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Former West Indies all-rounder Carlos Brathwaite believes the tourists must be "greedy" after a fine day of batting on day two of the second Test against England at Trent Bridge.

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Don’t be greedy, trying to keep her to yourself.

“We’re not trying to be greedy or selfish or anything. We want what’s fair for everybody.”

On foraging, for instance, Taylor writes: “Try not to be greedy. The shrub or tree we’re cutting from is more important than our fleeting arrangement.”

As much as he might want to be the hero again, Bobo knows he can’t be greedy and ask Carroll to give him the ball on the ground with regularity.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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