Jackson's famous shot became one of the country's favorite photographs of the 19th century and effectively introduced photography in the West.

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But, two runs short of his half-century, the New Zealand skipper offered no shot to a straight Sidebottom delivery that handed the Nottinghamshire seamer - out of sorts and wickless on Thursday - his remarkable figures.

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Kipling came to prominence after the adventurers and privateers who had built the British empire (he himself never heard a shot fired in anger) and before the naked power-politics of the mid-20th century (he hated Nazism).

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We are in the Caucasus (though the movie was shot in Croatia), in a fly-blown coastal resort, near the end of the nineteenth century.

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Ambrose seemed set for a second century against the Kiwis but the cut shot that brought him a healthy percentage of runs proved to be his downfall.

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Some may even relish the fate of the original Damian, a third century saint who was hung on a cross, stoned and shot by arrows and finally suffered execution by beheading.

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