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#OzWatch: The meaning of "Poms" as the England team sinks before India's spin-bowler. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

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🗓️ 10 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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#OzWatch: The meaning of "Poms" as the England team sinks before India's spin-bowler. Jeremy Zakis, New South Wales. #FriendsofHistoryDebatingSociety

https://www.foxsports.com.au/cricket/cricket-2024-england-vs-india-fifth-test-day-one-poms-burn-three-reviews-in-horror-middle-order-collapse-video-score-stats-news/news-story/989b66b63a61ce866a2e7e8951cfd6ba

1862 All-England vs Australia at Melbourne

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is the Friends of History debating society. I'm John Bachelors with my, Jeremy Zuckus in New South Wales.

0:26.2

Here's news.

0:28.2

England is a bad sport.

0:30.2

There it is.

0:31.2

Jeremy, I've said it.

0:32.2

Bazball, one more time against the India team.

0:35.0

And if I understand correctly,

0:38.0

all England has a lot of bad attitude,

0:41.0

but the worst attitude right now is one particular player

0:44.0

name Palms what did he do? Well what's happened now is basically effectively England hasn't done well in India.

0:54.0

And what's happened is that the English team has been completely wiped out by the Indians.

0:58.8

They lost four test games to one. India won by 64 runs in in the last game so of course quite big and what's happening

1:06.0

now is that the English commentators the cricket commentators who are normally fairly reserved and they don't

1:12.2

blame they're starting to really think the

1:14.6

boot into the English team.

1:16.5

And the English player, I think, is really that that fault is actually their own captain,

1:21.0

which is Ben Stokes.

1:22.3

Now, Ben Stokes is one of England's top players, he's I guess

1:26.2

one of their darlings, he's one of their superstars, but as a captain he seems to make

1:30.0

wish decisions. And what's happened this week John is that England has now decided to take

1:36.0

umbridge at the decision review process which is basically a process in cricket if you think

1:40.3

you've been given out when you've been unfairly given out you can actually go to a video umpire and what Britain's been saying for a long time is that the video umpire is unfair it always goes against the English and really some of the software that they use is really suitable for purpose.

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