In the past six years, four of the top 12 performers in the three-cone drill were drafted by the Texans or signed by the team as an undrafted free agent.

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The Russell Global Index, which launched in 2006 with 10, 000 global stocks in 61 countries, reported that year to date through Nov. 12 four of the five top global index performers were emerging markets, with Indonesia at the top having returned 44.6%, followed by Turkey, Mexico and India.

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We had all witnessed the awkward sight at the end of the show when four of the Spice Girls leapt to their feet as one and loudly applauded the performers, only to discover that everyone else had remained in their seats.

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Of the top 20 bowlers so far this year, however, only four are spinners, and you could have gotten long odds at the start on the top three performers with the ball at this stage being Chennai's Dwayne Bravo, Bangalore's Vinay Kumar and Rajasthan's James Faulkner.

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