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Public Address 15/01/07 - Wonderful Athletes

Monday, 15 January 2007, 3:55 pm
Opinion: HARD NEWS from Russell Brown

PUBLIC ADDRESS 15/01/07 - Wonderful Athletes

Wonderful athletes | Jan 15, 2007 11:19
Russell Brown's Hard News

I'm not saying it would have changed the result - Australia are too good and Nathan Astle isn't in any form - but Astle should not have been given out in yesterday's one-dayer. We got the replays, of course, and the commentators all observed that the ball bounced up from...
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