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...One other plaudit: the lovely cover by Neil Gower. And one last grumble: Bryson has been here long enough to go to the lavatory, toilet, loo, bog or khazi and not to the men’s room....
...matthew.engel@ft.com...
...bowler, came to the crease on Pietersen’s departure and smacked his first ball in Test cricket for four, something apparently achieved by only three England players before him, including, famously, David Gower...
...Matthew Engel: Words on Wisden Nothing captures the spirit of cricket quite like its 150-year-old annual...
...Literary gem The Complete Plain Words by the late Sir Ernest Gowers was written for the civil service and today senior officials are still urged to mind their language....
...He also reached 766 runs for the series, passing both Herbert Sutcliffe and David Gower, to leave him again behind only Hammond (905 in 1928-29)....
...Like Gower, he does not always kick on and he was bowled (maybe there was a smidgen of hubris here) for 60. Jonathan Trott then made a rare duck. Poor old Beer....
...“We have seen a steady stream of demand from pension funds for emerging market debt over the past 18 months and we expect this to continue.” says Matthew Roberts, an investment consultant at Towers Watson...
...Being with you is a total reality check: sometimes I feel as if the whole world is against me – my current ladywife, my former ladywife, the headless chickens at BP, even Sir Matthew....
...The most famous incident in the event’s history involves the former England captain David Gower having a late-night drive on the lake, and discovering the ice was not quite as thick as he thought....
...Starring Keira Knightley, Sienna Miller and Matthew Rhys, the film explores how Thomas’s childhood in Swansea influenced his gritty, wild-boy poetry....
...michael.skapinker@ft.com Michael Skapinker is the editor of the FT’s Weekend edition Matthew Engel is away...
...No England players since Ian Botham and David Gower nearly 30 years ago have sprung fully-armed into international cricket at such an age; no other country currently has a young batsman oozing such quality...
...As Andrew Gowers, former editor of the FT, prepares his final report on intellectual property in Britain, the task of intellectual property reform is to strike a balance between the interests of giants and...
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