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Hello and welcome to Leeds and the OBO of the third day of the third Ashes Test. As the locals might say ‘It’s time to get down to brass tacks’.
Australia are 2-0 up in the series and already hold the urn. England need to win all three remaining Test matches in order to win back the Ashes. Those are the facts. Yet, somehow, facts don’t seem to do this mind-bending series justice. Both sides have scored almost the same amount of runs and taken the same amount of wickets, yet one is very much 2-0 up and the other is scrabbling to stay alive.
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