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Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable. Hopefully Root can reach his century before that
happens.

From the outbursts of loud cheering unrelated to what was actually
happening on the pitch, it looks like the moronic Mexican wave is back.
I'd hoped we'd seen the last of that. I imagine people have been
watching the football World Cup and have picked it up from there.
--
John Hall

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Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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On 20/06/2026 19:08, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable. Hopefully Root can reach his century before that happens.

Well lunch proved very optimistic, John - they didn't even make it
halfway. Well bowled Matt Henry; Somerset could do with him back at
Taunton when NZ have finished with him.
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On 21/06/2026 4:08 am, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable. Hopefully Root can reach his century before that happens.

From the outbursts of loud cheering unrelated to what was actually
happening on the pitch, it looks like the moronic Mexican wave is back.
I'd hoped we'd seen the last of that. I imagine people have been
watching the football World Cup and have picked it up from there.

Didn't I hear, a couple of days ago, there was going to be an attempt to
set a World Record for participation in a Mexican Wave by getting the
crowd at one of the Mexican grounds to do a Wave??
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Daniel70
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In article <1118ro8$rfn2$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes

On 21/06/2026 4:08 am, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable. Hopefully Root can reach his century before that
happens.

From the outbursts of loud cheering unrelated to what was actually
happening on the pitch, it looks like the moronic Mexican wave is back.
I'd hoped we'd seen the last of that. I imagine people have been
watching the football World Cup and have picked it up from there.

Didn't I hear, a couple of days ago, there was going to be an attempt to
set a World Record for participation in a Mexican Wave by getting the
crowd at one of the Mexican grounds to do a Wave??

I don't object to that, as I shan't have to listen to it. And I don't
think it would be nearly so intrusive at a football match as it tends to
be at cricket, where it often interrupts a "breathless hush". Yesterday
there was some tense cricket going on, which the wavers seemed to be uninterested in. I wonder how many of them were mostly there to sit in
the sun with their mates and drink beer? Though it seems a very
expensive way of doing it.
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John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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On Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:55:12 +0100, John Hall <john@jhall.co.uk>
wrote:

In article <1118ro8$rfn2$1@dont-email.me>, Daniel70 ><daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> writes

On 21/06/2026 4:08 am, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat >>> now seems inevitable. Hopefully Root can reach his century before that
happens.

From the outbursts of loud cheering unrelated to what was actually
happening on the pitch, it looks like the moronic Mexican wave is back.
I'd hoped we'd seen the last of that. I imagine people have been
watching the football World Cup and have picked it up from there.

Didn't I hear, a couple of days ago, there was going to be an attempt to >>set a World Record for participation in a Mexican Wave by getting the >>crowd at one of the Mexican grounds to do a Wave??

I don't object to that, as I shan't have to listen to it. And I don't
think it would be nearly so intrusive at a football match as it tends to
be at cricket, where it often interrupts a "breathless hush". Yesterday
there was some tense cricket going on, which the wavers seemed to be >uninterested in. I wonder how many of them were mostly there to sit in
the sun with their mates and drink beer? Though it seems a very
expensive way of doing it.

If you think of it in terms of a social event rather than a sporting
event, it fulfills probably over 50% of a persons core social needs.in
a single hit. Even the price of the ticket projects several social
signals.

max.it
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On 20/06/2026 19:08, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable.

I think you could recycle that line for today, although they have a bit
more batting resource left than last time.

Hopefully Root can reach his century before that
happens.

That's much less likely than it was at The Oval, but would be much more useful.
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David North
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In article <naej69FmokqU1@mid.individual.net>, David North <nospam@lane- farm.fsnet.co.uk> writes

On 20/06/2026 19:08, John Hall wrote:

Given that fine weather is forecast for tomorrow, the only question is
can England manage to prolong their innings until after lunch, as defeat
now seems inevitable.

I think you could recycle that line for today, although they have a bit
more batting resource left than last time.

True.

Hopefully Root can reach his century before that
happens.

That's much less likely than it was at The Oval, but would be much more >useful.

Yes, if he could play an innings similar to Mitchell's, hopefully
without getting hit quite so often, that would be very helpful.

I can understand why England felt that on this pitch sooner or later a
ball would have your name on it, so they needed to be aggressive. But
most of them hugely overdid it yesterday. Apart from Bethell, that is,
who strangely misjudged the ball that got him out. Only Duckett was not complicit in his own downfall, and he was the only one who struck the
right tempo. Even Root seemed slightly frenetic.
--
John Hall

"The covers of this book are too far apart."
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
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