11.   This time the British bookmakers, who offer odds on almost everything, declined.

12.   They offered odds on a curfew being clamped in the old part of Jaipur as well as on estimated casualties, he said.

13.   While several bookmakers declined to offer odds on the captaincy race, most agreed Waugh would be a long odds-on favorite to win the job.

14.   QPR may be buoyed up by two successive victories to ease their relegation fears, but few would offer odds on them beating the champions.