For long periods, Brazil struggled to find the zip in their passing, or the vim and vigour in their movement, to elude markers and dismantle Croatia's effective and organised defensive system.
The higher level of RCC's under ageing conditions observed in this study seems to be the major contributing factor for loss of seed viability and vigour in rice genotypes.
Since only four populations are compared, the hypothesis of a relationship between genetic distance and hybrid vigour in the F1 generation should be considered preliminary.
Genetic variation for stand establishment and early field vigour in the tropicalised shrunken-2 maize population would be best exploited through the development of inbred lines, hybrids and synthetics.
In our study, the BC1S1 and BC2S1 families revealed lines showing transgressive segregation for vigour in the control and stress treatments, indicating that two generations of backcrossing to the wild parent did not eliminate the effect of the crop segments.
Shah, with 40, and Flintoff and Patel with 26 each, attempted to add vigour in the closing overs but failed.
England lacked vigour in the morning and there was an air of resignation about some of their cricket, but after the interval, and possibly a few harsh words from Vaughan or Peter Moores, the coach, they were far livelier.
From struggling for parity with an England team full of vigour in the forwards and adventure in the halves, the Kangaroos suddenly leapt to a level you could only marvel at.
Meanwhile, Logie, who played in the outstanding West Indies XI of the 1980s, and Karam Jopaulsingh, the manager, have instilled sufficient vigour in the team to compete in this tournament.
