Phil Jaques, 244 off 274 balls

Phil Jaques, Brad Hodge, Stuart Law, Ian Harvey, Mark Cosgrove, Michael Di Venuto, Darren Lehmann - you've got to have an Australian batsman in your side or you're nothing. Nothing you hear!

Phil Jaques nudged, nurdled, pounded, biffed, stroked, hammered or thrashed 244 runs off 274 balls for Worcestershire against Essex. It was apparently a chanceless, silky, explosive, destructive, combative, extravagant, methodical, stoic, ebullient, classy double hundred.

Australians score runs for fun over here, except for Michael Clarke for Hampshire - he was dire.