It matters: the difference between a boundary four and a boundary six can be the margin of victory in a tight one-day game.
This was the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary, six hundred million years old.
New batsmen Pettini went on the offensive as the day drew to a close, hitting Boje for six over the long-off boundary before dishing out the same treatment to Panesar.
Wright gave England the lift they needed with a measured 44 off 57 balls, but a momentary head rush cost him dearly as he was caught on the boundary trying to heave Bishoo for six.
Both men continued to pepper the boundary, with Porterfield smashing Shakib for six over long-on, as the score reached an imposing 69-0 after 10 overs.
Both SXC and Virgin Galactic will loft customers above the 100-kilometer boundary, coast weightless for five to six minutes with that life-affirming Spaceship Earth view, and glide back to planet.
After a dot ball to begin the final over bowled by Yuvraj Singh, his first six was actually caught on the mid-wicket boundary by Piyush Chawla, but the teenager then carried the ball over the rope.
With the ball set to fly for six, long-on fielder Voges made the catch on the boundary, but his body's momentum took him over the rope.
Lusty late blows from Mike Hussey - including a huge six into the third row of the top tier of the square leg boundary - bumped up the total, but the left-hander fell one run short of his half century when he drove a catch to Denly at mid-off.
Six in ten people in the United States are overweight, with a third crossing the boundary into obesity.
In between there were some terrific shots, including a straight six off Gareth Batty and another big hit off Dimitri Mascarenhas which almost cleared the longest boundary on the ground.
Kaushalya Weeraratne hit a mammoth six onto the adjacent moto-cross track, but that proved to be the final boundary for Sri Lanka, as the final four overs produced only 18 runs.
In a tense finish, Amla kept his cool despite the loss of Chris Read, Franks and Broad, hitting Willoughby for 18 in one over, and ending the match with a pull to the square leg boundary to finish unbeaten on 64 from 73 balls with nine fours and a six.
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