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What he needed — and I've told him this over and over again — was a game show called something like 'Meet Don Rickles,' where he could be himself and insult the audience, the way Groucho did on 'You Bet Your Life.' " Although Carson himself is less acid than he used to be, he is still capable of slapping down visitors who get uppish with him.

Brook means us to condemn his stupidity, and to respect the Fool (Alec McCowen) who repeatedly tries to din his message into the deaf royal ears … the knights are tight, and Goneril (Irene Worth) is right to be annoyed; but won't this wreck the scene in which Kent takes his revenge on Goneril's uppish steward?

Finn claimed the prize scalp of Chris Gayle, hurried into an uppish hook to long leg where Bairstow took a cool catch, in a hostile three-over opening burst, and bowled a total of 13 dot balls without which England's target might have been out of reach.

Then she totally misses Luus' next delivery with a wild swish, and two balls later pokes the ball uppish towards gully, but it lands a yard short.

And it almost produces an immediate wicket – a Jordan slower ball does Marsh, whose uppish push flies just wide of a diving Ian Bell.

Fourth ball he has Sharma playing an uppish cut, a bit of a top edge there, and backward point snares it comfortably.

He hit Borthwick out of the ground and there were front-foot pulls, uppish flicks and brutal drives.

He then picks up a single to fine leg, before Butcher almost throws it away with an uppish drive that is caught on the half-volley by the sub fielder, Hamish Marshall, at cover point.

"Average sportsmanship," tweeted Alex Hales, the England opener who had already gone for 43 from 45 balls to an uppish drive smartly caught by Jack Brooks in his follow-through – although his tweet was quickly deleted.

Gary Ballance c Christian b Coulter-Nile 26 (England 121-4) Another change of bowler has done the job for Clarke as Ballance biffs an uppish cut into the deep and straight into the hands of Christian off the bowling of Coulter-Nile.

The batsmen exchange singles, Bopara with a slightly uppish drive, and there's a leg-side bye too.

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