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From: karnik@deci.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Snippets
Date: 11 Nov 92 23:51:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: deci.karnik.721525891
Organization: University of Minnesota


A few snippets of news:

	Former England opener Wayne Larkin was mugged in Barbados. He was there
for a couple of charity games. 20 stitches were needed to patch him up, but he
didn't play in the games of course.

	Athanasios John Traicos is a Greek, born in Egypt, citizen of Zimbabwe,
was educated in South Africa and made his debut for SA eons ago, and now made
his debut for Zim at age 45.

	For Bombayites, and others who follow the Times Shield inter-office
cricket tournament in Bombay... 

	Among the prominent performers in the latest (first?) round of matches
played, were:

Milind Gunjal (Tatas) made 180		<---- Maharashtra's Ranji king :-)

Vinod Kambli (Sungrace) made 
111 and 103* in the same match.

Zubin Bharucha (Sungrace) made 102*	<----- Bombay Ranji opener

Abey Kuruvilla took 6 wkts.		{ At least one of these guys should 
Salil Ankola took 5 wkts.		{ have been in SA right now :-(

Lalchand Rajput made 101*		<----- Former Bombay/India opener

Narendra Hirwani took 4 wkts.
and was later injured while
fielding (cut above the eye
or something like that)


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: WI tour Schedule
Date: 8 Nov 92 08:45:16 GMT
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia

Someone asked for the West Indies tour schedule, so here it is.

Nov 2     V A.C.B. Chairmans XI  Lilac Hill
    4     V West. Aust.          Perth D/N
    6-9   V West. Aust.          Perth
    12    V PM's XI              Canberra
    14-17 V Aust. XI             Hobart
    20-23 V NSW                  t.b.a.
    27-1  FIRST TEST             Brisbane
Dec 4     V Pakistan             Perth D/N
    6     V Australia            Perth
    8     V Australia            Sydney D/N
    12    V Pakistan             Adelaide
    15    V Australia            Melbourne D/N
    17    V Pakistan             Sydney D/N
    19-22 V Victoria             Bendigo
    26-30 SECOND TEST            Melbourne
Jan 2-6   THIRD TEST             Sydney
    9     V Pakistan             Brisbane
    10    V Australia            Brisbane
    16    First Final            Sydney D/N
    18    Second Final           Melbourne D/N
    20    Third Final            Melbourne D/N
    23-27 FOURTH TEST            Adelaide
    30-3  FIFTH TEST             Perth

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|  Churchill, Victoria, Australia.   |
|  Monash Uni Gippsland Computing    |
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From: raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed)
Subject: Re: ZIM vs NZ T2 FINAL
Organization: DA&MRL, Engineering, UWO, London Ont. CA
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 18:20:26 GMT

In article <1992Nov13.134648.15640@gserv1.dl.ac.uk>, A.M.T.Bell@daresbury.ac.uk (A.M.T. Bell,G2,3123,homephone) writes:
|> In article 4461@julian.uwo.ca, raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:
|> > First loss for Zimbabwe, still a good start to test cricket considering that
|> > they suffered their first loss in third match they played, all the other contries
|> > lost their very first match(except england).  One must also praise Houghton
|>                                      ********
|> > for his brave and sporting declaration of their first inning. From their past record
|> > and this attitude they will sure develop into a compititive side, if they are not already.
|> > 
|> > 
|> > Can any one tell us the response in Zim towards present serieses(sp?) i.e., crowd
|> > turnout etc etc.
|> > -- 
|> > 
|> > S.R.Raza.
|> > raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
|> > 
|> 
|> 
|> Sorry Raza, england lost their first test against australia back in 1877,
|> i think you mean australia.
|> 
|> tony

Sorry for the mistake! yes it was australia had to be one from Eng or Aus!, the other
important thing about that victory is that they beat England again in the centenial test
in 1976 by the same margin of 45 runs!

One record which pak holds for initial performances is that pak is the only country who
has won a test match against every country in the very first series.

-- 

S.R.Raza.
raza@surya.engrg.uwo.ca
From: d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: No more anti-Raju stuff, thanx!
Date: 11 Nov 92 06:49:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: utarlg.11NOV199200491390
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <712@wavefront.wti.com>, ravi@wti.com (Ravi Raj) writes...
>In article <01GQVGTNHHBM000IE6@FULLERTON.EDU> XSNAIK@FULLERTON.EDU (Sanjay Naik) writes:
>>
>>Finally, it beats me why it's ok for countries such as WI, Aust, SA to prepare 
>>wickets to suit their fast bowlers and when India prepares a minefield such as 
>>the Chandigarh wicket, somehow that's unfair to the opposition batsmen. Indian 
>>batsmen, prepared on dead tracks are immediately expected to adjust to 
>>green-tops, etc. And if they should fail - "My God!! How hopeless!! It's the 
>>end of the world!!" When we win the Hirwani/Raju tests, they're simply written 
>>off. After all, how are the batsmen suppose to survive on these square turners.
> 
>As far as I can tell, no one has been complaining about preparation
>of minefield pitches in India. You are darned right, WI invariably
>used to have a pitch or two (Bridgetown, Jamaica, etc.) that were
>super-fast, virtually unplayable tracks. This was when they had
>their dreaded pace foursome, I don't know if they still do. And 
>IMO there is nothing wrong with that. If anything, India should
>prepare more minefield pitches, so it would give our bowlers more
>confidence, and more youngsters would be motivated to becoming pure 
>bowlers than run of the mill all-rounders.
> 
>Our frustration with `Pathetic' Raju is that he does well only on
>such pitches. On foreign soil, he just ends up being a mere
>spectator. And this theory is not based just on that one Zimbabwe
>test where he bowled 50 odd overs and came up zero wickets on a 
>pitch where more than half the wickets were taken by spinners.
>Rather, it is based on pretty much every test he has played in
>his career except that one Chandigarh test. His performance on 
>foreign soil has been, well, how shall I put it, pathetic! It will
>also be good for Raju's confidence if he is not in the test team for 
>a while until he matures as a bowler. Anyone who took 8 wickets for
>50 odd runs on any kind of pitch (Ref: Chandigarh test) should definitely
>have some talent at least. And we would hate to see something like
>that destroyed because of repeated sub-standard performances
>on foreign soil. And that is exactly what is going to happen if day in 
>and day out he toils on the field and reads the newspaper the
>next morning and his bowling figures say 34-11-74-0. And I certainly 
>hope, he doesn't read rec.sport.cricket!!!
> 
> 
>-- 
>--
>Ravi N. Raj                                   ravi@wti.com

If Raju reads R.S.C... maan he'd sue You,me ,and Internet !
From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Please don't pick on Dr. Rao! was Re: PM XI beats WI
Date: 13 Nov 92 19:06:05 GMT
Article-I.D.: ns1.Bxo525.BEy
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1992Nov13.175151.24572@access.usask.ca>, srikant@skorpio.usask.ca (Srikant Subramaniam) writes:

      Please let us keep this topic to rest. I will be posting the info as best
and as frequently as I can.

     Thanks for all the support.


K. Sankara Rao                          e-mail ksrao@power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu

Department of Electrical Engineering
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND 58105  USA

Phone:  (701)237-7217  (o)
        (701)235-9912  (h)
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From: ahmed@ee.tamu.edu (Jubayer Ahmed)
Subject: Re: Please don't pick on Dr. Rao
Organization: Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 08:53:34 GMT


I second Nalin's motion. There are not many people on the net who are a   
constant source of information like Dr. KSR. I have been following his 
postings for a long long time. I have a shell command made by Dr. Rao's 
name so that whenever I login it shows me the current status of any ongoing 
game. If you dont understand by the context of the posting what it means 
even if there is some kind of typing error or something, then I doubt if 
you deserve to read rsc. If you don't like his posting, just skip it. Please 
don't flame him. If we just disregard the time which is required to gather 
so much information about a game, just the typing itself consumes appreciable 
amout of time, which is very difficult to afford. A gentleman is showing 
some generosity by doing so and we should be grateful to him for his constant 
feedback. Instead we are picking him for some typo or misspell. Hey, come 
on guys, we are not paying him for this job and therefore, we should'nt 
faulter him for typo or misspell. So please, refrain from flaming a person 
(any person, not only Dr. Rao) if that person is providing us enormous 
amount of information by wasting his own time and effort. A big occasion is 
coming and we need Dr. Rao's postings. So:

PLEASE, DON'T KILL ONE OF OUR BIG SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON R.S.C.
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Date: Fri,  6 Nov 1992 17:07:36 -0500 
From: Sujan Azad Parikh <sp48+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: Vinod Kambli
	<5NOV199221285893@utarlg.uta.edu>

Ramachandran, 
            Let me tell you one thing. What I wanted to say was that
after Azza, our batting lineup is absolutely shit. Kapil is good, but
'wo buddha ho gayaa hay'. He is old. We need another aggresive batsman
in the middle order who will play a supporting role to strokeplayers in
the top order like M'kar and T'kar. Raman is essentially an opener.
Jadeja is a more steady opener than Raman i.e. not as flashy. Raman also
has a weakness against pace bowling. He flashes a lot outside the off
stump. This style of his got him into trouble in the West Indies in
1988, where Ambrose, Walsh and co. literally killed him. He has scored
runs ONLY in India, on the slow pitches. Hence your claim of him being
good.

Regards,
Sujan Parikh
From: pieter@ford.ee.up.ac.za
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: after 8 overs, 35/1
Date: 13 Nov 1992 02:37:52 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Ball is moving a lot and Prabhakar is chuckin' away.
Teams:
Shastri,Jadeja,Manjrekar,Tendulkar,Azhar,Amre,Kapil,More,Prabhakar,Kumble,
Srinath.

Cook (0), Hudson,Wessels, Kirsten, Rhodes, McMillan, Richardson,
Henry, Pringle, Donald, Schultz.
From: banarji@unixg.ubc.ca (Ajai Banarji)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Summary of India's tour of Zimbabwe
Date: 9 Nov 1992 21:28:35 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
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		Summary of India tour of Zimbabwe

From Times of India up to Oct 27

India beat Presidents XI by 16 runs at Harare
Ind 203/9 in 50 (Shastri 73)
Pres XI 187/9 in 50 (Briant 51*)

Test match at Harare drawn.
Zim 456 (G. Flower 82, Houghton 121, A. Flower 59) and 146/4 dec (Pycroft 46,
Houghton 41*)
Ind 307 (Manjrekar 104, Kapil 60, Traicos 5-86)

1-day international at Harare: India won by 30 runs
Ind 239 in 49.4 (Manjrekar 70, Crocker 4-26)
Zim 209 in 49.1 (A. Flower 62, Crocker 50)


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From: gopalakr@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Gopalakrishnan Srinivasan)
Subject: Re: SAARC Cricket
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 19:58:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov11.173046.25157@cc.gatech.edu> sougata@cc.gatech.edu (Sougata Mukherjea) writes:
>Saw these news items which have not been reported on r.s.c yet:
>
>INDIA TO TAKE PART IN SAARC CRICKET
>BANGALORE- India will participate in the SAARC Cricket Tournament at
>Bangladesh from Dec 3 to 12.
>Mr. C.Nagaraj, Secretary, Board of Control of Cricket in India (BCCI) told
>PTI that other teams in the fray are Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and hosts
>Bangladesh. All the matches in the tournaments will be one-day games.
>The team was finalised on Sunday night.
>Manindar Singh(Delhi-Captain), Navjot Sidhu(Punjab- Vice-Captain),
                -------------                --------------------
>S. Sugwekar(Maharashtra), Surendra Bhave (Maharashtra),
              ------------                 ------------
Vinod Kambli(Bombay),
             -------
>K.P.Bhaskar(Delhi), Saurav Ganguly(Bengal), Ajay Sharma(Delhi),
             -----                  -----                -----
>Nayan Mongia(Baroda), Rajesh Chauhan(MP), Prashant Vaidya(Vidarbha),
              ------                  --                   ---------
>Winston Zaidi(UP), Salil Ankola(Bombay) and Abhey Kuruvilla(Bombay).
               --                ------                      ------
>Russi Jeejeebhoy (Bengal) and Sharif Ahmed (MP) will accompany the team
                   ------                    ---
>as officials.
>
>This is more or less the 2nd XI.  Can someone tell me more about Sugwekar?
It looks like they (the selection commte) did not enforce any quota
system for the 2nd XI. The team is interesting and it does not
have any body from the south. I think they should have given a      
chance to up coming bowlers like V.Prasad. I am not trying to say the
selected team is bad. This is my observation.

-Gopal
>
>
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From: s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au (Mark Smith)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pakistan Schedule for Aust tour this summer
Date: 8 Nov 92 09:06:53 GMT
Organization: Monash University College Gippsland, Churchill, 3842, Australia

For anyone interested heres Pakistans schedule for their Australian tour this
summer.

Nov 29    V W.A. Country  t.b.a.
Dec 2     V West. Aust.   Perth
    4     V West Indies   Perth D/N
    7     V Invitation XI Alice Springs (this was on the tour schedule but the
    Pakistanis don't want to play this game, they have not made themselves
    very popular)
    10    V Australia     Hobart
    12    V West Indies   Adelaide
    13    V Australia     Adelaide
    17    V West Indies   Sydney D/N
They go on a tour of New Zealand to play a test and 3 one dayers
Jan 9     V West Indies   Brisbane
    12    V Australia     Melbourne D/N
    14    V Australia     Sydney D/N
    16    First Final     Sydney D/N
    18    Second Final    Melbourne D/N
    20    Third Final     Melbourne D/N

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|  <s1172217@giaec.cc.monash.edu.au> |
|  Churchill, Victoria, Australia.   |
|  Monash Uni Gippsland Computing    |
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From: jma@phoenix.oulu.fi (Jacob Matthan)
Subject: Re: Ramakant Achrekar
Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:15:39 GMT

PVR Narasimha Rao (pvr@owlnet.rice.edu) wrote: 
: 
: Well, may be I should not say this, but let me say it.
: 
: Kambli is from a not-so-affluent family. Considering that, it's not very difficult to
: understand his craze or whatever for "material things in life".
: 
: PVR

This point is taken but I reproduce the answer to a specific question
"Do you feel that Vinod Kambli has no one to back him?"
Achrekar's reply was:
"Vinod's is a different story (from Sachin). He comes from a poor 
family, but his father used to watch him play. The problem with him
is that his upbringing is not as good as that of sachin, and often does
not know how to behave both on and off the field. He may not mean anything
adverse, but it comes across as if he couldn't care less.
I have talked to him many times, butit has only had a temporary effect.
When I went to Australia earlier this year, Sachin and Praveen (Amre)
came to meet me. When I asked them where Vinod was, they told me he was 
in a disco. This despite having agreed to meet me...."

I think his coach has analysed him correctly - he will only go so far
and no more!!

J. matthan
Oulu, Finland.


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From: aitken@cs.cornell.edu (William E. Aitken)
Subject: Re: 199, 299, 499 !
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:44:17 GMT

In article <92317.230423U58582@uicvm.uic.edu> <U58582@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>199 - I think Mudassar (vs India) and Azhar (vs SL) (i don't know if
>anyone scored 199 after Azhar did.
>299 - Sir DOn had one, (other than his 4 300s), I am not sure if he was
>not out
>499 - Hanif Mohammed in first class match (he I think was definitely n.o.)
>
>I don't know of anyone who scored 199 and 299 in test cricket, unless someone
>did it in the last couple of years (I don't think so).  When Azhar was out
>for 199, he was only the second player to do that.
	
	As I remember things, there were a lot of near misses of centuries
and the like in last [Southern] summer's series between England and New
Zealand.  Might Martin Crowe have had a 199 to go with his 1991
299 against SL at Wellington.

	BTW. Bradman's 299 was n.o.
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From: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu (R. Bharat Rao)
Subject: Re: India-President's XI (some details)
Reply-To: bharat@cs.uiuc.edu
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 15:42:45 GMT

rajiv@dvorak.amd.com (Rajiv Malhotra) writes:
>CRICKET: CRONJE, INDIAN BOWLERS SHARE DAY'S HONOURS
>SCORE-BOARD

>INDIAN BATSMAN RATTLED BY SCHULTZ'S PACE
>CENTURION PARK - The Indian batsman brought to their knees by pace in a

>INDIANS NEED 296 FOR VICTORY
>SCORE-BOARD
>PRESIDENT'S XI(First innings) - 268
>INDIA (I Innings) - 164
>PRESIDENT'S XI (II innings) -  200.


>RAIN RUINS INDIAN BID
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hey, I am a fan and all that, but I think the newwriter (whom Rajiv
quoted) was afflicted with one of the worst cases of unbounded
optimism that I have ever seen.  I, for one, had serious doubts that
India would have staved off defeat, let alone won, and was glad that
rain intervened so that their confodence remained intact before the
first test.

On the other hand, had they pulled it off, then...   but, with the
well known record of Indian batsmen early in a tour, I for one am
happy that the weather Gods chose to intervene....


>CENTORIAN  PARK- Overnight rains washed out the fourth and final day of
>the cricket match between Indian XI and the President XI at the Centorian
>Park here today.

>****     Rajiv Malhotra    *** 

Bharat
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
From: karnik@myria.cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: In the defense (was Re: Vinod Kambli
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 02:13:52 GMT

In <1992Nov13.215646.19621@infonode.ingr.com> arun@infonode.ingr.com (Arun Madhwesh) writes:


>It is surprising that dropping SPatil is/was being seen as 
>grave injustice to blossomming talent and cricket values
>in general! IMHO, he was given enough oppurtunities
>to display his stuff but was generally very inconsistant.
:
:
:
>amt of chances is finally dropped... Maybe statistics can
>make the picture clear..

	I don't have any stats, but I would guess that his average in Tests
was in the high 30s - no worse than, say, Alan Lamb or Srikkanth, or Shastri.
Besides which, he was a thrilling strokeplayer, his batting was a treat to
watch. Also, he had scored a century in his last test before he was finally
dropped for good. Earlier too, he was in and out of the side a couple of 
times. My point is, this type of player has to be persevered with - typically
at #5 or #6 in the order, bacause they do provide exciting cricket. Kambli is
another such player, who may be inconsistent, but will play the occasional
match-winning innings, and delight the spectators all the way. Similarly,
Patil won a few games for India (ODIs) by his explosive batting. He deserved
to be a fixture in the team.

>Another point: Anybody remember third test against Pak
>led by ZAbbas at Kanpur? SPatil was recalled few hrs
>before start of the test as the saviour of Indian team.
>He was supposed to give the cutting edge to Indian offense
>but failed. Somebody, who was in decent form or had a
>good series was dropped to make room for him. I think
>it was RBinny.

	That did turn out to be a fiasco... I think it was a test at 
Nagpur, and Patil flew in on the morning of the test, in the Maharashtra
Chief Minister's plane, went in to bat later that afternoon, and made very
little....


>Arun


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~  Neeran   Karnik  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Dept. of Computer Science,      | Email: karnik@cs.umn.edu
University of Minnesota         |        karn0001@student.tc.umn.edu
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From: operator@cc.curtin.edu.au
Subject: Damien Martin
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 11:23:35 GMT

WA's Damien Martin is shaping up to be very good cricketer, my bet is
he will be in the lineup to face the WI.He seems to be the type of player
who takes the attack to the bowler, and like all genuine class players
has that little bit of arrogance.

The Australian selectors should give Martin his chance as he deserves it on
his own merit and should not worry too much on the fact that he is only 21.
With people like Border,Marsh,Boon and other senior players around,Martin
can be guided and protected and Australia will benefit from his talents.

When Sachin Tendulkar was introduced to Test Cricket he was only 18 and as
all have seen his early introduction has not done any harm.I am sure the 
same can be said of Martin, it's been sometime since Australia produced a
prodigy like him.Let's hope and pray Damien Martin will be around for long
to entertain all Cricket lovers around Australia and all over the world.
From: d188sid@utarlg.uta.edu (S RAMACHANDRAN)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: 2 nd days play...
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:47:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: utarlg.6NOV199217471735
Organization: The University of Texas at Arlington
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Can somebody post 2nd day's scores India v B.Pres XI?
I can't hold out for much longer!

thanx in advance.

Sidd.R.
From: hist1261@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: NZ v Zim T2 D3 Tea
Date: 11 Nov 92 10:43:14 +1300
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

In article <1992Nov11.095418.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty) writes:
> In article <9211101410.AA23738@cs.utexas.edu>, KSRAO@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
>> NZ v Zim T2 D3 Tea
>>      There was only half an hour's play possible because of bad light,
>> electrical storm and rain after lunch. The latest score is 228 for 6.
> 
> Rains a lot in Zimbabwe, doesn't it? :-).
> 
> Alan

Yeah, and their light isn't the best either.  At least the enthusiasm of their
national squad makes up for it.

Richard.