Clarke was shockingly booed by his home supporters when playing out dot balls, but with the required run-rate approaching eight an over, Watson smashed Yardy for consecutive leg-side sixes en route to his highest ODI score to relieve the pressure.

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Observers were quick to criticise him again, after replays showed there was every chance the ball had brushed the batsman's glove and bat en route to James Anderson at leg-slip.

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The competing yachts receive points according to their position in each leg with half points awarded at scoring gates along the route and for the seven in-port races.

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Hutchinson's unconventional route to fitness included strapping water bottles to his leg and lifting it while he lay in his hospital bed to maintain his leg muscles and he also cycled extensively with a protective metal cage on the injured left leg.

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Keith Dabengwa hit three fours en route to a score of 16 before Harbhajan trapped him leg before, reducing Zimbabwe to 138-9 and on the brink of yet another heavy defeat.

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He went on to emulate Oreiller's golden hat-trick, at the Grenoble Winter Olympics in 1968, and his pursuit of speed and glory once saw him complete a trial race on one leg, legend has it, having broken the other one en route to the finish line.

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