After tea, Panesar resorted to firing in at leg-stump from round the wicket in the spirit of recently retired Ashley Giles and it became a matter of whether Kumble could reach three figures and deprive India of the highest total not containing a century.

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In those states, says Hurd, Outback would have had a tougher time firing the waitress who wore the Tea Party bracelet if she could make a case that her political views were the reason for her dismissal.

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