However, the music synchronized to go with the fireworks played on, according to Hamblin.
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Nikki Hamblin of New Zealand was second in 4:05.97 and Twell third in 4:06.15.
But the major Pentecostal denominations condemn snake handling, and Mr. Hamblin's risk-taking sometimes gets the best of him.
Mr. Hamblin said that he spent a year praying and fasting before he took up snake handling in 2009.
Taibu, caught behind off Hamblin for 29, was quickly followed to the dressing room by Marillier, who faced 73 balls for his 54.
But it was Zimbabwe's Doug Hondo who got the early breakthrough when James Hamblin nicked an edge to keeper Taibu when he had scored just four.
"I don't think anyone is mad about it, " Hamblin said.
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Surrey seemed on course to wrap up the game within three days, but an unbroken 56-run stand for the eighth wicket between Dimitri Mascarenhas and James Hamblin frustrated them.
Mr. Hamblin won't allow anyone under 18 to touch the reptiles, but he guesses that there are at least 14 people under 30 who are handling serpents in his church.
Hampshire then lost their sixth wicket when Dimitri Mascarenhas (five) was caught off Harbhajan, and were soon eight down when Kumble removed Adrian Aymes (18) and James Hamblin in swift succession.
Research by Richard Hamblin and others at the King's Fund, a medical charity, has found that, despite the lengthening queue, the average wait has remained at 13-14 weeks since the 1960s.
Mr. Hamblin's wife, Elizabeth, 20, also embraces the practice.
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