Pakistan captain Mohammad Yousuf was caught by Simon Katich at short leg for 61 and Saeed Ajmal was caught at mid-wicket by Shane Watson for 10 to usher Ponting to the top of the all-time Test captaincy records.
And if combined with a number of palaeo-wind records gathered from around the continent, it could provide a useful tool to test climate computer models, they believe.
To investigate whether acid reflux is involved at all, doctors can do a 24-hour pH test, inserting an acid-sensitive probe through the patient's nose into the esophagus, where it records any episodes of reflux.