However, as the wicket livened up under the lights, Tendulkar came to the fore with a 102-ball masterclass featuring a sumptuous array of leg-side flicks and drives through the arc between point and cover.
Eight overs later, de Villiers completed his fine 108-ball ton by cutting Daren Powell between backward point and square cover for four.
First Davies reacted sharply to field on the onside and throw to Swann who did the rest to send Umar Gul packing, then Morgan threw down the stumps from cover point with Saeed Ajmal not in the frame.
Flintoff showed that conditions were still favourable, taking advantage of the quick outfield by punching Zaheer past cover-point for four.
Ten runs followed off the next over, bowled by Johnson, and when Siddle came on Prior laced him to the cover-point boundary.
Tendulkar seemed destined to overhaul Lara's total of 11, 953 runs but became Cameron White's first victim in Tests when giving a simple catch to cover-point.
There would, however, be no let-up for England and Yuvraj hit Broad for a flat six over cover-point and pulled the next ball for four.
The tailender gradually began to play with some confidence, cutting Jacques Kallis delightfully to the cover-point boundary, and then dishing out two more off-side boundaries off the slow bowler Paul Harris.
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He was struggling to get the ball off the square and after crawling to 11 from 23 deliveries, it was almost a blessed relief when he holed out on the cover-point boundary.
In back, the collapsible zoom lens, xenon flash, and aluminum battery cover mimic a point-and-shoot camera.
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You need to open up the possibility first, then reach the point where workers' salaries cover a deposit, at least.
This is a conversation that can not be summed up simply, it is a long drawn out discussion to have to cover every single point.
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The ball disappeared with tremendous velocity over wide long-on, backward square-leg, extra-cover, backward point and mid-wicket while Broad and skipper Paul Collingwood played the role of startled rabbits.
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That leaves the industry exposed to adverse selection, whereby young and healthy (read: inexpensive) customers avoid buying cover until they are ill, at which point new regulations will force the industry to issue them cover.
It helped (or hurt, depending on your point of view) that the cover girl, for the second year running, is viral sensation Kate Upton.
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You will see multiple devices from us in the second half launching with these capabilities, and we will expand the range of our Lapdock devices so we cover a broader price point, addressing both the enterprise premium tier as well as more consumer tiers.
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Monks accosted and threatened journalists trying to cover the unrest, at one point trying to drag a group of several out of a van.
What we do cover is real news from every point of the compass including a lot of important American stories that the American news media rarely looks at, at all.
On the other hand, for a compound eye to be effective, its elements must point in lots of directions, in order to cover a wide visual field.
But we want to get to a point where we don't need the media to cover it.
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It was not long before Tendulkar took the lead again, however, blasting Afridi over cover, backward of and in front of point for three boundaries in as many balls.
The tablet itself almost seems like it's beside the point, considering the real star of the show is that cover-and-keyboard set.
Another 47 million are uninsured and finding ways to cover these people is expected to be a big point of focus for the administration of President-elect Barack Obama.
The police minister didn't help himself by arriving late to deliver his statement - an attempted point of order from a quick witted backbencher provided just enough cover to allow him to scramble into position as a puzzled and irate Speaker Bercow scanned the horizon.
As Elizabeth Corcoran and others detail in the cover story, the technology has almost gotten to the point where it makes economic sense.
Urban planners say savings from lower energy bills and other operational efficiencies can more than cover the added expenses, but the break-even point can be years out.
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