Collingwood swung defiantly to send Santh over mid-wicket and down to fine-leg for 10 in two balls before another thrash over mid-wicket made it 16 off the over.

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Gilchrist merely stepped up his assault to thrash Kartik over deep square-leg, long-on and down the ground for three maximums in the 14th over.

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Bullard could have sealed it when he found himself with just the keeper to beat only to thrash his shot over the bar.

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With the whole future of the Taleban regime in question, he says, it's the one forum in which all Afghans - Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras and Uzbeks, Sunnis and Shiites - can come together and thrash out decisions which will carry authority all over the country.

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That night, while we were in bed, and after Kim had fallen asleep, I put the cassette on our stereo cassette player, dragged one of the little speakers over to the bed, and listened to the tape at ultra-low thrash volume.

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