Ironically, Mr Giuliani seems to have mined the same seam of public forgiveness that earlier saved his opponent's husband.

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Notably, Zimbabwe has unearthed a fine crop of young seam bowlers, while Bangladesh will be left ruing the way in which the same old problems with its batting resurfaced with a vengeance.

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