Having been absent with a broken finger during the Aussies' 6-1 trouncing of England in the recent one-day series, Ponting showed no ill effects, keeping his team on course for victory while others perished to Chawla's leg-spin and India's number one spinner Harbhajan Singh (3-15).

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It also led to a number of spin-off sub-brands, such as Bike4Life and Walk4Life, which were used by local schemes to get people active.

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The program generated huge excitement, but it was a commercial failure, Five years later, Wurman tried again, and since then it's been held annually in California, with a growing number of spin-off events in other locations.

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Andy Powell, fresh from some barn-storming displays for Wales, was on hand to take the scoring pass, only for his scrum-half to spin the ball behind his supporting number eight.

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Thanks to spin-off launches and acquisitions, under his command the number of Time Inc titles grew from around 20 to 140.

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For the advisers and the spin-doctors, imported by Mr Blair's ministers in unprecedented number into Whitehall, matters are different.

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While initial number-crunching at CERN suggests the new particle has spin zero, more proof is needed.

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And by the time Griffiths was last out to the occasional off-spin of Compton, Ervine had made the highest score by a Hampshire number seven.

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However England did not want to take any chances with a player ranked as the number one spinner in the world and who will be a valuable asset on the spin-friendly World Cup wickets in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

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