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England have 誓約（する）d to live by the sword, which occasionally means dying by it too. The strictest critics have a point when they say there is a time and a place for abandon, but Andy Flower will have taken 楽しみ from the 神経 shown by Tim Bresnan as much as he will have 警告を与えるd his 味方する about the need to 押し通す home an advantage.

Because make no mistake: England teams of the past 15 years would not have made the 10 runs needed for victory after the ninth wicket fell. Both Strauss and Swann 認める as much ? as if they were 回復するd アル中患者s dispassionately 査定する／（税金などを）課すing their former selves.

Ponting’s touchiness has been 明らかにする／漏らすing too. He was 気が進まない to 支払う／賃金 Morgan too many compliments after the Rose Bowl, pointing out that anyone can 攻撃する，衝突する a half-ボレー for four. He was struck 負かす／撃墜する by the red もや when an Australian 新聞記者／雑誌記者 asked him the bragging-権利s question after Cardiff. And he seemed almost 辞職するd to his batsmen’s 失敗s after Old Trafford.

Touchy: Ricky Ponting looks livid after 存在 stumped by Craig Kieswetter at Old Trafford

Australia are 現在／一般に 粘着するing to the idea that everything will be different come Brisbane ? and they may 井戸／弁護士席 be 権利, because they have not lost a 実験（する） there for 22 years. But Ponting is veering 危険に の近くに to the realm where hope usurp s 期待.

It is a realm England know 激しく 井戸／弁護士席, yet for now they are 得点する／非難する／２０ing all the points, even daring to flex their muscles on both 味方するs of the 境界. Strauss felt 確信して enough to agree that both Ponting and Hussey are ‘under 圧力’, and even placed himself, without a helmet, under Ponting’s nose at silly point on Sunday when Yardy was bowling.??

Last week the 最高の，を越す Spin 予報するd a 3-2 series 勝利，勝つ for England. It’s 半端物 to think this will now 代表する a 失望.

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THAT WAS THE WEEK THAT WAS

Prize wicket: Watson

Players these days are so 用心深い of giving the other lot a ready-made team-talk that they are forever にわか雨ing the 対立 with hymns of faint 賞賛する: you can hardly hear yourself for all the protestations of ‘尊敬（する）・点’.

So it was refreshing to learn of the England player who, after last summer’s Ashes, was chronicling his 見解（をとる）s of each member of the Australian team with a 新聞記者／雑誌記者.

When the 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる） reached Shane Watson, the 要約 was pithy: ‘P***k.’

This was quickly changed for public 消費 into something more palatable, but it’s been noticeable these last few games how the wicket of Watson has 刺激するd a degree of glee that 延長するs, without the need for too many journalistic imaginings, into the realms of schadenfreude.

We told you so (sort of)

There is a school of thought, 伸び（る）ing credence even within south London itself, that Surrey will never 発展させる until 示す Ramprakash retires. And the theory was done no 害（を与える） by an innings of precocious brilliance from the 19-year-old Jason Roy, who in Ramprakash’s absence 衝突，墜落d 101 not off from only 57 balls at No 3 in a Friends Provident t20 game against Kent at Canterbury.

Two years ago, the 最高の，を越す Spin was in the （人が）群がる when Roy ? a slip of a lad who may or may not have begun shaving ? 設立するd a rare 社債 with the Brit Oval （人が）群がる as a 代用品，人 fielder in a Twenty20 Cup game.

令状ing in a different incarnation, your columnist discerned a rare talent ? though かもしれない one 有能な of putting up with mockery from drunken fans rather than filling the boots of Ramprakash. Still, we’re happy to take credit, however it comes. And we repeat: watch this space.

Who’d be a wicketkeeper?

You’ve got to feel sorry for Matt 事前の. He begins his 実験（する） career with a flurry of runs at No 7 an d people say he can’t keep. So he 改善するs his glovework and duly loses his one-day place to Craig Kieswetter. Then he goes and gets left out of the Lions squad too, 誘発するing whispers that Steven Davies could be about to 追いつく him too. That last selectorial slight 誘発するd one source の近くに to 事前の to 述べる his mental 明言する／公表する as 存在 ‘in bits’.

But the man’s a 闘士，戦闘機, and ? as Steve James pointed out in the Sunday Telegraph ? he has been working on his 以前 neglected 脚-味方する strokeplay in an 試みる／企てる to 勝利，勝つ over doubters 関心d by his one-day one-dimensionality. And last week （機の）カム the 証拠: 117 from 55 balls as Sussex trounced Glamorgan at Hove. England’s wicketkeeping stable may never have been in ruder health.

トン-derful: Matt 事前の showed what England are 行方不明の with an 奮起させるd century against Glamorgan

You scratch my 支援する...

One way or another ex-IPL supremo Lalit Modi finds a way of making the headlines. ‘We 行方不明になる Lalit Modi,’ wailed Ness Wadia, who part-owns the Kings XI Punjab franchise. ‘All the franchisees 行方不明になる him and I think he was hung without a 裁判，公判 by the マスコミ. We have been together for the last three years.’ 深く心に感じた stuff. Anything else, Ness? ‘He's also a family friend.’ Ah. It all becomes （疑いを）晴らす.

説得力のある: 警告する

マリファナs, kettles and Warney

Shane 警告する remains 説得力のある, even three years after his international 退職.

His Twitter page is a 地位，任命する-modern stream of consciousness in which he is forever asking Bumble for the 得点する／非難する／２０ (if you can 接近 Twitter, Shane, what’s wrong with Cricinfo?) and engaging in lovable-rogue’s banter with the 全住民 捕まらないで.

His thoughts after Australia lost the first ODI at the Rose Bowl last week? ‘To all you poms, it’s amazing when you loose [sic] at sport you all say England are crap, u 捕らえる、獲得する your team, when you 勝利，勝つ you are arrogant & gloat,’ wrote the man who once 成し遂げるd a nauseating jig of 勝利 on the Trent 橋（渡しをする） balcony after yet another Australian Ashes 勝利，勝つ.

Warney had a point about English masochism. It’s just that he may not be best-placed to make it.