The whole situation over the last few weeks, even months, seems to be such a terrible shame for cricket in Zimbabwe.

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From society's point of view, that is a terrible shame.

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That would be a terrible shame for participants.

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Which would be a terrible shame.

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Gone is the dark and dismal interior, the indifferent service, and - a terrible shame this - the legendary doughnut bowl, whose stale contents could once be bought and pelted at fellow patrons for exactly 1, 942 Czech crowns (just over 100 dollars), a homage to an incident in the classic 1942 novel Saturnin, a sort of Czech Jeeves and Wooster.

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It remains a crying shame that the Crumlin Road courthouse is in such a terrible shape given the tourist opportunity afforded, amongst other things, by the tunnel linking it to the jail.

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