Sam Perry

You know, like you've just fucking nailed a PowerPoint presentation at a small business conference.

You know what I mean?

Hard not to well up when you see a proud mum and dad, and I'm guessing siblings perhaps as well, embrace each other.

That was just awesome, to be honest.

The innings was balanced, technique, tempo.

Proper batting.

It was elegant.

It was runs based off defence and stability.

That back foot punch to the offside is sumptuous.

It actually reminded me a fair bit of Damien Martin.

You know how sometimes you see those things on YouTube where Mike Hussey right-handed?

And you will have a look at that for a little bit too long.

It kind of reminded me of that.

And it also made me think, you know what?

I will watch 10,000 test match runs of this thing because it is very, very pretty on the eye.

It's lovely stuff.

Yeah, I mean, we've seen him play for the Renegades in Australia, obviously, where he sort of really made his mark.

No, but we were also fortunate enough to see him play for RCB, the RCB side that eventually won the IPL.

and he's opening the batting with Virat Kohli.

I don't think there was ever going to be a suggestion of like, this will never work out.