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Obscure fact of the day
Atkinson and Robinson bowled to Mitchell and Blundell today - it's first time in Test history that 2 players ending 'nson' bowled to two batters ending 'ell'.
It's only second time that two 'nson' enders have played together - DS & ES Atkinson for WI v Pak 1958 the other!
#EngvNZ
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Ball of the Century
#OnThisDay in 1993, Shane Warne bowled his first ball in England and that turned out to be the Ball of the Century.
It drifted lazily onto leg stump, then spat back a yard or two and clipped the top of off.
The famous picture of Ian Healy aahing and Gatting oohing tells the story perfectly.
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Everyone needs to hear this...
Michael Caine on his defining philosophy for life:
Use the Difficulty
As a young actor, he was rehearsing a play when a chair got stuck in the door and blocked his path. He told the other actor he couldn't get by the chair to enter the scene.
The actor's response:
"Use the difficulty...if it's a comedy, fall over it, if it's a drama, pick it up and smash it."
This idea became a defining mantra for his life.
"There's never anything so bad that you cannot use that difficulty...if you can use it a quarter of one percent to your advantage, you're ahead, you didn't let it get you down."
I can't stop thinking about this...
How can you use the difficulty you're currently facing? How can you embrace the struggle? How can you find flow through the friction?
As with everything in life, control the controllable:
The difficulty is already there. You can't control it. But you can control how you react to it. You can control your response to it. You can control your attitude towards it.
Lesson: Difficulty is inevitable. Use it.
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Test cricket is intellectually, morally, aesthetically, spiritually, emotionally, dramatically, artistically, physically, mentally, historically, consistently, decisively, dumbfoundingly, globally, unapologetically, unquestionably superior to every other game yet invented
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I liked working on such an uplifting feature on Grenfell Athletic and how, after the fire which took the lives of 72 people, Rupert Taylor formed a football club to help Paul Menacer, Joseph John and other survivors. They found a way out of grief
theguardian.com/football/202…
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