OOH! WHAT A 000 H ! AAAH ! !t's enough to send a chap's pulse racing. But listen, ladies and gentlemen. Titter ye not as Frankie Howerd drools over the curvy charms of actress Caroline Munro. After all, they are working together on " The Gong Show," Southern T V's version of Amer

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chance as Boycott jabbed Jeff Thomson just to the on side of the pitch and ran hell for leather. Randall, glued to his crease, stared back boggle-eyed as Thomson veered away on his follow-through and jerked out his right arm for the ball. He failed to gather first-time, but the

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GEOFF BOYCOTT was both hero and anti-hero of Trent Bridge yesterday as he stepped from his self-imposed threeyear exile and came to within 12 runs of his thirteenth Test hundred. lie pushed England hangs total. to 242 for 5, one run short of Australia's firbt, But this come-back

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