56* v IND, Faridabad, 7 Mar
Heath Streak says that Doug Marillier has the temperament of an extreme-sports player: his biggest weapons are risk and adrenalin. So it proved at Faridabad. Zimbabwe still needed 65 from 34 balls to win when Marillier came out - at No. 10. Of course they should have lost. Then Marillier hustled 20 in an over off Zaheer Khan, who had 4 for 15 from eight overs till that point. He would step across to off and flip the ball to the fine-leg boundary as if he were handling a pancake. It was audacious stuff, and it led to a tantalising, back-door, one-wicket win with two balls to spare. The only consolation for Zaheer and company was that the great Glenn McGrath had been similarly manoeuvred in Australia a few months ago. The Marillier Flip, scrupulously practiced in the nets against the wishes of his coach, could come to be one-day cricket's most innovative stroke since the reverse-sweep. Rahul Bhattacharya

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