It's not only the Big Bash League that produces double-headers. In a single day of Test cricket, David Warner unfurled an innings for the ages and Matthew Renshaw the innings of a lifetime.
So this is what a hundred before lunch looks like.
Sydney has embraced its Big Bash franchises, the Sixers and Thunder. Both have won the tournament, yet Sydney cricket crowds still reserve their hearts for the New Year's Test match.
On Tuesday in Sydney, Hilton Cartwright from Zimbabwe via Perth becomes the 450th Australian cricketer to receive a baggy green cap.
The one institutional restriction in professional sport is sex.
Having almost won the unwinnable in Brisbane, Pakistan proceeded to lose the unloseable in Melbourne. Each is a rare and acquired art, but it is at the latter that they have had more practice.
Having gone to hell (or Hobart) and back in a tumultuous season, the Australian cricket selectors are back where they began.
Azhar Ali's faultless 205 was the highest score by a visiting batsman in Melbourne since 32 summers ago, when Vivian Richards arrived at the MCG in career-worst form. Having made 162 runs from his previous 12 innings, Richards groped and clawed his way to a thoroughly unconvincing 208 from 245 balls.
Azhar Ali was on his knees before his first Test century on Australian soil. Ultimately, though, it was the home bowlers whom Azhar brought to their sore and creaking haunches.
As Nathan Lyon's effectiveness as an off-spinner has dwindled, his appeal as a crowd hero has mushroomed.
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