I was only joking yesterday when I mentioned that Jason Gillespie had a chance of scoring a double-hundred. I went to bed last night right after Hussey got out, but I really wanted to stay up and see if Dizzy would score reach the milestone that great Australian players like Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn never reached. He even passed Steve Waugh’s highest score of 200.

The selectors are going to have a really tough time now because you can’t really drop him from the side after he goes out and scores a double-hundred and bags some wickets. Personally, I don’t think he should have been dropped in the first place, and you know that when the Ashes start later this year he’s going to be fired up for revenge. I never thought I would see the day when a designated bowler would score 100, let alone 200. Even though this was accomplished against the lowly Bangladesh side, it’s still Test Match Cricket and will go down in history as one of the most memorable and unlikey innings ever played.

You’d want a little bludge too after batting for nearly 10 hours and facing 425 balls.

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