An historic knock for Brendon McCullum today - with the Black Caps skipper smashing the fastest century in New Zealand Test history, on day one of the first Test against Sri Lanka.
You'd be smiling too if you could block balls for six. Source: News Limited
WE'RE going to do this in list format because our turkey hangover is too severe to enable our brains to structure a story in paragraphs.
Here goes then...
1. Brendon McCullum is a New Zealand cricketer. In fact he's the current skipper. We think we spelled his name right.
2. Brendon McCullum used to be a devastating wicket keeper batsman in the Adam Gilchrist mould, but is now a devastating batsman in the Brendon McCullum mould. There really is no one like him in the Test cricket arena at the moment. He is a mould unto himself.
3. Brendon McCullum just missed out on scoring the fastest Test double century ever. Ever. In the Boxing Day Test against Sri Lanka in Christchurch today, the 33-year-old Otago native has just been dismissed for 195 off 134 balls.
Brendon McCullum apologises to the crowd for entertaining them senseless. Photo by Hannah Peters/Getty Images. Source: Getty Images
4. The record for the fastest Test double ton is held by McCullum's Kiwi compatriot Nathan Astle, who in scoring 222 in 2002 (how much would Richie Benaud enjoy saying that?), reached his 200 off just 153 balls.
5. McCullum had 19 balls up his sleeve to break the record but fell, caught at deep mid-off while trying to hit a six. Because of course he did.
6. McCullum has not just made this incredible score against someone truly hopeless like Bangladesh or England. He did it against Sri Lanka, who are currently 5th on the ICC Test rankings.
7. Neither was this a fluke. McCullum's previous Test innings was 202 against Pakistan in Sharjah. As in, the same team, who beat Australia senseless over there recently.
He really is an excellent bat-waver. AFP PHOTO / MARTY MELVILLE Source: AFP
8. In that innings, he broke the record for the fastest Test century by a New Zealander. He broke that record today.
9. And in case you're still a doubter, McCullum notched up the first Test triple century by a Kiwi in Wellington earlier this year. It was against India.
10. Something funny happened earlier today when McCullum was on 93. He hit a six and raised his arms in celebration of a century. Oops, one run short. The misunderstanding occurred because McCullum had been awarded leg-byes for a shot earlier that over which he clearly hit.
11. Kiwi commentators were understandably in raptures today. "We've seen some bludgeoning today but look at that, that was stylish," they said of a beautiful McCullum lofted off drive shortly before he was out. "Oh, thet sux," they also said at one point. Except they didn't actually say that. Our bad. Translated, what they actually said was "that's six".
Fetch that. AFP PHOTO / MARTY MELVILLE Source: AFP
12. McCullum had a 26 run over off Sri Lankan bowler Suranga Lakmal today. The record is 28 in a Test over, held jointly by Brian Lara and Australia's George Bailey.
13. Ricky Ponting once called a Brendon McCullum IPL centrury "the most amazing innings he'd ever seen". Today's wouldn't have ben far off. Here's the scorecard.
Brendon McCullum has shown again how dangerous he can be at the crease. Smashing 26 in one over in New Zealand's test match with Sri Lanka.
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