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That was a chastening lesson for a player who has elevated to heady heights since he earned a debut at Arsenal back in May.

The 10-was chastening end but, for of the closer than margin England did look a little lacklustre with the ball at times, but they will be hoping conditions under the lights in Adelaide will suit them as it did at Edgbaston against the West Indies in August.

Whatever the Crown says, it will have been a chastening experience over the last few days, I'm sure everyone will agree with that."

ALEX Oxlade-Chamberlain has taken a chastening defeat on the green baize at the hands of Wayne Rooney.

The past, as LP Hartley succinctly puts it, is a foreign country: they do things differently there, and it's chastening to know that one only has to go back a few generations to discover a moral landscape so vastly different to our own.

CHASTENING "But on the face of it, it isn't any more difficult as it's a game we are not expected to get anything out of.

It was chastening to realise that our award entries would no doubt have suffered a similar fate if exposed to this one-man judging panel.

CRICKET: England's highly successful 2012 one-day international campaign ended in chastening anti-climax, and a drawn series, as South Africa trounced them by seven wickets at Trent Bridge.

But after his chastening experience at Chelsea, and the withering assessments of so many of his former players, AVB (right) needs to kick-start his career anywhere other than in England - as well as enrolling himself on a few man-management courses.

London, Feb.28 ( ANI ): Dutch footballer Rafael van der Vaart believes that Tottenham will quickly recover from their chastening 5-2 loss against Arsenal and still end the season as London's leading club.

Chief executive Sir Fred Goodwin, who was forced to launched a pounds 12bn rights issue earlier this year to shore up the firm's balance sheet, said the loss was a "chastening experience" that "I and my colleagues regret very much".

It will be chastening for whoever is charged with the responsibility of helping the slow left-armer to note the pair of them are up against a mighty opposite number in Muttiah Muralitharan.