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Pies4shaw
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Man of the match is James Faulkner. |
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Pies4shaw
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Player of the tournament is ... Mitchell Starc |
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Pies4shaw
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That's brilliant - I can watch the fireworks on the telly - and hear them outside. |
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Jezza
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Congratulations to the Aussies! _________________ | 1902 | 1903 | 1910 | 1917 | 1919 | 1927 | 1928 | 1929 | 1930 | 1935 | 1936 | 1953 | 1958 | 1990 | 2010 | 2023 | |
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Pies4shaw
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I follow the cricket avidly but, as a Collingwood supporter for the last 1,000 or so years, I do have some mixed feelings about watching the boys go out and do that in a Grand Final, on the MCG, at their first attempt....
Anyway, Sharda Ugra's report entitled "Australia in a final: Men at work, business as usual" is a good read: http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/content/story/857209.html
Here's the start:
"There is an aphorism in football that holds true across regions, decades, events, big-game nights: 22 men go out to play and the Germans win. Here's the cricket version: 22 men go to out to play a World Cup final and the Australians win.
On a resplendent night in the biggest ground in world cricket, 93,013 people and a flock of curious seagulls, under a black-inked sky, watched Australia win their Penta, their fifth World Cup. They have made seven finals in 11 World Cups. Never mind football, which has had a far longer World Cup history, not even field hockey - whose World Cup started in 1971 - has one country that has been a part of their event's grandest night so often across three decades." |
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