Sometimes it all goes right, <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/sport/we-got-em-back-says-clarke-as-australia-win-third-test-retake-ashes-with-authority">or wrong</a>, depending on the vantage point of batsman or bowler, and <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/sport/england-make-it-through-day-4-but-trail-by-253">one of those moments occurred at the Waca ground in Perth yesterday</a>, when James Anderson met George Bailey on the wicket. After Bailey torched Anderson in record-tying fashion, we review the five most expensive overs ever recorded in Test cricket. <strong>George Bailey, Australia - 28</strong> The Tasmanian made his Test debut in these Ashes, and yesterday he rocked James Anderson to conclude the hosts’ second innings. His six shots, in order: 4,6,2,4,6,6. The sixes were launched over the sight screen, over long-off and over long-on. <strong>Brian Lara, West Indies - 28</strong> The Trinidadian had held the record alone, until yesterday. Lara launched into left-arm spinner Robin Peterson of South Africa for a 4,6,6,4,4,4 in Johannesburg in 2003, en route to a 202. Three years later, he took on Danish Kaneria and scored 26 off the Pakistan off-spinner. That score is the next one out of this list. <strong>Shahid Afridi, Pakistan - 27</strong> The right-handed all-rounder launched four consecutive sixes off India’s Harbhajan Singh at Lahore in 2006, but with a chance to obliterate Lara’s record he ended the over with a 2 and a 1. It is not his best over, though; he had a 32 in a one-day international versus Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi in 2007. <strong>Craig McMillan, New Zealand - 26</strong> When the stocky Black Caps batsman put together shots of 4,4,4,4,6,4 against the leg-spinner Younis Khan at Hamilton in March 2001, it was a Test record. According to espncricinfo.com, his six sailed “out of the ground and into the car park!” <strong>Mitchell Johnson, Australia - 26</strong> In one of the great all-round Test performances, he pummelled Paul Harris for a 4,4,6,0,6,6 to set the Australia record for runs in an over, but he also scored 96 not out and took eight wickets in a comprehensive Australia victory at Johannesburg.
