Wednesday, April 06, 2005

It rained fours and sixes in Visakhapatnam

It was amazing to see so many fours and sixes being hit in the Visakhapatnam match between India and Pakistan. Indian batsmen hit 34 fours and nine sixes and Pakistan paid back with 28 fours and seven sixes. In all 344 runs came in boundaries in the entire match! There has been only one better effort than this in the history of One-Day Internationals.

In the World Cup 1996 match between Sri Lanka and Kenya, 378 runs came off in fours and sixes with Sri Lanka scoring as many as 256 runs from boundary shots.