Vaughan's final game was a Twenty20 Cup defeat by Leicestershire at Grace Road last Friday.

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The Saudi national side has suffered a sharp fall from grace since qualifying for five consecutive AFC Asian Cup finals from 1984 to 2000, and peaking at 21st in the FIFA world rankings in 2003.

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But in general the only sweetness a true lover of liberty could allow himself in tea was the kind Shelley found at the home of his friends the Boinvilles in 1814: the delicate grace of a young woman as she handed him a cup, and her tenderness as she sponged him down afterwards (he having spilt the stuff in his emotion).

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