John Goodman, who plays Dan Conner, offered some insight on the fate of his onscreen wife, played by Barr. In a profile published on U.K.’s Times Sunday, Goodman said his character will be “mopey and sad because his wife’s dead.”
ABC announced the network would move forward with an unlikely spinoff, “The Conners,” after Barr’s namesake show was abruptly cancelled following her racist tweet to former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett in May.
ABC Entertainment President Channing Dungey called the tweet “abhorrent, repugnant and inconsistent with our values.”
Barr said her controversial tweet was misinterpreted and that she is not a racist, and Goodman agreed. “I know, for a fact that she’s not a racist,” he told the Times Sunday.
Goodman admitted he was “brokenhearted” and “surprised” at the show’s cancellation, before dialing it back: “That’s probably all I should say about it.”
“Roseanne” returned to ABC in March, two decades after it ended its first run from 1988 to 1997. The original cast, including Barr, Goodman, Laurie Metcalf and Sara Gilbert, returned.
In order for “The Conners” to get the green light from ABC, Barr had to sign over all her rights to the show, effectively ending her prime-time career.
“I sent her an email and thanked her for that,” Goodman said. “I did not hear anything back, but she was going through hell at the time. And she’s still going through hell.”
Aside from the email exchange, Goodman said he hasn’t had further contact with Barr since “Roseanne” got the axe, referring to her only as a former “work friend.”
The 10-episode spinoff will premiere this fall, in the same Tuesday at 8 EDT/PDT time slot that was the planned home for Season 2 of “Roseanne.”
Dungey told USA TODAY that “The Conners” spinoff came together smoothly: “The actors were excited to be back,” she said, adding that “Roseanne” writers and crew members remained largely intact.
On Roseanne Conner’s fate on the show, the ABC Entertainment President is pleading the fifth: “We’ve taken a little page out of the Shonda and Marvel universes and are not talking about it. You’ll just have to tune in on (Oct.) 16th.”
Son has scored 30 goals in 99 Premier League appearances for Tottenham since his arrival from Bayer Leverkusen in August 2015
In June 2017, Gareth Southgate’s England squad arrived at St George’s Park expecting the usual whiteboards and warm-ups for forthcoming matches against Scotland and France.
Instead they were met by a Royal Marine, who announced a change of plan.
The squad were whisked to the Commando Training Centre in rural Devon, given camouflage kit instead of tracksuits and plunged into a lost weekend of mud, shouting and camping.
It scratched a particular itch for English football.
Since the days of John Beck and Dave Bassett putting their Cambridge and Wimbledon squads through pre-season at the barracks, a shot of stripped-down old-school army discipline has bonded and honed players.
Aston Villa suffer under the guidance of an army fitness instructor in a training session in 2011
Son Heung-min’s time in khaki could be much longer and lonelier.
Tottenham’s South Korean international is yet to carry out the two-year mandatory military service expected of his countrymen.
He could earn an exemption.
He is currently in Indonesia at the Asian Games chasing a gold medal that, along with an Olympic podium finish, is the only automatic way for a South Korean footballer to be excused.
A semi-final against Syria or Vietnam and a final against either Japan or the winner of the last-eight tie between United Arab Emirates and North Korea separate him from the pass to an uninterrupted career.
Defeat in either though and the consequences are stark and fairly immediate.
Now 26, he could expect the sort of call-up that comes with a clipper cut in the next 18 months.
Five weeks of basic training, covering military drill and combat essentials, would follow.
South Korea has mandatory military service for all able-bodied men
Previous recruits report then spending their days guarding remote, freezing mountain outposts looking out over North Korea – the rogue neighbour with whom South Korea is still technically at war with 65 years after fighting halted– and their nights in giant 40-bed dormitories.
You might presume that, in reality, things will be different. That an accommodation will be found and wheels will be greased to keep Son aboard the Premier League juggernaut.
But that is far from certain.
“The higher the profile, the more difficult it is to get out of these things,” says James Hoare, Associate Fellow at Chatham House and an expert on the Korean peninsula.
“There is no system in the world that doesn’t have loopholes, but it is seen as such an important part of your commitment to the Republic, that trying to get out of it is not seen very positively.
“Service in the military is both an honour and an obligation. It is seen as proving you are a real Korean and that you have the country’s interest at heart even if you have long hair or magic football boots.
“The military is a very powerful organisation and they tend not to favour the rich or influential if they can avoid it.”
South Korea’s route to Asian Games gold
29 August
Semi-final v Syria/Vietnam
1 September
Final
The test cases come thick and fast.
In 2012, 26-year-old then-Arsenal striker Park Chu-young used a residency permit he had obtained in Monaco as grounds for a ten-year delay on his duties.
Former Arsenal striker Park Chu-young bows before a news conference in which he apologised for attempting to delay his military service
His decision triggered furious criticism back home. He was dropped from the national team, returned to Seoul to apologise and the authorities have since tightened up residency excuses.
In 2010 MC Mong – reality TV star and hip-hop artist – was accused of using a dentist rather than a lawyer to keep himself out of the military.
He was alleged to have had two healthy teeth removed in an attempt to invalidate himself on medical grounds and ended up with a six-month suspended jail term.
Pin-ups from the country’s burgeoning K-Pop music scene regularly disappear from public view to tears from fans.
Psy – of Gangnam Style fame – served twice, after being redrafted for the crime of continuing a sideline pop career during his first spell in the military.
Baek Cha-seung, a baseball pitcher who played for the Seattle Mariners and San Diego Padres in the mid-2000s, had to renounce his Korean citizenship in favour of an American passport to keep playing.
His attempt to have his South Korean citizenship restored earlier this year was refused by the authorities.
The effect on sportsmen who instead dutifully serve their time can be stark.
Bae won twice on the PGA Tour and appeared at the Presidents Cup before the start of his military service in November 2015
In 2015 golfer Bae Sang-moon – a PGA Tour professional ranked in the world’s top 100 – argued that his residency in the United States meant he should be allowed to delay his service until his top-level career was over.
A court in Daegu ruled otherwise and he spent two years as a rifleman in his nation’s army.
“I wanted to play in tournaments, I wanted to sleep at home and I wanted to drive.”
He hoped that his spartan existence, living off wages of around £80 a week, while route marching and lifting weights, might have sharpened his competitive edge.
He came back physically and, he claimed, mentally stronger, but poorer at golf.
He has missed the cut in 11 of his 16 PGA events since 2017.
Bae’s name appears on the 2016 Masters scoreboard which he would have played in had he not been conscripted the previous year
South Korea’s top footballers have largely been spared through their own success.
Park Ji-Sung, a Champions League winner with Manchester United, was part of the squad that were honoured with a special exemption after reaching the semi-finals of the 2002 World Cup.
Newcastle midfielder Ki Sung-yueng was in the bronze-winning London 2012 side that had their military service slashed to just four weeks.
“It’s something we all respect. It’s not fair to say we are famous footballers so we don’t have to do it,” Ki told the Sun in March.
“Sonny and I can’t just be given special treatment because we’re Premier League players.”
Which is perhaps easier to say when you are facing only a fraction of the usual two years confined to barracks.
Son too could have been free of the full obligation.
In 2014, while playing at Bayer Leverkusen, he was selected to play in the Asian Games.
However, with the tournament falling outside Fifa’s official calendar and conflicting with two Champions League games, his German club took up their right to refuse his release.
In Son’s absence, South Korea beat neighbours North Korea to take gold and earn another generation of players a pass from their duties.
Tottenham – who have not commented on the prospect of Son’s military service – have not repeated Leverkusen’s stance.
Off the back of a tiring World Cup campaign, they allowed Son to head to Indonesia in the hope of a successful title defence that would end the uncertainly around a player they bought for about £22m and signed to a new five-year contract in July.
South Korea lost in the quarter-finals of Rio 2016 to Honduras (right) and were eliminated in the group stages of the World Cup in Russia earlier this year
His emotions have spoken loudly though.
Son’s tears in the wake of quarter-final defeat by Honduras at Rio 2016 and a group-stage exit at Russia 2018 have earned him much sympathy in his homeland.
An online petition in which signatories told the president that they would do double the military service if Son could skip it attracted thousands of supporters.
But, without the requisite success on the pitch, excusing Son would be a tricky manoeuvre for the South Korean government to sell domestically.
And a legitimate way for Son to continue playing football and appease the Defence Ministry does exist.
Two clubs in the domestic K-league, Sangju-Sangmu – which is run by the Korean Army – and Asan Mugunghwa – the Korean National Police team – allow footballers to play out their military service as part of their squads.
To join either however a player has to have been part of another team in the K League during the previous season.
Should Son fail to land the Asian Games title on Saturday, Tottenham will surely be ready to make backchannel representations to keep him in north London.
But, in that situation, no-one can honestly be sure whether Son will be remaining on civvy street and White Hart Lane or heading home and into commission.
Rose McGowan, the #MeToo ally to Asia Argento, is taking the side of Argento accuser Jimmy Bennett. The activist issued a statement Monday urging the Italian actress to “do the right thing” by being honest about whether she had sex with the actor when he was underage.
McGowan also declared Rain Dove, whom she’s dating, was the unnamed Argento friend whose published text-message exchange shows that Argento admitted to sleeping with Bennett when he was 17. McGowan said Rain Dove planned to turn over the texts to police.
“I responded with ‘You have to. You must.’ I wasted no time. It wasn’t hard to say or support. What was hard was the shell shock of the realization that everything the MeToo movement stood for was about to be in jeopardy,” McGowan said in a statement, issued Monday by her spokesman, Nathaniel Baruch.
“An hour after our conversation was finished Rain Dove confirmed that they had turned over the texts and were in conversation with officers. Almost 48 hours later the texts were in the press,” McGowan said.
It was not clear to which police agency, if any, they were sent. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has said it is investigating whether a sex-crime was committed during an alleged encounter between Argento and Bennett in a Marina del Rey hotel room in 2013. Sheriff’s spokeswoman Nicole Nishida said Monday her agency has not received any text messages.
McGowan’s lengthy statement is another head-spinning development in the scandal involving Argento, an early accuser of shamed movie mogul Harvey Weinstein. In an ironic twist, she now finds herself accused by ex-child actor Bennett of sexually assaulting him when he was 17 and she was 37. (The two met in 2004 when he was cast at age 7 in a movie she co-wrote, directed and starred in.)
On Tuesday, Argento strongly denied the charges, saying Bennett tried to extort her and that her late boyfriend, Anthony Bourdain, arranged to pay him $380,000. Bourdain killed himself in June.
But on Wednesday, a picture of her and Bennett in bed in 2013 was published, along with screen grabs of text messages allegedly sent between her and an unnamed friend in which she admits she had sex with Bennett.
Also on Wednesday, Bennett issued a statement insisting the sexual encounter did happen, but said he was too traumatized to report it at the time, and that he decided to sue Argento for compensation in late 2017 after she accused Weinstein of rape and became a #MeToo global leader as a result.
I got to know Asia Argento ten months ago. Our commonality is the shared pain of being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein. My heart is broken. I will continue my work on behalf of victims everywhere.
McGowan and Argento are key voices of the #MeToo movement. McGowan’s initial response to Bennett’s accusations, published in the New York Times on Aug. 19, was to tweet her shock and hope that people would be “gentle” with Argento.
But her latest statement reflects a sharper, more considered response.
“It’s sad to lose a friend connection, but what’s even more sad is what happened to Jimmy Bennett,” McGowan said. “Whether or not the extortion case is true – it wasn’t fair and it wasn’t right….There absolutely should be no leeway or tolerance for sexual assault. Hard stop. NONE.”
She said she hadn’t released a more complete statement until now because she was “extremely humbled by this event. I had to take a step back and realize that in my own activism while I fight hard with passion – I need to evolve.”
She acknowledged her anger over what she says Weinstein did to her, and as a victim felt she was justified in her fiery feelings. But even the accused have families who love them, she said.
“As allies to the victim and voyeurs of an event, we should find a better way to balance support of the victim with due process for the accused,” she said. “I’ve never claimed to be perfect. This week especially has made me come to terms with the fact that we all have a lot of growing to do, including myself.”
She concluded with a call for supporting more justice and more honesty, and appealed directly to Argento.
“Asia, you were my friend. I loved you. You’ve spent and risked a lot to stand with the MeToo movement. I really hope you find your way through this process to rehabilitation and betterment. Anyone can be be better – I hope you can be, too.
“Do the right thing. Be honest. Be fair. Let justice stay its course. Be the person you wish Harvey could have been.”
Baruch said the last thing McGowan texted him on Monday was this: “I believe in justice for all.” She subsequently tweeted it.
Calls to lawyers for Argento, Bennett, Weinstein and Bourdain’s estate were not immediately returned.
In the wake of the scandal, Argento has been criticized on social media and has suffered career consequences: She backed out of curating a Dutch music festival, and on Monday Variety and The Hollywood Reporter reported that she’s been fired as a judge on the rest of the season of reality competition series “X Factor Italy.”
“I cannot stand by while Asia Argento is hurled under a bus,” Anthony said. “She has been extraordinarily courageous standing up to Weinstein. And now she’s being punished…She’s being vilified and abused.
“When Asia told her story it was absolutely akin to mine and I cannot in good conscience let her carry the burden.
Panic! at the Disco are known for their outlandish, wild music videos, but the group’s new visual for “High Hopes” is normal enough. It begins with suited-up frontman Brendon Urie strolling the streets of downtown L.A. on a sunny day. He innocently bumps into a few people on the way, but all is fine and good and… oh, wait… there it is:
The video — directed by Brendan Walter and Mel Soria — does indeed take a surreal turn once Urie decides to follow his dream, which apparently means confidently walking up the side of a skyscraper while bystanders look on in disbelief and awe. His band awaits him at the top, and they all jam out on the roof as the sun sets and the city lights up around them.
The whole concept is likely a comment on fame — no one was paying attention to Urie until he decided to follow his dreams, and then the world took notice. The singer added his own take on it by tweeting, “No matter how hard your dreams seem, keep going. You might even have to climb up the side of a building in downtown LA, but it’ll all be worth it at the top. Stay up on that rise.”
PATD’s gravity-defying “High Hopes” video follows the band’s similarly epic performance at the VMAs on August 20, where Urie delivered the opening verse of “High Hopes” while hovering above the crowd inside Radio City Music Hall. Revisit that stellar performance below.
‘Respect! Respect! Respect!’ – Mourinho walks out of news conference
Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho demanded “respect” from journalists and walked out of his news conference after the 3-0 Premier League home defeat by Tottenham.
The defeat was Mourinho’s heaviest at home in his career, and he has now lost two of his first three league games for the first time.
“I won more Premierships alone than the other 19 managers together,” Mourinho said. “Three for me and two for them.
“Respect, respect, respect man.”
Harry Kane’s header and two goals from Lucas Moura at Old Trafford maintained Tottenham’s 100% start to the season and lifted them to second in the table.
The Potuguese has won more Premier League titles than the rest of the division’s current managers combined – he won three in two spells with Chelsea, while Pep Guardiola and Manuel Pellegrini won one each at Manchester City.
Mourinho, who lifted his most recent Premier League crown three years ago, has also won two titles in Portugal, two in Italy and one in Spain, as well as winning the Champions League twice, and the Europa League with United in 2017.
“You want to make the miracle of my team played so well and strategically we were so, so, so, so, so, so good and you want to try and transform this press conference into let’s blame the guy,” he said.
Asked about United’s defending against Spurs, he said: “I am sorry. You have to tell me what is the most important thing because I don’t know.
“When I win matches I come here many times and you are not happy that I win matches and you say the most important is the way of playing.”
What else did Mourinho say?
Journalist: I am asking about the defending.
Mourinho: No, no, no. You need to make a decision in relation to that. I need to know from you what is the most important thing. If it is is to play well or to win matches?
To play offensively or for a certain result. Today we were aggressive, we press high. Tottenham couldn’t make two passes coming from the back. They made lots of mistakes because of our pressure high.
We project the full-backs. We had Valencia and Luke Shaw arriving in dangerous positions, we miss goals with an open goal, we miss chances, we were unlucky in rebounds in both goals, we lost a game by conceding at the first corner of the match against us in minute 50.
In the first half, zero corners, zero lateral free-kicks, zero frontal free-kicks. On minute 50 they have one corner and score a goal and with that goal you want to transform the story of the game.
But don’t lose your time. Today I had proof that the best judge in football are the supporters. They are the best judge.
Journalist: But many of the supporters walked out.
Mourinho: I would do the same losing 3-0, taking two hours from here to the centre of Manchester. It is where I live and I know that after matches it takes two hours, I would do the same.
We lost last season here against Sevilla and were booed because we deserved it, because we were not good. We were not dangerous enough, because Sevilla deserved to win the match.
Today the players left the pitch after losing at home and were applauded because they deserved it.
So keep trying and trying and trying. And keep trying. Just to finish, do you know what was the result? 3-0.
What this means? [Holds three fingers up] 3-0 but also means three Premier Leagues and I won more Premier League alone than the other 19 managers together.
‘The players look like they don’t want to play for Mourinho’
Former Blackburn and Chelsea forward Chris Sutton on BBC Radio 5 live
Jose Mourinho sounds like he has lost the plot with his post-match comments because we all watched this game, and they were outclassed.
I don’t think Spurs applied themselves very well early on, but when they put their foot down, they exploited a team that has no leaders. There is a blame game going on here and the players do not look like they want to play for him.
If this was Louis van Gaal who had produced a performance like that, the fans would be chanting to get him out.
Mourinho’s managerial record is fantastic, but if United want to accept mediocrity, then that is what they have. Man City and Liverpool are in a different league.
It is an embarrassment to lose in the manner they did – 3-0 flattered United and I don’t know where they, or their manager go from here.
In the other dugout, Spurs haven’t brought anyone in, but there were no complaints and they are united.
Mourinho ‘frustrated’ with lack of Man Utd efficiency
The actor and advocate gave a detailed account of his painful experience before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Sexual Assault Survivor Bill of Rights, which establishes rights for sexual assault survivors. USA TODAY
The Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office is responding to Terry Crews’ claims that his sexual assault case against Adam Venit was thrown out due to the talent agent’s close ties with the Los Angeles Police Department.
The “Brooklyn Nine-Nine” star has actively supported the #MeToo movement after going public with his own personal story of sexual assault last year. Crews said Venit “groped my privates” at a Hollywood event in February 2016.
But the city attorney’s office said Monday his case didn’t meet felony standards.
“A case involving Adam Venit was referred to the Los Angeles City Attorney’s Office for misdemeanor filing consideration as it did not meet felony filing standards,” representative Shiara Davila-Morales said in a statement to USA TODAY
Crews had a different take over the weekend, taking to Twitter Saturday to point out a connection between Venit and the police department: “Adam Venit has been the Event Chairman of the LAPD Foundation, which raises millions for the @LAPD.”
He continued: “Anyone wonder why my assault case against him was thrown out by the D.A.? Yeah, #MeToo.”
The 50-year-old’s tweet included a screenshot of a letter from Venit, an agent at William Morris Endeavor, and his wife Trina, who describe themselves as event chairs. The letter asked potential donors to sponsor the “LAPF True Blue Gala” for “our men and women in blue.”
Adam Venit has been the Event Chairman of the LAPD Foundation, which raises millions for the @LAPD. (See letter below)
Anyone wonder why my assault case against him was thrown out by the D.A.?
Crews reported his encounter with Venit to authorities last November. Prosecutors didn’t press charges against the talent agent because the statute of limitations expired in March.
The DA declined felony charges earlier this year, stating that Venit twice grabbed Crews by the groin, but because there was no contact with his skin, and no restraint involved, the allegations were not a felony.
Crews’ latest tweet shows the former football player isn’t stopping a social media blitz on Venit despite his case being thrown out.
Venit was suspended from WME for a month after Crews came forward with allegations on Twitter last October. The former motion picture head returned to the company in a demoted role.
“I’d like to do a song for Rihanna,” he said. “I’d like to do something for like a Shawn Mendes, something like that. I just want to show, I got a lot of those songs in my hard drive, but I don’t think if I release ’em the people could like understand them coming from me.”
While Quavo isn’t ready to release his pop songs as a solo artist, he did share how Beyoncé and Jay-Z ended up recording another song he wrote.
“I actually did ‘Stir Fry‘ and ‘Apeshit‘ at the same time,” Quavo shared. “Me and Pharrell was recording at Chalice. ‘Apeshit’ was supposed to make Culture II. We did two records. I just picked ‘Stir Fry’ to go on the album. He called me back and was like, ‘Yo, B and Jay got the record.’”
The “L A M B T A L K” artist then described the first time he saw Beyoncé perform ‘Apeshit” live.
“She killin’ it,” he continued. “Nah, she doing it way better than me. She killin’ it. She bringing dance moves and choreo. I went to the show. I watched the whole show, because she do it at then end of the show. The anticipation for ‘Apeshit,’ I felt I like start sweating. Just watching the show and it was so hype and exciting. I was just waiting on ‘Apeshit’ the whole time and then when she played it, I was almost walking out. I came all the way back.”
Would you be down for a Shawn Mendes song written by Quavo?
After his team lost 3-0 at home to Tottenham, Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is involved in a bad-tempered exchange in his post-match news conference.
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At 38, Venus Williams survives three sets to advance at her 20th US Open
Venus Williams has never lost a first-round match at the US Open after she scored a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Russian wild-card recipient Svetlana Kuznetsova.
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NEW YORK — At 38 years old, it’s not surprising to find that Venus Williams is playing in her 20th career US Open since first competing here in 1997.
Williams has never lost a first-round match at the US Open after she scored a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Russian wild-card recipient Svetlana Kuznetsova.
It took Williams five match points to secure the 2-hour, 55-minute match. She failed to take advantage of two match points on Kuznetsova’s serve in the ninth game of the second set, and needed three match points on Kuznetsova’s serve in the final game to close it down.
If history could be relied on as an accurate barometer to the future, Williams would be smiling from ear-to-ear at this moment.
Heading into the match, Williams and the 33-year-old Kunzetsova were tied at 5-5 in career meetings. Nevertheless, when it came to the Grand Slams, Williams won their previous encounters at the 2003 Australian Open and 2007 Wimbledon, and then went on to journey to the final of both tournaments.
Whether a defeat of Kuznetsova in the earlier rounds will be the magic ingredient to deliver Williams to the final this fortnight is not a given. But as long as a player remains in the draw there’s always a chance of winning the title.
The match marked the first time that two former US Open champions squared off against each other in the first round. Williams captured back-to-back titles in 2000 and ’01, while Kuznetsova was the 2004 champion.
Captain Lewis Gregory hit 60 from 24 balls to help Somerset reach T20 Finals Day with a 19-run win over Notts Outlaws.
James Hildreth made 52 off 28 and Tom Abell 46 as the hosts posted 209-5 from 20 overs at Taunton.
Alex Hales’ 45 got Notts off to a strong start, but his dismissal by Jamie Overton slowed their charge.
Overton ended with 5-47 as Notts were bowled out for 190, earning Somerset a semi-final against Sussex Sharks.
Lancashire Lightning will play Worcestershire in the other semi-final on Finals Day, which is being held at Edgbaston on 15 September.
The Somerset-Nottinghamshire game was scheduled for Sunday but heavy rain pushed it back to Monday’s reserve day.
Gregory reached his fifty from only 20 balls, despite being doubt to play because of a groin injury suffered in the County Championship win over Essex.
England batsman Hales was dropped on 33 by Abell off Gregory, who took 2-29, before he drilled a wide Overton delivery to Gregory at cover.
Nottinghamshire were behind the required run-rate from then on, and Jerome Taylor bowled Harry Gurney with the final delivery of the match.
Somerset bowler Jamie Overton told BBC Sport:
“Obviously it was a mixed sort of a day for me, it was just that I was bowling to one of the best batsmen in the world in Alex Hales.
“He was a number one for a reason and can be so destructive at times. I bowled the balls I wanted to but he kept hitting them for four. It was massive for us to get him out when we did.
“Lewis coming in, when he did, and getting 50 off 20 balls shows how deep we bat. He’s had a phenomenal year for us, with runs and wickets in all competitions.
“We haven’t been to Finals Day for a few years, so it will be nice for me to get there and see what the atmosphere is all about. Obviously we beat Sussex at Hove recently so we go there with a positive attitude and hopefully we can put one over them again.”
Notts Outlaws head coach Peter Moores:
“It was a funny game in some ways. I think we did really well but they got away right at the end of their innings and that hurt us in the long run.
“We have no complaints. It’s a tough place to play and Lewis Gregory had a great game; he batted beautifully at the end and Tom Abell also played nicely.
“I think it was chaseable and we got off to a decent start but then we just got a little bit stuck towards the middle and once we’d lost wickets it was always going to be tough chasing a score like 210.”
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