1.   But Hughes, at the end of a long, hard summer, somehow found reserves of stamina and strength to strike twice in successive balls.

2.   Piniella had gone to the mound after Wolcott threw his sixth successive ball on the second pitch to Vizquel.

3.   After David Capel had removed two Lancashire batsman with successive balls, Ambrose dismissed Austin with an amazing reflex-action catch off his own bowling.

4.   Australia was rocked by a Shaun Pollock burst in the third over of the chase when the South African skipper dismissed Jimmy Maher and Adam Gilchrist off successive balls.

5.   Benjamin dismissed Gough and Dominic Cork in successive balls but Peter Martin powered the next ball, the last of the innings, for four.

6.   But in the post lunch session he was on a hat trick as he removed Jacques Kallis and Andrew Hudson off successive balls.

7.   But Warne brought himself on to bowl and claimed two wickets in successive balls, starting a slide of five wickets for six runs.

8.   Captain Akram led the early Pakistani blitz by removing Gunawardene and in-form batsman Jayawardene in two successive balls in his second over of the day.

9.   Dravid and Ajay Jadeja then left in quick succession, but Singh took charge with some huge hits, including three sixes of which two came off successive balls.

10.   Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar fired out two South African batsmen off successive balls and Mushtaq Ahmed removed Hansie Cronje as Pakistan bowled themselves back into the second test Friday.