Chris Lynn smashed five sixes in a row at the MCG on Thursday night in a half-century for Brisbane Heat that put an exclamation point behind a stunning Big Bash League campaign that must surely secure him a spot in Australia's Twenty20 World Cup squad.
Lynn cleared the ropes with the last five balls of Ben Hilfenhaus' first over as he got the Heat off to a flying start that set up their 56-run upset win over the Melbourne Stars.
He raced to 53 from 19 deliveries - one ball more than his fastest T20 fifty - before he was caught in the deep for 56 off 24 balls, having clubbed seven sixes and two fours.
The Heat bowed out of BBL05 despite the win but Lynn departs as the competition's leading run scorer, with a century and three fifties, to go with a league-leading 27 sixes.
It's hard to imagine what more the Heat skipper could have done to book his ticket to India for the World Cup but he doesn't agree that he's put together the best-possible case for inclusion in that squad.
"I wouldn't say it was the absolute best because you always want to be better," Lynn said.
"I think if you say it's the best case then there's no room for improvement. It's a good case but I still want to be better.
"There are players around the world that bowlers get a bit twitchy about so hopefully if I keep doing that I might be one of them.
"I'm just confident in my own game at the moment ... I'm just taking it as it comes and whatever happens, happens."
Lynn admits to be being somewhat motivated by being left out of the initial Australian squad to take on India in the current ODI series but adds that he's still not 100 per cent recovered from the dislocated shoulder that ruled him out of October's domestic limited-overs competition.
"If you can do it once why don't you just keep your shape and go through the same process again and again? It worked for me," he said.
"I had a look at the first one, I felt that it was a good wicket and hitting down breeze was a bit easier, then you're just backing yourself. "I've played confident, fear-free cricket all throughout this campaign and I just wanted to do the same again tonight."
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