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Payton, Jodie Meeks and Jeff Green combined for 62 points, while starting guard Evan Fournier scored 23.Dwight Howard had 20 points and 16 rebounds and Dennis Schroder had 19 points and 13 assists for the Hawks, who thought they were on a good trajectory after rallying from 20 points down in last Fridays win at Milwaukee.Atlanta began the night having won two straight since a 1-10 stretch dropped them out of the top eight spots in the Eastern Conference. The Hawks were 9-2 and tied for the East lead before the slump.Its just a tough pill to swallow right now, guard Tim Hardaway Jr. said. Defensively, they made a lot of tough shots. It was just that type of night. Give them credit, man. They were knocking down their open shots, knocking down their tough shots.Thabo Sefoloshas 18-footer at the 4:18 mark of the third quarter gave the Hawks their first lead since the first quarter, but Payton answered with a 3 and Orlando never trailed again.We tightened the screws on the defensive end during that stretch, Vogel said. We forced a lot of misses, held them to one shot and we were able to get the offense back under control.The Magic set season highs in points, assists with 36 and 3-pointers with 15. They had 21 assists and zero turnovers until committing two miscues in the final 44 seconds of the second quarter.Orlando took charge with a 20-9 run in the second quarter that ended with Fourniers short turnaround jumper to make it 72-60.Payton combined with Fournier and Ibaka to score 46 points on 20-for-27 shooting in the first half.You can always find things you can do better, but a lot of those guys had pretty special nights, Hawks guard Kyle Korver said.MAYBE TOMORROWVucevic, Orlandos leading rebounder and third-leading scorer, missed his second straight game with a sore lower back. He hopes to be back in Wednesdays home game against the Los Angeles Clippers.It depends, he said. At the moment when the pain happens, it bothers me a lot.TIP-INSMagic: The last time they scored over 131 on the road was Jan. 13, 2009 at Sacramento. ... With 72 points in the first half, Orlando was six points shy of the team record set Nov. 3, 2010 at home against Minnesota. ... 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Mill Reef (the horse) had won the Epsom Derby earlier in 1971, and a few months later came home first in the prestigious Prix de lArc de Triomphe in Paris as well.How many people have been out for 199 in a Test, as KL Rahul was in Chennai? asked Hemant Karmarkar from India The Indian opener KL Rahuls dismissal for 199 against England in Chennai on Sunday was the ninth instance of this in all Tests, all of them since October 1984, when Pakistans Mudassar Nazar was caught behind against India in Faisalabad. The next one - and the only other Indian to be out for 199 - was Mohammad Azharuddin, against Sri Lanka in Kanpur in 1986-87. Since then it also happened to Matthew Elliott (1997), Sanath Jayasuriya (1997-98), Steve Waugh (1998-99), Younis Khan (2005-06), Ian Bell (2008) and Steven Smith (2015). Neither Azharuddin nor Elliott ever did make a Test double-century. Andy Flower (for Zimbabwe against South Africa in Harare in 2001-02) and Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka v Pakistan in Galle in 2012) have both been left stranded on 199 not out.At Chennai, Parthiv Patel kept wicket for 157.2 overs and then came straight back out to open the batting. Was this a record? asked Rahul Yadav from IndiaParthiv Patels impressive effort in the final Test against England in Chennai turns out to be some way short of this particular record. In the third Test against New Zealand in Cape Town in 1953-54, South Africas John Waite kept wicket for 165.3 overs then came out to open. And those were eight-ball overs, so he was behind the stumps for 1323 deliveries to Parthivs 944. But Parthiv did much better in one respect: he grafted to 71, while Waite was out for 8.I noticed that Dan Vettori took 116 Test wickets while he was captain. Is this a record for (a) New Zealand, and (b) everyone? asked James Morton from New Zealand Daniel Vettoris 116 wickets while captain is a record for New Zealand - next comes John Reid, with 54 - but hes only fourth overall. One wicket in front is Garry Sobers, with 117 from 39 matches in charge, while Richie Benaud took 138 in 28. But top of the list is Imran Khan, whose 48 Tests as Pakistans captain brought him 187 wickets. There are four others with more than 100 wickets as skipper: Kapil Dev (111), Wasim Akram (107), Bishan Bedi (106) and Shaun Pollock (103). Akram leads the way in ODIs, with 158 wickets while captain; next come Pollock (134) andd Imran (131), before Waqar Younis with 97.dddddddddddd Virat Kohli scored a double-century against New Zealand in October, and another one against England in December. Was this the shortest period between Test double-centuries by a player? asked Allan Alexander from the United States I was rather surprised to discover that there have been as many as 17 instances of a batsman scoring two double-centuries in a Test series. But I was slightly less surprised to discover that Don Bradman did it four times - in England in 1930 (when his scores included 254, 334 and 232), at home to South Africa in 1931-32, and in successive Ashes series in 1934 and 1936-37. Wally Hammond managed it twice: in Australia in 1928-29, and in New Zealand in 1932-33, when his two innings there were 227 in Christchurch and 336 not out in Auckland. Since then, only Michael Clarke has done it more than once: both at home, against India in 2011-12 and South Africa in 2012-13. The following have managed it once: Vinoo Mankad (India v New Zealand in 1955-56), Glenn Turner (New Zealand in West Indies in 1971-72), Viv Richards (West Indies in England in 1976), Gordon Greenidge (West Indies in England in 1984), Graeme Smith (South Africa in England in 2003), Ricky Ponting (Australia v India in 2003-04), Kumar Sangakkara (Sri Lanka v Bangladesh in 2007), Thilan Samaraweera (Sri Lanka in Pakistan in 2008-09) and Brendon McCullum (New Zealand v India in 2013-14). Of these, the closest pair were scored by Smith, who in 2003 reached 200 on his way to 277 at Edgbaston on July 26, and by the end of August 1 had 214 of his eventual 259 at Lords. The quickest repeat double-centuries for India were, like Kohlis, not scored in the same series: in 1993 Vinod Kambli was out for 224 against England in Mumbai on February 22, and reached 227 against Zimbabwe in Delhi on March 15. Mankads pair in 1955-56 were completed on December 3 and January 7.Apparently Liam Dawsons 66 at Chennai was the highest score by an England No. 8 on debut. Who held the record before? And has anyone from another country scored a hundred from there? asked Elliott Wilson from England Before Liam Dawsons plucky 66 in the fifth Test against India in Chennai, the highest score by an England debutant batting at No. 8 was 59, by David Bairstow - Jonnys father - also against India, at The Oval in 1979. Dawsons effort, however, comes well down the overall list, which is headed by the New Zealander James Neesham. He marked his debut with an undefeated 137 against India in Wellington in 2013-14. Six other Test debutants have scored centuries from No. 8: Azhar Mahmood (128 not out for Pakistan v South Africa in Rawalpindi in 1997-98), Roger Hartigan (116 for Australia v England in Adelaide in 1907-08), Deepak Shodhan (110 for India v Pakistan in Calcutta in 1952-53), Scott Styris (107 for New Zealand v West Indies in St Georges in 2002), Bruce Taylor (105 for New Zealand v India in Calcutta in 1964-65) and Thilan Samaraweera (103 not out for Sri Lanka v India in Colombo in 2001).Post your questions in the comments below ' ' '