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From: penglish@laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au (Paul English)
Subject: Re: Javed's attitute and a question.
Organization: Macquarie University, Australia.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 06:39:21 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.180619.3131@julian.uwo.ca> raza@engrg.uwo.ca (Mr. Raza Syed) writes:
>
>I think if the ball rebounds from the helmet and someone completes
>the catch, then the batsman is out. But if it got stuck in the Helmet
>then five runs will be awarded to the batsman.
>-- 
>

Wrong on both counts.  The helmet is in a special category of protective
equipment.  If the ball rebounds from a helmet the batsman cannot be
dismissed, likewise for a ball lodged in the helmet.  This ruling was
brought in because it was believed some short leg fieldsmen were gaining an
advantage by moving in closer with protective equipment.  It was decided
that it would be unfair if a batsman were to be dismissed by a ball popping
up off a helmet in such a situation.  If a batsman is not caught, the ball
is still in play.  I'm not sure about a ball lodging in a helmet, it may be
in play or a dead ball.  In any case it is not 5 runs, since the fielder
has not made improper use of equipment.  This is a different situation to
when a helmet is left behind a wicketkeeper.  In this case 5 runs are
awarded if the ball strikes the helmet, since its use is improper.

Hope this clears up some confusion.

-- 
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From: hlebovic@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (henry lebovic)
Subject: Wanted - Test Cricket Database
Organization: Sydney University Computing Service, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 01:18:52 GMT

Folks,
I am trying to find out whether any of you fine cricket fans out there somewhere on the planet know of a site where there may exist a Test cricket database of  some form. Primarily I'm after comprehensive score cards in an electronic form. My ultimate goal is to develop a freeware/shareware test cricket stats system. 

If you have any ideas where I might be able to source this data without spending megabucks. please post here or email to my address at the bottom.

Thanks
Henry Lebovic.			|  From sunny Sydney, Australia
hlebovic@extro.ucc.su.oz.au     |  Cricket down here isn't a game, it's Waugh!


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From: kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz)
Subject: Re: The best ever Test XIs
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 02:20:54 GMT

In <1993Jan24.231652.28482@nmsu.edu> sbasu@spock (BASU) writes:

| Would you perfer Benaud or Border to Sir Don as captain?

Yes.

kre
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From: sbasu@spock (BASU)
Subject: Re: WI/Aus T4 D1 Lunch
Organization: New Mexico State University
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 21:51:42 GMT

In article <9301230235.AA02989@deepthought.cs.utexas.edu>  
KSRAO@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
> WI are 2 for 100 at Lunch. Haynes 39 and Richardson 0. The fall of  
wickets are
> 84,99. There will be no updates - probably after lunch.
> 
> Simmons c Hughes b SWaugh 46  (8 fours). 
> There are 14 boundaries - including three all run boundaries.
> At lunch WI are  
> Hughes got Richie out lbw  for 2. Rich 99 for 2 
> 
Didn't Richie prefer Lara to himself @ 1 down?

Scrooge
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From: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
Reply-To: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Organization: Bristol University Particle Physics Group /ZEUS Online
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:21:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan22.160841.9775@dvorak.amd.com>,
kaushik@dvorak.amd.com (Kaushik Chhotani) writes:
|>Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
|>Path:
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!pacbell.com!rtech!amdahl!amdcad!dvorak.amd.com!kaushik
|>From: kaushik@dvorak.amd.com (Kaushik Chhotani)
|>Subject: Re: India Vs England full score card.
|>Message-ID: <1993Jan22.160841.9775@dvorak.amd.com>
|>Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
|>References: <1993Jan21.111930.26488@rdg.dec.com>
|><C17v3F.1EJ@cup.hp.com> <C18425.Ctq@dscomsa.desy.de>
|>Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:08:41 GMT
|>Lines: 36
|>
|>In article <C18425.Ctq@dscomsa.desy.de> tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim
|>Llewellyn) writes:
|>>In article <C17v3F.1EJ@cup.hp.com>, pshah@cup.hp.com (Pankaj Shah)
|>writes:
|>>|>
|>>|>: 	England
|>>|>: 	=======
|>>|>:         .
|>>|>:         .
|>>|>: Extras					30
|>>|>					       ^^^^
|>>|>Wow!  That is a LOT of extras in 50 overs!  Was one of the Indian
|>>|>bowlers 
|>>|>having a bit of trouble?
|>>|>
|>>
|>>yes I think it was mainly Srinath, wides and noballs.
|>>--
|>
|>I think that wides and no balls are included in the runs given away by
|>a 
|>bowler. Srinath's analysis was 2 for 34 and thus could not have given
|>30
|>runs in wides and no balls. It may have been leg-byes which do go
|>into
|>the sundry acct. only.
|>
|>Correct me if I am wrong.
|>

No you are right I am wrong. I know they took a lot of leg byes also...


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|>Kaushik
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From: D.I.Patel@lut.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Indian Team for 1st Test
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:50:37 GMT

In article <6687@falcon.ukc.ac.uk> rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:
>
>I've just heard the Indian team for the first test. Here it is:
>
>Azharrudin   (capt.)
>Sidhu
>Raman
>Kambli
>Tendulkar
>Sharma
>Amre
>More
>Kapil
>Prabhakar
>Srinath
>Chauhan
>Raju
>Kumble
>
>
>
>Rob.

Judging from the above here are the 11 players who i think will play:
(In order of batting . .  .)

Raman, Sidhu, Kambli, Tendulkar, Azhar, Amre, Kapil, Prabhakar, More,
Kumble, Srinath...with Raju/Sharma being 12 th man.

I think Azhar should bat at 5 as it is his ideal (IMHO) place.  The rest of
the team picks itself.  Raman, i beleive, will be given another chance 'coz
he was injured and couldn't play in the last test in RSA.  Among the bowlers
they pick themselves from recent performances.  From what i have read on the
net about More, I am surprised he's been picked.  Is his keeping really that
bad? (I know he dropped Gooch on 36 when he made 333 but lets hope that
doesn't happen again :-)).

Any comments?

Dip.
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From: bankerns@leland.Stanford.EDU (Nilay Suresh Banker)
Subject: Which Sharma
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Distribution: su
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:07:27 GMT


Can anyone confirm which "Sharma" is it in the
Indian test side.

Also when is the next ODI?
From: mcbean@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: West Indies team for fourth test
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:33:56 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

In article <3125.2b607d88@vger.nsu.edu>, j_graham@vger.nsu.edu writes:
> I cannot believe that the West Indies have dropped Jimmy Adams.
> If you have 4 fast bowlers, we do not need Hooper's bowling and we
> probably need Adam's batting more.  Besides Adams has earned his 
> place in the team. 
> 
> With our suspect batting lineup, I think that 7 batsmen should be tried
> in this test. If we had failed to win with 7 batsmen then I could see us
> gamble some more. Anyway I am rooting for them.

You hit the nail on the head!
> 
> Jonathan Graham (Bajan on the net)
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: Re: The best ever Test XIs
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:25:13 GMT

In <1993Jan24.213026.28153@nmsu.edu> the #1 fan of Manoj Prabhakar on
r.s.c., sbasu@spock (BASU) writes:

>> >INDIA
>> >Manoj Prabhakar
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 	PLEASE, no way prabhakar makes it into an all time XI!!

>Who do ya suggest for opening the bowling? Gavaskar?

	How droll! How about Amar Singh? Or Nissar? Or Karsan Ghavri?
Come on, on what basis does Prabhakar make it to an all-time Indian XI?
Take a look at his stats:

Name      Balls     Runs     Wkts     Ave    Best      5w      10w      SR
Prabhakar  5792     2808       66    42.55    6-132     3        0     87.76

	Even Binny may have had better stats.....

>Scrooge


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From: dcampbel@neumann.une.edu.au (King Arthur)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: 1 little run...
Date: 26 Jan 93 07:56:11 GMT

Well, there you have it, West Indies win by one run in the closest
winning margin of all time, surpassing the previous closest margin
set back in 1902 ( not including the two tied matches of course ).

Having watched most of the match I say that WI thoroughly deserved to
win although the match could have gone either way right up until the 
very last ball. At first it looked as though Australia were in a 
very good position having WI in trouble on the first day, but Murray
held the side together to get a very valuable 49no. 

Then Australia lost the early wicket of Taylor just before stumps.
On the second day Boon received a nasty delivery to the elbow which 
meant he had to leave the field which I think turned out to be the
most important factor in the game. Boon's strength is that he can 
block up one end of the wicket and with him out of the way and some
excellent bowling from the Windies, Australia failed to reach the
WI's 1st innings score being bowled out for 213. There was a great
innings in there from Merv Hughes. He showed the way to some of the
more recognised batsmen in the side. He was finally out for 43 with
a slight glance down the legside off Hooper's bowling and was well
caught by Murray.

I must admit I didn't see much of the Windies second innings where
they were bowled out for 146. Richardson had a fine knock
of 70 odd. Arthurton got a pair! And Tim May bowled brilliantly 
getting 5/9. 

Australia started badly on Day 4 losing wickets quickly. Boon at
5, and Taylor at 13. Mark Waugh looked quite promising before he was
out for 26. At 7/74 Australia were all but gone but for fine performances
from the tail and Justin Langer on his debut test match.
Tim May was not out 42 when McDermott got a nick down legside to
Murray just one run short of tying and 2 from a win.
It was also Tim May's 31st birthday.

A great and well deserved victory to the Windies.

May in Adelaide is treated like a hero. A different story in Sydney last
month during the one-day series where he was howled and jeered at 
because he made one small fielding mistake and they never let him foregt it.
Also contibuting is the fact that he was competing with Matthews for a spot 
in the side and the NSW crowd love him.

Another thing, Langer was dead set plum lbw early in his innings.
Healy should not have been given out in the 1st innings when the ball
deflected off his arm, not the bat or glove. 

The Windies now only need to draw the next match to retain the Frank Worrell
Trophy. At Perth, that looks almost assured.

David.
dcampbel@neumann.une.edu.au
From: nag@cmutual.com.au (Neville Grills)
Subject: Aust Vs WI 4th Test Day 3
Organization: Colonial Mutual Group
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:00:15 GMT

West Indies 252                  
Australia   213 Merv Hughs 43, Ambrose 6 for 74       
West Indies 146 Tim May (Off Spinner) 5 for 9 , Richardson 72

Australia need to score 186 to win on 4th and 5th day. 17 wickets fell
today!
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From: heard@postoffice.utas.edu.au (George Heard)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: End of Australian innings
Date: 24 Jan 1993 22:07:48 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

The Australian innings had just ended, here is a full scoreboard of their
innings...


M. Taylor       c. Hooper b. Bishop       1
M. Waugh        c. Simmons b. Ambrose     0
J. Langer       c. Murray b. Benjamin    20
A. Border       c. Hooper b. Ambrose     19
I. Healy        c. Hooper b. Ambrose      0
S. Waugh        c. Murray b. Ambrose     42
M. Hughes       c. Murray b. Hooper      43
S. Warne        lbw. Hooper               0
T. May          c. Murray b. Ambrose      6
C. McDermott    b. Ambrose               14
D. Boon         not out                  39
Extras                                   29
                                        213 all out

Bishop 18 - 3 - 48 - 1
Ambrose 28.2 - 6 - 74 - 6
Benjamin 6 - 0 - 22 - 1
Walsh 10 - 3 - 34 - 0
Hooper 13 - 4 - 25 - 2


More to follow - the West Indies have a lead of 39 runs on the 1st innings

George
From: vigneswa@ecs.umass.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Will England Attempt to Veto the Asian Bid?
Date: 28 Jan 93 17:40:38 GMT

India worried over possible veto of World Cup bid

     CALCUTTA, India, Jan 27 (AFP) - India  have majority support
for the  subcontinent's  bid to host  the 1995 World  Cup but are
worried about an England  veto, a leading official said on Wednes-
day.

     "On all counts  we should be  getting  the  World Cup," said
Jagmohan Dalmiya, convenor of the Joint Bid Committee (JBC) repre-
senting India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. 

     "If the allotment is done on  the basis of a simple majority
then  we are  way  ahead of  England," Dalmiya  said in  Calcutta,
venue for the first Test between  India and England  starting Fri-
day.

     He said the joint  bid had been assured two-thirds of the 37
votes held by  members of the  International  Cricket  Conference
(ICC), which meets  in London on  February 2 to decide who  hosts
the Cup.

     The subcontinent has bid five million pounds to host the Cup
while England has offered 4.85 million pounds, according to other
Indian cricket officials.

    But Dalmiya voiced a  worry that Australia and England  could
use their veto powers as founding members of the ICC to block the
joint bid to ensure England  gets a fourth chance at  staging the
tournament.

    He warned  against the  exercise  of  the veto right. "If the
veto power is used then it will result in a stalemate and it will
have a far-reaching impact."

    Dalmiya was  the brains  behind pulling the  World Cup out of
England in 1987 after it had played host to three consecutive Cup
tournaments  since 1975.  India  and Pakistan staged the 1987 edi-
tion.

    India will send a  three-member team led by Madhavrao Scindia,
president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), to 
the February 2 meeting.

    According  to the  ICC  constitution, the  nine T est playing
nations -- India, Pakistan,  Sri  Lanka,  South  Africa,  England,
Australia, New Zealand, West Indies and Zimbabwe - have two votes
each. The 19 associate members have one each.

    The venues of the two previous Cups -- Pakistan  and India in
1987 and  Australia and New  Zealand in 1991 -- were decided by a
simple majority and India wants the same procedure to be followed
again.

Thanks:  Agence France Presse

===
Vicky:
UMass, Jan 28
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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject:  Test at Eden Gardens
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:26:25 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

     The first test between England and India will start tomorrow at Eden
Gardens. They are expecting a crowd of 70,000. Mike Costello said that for the
last day of the test match with England under Tony Greig, a crowd of 40,000
watched England make the sixteen runs they needed for winning the test.

     Here in places where the test match cannot be seen on TV or heard on
radio, a co-operative effort is taking place to bring the test match live via
computers.

    The test should start around 04:00 GMT on 29 th Jan. The test will be
covered on IRC as far as possible. On weekdays, coverage begins at 03:40 GMT
and there is a good possibilty that it will continue to the finish. On
Saturady, the coverage will begin at around 06:00 GMT and there may not be any
coverage on Sunday. The scores as they come in will be available by the finger
command to:

rdickel@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
guest@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
sudhakar@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu

    They will also be available by fingering to the the same userids at
energy.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu

     Finally re: irc  You can get into irc by telnetting to one of the three
following machines:

bradenville.andrew.cmu.edu
cc.nsysu.edu.tw
energy.ee.power.ndsu.nodak.edu

    For the first machine - you will automatically get into irc. For the next
two machines, you have to give the username (or login) as irc and you will be
in irc To join cricket channel, simply type
/join #cricket   and to leave irc, type /quit

   You can get some online help by typing /help

   If you want to compile the irc program yourself, you can get it by anonymous
ftp from cs.bu.edu


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From: drinnen@deakin.edu.au (Philip Shead)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Scorecard from Queensland v Tasmania shield game
Date: 24 Jan 1993 18:47:19 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu


Queensland v Tasmania
Played at the Gabba 21,22,23,24 January
Queensland
Barsby	   c Cox	b Cooley	8	c Courtney  b Matthews	   39
Hayden	   c Atkinson	b Young		46	c Ponting   b McPhee	   46
Goggin	   c Atkinson	b Cooley	6		    b Matthews	   0
Kingdon	   c Cox	b Matthews	0	c Ponting   b McPhee	   1
Wellham    c Atkinson	b Matthews	9	c Atkinson  b Young	   4
Storey	   c Atkinson	b Matthews	6	c Atkinson  b McPhee	   19
Anderson   c Young	b Cooley	16		run	out	   3
Kasprowicz c Atkinson	b Cooley	39	lbw	    b McPhee	   0
Rowell	   c Cox	b McPhee	8	c Atkinson  b McPhee	   10
Tazelaar   c Tucker	b Young		5		not	out	   8
Rackemann	not	out		4		    b Tucker	   1
Sundries (3lb 2w 8nb)			21	(1b 3lb 1w 13nb)	   31
		All Out For		168		All Out For	   162

Fall 10,17,18,44,64,82,136,150,157,168		53,55,62,78,132,133,133,149
								    155,162

Bowler		O    M    R    W		O     M    R    W
Cooley		16   5    49   4 (2nb)		6     1    45   - (5nb,1w)
Matthews	16   2    66   3 (1w)		21    6    56   2 
McPhee		8.1  2    25   1 (6nb,1w)	20    4    48   5 (8nb)
Young		10   3    25   2 		5     2    8    1
Tucker 						2.3   1    1    1

Batting Time : 219 minutes			229 minutes

Tasmania
Hills		c Anderson	b Kasprowicz	6
Courtney	c Kingdon	b Kasprowicz	3
Cox			not		out	137
Ponting		c Hayden	b Rackemann	11
Buckingham	c Hayden	b Rackemann	51
Tucker		c Hayden	b Kasprowicz	27
Young				b Kasprowicz	20
Atkinson	c     &		b Kasprowicz	9
Matthews	c Anderson	b Rackemann	0
Cooley				b Rowell	1
McPhee		c Kingdon	b Kasprowicz	15
Sundries	(10b 16lb 14nb 1w)		55
		All	Out	For		335

Fall 3,13,39,143,203,253,269,271,272,335

Bowler		O	M	R	W
Kasprowicz	25.3	6	59	6 (2nb,1w)
Tazelaar	29	12	62	- (6nb)
Rackemann	23	4	82	3 (5nb)
Rowell		23	6	47	1 (1w)
Storey		16	1	59	- 
	
Batting Time : 472 minutes

Crowd : 779,894,500 Aggregate : 2173

Comments : A better bowling track gave Tassie a good start. Bowlers shared the
honors with only Hayden ad Kasprowicz guiding Qld away from an
embarrassing  total. Tassie batted in patches with only Cox 137* and Buckingham
51 really scoring. Queensland 2nd innings had nothing to do with the
pitch and was poor  batting.

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From: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Subject: Re: England team prediction . . .
Reply-To: tjl@zeus02.desy.de (Tim Llewellyn)
Organization: Bristol University Particle Physics Group /ZEUS Online
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:36:12 GMT

In article <6690@falcon.ukc.ac.uk>, rsp@ukc.ac.uk (R.S.Pickett) writes:

<blurb deleted>
|>>in culcatta 
|>>
|>>Gooch
|>>Atherton
|>>Smith
|>>Gatting
|>>Stewart
|>>Hick
|>>Lewis
|>>DeFreitas
|>>Salisbury / Jarvis
|>>Malcolm
|>>Tuffnell
|>>
|>>Paul Taylor (12th Man)
|>>
|>>If Malcolm is seen as ineffective, then in the subsequent tests he will be 
|>>replaced by Taylor.  I also feel Salisbury will be chosen ahead of
|>Emburey if
|>>they decide to play 2 spinners.  Jarvis unfortunately will be chosen
|>only if
|>>an extra pace bowler is played.
|>>
|>>In the batting they pick themselves.  Fairbrother will probably be
|>considered
|>>as an alternative tto Hick.
|>>
|>>Any comments?
|>>
|>>Cheers . . .
|>
|>I agree with your team except that I think they will (and should)
|>play
|>Jarvis instead of Malcolm as he has bowled well so far on tour and on
|>slow
|>pitches Malcolm tends to be rather ineffective. I also think they
|>will
|>play Salisbury as the second spinner. However, after the Indian
|>batsmen
|>have looked so effective against spin I'm not as sure about this as I
|>was
|>a week ago. I agree that Taylor will be twelfth man.
|>I heard that the tests will start at the same time as the ODI's did.
|>Is this
|>true? I do hope not because the matches could become a bit of a
|>lottery
|>depending on who wins the toss. With only three matches being played
|>this
|>may not even out over the series. Surely it would be better to start
|>an
|>hour later or does it get dark early in India? There's nothing worse
|>than a test match where the side batting first has virtually lost the
|>match by the end of the first morning because of the conditions. 
|>
|>
|>
|>Rob.
|>

Personally I'd suggest playing just the one spinner, with Jarvis AND Malcom.
The Indian batsmen seem pretty at home against spinners, even good ones.
With Jarvis and Malcom opening and Defreitas/Lewis to follow they may not
even NEED the spinner. Hick can bowl adequate offspin to backup the one 
specialist spinner (Tufnel or Salisbury) if necessary if the pitch
requires long stretches of spin.

The only reason I can see for giving Embury a game in the tests is for his
batting experience, and really if the top 6 can't make enough runs in this 
series England will be in for a lot of problems. I don't believe Fairbro' has
the temperament for test cricket (as he showed in 2nd ODI, when England
were forced to play it like a test match for the first 25 overs).

--
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From: ratan@thebe.rutgers.edu (Santosh Ratan)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Ist inning India
Date: 23 Jan 93 20:33:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Prediction:

Since today its sunny in San Francisco, in the coming  1st test India
will score more than 450 in the first inning. For the second inning
and English innings I will have to see tomorrow and afterwards if its
sunny or not. Or, I can see the weather forecast.
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                       Santosh Ratan  
                   ratan@jove.rutgers.edu
      Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
         Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
                      Piscataway, NJ       
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