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Folks,

  Try finger vijay@transarc.com for the latest cricket scores. The
finger information is mirrored from Dr. K.S. Rao's .plan file.

Vijay
From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: WSC - rain interrupts the game
Date: 12 Dec 92 03:00:33 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <Bz4JoG.KEz@ns1.nodak.edu> ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu writes:
>It is still raining at 9:15ESt (for about 40 minutes). Will be back when the
>game restarts.
>
>After  34 overs, WI are 5 for 118, Richardson is  49 and Hooper 18 and rain is
>coming and the players are off the field.

Even though the rain is very light, there is a violent thunder storm
approaching.  Here is what I caught for the couple of minutes that I
did catch the radio.

Fall of wickets:  16,27,56,61,81

	o	m	w	r
Akram	6	1	2	18
Younis	5			11
Aamir	10	1	2	26 (!)
Aquib	5	2	1	30 (Off the field for some reason)
Mushtaq	6	1	0	13
Mujtaba	2	0	0	08

The Guesscorecard:-)

Haynes			6
Simmons			8
Lara			15(49) 
Logie			1
Authorton(sp?)		3
Richardson (n.o.)	49
Hooper	   (n.o.)	18
Extras			21 (!)

Total			118/5 in 34

j n a
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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject: Re: Next World Cup
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 12:17:21 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1gmop1INNhqh@coral.bucknell.edu>, desikan@bucknell.edu (sridhar desikan GR) writes:
>In article <1992Dec16.123717.1@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>, cctr123@csc.canterbury.ac.nz (Alan Murray, CSC Operations, Uni of Canty) writes:
>|> 
>|> As far as I'm aware there will be 12 teams in the 1995 World Cup.
>|> 
>|> Alan
>|> 
>
>Go India !!!!! for the 12th place  ;-)
>
    You are too pessimistic (if you are an Indian). India is the SECOND BEST
ODI team in the world as it is proved in Sharja, in SA now, in WSC early this
year etc. That the rest of the 11 teams are better than India does not mean it
is the 12 th.

>sridhar
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From: vasanth@zephyr.larc.nasa.gov (Vasanth Tovinkere)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: FINAL SCORE (SA/IND)
Date: 17 Dec 1992 20:19:15 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
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           South Africa vs India, 6th D/N, Kingsmead, Durban, 17/12/92
              South Africa                               India
Hudson    c Sharma b Shastri  15 ( 29)  Prabhakar c Richard b Matthe  21 ( 48)
Wessels   c Manjrek b Jadeja  78 (120)  Jadeja    c Richard b Pringl  12 ( 45)
Kirsten   c Manjrek b Kapil   44 ( 68)  Manjrekar run out Hudson      10 ( 24)
Rhodes    c Kapil b Shastri   16 ( 25)  Azhar     c DVillie b Cronje  41 ( 73)
Callaghan st Sharma b Kumble   8 ( 12)  Tendulkar c Cronje b Pringle  23 ( 26)
Cronje    b Shastri           25 ( 29)  Kapil     c Richard b Donald  30 ( 35)
Richardsn run out Sharma      12 ( 11)  Shastri   c Kirsten b Pringl   5 (  6)
Pringle   run out Sharma       9 (  8)  Yadav     b Matthews           3 (  2)
Matthews  not out              1 (  1)  Sharma    c Rhodes b DVillie  15 ( 12)
Donald                                  Kumble    run out Donald       0 (  1)
DVilliers                               Raju      not out              3 (  4)
Extras (W: 0 N: 2 B: 2 LB: 4)  8        Extras (W: 1 N: 7 B: 0 LB: 6) 14
Total  (Ov: 50.0 RR: 4.32)   216 / 8    Total  (Ov: 47.5 RR: 3.70)   177 / 10


            Ov   M  R  Wi Wd Nb                     Ov   M  R  Wi Wd Nb
Callaghan   4.0  1  21  0  0  2         Prabhakar  10.0  1  54  1  0  2
Cronje      6.0  1  20  1  0  0         Kapil      10.0  4  23  3  0  0
Pringle    10.0  0  51  3  0  0         Shastri     6.0  0  36  1  0  0
Matthews   10.0  0  40  2  1  4         Sharma      4.0  0  18  0  0  0
Donald   *  9.0  1  19  2  0  1         Kumble     10.0  1  34  1  0  0
DVilliers*  8.5  0  22  1  0  0         Raju       10.0  1  45  0  0  0
From: zaman@ee.uts.edu.au (Selim Zaman)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: next match of Pak in WSC
Date: 14 Dec 92 06:29:21 GMT
Organization: University of Technology, Sydney
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smunir@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sohail Munir) writes:

>Could someone please post, when is the next match of Pakistan in WSC after 
>their loss to Aussies.
>Thnx.
>
Their next match is on Thursday, 17th December, in Sydney Cricket Ground,
against West Indies.

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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: India - RSA 4th ODI Score
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:23:58 GMT


Extract from Pieter's plan file:

South Africa vs India, 4th D/N, Wanderers, Johannesburg, 13/12/92
Wessels won the toss, asked India to bat.
Kapil has been injured slightly when batting. He is bowling from a
shortened run since his 7th over. He left the field after 9 overs.

         South Africa                          India                 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hudson c Azhar b Kumble     22 (50+)| Jadeja    lbw Callaghan         18 (60)
Wessels c Jadeja b Srinath  45 (96) | Raman     b Donald               0 (16)
Kirsten                     21 (47) | Amre      lbw Donald             2 ( 9)
Rhodes                       2 ( 6) | Azhar     c Richardsn b Matthews 49 (84)
Cronje                              | Tendulkar c McMillan b Donald    21 (44)
Callaghan                           | Kapil     c Richardsn b Matthews 18 (25)
McMillan                            | Shastri   c McMillan b DeVillier 17 (32)
Richardson                          | Srinath   c Rhodes b McMillan     3 ( 5)
Matthews                            | More      run out Rhodes          2 ( 7)
Donald                              | Prabhakar not out                 5 ( 9)
DeVilliers                          | Kumble    not out                 7 (13)
Extras  N:  W:  B:  LB:      3      | Extras    N:2  W:11 B:  LB:6     19
Total   W:1 RR:             95      | Total     W:9 RR:               161
Overs: 34                           | Overs:    50

              O  M  R Wi Nb Wd      |            O  M  R Wi Nb Wd
Kapil         9  ? 23  0  0  0      | Donald     10 0 27  3  0  5
Prabhakar     6  ? 18  0  0  0      | DeVilliers 10 2 24  1  0  1
Kumble        4  1  8  1  0  0      | Matthews   10 0 33  2  2  1
Srinath       4  1 15  1  0  0      | McMillan   10 0 39  1  0  4 
Tendulkar     3  ?  4  0  0  0      | Cronje      5 0 15  0  0  0
Jadeja                              | Callaghan   5 0 17  1  0  0
Shastri       8  1 24  0  0  0      |


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From: jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: pak over 23
Date: 13 Dec 92 01:50:17 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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In article <1ge4dlINNara@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> jawad@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jawad Ali) writes:
>
>Pak 64/2 in the 23rd.
>
>Mujtaba  23
>Minadad  01
>
>j n a


Well noow they are 68/3 in the 25th.

Miandad was just bowled by Tim May(?).

Who now has the bowling figures of 2/6 in 2.3
Apparently the pitch is taking a lot of spin, and 
a slinght drizzle is comming down.

j n a
From: KSRAO@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Pakistan after 26 overs
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:07:09 -0600
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
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Pakistan are 5 for 29 in the 26 th over. Inzy and Wasim are batting.
Simmons' figure are:  10 overs - 8 maidens 3 runs and 4 wickets

Pakistan are 5 for 25 at the end of 16 overs


Miandad is out in the 11th over   caught by Murray off Simmons. They are 5 for
14

Pakistan are 4 for 14 at the end of 10 overs

  WI scored 214 for 9 in 50 overs.

Pakistan are 4 wickets for 9 in the sixth over.

Raja c Lara b Patterson   0
Mujtaba b Simmons   1
Sohail c Benjamin b Simmons   6
Malik ???  b Simmons  0
Miandad   batting
Inzamam    batting
   
Total 4 wickets for 9


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From: wasi@athena.mit.edu (Wasiuddin A. Wahid)
Subject: Scorecards please!
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 23:14:24 GMT





   Can our friends in both Australia and South Africa please post the scorecards of the games
between Pakistan and the Windies, and India and South Africa ?


   Thanx,

   Wasi.
From: ynesiah@skat.usc.edu (Yogala Nesiah)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Lanka beat the Kiwis again!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 20:36:39 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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These posts were taken from another forum with the rpior permission
of the original poster.
			- Vaseeharan Nesiah

----------
                 Copyright 1992 The Press Association Limited  
                           Press Association Newsfile
                          December  12, 1992, Saturday

HEADLINE: MAHANAMA PUNISHES KIWIS AGAIN
    Roshan Mahanama hit a sparkling undefeated 84 to guide  Sri Lanka  to an
emphatic 8 - wicket win over New Zealand in their second one-day international
in Colombo today.   Sri Lanka,  chasing a moderate New Zealand total of 190 in
50 overs, won with more than a dozen overs to spare.  Mahanama has been the
scourge of New Zealand bowlers in the series, scoring two consecutive Test
hundreds before today's innings.  New Zealand batted first and, apart from a
maiden half-century from opening bat Blair Hartland, who made 54 off 108 balls,
and an unbeaten 40 from Dion Nash, they failed to tame a Sri Lankan attack
backed by sharp fielding.  Reuter

                 Copyright 1992 The Press Association Limited  
                           Press Association Newsfile
                          December  12, 1992, Saturday

CRICKET;  Sri; Lanka;  Scoreboard
   Scoreboard of the second one-day international between  Sri Lanka  and New
Zealand in Colombo today: New Zealand B Hartland st Wickremasinghe b Jayasuriya
54 J Wright run out 1 A Jones c Kalpage b Anurasiri 37 K Rutherford c Mahanama b
Kalpage 2 C Harris c Mahanama b Kalpage 2 A Parore c Gurusinha b Jayasuriya 17 D
Nash not out 40 J Vaughan c Mahanama b Jayasuriya 12 G Bradburn not out 11
Extras (b-4 lb-9 nb-1) 14 Total (for 7 wkts, 50 overs) 190 Did not bat: M Su'a,
C Pringle.  Fall of wickets: 1-17 2-96 3-100 4-100 5-108 6-134 7-150.  Bowling:
Wickremasinghe 7-1-29-0 (nb-1), Gurusinha 7-1-11-0, Hathurusingha 3-0-16-0,
Anurasiri 10-0-34-1, Ranatunga 5-0-20-0, Kalpage 10-2-34-2, Jayasuriya 8-0-33-3.
 Sri Lanka  R Mahanama not out 84 C Hathurusingha c Rutherford b Su'a 14 A
Gurusinha c Nash b Harris 37 A de Silva not out 43 Extras (b-5 lb-3 nb-2 w-4) 14
Total (for 2 wkts, 37.4 overs) 192 Fall of wickets: 1-46 2-120.  Did not bat: A
Ranatunga, H Tillekeratne, S Jayasuriya, G Wickremasinghe, R Kalpage, P
Wickremasinghe, D Anurasiri.  Bowling: Pringle 9.4-1-45-0 (2nb,1w), Nash
6-2-15-0 (2w), Su'a 5-0-28-1, Vaughan 4-0-26-0 (1w), Harris 5-0-34-1, Bradburn
8-0-36-0.  Result:  Sri Lanka  won by eight wickets.  Reuter
From: adusumel@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu (Nagendra Adusumelli)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: India Vs S.A. 3rd 1 day.
Date: 11 Dec 92 19:53:35 GMT
Organization: College of Engg. & Tech., Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Originator: adusumel@bobcat.ent.ohiou.edu


SA/Ind ODI 3

    India is 52 for no loass (Jadeja and Raman batting) in 
18 overs in reply to SA's 214 for 5 in 50 overs.
Wessels out bowled Kumble for 34, after he and Hudson put 
up 92 runs for the first wicket in 23 overs. Hudson went on
 to score 87, he was unnecessairily run out short of his century. 
Calahan and Macmillan had a good partnership and Calahan was 
not out for 32.

bye
Nagendra
-- 
"When in doubt do what the President does -- guess."  
"If at first you don't succeed, redefine success."
"Today is the first day of the rest of the mess."
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From: pcm@baby.bby.oz.au (Paul McLeish)
Subject: Re: WORLD CHAMPS!!!
Organization: Burdett, Buckeridge & Young, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:36:45 GMT

Can you say 4 wickets for 9 runs ?
or 5 for 14 ?
or all out for 81 ?
or 10 overs 8 maidens 3 runs 4 wickets ?
Can you spell Phil Simmons ?
Does 5 games 1 win 3 losses and 1 draw mean anything to you ?

Eat crow and die !

8-)
An Australia.



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From: 000087384@cats.ucis.vill.edu (GUNNA, SANDEEP)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Wasnt there a 7th OD?
Date: 19 Dec 92 12:13:00 GMT
Organization: Villanova University
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.4-b1

the subject says it all
is the match not being played
thanks 
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From: rohanc@leland.Stanford.EDU (Rohan Koduvayur Kri Chandran)
Subject: Re: no best teams in cricket
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 03:56:33 GMT

In article <1992Dec11.204931.6748@leland.Stanford.EDU> arkay@leland.Stanford.EDU (Abdur Khan) writes:

>
>p.s. to the rest of the readers .... the problem with India seems
>to be with team spirit, they have good players but no fighting spirit.
>
>
>sahibzada rafay khan []
>

Absolutely right!


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From: shamim@bellcore.com (Shamim Naqvi)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: Pakistan are missing Imran in ODI's
Date: 20 Dec 92 18:11:16 GMT
Organization: Bell Communications Research, Morristown, NJ

In article <8154@news.duke.edu>, shafqat@neuro.duke.edu (Saad Shafqat) writes:
> Except for Miandad -
> and he is past his best - the current Pakistan side has no disciplined
> batsman.  Pakistan's mediocre batting will keep the current team
> from becoming genuinely great (I have said this before).  
> 
> 
> Saad.
> 

Saad is essentially correct in that Pakistan's batting has been
brittle over the last few years and many many times has been saved by
Imran. Given that, what can be done to improve Pakistan's chances at
the WSC? My feeling is that the most benefit can come from a batting order
change. I strongly feel that SMalik is a problem in the OD composition
and that Miandad has to come to terms with this problem. (OK, Azhar, I
am donning my flame retardant suit.) I know from personal
conversations that Malik does not like the no. 3 spot. The other
problem is the over-rated Ramiz Raja. If I were in Miandad's shoes
I would use a radically different batting order.
Perhaps:

1. Saeed Anwar
2. Aamir Sohail 
3. Miandad
4. Inzimam
5. Malik
6. Wasim
with Asif Mujtaba as a backup opener or at #7. 

	--SAN
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From: karnik@cs.umn.edu (Neeran M. Karnik)
Subject: India - RSA 4th ODI Score
Organization: University of Minnesota
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 19:50:26 GMT


From Pieter's .plan:

South Africa vs India, 4th D/N, Wanderers, Johannesburg, 13/12/92
Wessels won the toss, put India in.
Kapil has been injured slightly when batting. He is bowling from a
shortened run since his 7th over. He left the field after 9 overs.

         South Africa                          India                 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Hudson c Azhar b Kumble     22 (56) | Jadeja    lbw Callaghan         18 (60)
Wessels c Jadeja b Srinath  45 (96) | Raman     b Donald               0 (16)
Kirsten lbw Srinath         21 (48) | Amre      lbw Donald             2 ( 9)
Rhodes                      12 (16) | Azhar     c Richardsn b Matthews 49 (84)
Callaghan                    4 (12) | Tendulkar c McMillan b Donald    21 (44)
Cronje                              | Kapil     c Richardsn b Matthews 18 (25)
McMillan                            | Shastri   c McMillan b DeVillier 17 (32)
Richardson                          | Srinath   c Rhodes b McMillan     3 ( 5)
Matthews                            | More      run out Rhodes          2 ( 7)
Donald                              | Prabhakar not out                 5 ( 9)
DeVilliers                          | Kumble    not out                 7 (13)
Extras  N:  W:  B:  LB:3     3      | Extras    N:2  W:11 B:  LB:6     19
Total   W:3 RR:            109      | Total     W:9 RR:               161
Overs: 38                           | Overs:    50

              O  M  R Wi Nb Wd      |            O  M  R Wi Nb Wd
Kapil         9  ? 23  0  0  0      | Donald     10 0 27  3  0  5
Prabhakar     6  ? 18  0  0  0      | DeVilliers 10 2 24  1  0  1
Kumble        4  1  8  1  0  0      | Matthews   10 0 33  2  2  1
Srinath       6  1 21  2  0  0      | McMillan   10 0 39  1  0  4 
Tendulkar     3  ?  4  0  0  0      | Cronje      5 0 15  0  0  0
Jadeja                              | Callaghan   5 0 17  1  0  0
Shastri      10  1 32  0  0  0      |


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From: thakar@nauvax.ucc.nau.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Ind 171/4 after 43 overs Kapil in
Date: 11 Dec 92 13:03:55 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University


Ind need 215 to win. 44 runs in 7 overs.

Utpal
From: ajc900@anusf.anu.edu.au (Andrew J Cleary)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.cricket
Subject: Re: AERODYNAMICS OF THE CRICKET BALL - scientific
Date: 17 Dec 1992 03:54:54 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
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In <Bz9pny.Kup@sunfish.usd.edu> shariq@charlie.usd.edu writes:

>In article <1992Dec11.061118.5360@news.clarkson.edu>, pdy@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Yapa,,,) writes:
>>
>> AERODYNAMICS OF THE CRICKET BALL  - scientific
some interesting points deleted...
>>
>>It is widely believed that on damp days the ball swings more. However, the
>>author says that there has been no scientific evidence of this. 
>>The problem has been investigated by several researchers, but have found
>>no significant change in pressures or forces when Rel. Humidity was changed
>>upto 40 %.
>>
>>Yapa
>>
>>
>>> 
>I gues the ball will swing more on a damp day because the atmosphere is heavier
>and and the linear motion is retarded, thus the lateral motion is enhanced. Try 
>throwing a ball through water and you see how it moves. So I think there is
>scientific evidence thatthe ball should move more on damper days. At least that
>is what I think. What do you think?

>Shariq

A good try (this is also logic used to explain why baseballs are not hit
as far on humid days, but it fails there too), but there is a problem with
your water analogy. Yes, *water* is much denser than air, humid or not, and
balls thrown underwater do some strange things. However, water is denser than
air because it is a *liquid* as opposed to a *gas*. Intuitively we usually
think that humid air is denser than non-humid air. However, recall from
our school days that a molecule of a gas takes up the same amount of space
no matter what the molecular weight is; and that the molecular weight of
H20 is 18, while that of Oxygen is 32, and we conclude that humid air is
most likely *less* dense than nonhumid air. Of course it's not quite that
simple (there are other gases in the air of course (nitrogen mainly)), but
you see what I mean.

Nonetheless, your point about the retardation of the linear motion bears
thought, especially in combination with my comment about baseballs above.
Another interesting point (and somewhat of a counterpoint to what I said
above): on a humid day, is there just more H20 gas around, or are there
actually microscopic *water* droplets floating in the air? If the latter,
then your argument sounds much better. Perhaps some meteorologist can
fill us in.
-- 
Andrew J. Cleary
Centre for Information Science Research
Australian National University
acleary@thrain.anu.edu.au
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From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject: World Champions???
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 19:42:35 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

        Today two World Chamions of cricket, one the current one and the other,
a former one are trashed so soundly that it defies description.

         India now is 130 for 5 in the 42nd over after containg (?) SA to 216
in 50 overs. Pakistan, earlier in the day scored 81 in 48 overs and a few balls
after containing WI to 214 in 50 overs. I am not watching SA game but I did
watch the WI game. I have absolutely no explanation as to how the first five
wickets fell for such a low total and there were not many Pakistanis who seem
to be interested in the scores (there were not many contacts to finger at my
machine). I was hoping that after Wasim came to join Inzamam, by which time
the fate of the game was sealed, I would see some really inspired batting from
the pair. But the run rate was very low and I gave up after Waqar was out. No
matter whether Pakistan won the World Cup, or BBC and Channel 9 call them World
Champions, they are at the present state not in the World Class, nowhere near
Australia in the current one day series or England last summer as far as ODIs
are concerned.


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

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