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Nov 21, 2025
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No sooner do I mention the dreadful Ashes tour of 1920 than life appears to imitate art, and it kicks off. The bulldogs were full of the press conference row between The Cheat, aka test captain Steve “Sandpaper” Smith, and Monty Panesar, who had earlier suggested that England’s players might benefit in the simultaneously-played game of sledging, by fre…

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