The Two Best Innings of this World cup

Detailed Analysis on the two best innings of this world cup, so far….
O’Brien Playing the innings of his Life:
Its worth dedicating a paragraph for the brutal innings played by O’Brien that can be compared to similar innings played by cricketers such as Sir Vivian Richards, Sehwag, Gilly, Afridi, Jayasuriya and Gayle. All these players were from established nations and had enough cricketing exposure and infrastructure to get themselves in the best shape to play such a kind of innings. But an innings of 50 ball 100 coming from a Minnow’s batsman, that too against a test bowling attack is praiseworthy and no praise is high enough for this innings that is going to change the whole facet of Irish cricket.
Just to mention about his innings, it consisted of 13 boundaries and 6 towering sixes that would have made the nation proud. The manner in which he played the slog sweeps to spinners to dismiss the ball in to the stands, the towering sixes to long on and mid wicket of the quicker bowlers (one of those sixes hit the 100 meter mark, the longest six of the tournament) was full of arrogance and completion domination and a statement to the opponents with the bat, “Hey guys! Today is my day and whatever I do will succeed... Better luck next time”.

Brutal Assault by Ross Taylor on his Birthday against a Skilful Pakistan attack:
Scoring a hundred on a Birthday is always special but Ross Taylor made it a memorable one with one of the most incredible hitting in the world cup history by scoring 62 balls in the final 16 balls he faced against Pakistan on their group match held on 09th March. It is worth analysing statistically his innings rather than writing an ode on his slog shots over midwicket. Here are the statistical highlights of his innings:
His first 104 balls in 34 over’s brought him just 69 runs (87% of the balls faced) and the second half fetched him 62 runs off just 16 balls (13% of the balls faced)
In the first half of this innings, he hit just 2 boundaries, while the second half fetched him 7 sixes and 4 boundaries of just 16 balls..Wowww…
His break-up of runs against last two over’s of pace bowling by the Pakistani bowlers
Against Shoaib Akthar: 4 6 6 0 4 6 , Against Razzaq: 4 6 6 2 4 6 ( looks like a Telephone number, isn’t it? )
The last hundred runs were scored in just 29 balls. Taylor and Jacob Oram put on 85 runs in 3.5 over’s…Mind-boggling figures indeed…