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Hull's two half- backs, Terry Smirk and Rob Nolan, inspired the home side with Smirk successful with four kicks and a drop goal. With only two men allowed on the boundary in the first 15 overs, batting teams are starting to go berserk. If one lies passively as humans approach, there can be only one conclusion: it is too ill or badly injured to run away. Appearances can be deceptive. They can swim, but this one must have given up the ghost during the night. The incident prompted an eccentric thought about training hedgehogs to spike lawns.