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Jul 10, 2023Liked by Dylan Cleaver

Yeah, hmmm, not surprising your feeling it - I am - night shifts at our age - they a tough grind! I reckon that frontline reporting is young persons work - good luck with the recovery, see if we can do it all again in 10 days (nights) time!

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The warriors are the real deal this year .. I been watching then since 1995 .. I’m not going to say they going to win this year ..but from where they were in the last year 3 years is amazing ..they were broken last year .. we had like the worst defensive side .. but seeing this side develop under Webster even I’m blown away .. they only going to get better ..depth in few positions might hurt us ..we still got no world class centres .. but the attack is starting to flow .. you can see what confidence can do ..

Ashes is def living up to the hype .. it’s not bazeball is the problem ..the reason why England are down in the series ..is they have dropped over 15 catches ..throw in two stumping .. and two wickets of no balls . Taking Johnny as the keeper has backfire ..he dropped now 8 catches .. miss 2 stumping .. and his batting is now hit all time low .. but you are seeing some cracks in the Australian team .. Lyon is huge a lost ..and pat fielding positions at times is been exposed ..

But bring on the 4 tests .. nothing like winding up the Aussies in cricket ..

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Well done on watching the whole run chase Dylan, too many late Ashes nights and an early AB’s test did me in and I faded. On the issue of the English press there’s no doubt they turn on a fine but as I’ve previously said Bazball I think can be legitimately challenged as a doctrine, if like any doctrine it is mindlessly applied. Some of the criticism out of England was calling attention to that. Interesting too that perhaps England have listened...their batting has been toned right down led by a calculating Stokes. My only other comment is whether Cummins managed the tactics well in the last innings - I note that Murphy bowled only two overs which seems odd.

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Purely FYI. Yikes. This is a thing. The New York Times is shutting down its own sports coverage. Will rely on The Athletic…. Ok… https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-times-to-close-sports-desk-rely-on-the-athletic-for-daily-coverage-168c0202

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Great newsletter Dylan. Especially liked the insight about Bazball actually being about sorting the signal from the noise, and why that might be harder for England than it was in NZ. “ Here, the Black Caps might play a lousy test or two and there might be some clown banging on about it in his newsletter, but in England, every former captain has a column, a commentary gig or a slot on talk radio. It’s relentless and even if you can block out the primary source, the secondary ones - that’s your mates texting you or sending WhatsApp links to stories or mean tweets - will get you.”

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Hey Dylan, downloaded Head On the other day and demolished it in one sitting. Such an incredibly important story, so well told. I applaud Carl’s bravery.

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Thank you Anna!

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