"They played better than us for a large part of that game, " Spoelstra said.

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"This was a huge game for us and they played like it was and we really didn't, " Williams said.

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Musharraf has played a delicate game in his alliance with the US against Al Qaeda.

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Perhaps MacLaurin has made the mistake - as I did - of assuming that croquet at the top level is the same game that some of us might have played in a posh pal's back garden.

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They played the cannier game in conditions that were always likely to deny us all a proper climax, and England were a good 30 runs away from setting a seriously competitive target.

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We played a really disciplined game, and that's going to be key for us because they have a really good power play, so you have to respect that.

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We experienced a game unlike anything we'd ever played before, but nothing could have prepared us for what happened next.

ENGADGET

Nearly all of us have played a slot machine, but ultimately, we figure out the rules and patterns and come to understand that the game is designed to take our money, so we move on.

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