Hitting the afterburners

younis Younis Khan in his first match as Pakistani captain has just bought up his triple century. Now he’s going after Lara’s record, and considering the Lankans have already bowled 200 overs they could be getting tired.

What really impressed me about this innings is the way he went ballistic after bringing up his triple with a reverse sweep off the mother-chucker. Considering he’d faced 510 balls for his 300 you’d be forgiven for thinking he had his eye in, however from this position of apparent strength Younis ‘the excitement machine’ Khan pushed on to score a further 4 runs off the 35 balls he faced before stumps at the stratospheric strike rate of 11.42.

This against Medis and Murali who’d each bowled in excess of 50 overs, good to see he’s keeping the game interesting. Now we just need for Lara to come back against England and regain his record….

Genghis screwing Bluetongue

Outright Bástard

Outright Bástard

The future Australian XI did well to restrict the star studded Redbacks outfit to 313 after they won the toss and elected to swing the willow.

A pumped up Bluetongues blew off the demons of losing their 50 Over match off a last ball misfield by scoring 576 runs in reply to the SA total, a superb effort from the pre-pubescent future Baggy Greens against the recently pronounced sane reverse swinging demi-god and “India-Ready” Shaun Tait.. who spectacularly failed to take any wickets at all with the first ball, then managed a massive 1 batsman and 2 bowlers with the second.

So, Day 4 and we were looking at bowling the Redbacks out to add outright victory to our firsts innings points, however Younis Khan has finally shed the jetlag and has been batting most of the day. What’s more he’s now taken the SA total past ours meaning we’ll have to bat again, Bastárd.