This about the bike shop?

They’re actual recordings. We don’t have the physical letters, we only have the recordings made by the ABC of the writers reading them out.

Sorry, you’re right. The closure was announced in 2013 but didn’t happen til 2017.

Fascists meanwhile go hard and then make the place they went to their home

I would argue that fascism is not worth doing.

Nope. The Americans had a base in Panama when they invaded in 89. The Russians had a base in Crimea in 2014. Both times they just marched out of it and defeated the locals with barely a shot fired.

They only need so many middle order allrounders because their top order allrounders keep getting out cheaply

For some time now it seems that the Selectors are happy to tow various favourites around Australia despite poor performances - like Warner's farewell tour, or the long-term Cam Green Project. But you can't tow multiple guys around. Pick one.

If we're happy with Sheffield Shield as an indicator of form, then the stats indicate that Matt Renshaw should have been picked ahead of Marnus.

Speaking of Marnus, in the last 3 years he has batted worse than Green. He has scored 1 century in that time. He was dropped, then brought back into the side due to good form in Sheffield Shield. This indicates to me that there's a problem with Sheffield Shield.

Also: if only someone had suggested England should play a few First Class matches before Perth so we didn’t have to suffer through 3 insipid tests before they figured out how to cope with the conditions. Oh wait… everyone suggested that.

I’ve been reading cricket writing for 25 years and I only understand about three quarters of what he’s trying to say here.

www.cricket.com.au/news/4428883

CA’s official report www.cricket.com.au/news/4428883

Thesauruses have a lot to answer for

2/ ~old jk is best jk~