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In contrast to Hoover, who had rarely left FBI headquarters and publicly avoided politics, Gray openly stumped for Nixon in the 1972 campaign.

They bowled 38 balls which would have gone on to hit the stumps, took six wickets with them and conceded just four runs.

Amateur cricketers have been stumped after the sport was permanently banned at a village pitch where it had been played for more than 200 years.

They wake up each morning to reminders of apocalypse: blackened stumps and ghostly bare branches where a tree canopy used to be, and bald rocks and makeshift shelters where homes used to stand.

As in many of her stump speeches and media interviews, she tends to recite her accomplishments as if reading from a resume, which sometimes reads as defensive.