He studied martial arts and taught himself how to ride a unicycle, eat fire, and juggle, getting to the point where he could keep five balls in the air at a time.
But Bollinger got enough reverse swing to force Sammy to edge to slip, and with five balls left in the day Sulieman Benn top-edged a pull to mid-on to give Johnson his fourth wicket of the day and seventh of the match.
But Sangakkara passed 1, 000 runs for the calendar year and struck five fours in 11 balls in the closing overs to retain faint hopes of averting defeat.
England seemed to have the game well in control when just 22 were needed from the last 24 balls with five wickets in hand.
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Left-arm seamer Charl Willoughby later took two wickets in five balls before rain sent the teams off for the day.
Flower was in excellent touch, his fifty taking just 32 balls with five boundaries, as Essex passed 200 in the 33rd over.
After 10 overs the score had edged up from an overnight 4-0 to 13 when Sami struck, taking out Lou Vincent (four) and Stephen Fleming (nought) in the space of five balls.
Solanki, who made a combined 11 runs in the 3-0 series win in Bangladesh, lasted just five balls before he was given out lbw to a ball from left-armer Nandika Ranjith which appeared to be missing off-stump.
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He had done brilliantly to take England to the brink of lunch - adding 59 in partnership with Cook - but the next man in, Pietersen, lasted just five balls.
Only a victory will give Worcestershire a chance of overhauling Glamorgan and an all-action day, which saw 14 wickets fall, began with Gareth Andrew, the subject of an approach by Sussex, taking three wickets in five balls to finish with a season's best 4-45 as the visitors soon subsided from their overnight 225-7.
Elton Chigumbura weighed in with five sixes in his unbeaten 61 off 33 balls as the home side totalled 323-7.
Malik and Misbah provided a late flourish with a fifth wicket stand of 99 from 70 balls as five batsmen from the same team made fifties in a one-day international for the first time.
The commander of the US Coast Guard in the Galveston region, Capt Marcus Woodring, said about five gallons (19 litres) of tar balls from the Deepwater Horizon leak had been found on Saturday.
With 37 balls left after the re-start, South Africa lost five wickets in adding only 46 and compiled 118-7.
He's come up with 29 home run balls: 24 off the bat and five tossed to him after landing in bullpens and other areas.
Opening the innings, Kieswetter smashed 81 from 66 balls on Wednesday as the Lions overcame the senior England team by five wickets in a warm-up game in Abu Dhabi.
The International Cricket Council imposed five-year suspensions on all three cricketers in February over the deliberate no-balls at Lord's.
Last month Mr Balls admitted that at most 20, 000 youngsters would start diplomas in the five subjects on offer this autumn.
Mr Balls finished in five hours, 14 minutes, but joked he had worried about "flatlining" during the race.
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The West Indies captain hit his runs off 97 balls as his side won with six overs to spare to take a 3-1 lead in the five-match series.
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Chris Gayle's side looked set to cruise only to lose five wickets for 13 in under three overs, but the skipper held out with three sixes in 85 in 94 balls.
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