Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag would be first-ballot Hall of Famers if cricket had one, and V.V.S. Laxman would be certain to join them, with Gautam Gambhir also a serious contender.
Nonetheless, other companies are certain to join the competition for music fans looking to start downloading songs, or to switch from peer-to-peer services like Kazaa and Morpheus, as the music industry fights piracy.
With the action plan agreed by 15 countries last night and with Britain delighted to be accorded a trailblazing role in the measures agreed, the scheme will go to a full EU summit in Brussels on Wednesday, where it is certain to be joined by the other 11 member states.
Bar KDH, a second Christian Democratic outfit, no other party is certain to beat the 5% threshold.KDH may join Smer in coalition even if Mr Fico wins enough seats to govern alone.
Then, joining what is certain to be a parade of Twitter books, two University of Chicago undergrads have sold a book called "Twitterature: The World's Greatest Books, Now Presented in Twenty Tweets or Less" to Penguin.
Defender Nemanja Vidic is certain to be playing his last home game for United, ahead of joining Inter Milan.
That is certain to change.
The winner is a son of Galileo, who was O'Brien's first Derby winner in 2001, and is now certain to join his father on the stallion roster at the Coolmore Stud in Ireland.
The exotic pet trade, which has powerful political support in many tropical countries, will lobby, but with backing for a total trade ban also likely from Washington and Brussels the parrot is almost certain to join 1,000 other species, such as tigers, rhinos and gorillas, on what is known as Cites Appendix I, the list of most endangered species.
Karel Schwarzenberg's TOP 09 party is almost certain to join the next government.
