainty many of us had about how each match was going to finish up at various times was. England will win it just after we all switched to being resigned India...

It's been fun catching up on this thread after a couple of days. I reckon there are more twists to come. Ball is 29 overs old now, so it ought to be losing some zip soon. Jadeja is experienced and adept in all forms of the game. Bumrah hasn't scored a run in the series yet, so he'll probably...

Yes, saw them at Leeds Beckett 7 or 8 years ago and they played it in the encore. They were excellent and Strange Trails is a fine album.

Can you say a few more things like this!