England batsman Ian Bell thanked a former cagefighter for giving him a "new mental toughness" that helped him to score his first Ashes hundred in Sydney.
Pakistan needed something special and Afridi supplied it to take them to 194-6 before he smacked Mupariwa straight to cover with a first ODI hundred in three years there for the taking.
If he manages to win this year, it is likely to be by less than that, which would make him the first President in a hundred and twenty-four years to win a second term by a smaller margin than in his initial election.
The highlight of another one-sided game was an excellent 87 by Matt Prior, who unselfishly gave away the opportunity to score his first hundred in one-day internationals, but who has now made his mark at the top of the order at the second time of asking.
Obama's first challenge in the third hundred days must be to diminish problem number one.
Local hero Geoffrey Boycott scored a memorable 100th first-class hundred in the Ashes Test of 1977.
Do you expect to run into any problems trying to pass these big pieces of legislation you have to do in the first hundred hours?
The traditional procedure would have been to first conduct larger trials in several hundred patients comparing the experimental drug to standard treatment, and only then to seek approval.
Second the credit crunch had started to hit home and for the first time in more than a hundred years, there had been a run on a British bank with the extraordinary sight of queues of savers lining up outside branches of Northern Rock to extract their cash.
In fact, the first few hundred exoplanets were found by the "radial velocity" technique, which detects tiny motions of a star as it and its planets orbit one another.
Rogers reached his hundred in the first over after lunch with a straight drive that gave him his 16th four, but England U-19 international Dan Redfern was caught at second slip for 11.
Gayle, who marked the first match of the inaugural World Twenty20 in 2007 with a hundred, carved two of Brett Lee's first three deliveries for four while Fletcher hit a four and a six off Mitchell Johnson's opening two balls.
Teenager Adrian Barath hit a century in the opening match in Brisbane, fast bowler Roach showed real potential despite only taking seven wickets in the series and skipper Chris Gayle hit the fifth-fastest hundred in Test history in the first innings in Perth.
And will those super-fans out there who might drop a hundred bucks in the first place be turned off by the realism?
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He was only 16 when he made his Test debut, in 1989 and scored his first Test hundred, a match-saving one against England at Old Trafford, a year later.
Zandi advocated a stimulus of at least six hundred billion dollars in the first year, which is much bigger than what the White House proposed, and other Republican economists proposed similar figures.
Curiously, in 1968 there was nationwide rejoicing in Japan when the nation commemorated the first hundred years since Meiji.
In the first three months, the Times attracted two hundred and eighty-one thousand digital subscribers.
In its first year, it led to just two hundred thousand loan modifications, out of some three or four million candidates.
This was the first three hundred-point drop for the blue chip index in almost a year.
Demand for style ETFs was high, and first-to-market iShares picked up several hundred million in assets rather quickly.
The dolls are still hand-sewn, and the first store we were in had other handmade toys going for several hundred dollars.
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Two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs were lost in the first two years.
In its first decade, the Moslem Brothers attracted only eight hundred members.
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That was the kind of stuff that was running through my head when I came across the boy, a few hundred yards into the woods, in the first of the heavy rain.
In the first half of 2009, it sold more than two hundred and fifty thousand copies.
Indeed, Kirsten himself would probably be the first to acknowledge that elder brother Peter, whose sole Test hundred in a brief Test career came against England in 1994, was his superior in terms of natural talent.
I'd rather get a hundred 'nos' than never have asked in the first place.
Three hundred years ago, Thomas Twinning opened the first tea shop in London.
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