"Ah - sorry, this is boring" he said, through slightly gritted teeth.

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"For a teenager, big and boring is better, " he says.

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He shows us how playing with metronomic precision is, frankly, boring.

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"A lot of games are finishing early, but I think the quality of cricket we put out in that period of time is much better than five dull boring days, " he said.

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He relates them with sympathy in blow-by-blow detail that is rarely boring.

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"If a couple is just happily married, it gets boring for the average person, " he says.

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It is hard, indeed boring, to read at one go, and Wesley Hagood's tone is confused: he applauds stud behaviour but can sound also like an apprentice inquisitor.

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