If you can watch this without your eyes filling with tears it's possible that you may never understand what the fuss is about; if you can't watch this without your eyes filling with tears then you don't need me to bang on about it....
The Australians are our closest and most dependable friends. When we were at our most isolated and vulnerable, and long before the United States entered the war, they travelled 12,000 miles to help ensure that the Nazis advanced no further than Calais; 3486 Australian aircrew were killed in Bomber Command alone.
Steve Waugh said that Australian's fight over the 22 yards at Lord's as they fought at Gallipoli.
Yet their abject humiliation in the face of fast bowling, especially when it's quick, hostile, just outside the top of off stump and shaping away is life's most absolute and exquisite pleasure.
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