• The third is Brian Lara, who holds records for the highest-ever score in first-class cricket (501 not out), and in Test matches (375), and who returned to his best form in the recent series against Australia with two match-winning innings.

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  • Local hero Geoffrey Boycott scored a memorable 100th first-class hundred in the Ashes Test of 1977.

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  • But while the Institute ranks the car as a "top safety pick" based on its performance in front- and side-impact tests, it gave the 2012 Mercedes C-Class a "poor" grade in the new small-overlap test.

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  • Vaughan made his first-class debut for Yorkshire in 1993 and six years later won his first Test cap during England's winter tour to South Africa.

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  • Many Republicans oppose raising taxes and oppose raising the minimum wage, but they could face a test in their new public campaign to appeal to middle-class and low-income Americans.

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  • For online and blended courses, LearnSmart Labs offers the closest thing available to an actual physical laboratory experience, enabling students to put the concepts they have learned in class to the virtual test without requiring access to a brick-and-mortar lab.

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  • His Test debut came in 1984, two years after his first-class debut.

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  • To this day, he has a first-class bowling average of 23.43, but in Tests he took just 15 wickets at 45.93, almost all of them early in his career, while his first-class batting average only recently caught up with its Test counterpart.

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  • About 300 of the roughly 46, 000 students who took the class with an MIT professor filed into test-taking centers around the world in the hopes of earning a "proctored honor certificate" from the class signed by the professor.

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  • Tim Bresnan looks well below being a Test-class new-ball bowler, and though we can bear in mind that Stuart Broad and Graham Onions are ahead of him in the reckoning, this is not proving to be a great match for Bresnan.

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  • Boycott was also critical of Paul Collingwood, who was dropped for the second Test before being recalled for Edgbaston despite having scored just 92 runs in nine first-class innings for both Durham and England this summer.

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  • In the next decade, Genzel hopes the planned next generation of 30 meter-class telescopes will enable black hole astronomers to test general relativity around the event horizon itself.

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  • However, this time around the tourists have three first-class matches - with South Australia and Australia A still to come - before the first Test begins in Brisbane on 25 November.

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