AT LEAST IT WASN’T THE SHORTEST DAY

THERE may have only been 17 balls yesterday but three Test matches saw just two deliveries bowled in a day: AUSTRALIA v ENGLAND MELBOURNE, 1937 ENGLAND were 165 for eight on the last morning of the Ashes and lasted just two deliveries from Chuck Fleetwood-Smith. W INDIES v AUSTRALIA GEORGETOWN, 1965 LANCE GIBBS bowled Graham McKenzie with his second ball to complete a 212-run win for Garry Sobers’ West Indies. ENGLAND v PAKISTAN EDGBASTON, 1992 PAKISTAN’S Aamir Sohail scored three runs from two Phil DeFreitas balls on day two before rain stopped play.