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- Here's hoping the selectors pack Usman Khawaja's kit and send him off to a life of full-time whining about how hard done by he is
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- Nick Kyrgios has done biological truth a good turn by thrashing Aryna Sabalenka, just as he would have done had he dosed up on oestrogen and called himself Nicola
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- Not being a sport for the masses, polo gets scant attention beyond aficionados. Were that not the case, Sinclair Hill would be as revered as Bradman
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