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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
Hooray, at least, for hubris. Alter all the optimism, fuelled by threatening boasts from some of England's cricketers, the Lord's Test match in no time turned into as retributively gruesome an anticlimax as the British Lions' rugby tour had done earlier in the month. To be effective, swank must be supported by confidence in your own elementary basics, but once the bell sounded the Lions couldn't tackle or pass and the cricketers, woefully, couldn't hold their catches. It was daft, as well, to set...
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