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FULLY SHIK

George Binoy calls Shikhar Dhawan's taunting of Shane Watson "unsavoury" and an "ugly moment devoid of grace and an example of the sort of behaviour that needs to be stamped out of the game." Maybe. Maybe not. Amarfio's Law states that "the only thing worse than sledging is not sledging."

7-ELEVEN

One of the more inglorious - ignominious? dead set embarrassing? - set of statistics. A beautiful set of numbers, if you are not Australian. Australia has played the second most ODIs but does not feature in the top eleven chases in ODI history. (New Zealand features four times, and in fact six out of the top fourteen.) On the other hand, after last night, Australia has conceded an astonishing seven of the top eleven chases. With the judicious application of Cricket Maths it could have been seven of the top ten, but last night's result knocked one Australia shambles from tenth to eleventh.

Highest innings totals batting second
Team	Score	Result	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
South Africa	438/9	won	Australia	Johannesburg	12-Mar-06	ODI # 2349
Sri Lanka	411/8	lost	India	Rajkot	15-Dec-09	ODI # 2932
India	362/1	won	Australia	Jaipur	16-Oct-13	ODI # 3420
India	351/4	won	Australia	Nagpur	30-Oct-13	ODI # 3424
New Zealand	350/9	won	Australia	Hamilton	20-Feb-07	ODI # 2527
India	347	lost	Australia	Hyderabad	5-Nov-09	ODI # 2923
Pakistan	344/8	lost	India	Karachi	13-Mar-04	ODI # 2112
New Zealand	340/5	won	Australia	Auckland	18-Feb-07	ODI # 2526
New Zealand	340/7	tied	England	Napier	20-Feb-08	ODI # 2682
England	338/8	tied	India	Bangalore	27-Feb-11	ODI # 3110
New Zealand	335/5	lost	Australia	Perth	28-Jan-07	ODI # 2488

 

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