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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Gambhir recorded the fifty stand with Yuvraj from 43 balls with a six over long-off against Paul Hoffman, playing his final match for Scotland.

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Strictly speaking none of this has anything to do with spending hours putting, pounding balls, or actually playing golf.

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Hussey hit five sixes in his 111 off 83 balls to boost his hopes of playing in Sunday's Twenty20 match with England.

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One change now being considered is an experiment with larger balls, which are designed to slow down the game on quick playing surfaces like Wimbledon's grass.

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Indeed England were ahead of the rate from the off with left-handers Strauss and Steven Davies playing in calm fashion, picking off the loose balls and using the pace of Shoaib Akhtar to good effect.

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If, for example, we had Peter Crouch with some other 6ft 4in centre forward, then maybe our best way of playing would be to hit much longer balls.

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Benn then pointed at Haddin over Johnson's shoulder and two balls later the bowler threatened to throw at the stumps with the batsman well in his crease after playing a defensive stroke down the wicket.

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