original Zealand captain is playing his final game and went out with a vengeance,reaching the fastest Test century in 54 balls in the first innings against AustraliaSix and out. One day, long into the future, or it might serve as an epitaph for Brendon McCullum. A short ball from Josh Hazlewood dispatched over the leg-side boundary for the 107th six of his Test career,more than one for every match he played; then, down the wicket to the next ball, and swinging like a shithouse door in a gale,as cricketers like to say, and dragging the ball to midwicket where David Warner took an excellent catch.
As he lived his cricket life, or so he perished by it,the McCullum ethos embraced in that two-ball vignette. His remarkable Test record first innings century off 54 balls at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch in the moment and final match of the series against Australia was indication if ever there was that the finest captain of this and perhaps any generation still had plenty left in him.
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Source: theguardian.com