Germany also won the gold medal in the women's 500m Kayak fours from Hungary in silver and Australia in bronze, while Belarus won gold in the men's 1000m Kayak fours .
After Tim Bresnan picked up two wickets in his opening two overs, teenager Paul Stirling soon accelerated Ireland's scoring with two fours in Adil Rashid's first over and a six over square-leg off acting England skipper Paul Collingwood.
The 51-year-old captured England's third gold medal in the Games with a 15-0 triumph, following the success of the men and women's fours teams.
He hit a huge six and eight fours in Australia's reply to the hosts' 197.
Andrew Triggs-Hodge, 33, a rower raised in Hebden, North Yorkshire, was in Great Britain's gold-winning men's coxless fours crew.
Among Hussey's 13 fours and one six was a series of pulls off the seamers as the short balls were effortlessly despatched, Finn the worst offender.
Add to that the fact that New Orleans will be front and center on the world stage for much of the next decade, hosting a series of national and international sporting events, including Super Bowl XLVII in 2013, back-to-back NCAA Men's and Women's Final Fours, and the Bowl Championship Series National Championship in 2012, among many others.
Teenager Iqbal hit four boundaries in Johann Louw's first over and two fours and a six off Steyn in the next to get Bangladesh's reply off to a bold start.
Ten Doeschate's 108-ball innings included 13 fours and a six, moving him alongside South Africa's AB de Villiers and Sachin Tendulkar of India as the only players to score two hundreds at the tournament.
Though UCLA advanced to three consecutive Final Fours earlier in Howland's 10-year tenure there, the program hadn't reached the same heights in recent years.
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Smith's innings, which included four sixes and nine fours, was the highlight of the final day's play as the two sides played out a draw.
He captured a career-best three-wicket haul in South Africa's first innings and then hit five fours and six sixes in a 54-ball 72 in Australia's second innings.
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Alastair Cook (52) went soon after, having made the tour's first half-century off 67 balls including seven fours, when he was tempted into driving Willett's perfectly pitched delivery which spun through the gate.
His curate's egg of an innings continued with successive fours off Rikki Clarke, and he then took 17 off Paul Collingwood's only over of the innings.
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Burns hit a six and eight fours in his 59 before becoming Sidebottom's fifth victim.
Kent could have snatched the title on run-rate, and reached a useful 246-5 thanks mainly to Rob Key's unbeaten 120, featuring 15 fours and a six.
The 21-year-old opener, a product of the Kent youth system, carried his bat with 115 from 189 balls, including 15 fours, and made over half Kent's runs.
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Sussex's Smith fired leg-side fours in consecutive overs but he fell in the 10th when he tried to make room to hit volatile left-armer Doug Bollinger, who took great delight in seeing the off-stump flattened.
Westwood's positive hitting, including eight fours in his 58-ball stay, set the tone before Maddy and Clarke put on an unbroken stand of 47 to see their side home and boost their chances of staying up.
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Kreusch and Sugden prevented a total collapse, collecting 11 fours between them before both fell to Suji's younger brother Tony.
Collingwood's 50 included two sixes and three fours and came up during an 80-run stand with Prior for the sixth wicket.
Law then used all his experience, hitting eight fours and two sixes to keep alive Lancashire's hopes of qualifying for the quarter-finals.
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Then, after Ian Blackwell had given Paul Strang a return catch, Burns was bowled by Brent's slower ball, having struck four fours and a six in his 69-ball innings.
The MoD has a terrible record for sticking to budgets, and quite a lot has happened to the economy in the past six years (including, as an aside, an astonishing 66% cost inflation over only fours years in the price of building Aberdeen's Western Peripheral Road).
Dalrymple's century, from 174 balls with 13 fours, was his fifth for the Welsh side.
However, the defending British visually-impaired mixed coxed fours boat, easily booked their place in Saturday's final - winning the semi-final by 13 seconds.
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Fulton's 101 came off 147 balls, including 11 fours and two sixes.
But that was the home side's last success as Younis, who hit seven fours, and Faisal Iqbal (23) saw it through to stumps.
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