Though an annualized 9.1% is a number other countries would kill for, it's the slowest rate for two years in China, where clouds are gathering.

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The reasons why the Tour is unlikely to change its current pace-of-play system anytime soon are many and interconnected, but here's a good one to start with: meaningfully speeding up play would, in effect, penalize the Tour's slowest members where it hurts them the most, in their wallets.

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Despite the acceleration, this was the slowest of Ramprakash's tons, and it ended when he tried to hit Rayner over the top.

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