"No one imagined that all this private information, this treasure trove about just the sort of people who filled these newspapers in their millions, could be accessed and listened to in this way, let alone plundered as a source for stories".
He hit so ferociously that the BBC's highlights could not keep up; but it was as well tactically that he did - including off Lawson's two accidental beamers - because the runs plundered that evening would not have been half so readily available next morning, against fresh bowlers and a new ball.
Mohammed's father-in-law, Abu Bakr, had already plundered the original settlement, according to Justin Marozzi's new history of Baghdad (Allen Lane, £25, warmly reviewed here).
They put on 81 for India's fourth wicket before Kolhi and Dhoni plundered 50 from the final four overs.
Mr Chávez, in effect, plundered its reserves for about $580m, both by forcing it to sell him dollars at the official exchange rate, and by taking dollars from the state oil company that traditionally went to the central bank.
In return elected officials share out funds plundered from state coffers.
Other objects were plundered as booty by British soldiers, who sold them or passed them on to their families, who, in turn, often bequeathed or donated them to museums.
Details about millions of users have also been plundered from an online shop, a games developer and a mobile-phone operator.The scale of this latest incident has revealed the financial sector's vulnerability.
In the 1990s hundreds of objects plundered from tombs in Italy and elsewhere were tracked down to Geneva's warehouse (along with papers showing that some had been laundered by being sold at auction to straw buyers, then handed straight back with the legitimate purchase documents).
This provoked resentment and insurrection in resource-rich provinces such as Aceh, which saw their wealth plundered by a corrupt elite.
Mr Song (whose name is a homonym for the phrase "to send someone to heaven") was jailed after he dropped his mobile phone at a grave he had plundered: the police used it to track him down.
