If the motive had been simply to stop the fighting and to save British shipping from harm, the first obvious course would have been to order merchantmen to stay away, and the second to aim the intervention at positions not on the canal but nearer the violated armistice line.

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He retired the side in order on just eight pitches followed by a 10-pitch second, and retired 10 of the first 11 hitters.

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He was not replaced with a player of similar quality so we had Alex, who had been third in the pecking order, moving up into second place and then first when Terry was injured.

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The negative factor for England was clearly the top-order batting, Lumb having registered a second failure and Pietersen out first ball after replacing Ravi Bopara, having missed the Bangladesh game to be with his pregnant wife.

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What must happen first, second, third, in order for it to exist and live within the organization?

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