In Farkhar's hospital, Suleiman, thin and fifty-something, looked at the stump of his amputated leg.
When I was small, I would sit on his lap, staring at the stump of his left index finger, rounded and smooth, the top two knuckles so cleanly severed it seemed he'd been born without them.
And Sussex nerves were starting to fray when Rory Hamilton-Brown drove the first ball after tea to point and Luke Wright was taken low down at slip driving hard outside off-stump at Plunkett.
Then, with a captain's innings desperately needed, Flintoff's footwork was lacking as he wafted outside off stump at Lee and departed for two.
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The batsmen opened up a little approaching lunch but with the interval just three balls away, the left-handed Hughes pushed forward outside the off-stump at Tremlett, despite the angle taking the ball further away from the danger area.
After tea, Panesar resorted to firing in at leg-stump from round the wicket in the spirit of recently retired Ashley Giles and it became a matter of whether Kumble could reach three figures and deprive India of the highest total not containing a century.
"He seems to be pushing a message of love, " said Darian Tarver, 21 and a senior, after hearing Bradley's stump speech at Atlanta's Morehouse College.
At that point in his stump speech, Mr Rubio cleverly transforms his uplifting personal story into a political rallying cry.
Stump, even at 10, showed a beautiful topline and gaited serenely.
Shane Watson's impressive line and length continued to unsettle Tendulkar, who flashed wildly at a ball outside off stump and was fortunate to escape after being struck on the pads.
"For a moment in time Graeme got angry because the ball was thrown back at me a bit higher than stump height, " Kirsten said.
But he lasted just two overs on Tuesday, hanging his bat outside off-stump almost in practice at a cut shot - and edging the ball behind.
Tremlett snared his third victim in the second over after lunch as Smith prodded hard at a routine delivery outside off stump and fed a gentle catch to Strauss - the England captain seeming to break into a grin even before he had the ball safely in his grasp.
But the persistent Anderson, who managed to find swing on a regular basis, caught the edge outside off-stump and Strauss pouched safely at first slip.
His dismissal was a typical left-hander's one to a ball down the hill at Lord's on off-stump but he's busy, played his natural game, he can adapt to situations read them and respond and that's why he was picked.
Mills atoned with a well-pitched up delivery which Kamran Akmal edged into his stumps and New Zealand added a second wicket when Shane Bond, having conceded successive boundaries to Mohammad Hafeez, tempted him into fishing at a leg-cutter outside off stump and keeper Hopkins accepted an easy chance.
Incredibly, Romney hardly said a word about tax cuts at the Republican National Convention or in his stump speeches.
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In the first over of England's innings, Ravi Bopara left a couple of Dale Steyn deliveries outside the off-stump, then threw his hands at the last ball.
He struck first when his brilliant inswinger clean bowled Mark Boucher (45) before Johan Botha (12) had his off stump removed following poorly executed swipe at Abdur Rehman's delivery.
Katich - whose innings of 34 came from 140 balls - drove one delivery confidently over mid-off for four but was sucked into pushing at a top-spinner outside off-stump next ball.
Darren Pattinson gained two early blows in successive overs, having Mark Ramprakash caught by Will Jefferson at the second attempt at second slip and yorking Scott Newman middle stump to reduce Surrey to 17-3.
Worse were those of Paul Collingwood, who threw his bat at a ball well wide of the off stump and was caught in the gully for 24, Matt Prior, who sliced a slower ball from Johnson to point and then Andrew Flintoff, who received a hero's ovation as he walked out, but chased a very wide delivery and was caught behind for seven.
Mitt Romney gave his standard stump speech in Janesville recently, with Ryan at his side.
One delivery pitched in the footmarks well wide of off-stump and had to be collected by Smith at first slip.
He whispers to the kindling a sweet and urgent seduction, and the handfuls of dry grass and twigs piled in the stump suddenly ignite and the young fire nips at his fingertips.
An enthralling day began with Watson trying to reach the elusive maiden century with a boundary but playing over the top with an attempted pull at Benn's quicker one and seeing his middle stump knocked back.
The candidates are all in the state at the same time, crossing paths and meeting on the stump or in television studios and debates.
If he did, his reverie lasted just 10 balls after the break as Jones groped at a Brett Lee delivery a yard wide of off-stump and chipped to the gully fielder.
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An experimental batting order threw up captain Andrew Strauss and Bopara as its openers, and that plan backfired as Strauss departed in the seventh over, flapping at a ball he could barely reach outside the off-stump and hitting it to point.
When he went in for a dunk on his hoop at home, he snapped off the pole, leaving a jagged stump in the driveway.
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