He then unleashed eight successive balls in walking Howard Johnson and Strawberry.

Each successive ball is placed 3 inches behind the previous one in a winding chain.

Lee came steaming in the next over as well, but again, he was dispatched for four off successive balls.

He followed this with wickets off successive balls in the second innings.

Danny Graves had thrown six successive balls with no one out, and Benard got the take sign for the reliever's seventh pitch.

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

In his first over after the lunch break, he yorked one of the opening batsmen and his replacement with successive balls.

Cook is all at see against Ravi Jadeja, being beaten through the gate, and playing missing a sweep to successive balls.

It led directly to two wickets falling in successive balls during the morning and could prove the turning point in the match.

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