Pandit, a slight, bespectacled fifty-three-year-old native of Nagpur, in western India, was seated near the front of the room.

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Sri Lanka scored a series-levelling three-wicket win over India in Nagpur, Tillakaratne Dilshan hitting 123 off 113 balls for the visitors.

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If India avoid defeat in Nagpur they will reclaim the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, while only a win will do if Australia are to retain it.

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Krejza was one of the few highlights for Australia in the 2-0 Test series defeat in India, taking 12 wickets on his debut in Nagpur.

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The tourists took 13 from the first over in Nagpur, but with the record winning last-innings score in India of 276, they look poised to lose a series for the first time since the 2005 Ashes.

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He can zoom in on a giant construction site in Mouda, near those mines in Nagpur, where in March a new plant will fire up, fuelled by coal produced by Coal India.

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The World Cup begins on 19 February when two of the co-hosts India and Bangladesh meet in Dhaka, with England's first match against the Netherlands in Nagpur on the 22nd.

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