Mark Bailey

Golf, RL, cricket, cars.

[Mark Bailey @markmbailey]

Best $5 I have spent lately.

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@jamierkennedy @ShaneRyanHere Jim Laker: 19 for 90 vs Australia in 1956.
9 for 37 in the first innings.
10 for 53 in the second.
To this day the 5th and 1st best innings performances by a bowler in over 2600 matches and (almost) 150 years of test cricket.

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@stummala13 @tds122 1985 was AB as captain v 1.0, before he got fed up with losing (so much so he threatened to quit)
V 2.0 arrived by 1986/87 when again lose the Ashes. In the 5th test (dead rubber) dean jones scored a big 100 & was feeling pretty good about himself. Border was not so pleased.

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@MrCunnyFunt Needs Cheviot Tridents.

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@GolfDigestAU Get in the hole!
(Ban the saying and the dickheads who yell it out)

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@MrCunnyFunt Smokin’

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@jamierkennedy Minority opinion, but voted no. Rory may well be the best ever European golfer [seems likely he will pass Vardon's 7 majors & be the most successful too], but, to me, "greatest" has a legacy / impact / influence component. Right now, I'd still put him #2 to Seve in that regard.

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@thwacknicklaus Also stamped "Tour Edition Ltd". Uncommon, if not rare. The offset isn't to everyone's taste.

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@LaocoonofTroy As published in @NatGeo

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@Miranthobe @Layemie001 Beyond dangerous. To call it stupid would be kind. It worked this time but it’s the sort of behaviour that will one day alter one. or both, of their lives permanently.

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@jamierkennedy @TheMasters I have a university assignment due tomorrow (Monday 15 April 1996, Australian time). Fingers crossed for an uneventful round so I can concentrate on it.

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@Djoko_UTD Criminally underrated: McEnroe 77 titles in each of singles and doubles. Stefan Edberg the only other open-era mens player to be #1 in both, and he has only 41 singles titles and 18 doubles titles, to Mac's 77 each.

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@WG_RumblePants @BruvverEccles Bottle designed to be mounted in a bar, upside down, for shots. Randall's FC debut was 1971 btw.

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Brett Kenny had an 8 - 4 winning advantage over Wally Lewis when selected as starting five-eighth for NSW

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What is a completely useless piece of information that you will never forget for some reason?

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@tds122 What if McEnroe still had Borg to push him? This is McEnroe’s face on hearing Borg had retired, aged just 25, in 1981. Neither won a major after the age of 25.

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@Headonaswivel3 @WG_RumblePants @bbctms @TheJemmaZone @TheBarmyArmy @englandcricket @rs_3702 Perspective from an Aussie
Gooch (c)
Atherton
Smith
Bell
Gower
Botham
Flintoff
Knott (wk)
Underwood
Gough
Malcolm

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@Djoko_UTD Borg not winning the USO. If he'd done so, particularly in 1976 or 1978, he might have played the AO [which was grass like Wimbledon], and gone for the career grand slam.

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@AMP86793444 In the same vein:

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@EchoesofEmpire_ From wikipedia:

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@7Cricket Not the first Australian WK who fancied themselves as a bowler.