Defaulted loans in particular ripped the cover off the ball, with an 8.42% gain.
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The high yield universe excluding telecoms did not exactly knock the cover off the ball.
Nobody mentioned anything about taking the plastic cover off the TV dinner before you put it in the oven.
Spitzer blew the cover off rarely discussed but supposedly wide-reaching Wall Street practices.
Distressed and defaulted paper, however, continued to knock the cover off the ball as credit opportunity investors sought out wide-margin opportunity.
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Then you can flip the box over and pull the cover off.
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In the year to date, however, CCC and D loans continue to knock the cover off the ball, far outperforming better-rated issues.
And then, at the death, de Bruyn dropped Rory Hamilton-Brown at deep cover off the first ball of the 48th over with 27 runs still needed.
Ponting holed out to De Villiers at deep backward square leg, while Marsh was superbly caught by Kallis at extra cover off JP Duminy's occasional off-spin.
His first scoring shot was a six over extra cover off Tom Smith, and further maximums followed off Pedro Collins, Owais Shah and Smith for a second time.
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But Vince struck the ball very cleanly in his 22 not out, while Lumb reached his 50 with his only six, cleanly struck over extra cover off Will Gidman.
Yuvraj Singh (25) was caught at cover off the bowling of Shahadat Hossain and Dinesh Karthik (27) went when Rubel Hussein took a diving catch at mid-off, giving off-spinner Mahmudullah his second scalp.
But Hall was caught at cover off Warne for 46, and Aussie captain Steve Waugh immediately brought fast bowler Brett Lee back into the attack to dismiss Kallis and Nicky Boje as South Africa crashed to 91 for five.
Having achieved his run landmark in only his 60th Test, Pietersen gave a catch to extra cover off Shakib's slow left-arm and the pressure increased in the next over when Paul Collingwood was trapped lbw on the crease by Hossain.
With 22 needed from the final two overs Butt struck an exquisite six over extra cover off Mills and added two fours in the final over, bowled by Butler, but lost the strike by taking a bye off the penultimate delivery.
Although Worcestershire lost two quick wickets when Matthew Hoggard had Phil Jaques lbw for his second duck of the match and Vikram Solanki was caught at cover off Buck, they recovered to reach the close in a healthy position at 62 - 2.
It's always nice when I could pit a bit later than people and cover people off.
Walker drove through the cover and off-loaded to full-back Byrne who went over for a fine score.
Nine overs later, Bravo fell for 53 when he edged a cover drive off Harris to Boucher.
But Blake continued to attack, executing a series of cover drives off Steve Patterson and Ajmal Shahzad.
Bell showed some signs of a return to form with six boundaries, including a sweet cover drive off Pathan.
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He hit 21 fours and one six before he failed to keep a drive down and was caught at cover by off spinner Rajin Saleh.
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He quickly moved to his half century, having faced only 59 balls and including 10 boundaries, the last of which was a glorious cover drive off Mascarenhas.
Not long after, Razzaq also got one to dart in and castle Tendulkar, who had shown glimpses of his best form with some delightful cover drives off his pads.
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From 139-5, Essex skipper James Foster struck the ball cleanly and brought up his own half century and his side's 200 with a lofted cover drive off Thomas in the 27th over.
Essex made just 18 runs off 14 overs on day, but debutant Maunders upped the pace with a succession of early boundaries including a cover drive off Panesar which went for six.
After the onslaught from Tamim it was inevitable that runs would not flow as freely, but the 200 still arrived in reasonable time in the 49th over and Madmudullah completed an assured fourth Test fifty in only his seventh match with an elegant drive to the cover boundary off Swann.
The worst dismissal was the run out of Jerome Taylor who played a stroke gently off the back foot to extra cover and set off for a run, only to be sent back by his partner.
When the cover was whisked off that afternoon in northern California, there was a collective gasp in room.
Cook hooked Taylor for a sumptuous boundary and drove him for another, before Strauss's cover-drive off Edwards finished off proceedings.
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