Judges comprehensively threw out anattempt to privately prosecute the men, describing it as anattempt to thwart entirely legitimate extraditions to the US, approved by every court that had examined the applications.
With a long evening session to negotiate, both Tim Ambrose and Flintoff opted for attrition in anattempt to thwart South Africa's pumped up pace attack.
Mittal's offer for Arcelor is competing against an alternative plan unveiled last week by Arcelor in which it plans to buy Russian firm Severstal in anattempt to thwart Mittal's advances.