When Tasmania played Western Australia at Bellerive Oval on 4 November 1994, Ponting scored 211.

When Ponting returned to Launceston in June 1995, Tasmania's TAB ( now Tabcorp Holdings ) announced him as their part-time ambassador.

When Ponting reached 96, Chaminda Vaas hit Ponting high on his thigh and was given out leg before wicket.

When the Australians returned for the home series against England, Ponting was " in the worst run-scoring groove in his first-class career.

When Jamie Cox was selected for Australia A, Ponting was selected as captain of Tasmania for a domestic one-dayer against Victoria in December.

When Ponting declared, he remained not out, making 120.

When Ponting returned, the Australian selectors were obliged to select Clarke, meaning that they had to drop Lehmann or Katich.

When they stood about his tent, chaffing each other, exchanging their obscenities, cursing command or weather, he had studied their faces.

When enough time had elapsed so that there was little likelihood of his returning for something he had forgotten, Harold went out into the hall and stood looking into one room after another.

When he opened the door, there stood Eugene, on his way out of the apartment.

When they had gone, he stood for a minute breathing in the mustiness of old paper and leather which the busily thrumming air conditioner couldn't quite dispel.

When the car, with Susan's hands waving wildly from the rear window, disappeared down the driveway, Lucy stood looking after its pale dust.

When he stood trial for his offense he pleaded ignorance.

When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark.

When he had finished speaking, a member of the audience stood up and suggested that Bavaria should break away from Prussia and form a separate nation with Austria.

When the Church of St. Luke in the Fields was founded in 1820 it stood in fields south of the road ( now Christopher Street ) that led from Greenwich Lane ( now Greenwich Avenue ) down to a landing on the North River.

When he arrived in 1331, Mogadishu stood at the zenith of its prosperity.

When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat.

When Brown was hanged without incident, Booth stood in uniform near the scaffold and afterwards expressed great satisfaction with Brown's fate, although he admired the condemned man's bravery in facing death stoically.

When appearing on Governor Mike Huckabee's Fox News talk show, Voight said Obama was arrogant, caused civil unrest and stood for all that this country was against during its past.

" When a young man stood before him for sentencing after admitting to stealing jewels from a parcel, the defendant's wife stood near him, infant daughter in her arms, and Landis mused what to do about the situation.

When Stalin fell unconscious again, Beria immediately stood and spat.

When Edward Witten named M-theory, he did not specify what the M stood for — perhaps because the nascent theory was not fully defined.

When the Temple stood in Jerusalem, a sheaf of new-cut barley was presented before the altar on the second day of Unleavened Bread.

When China took its first post-1949 census in 1953, the population stood at 583 million ; by the fifth census in 2000, the population had more than doubled, reaching 1. 2 billion.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

" When Roger Blin asked him who or what Godot stood for, Beckett replied that it suggested itself to him by the slang word for boot in French, godillot, godasse because feet play such a prominent role in the play.

When the league was first organized in 1999, it was originally supposed to stand for " Xtreme Football League "; however, there was already a league in formation at the same time with that name, and so promoters wanted to make sure that everyone knew that the " X " did not actually stand for anything ( though McMahon would comment that " if the NFL stood for the ' No Fun League ', the XFL will stand for the ' extra fun league '").

When the Spaniards came to Peru, Heyerdahl asserted, the Incas told them that the colossal monuments that stood deserted about the landscape were erected by a race of white gods who had lived there before the Incas themselves became rulers.

When considering whether to allow Campbell to go ahead with the demonstration, their engineers had estimated that they stood to save $ 700, 000 in new installation costs in New York and New Jersey alone.

When the movie let out, Purvis stood by the front door and signaled Dillinger's exit by lighting a cigar.

When his head came down, Curt grabbed him by the hair and catapulted him head first into the wall.

`` When I came up, damnit, I thought I was going down.

When she appeared, two or three of the little girls jumped up and down, yelling, `` Goody, goody ''.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

When all else fails, it is argued that open sessions slow down governmental operations.

When he was in the war, he was in Law or Supplies or something like that, and an old buddy of his told me he would come down on Sundays to the Pentagon and read the citations for medals -- just like the one we sent in for Trig -- and go away with a real glow.

When the knife went into his chest, he went down at once.

When Marsh called to his aide and the pair rode off down the River Road where the gentians burned blue, Juanita was shaken and trying not to cry.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

When a hole is to be bored to a predetermined depth, mark the depth on the side of the stock, then run the bit down so that it is even with the mark.

When this linear draft is completed, I dust it down to a faint image.

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

When they were refused entrance to his brother's house nearby, they smashed down the door, broke the window, and threw lighted clothes wet with kerosene into the room.

When Hudson had finished, the `` town meeting '' broke down into a general, wordy argument.

When the Korean war began, on June 25, 1950, the anniversary of the day Custer had gone down fighting at the Little Big Horn and the day the regiment had assaulted the beachhead of Leyte during World War 2,, the 7th Cavalry was not in the best fighting condition.

When the Plymouth neared, it veered toward him and seemed about to run him down.

When Robinson tried to stretch his blow into a triple, he was cut down in a close play at third, Tuttle to Andy Carey.

When that monk came down and approached him with a respectful salutation, he asked: `` Where art thou from ''??

When she came back Eugenia was sitting at the kitchen table with a pencil and envelope jotting down words and figures.

When we were fighting, a few of our orthodox people were lying down in the roads so we could not pass.

When he at last did go to his room, he couldn't sleep and instead paced up and down before his little image of Acala, thinking first of Charlotte's tale of the man at Ryusenji, then of his biwa and the invisible Pacific waters.

When Zeus struck down Apollo's son Asclepius with a lightning bolt for resurrecting Hippolytus from the dead ( transgressing Themis by stealing Hades's subjects ), Apollo in revenge killed the Cyclopes, who had fashioned the bolt for Zeus.

When it was full, men drew it ashore and sat down and sorted the good into vessels but threw away the bad.

" When he sits down to write ," Emerson wrote, " all his genius leaves him ; he gives you the shells and throws away the kernel of his thought.