The players were accused of spot-fixing in the fourth Test between Pakistan and England at Lord's last August, but have always denied any wrongdoing.

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The time it takes to check your hand remains a little longer than it would take you to drum in your typical four-digit PIN, but in our brief test, it was able to discriminate between two Engadget editors' hands.

ENGADGET: KDDI's smartphone palm authentication app unveiled at CEATEC 2012 (hands-on)

Because of his refusal to recognise the status of the so-called Super Series Test match in Sydney in 2004 between Australia and a Rest of the World XI.

BBC: Remembering the Bearded Wonder

Before missing a penalty in Rosario, Paterson had put 36 consecutive Test-match kicks between the posts.

BBC: Scotland's record breaker

In the case of the maths scores of fourth-graders, there was a consistently negative relationship between computer use and test scores.

ECONOMIST: Not helpful

Spinner Swann and seam bowler Onions are both likely to play at the Oval, particularly Swann after his second-innings 62 in Leeds, but due to the circumstances of the fourth Test they only bowled 38 overs between them.

BBC: England quintet face county stint

The Wales coach, who played almost 150 games as hooker for Waikato between 1986 and 1994, and his team had spent much of the second Test build-up in the Hamilton community on a charm offensive.

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