As outrageous stroke followed outrageous stroke - Brett Lee's thunderbolts hooked off his eyebrows and over the men placed on the boundary for just such an eventuality, Warne clumped over midwicket and belted straight - spectators were reduced to peeping nervously through their fingers: "No, KP, no.
In an inspired final moment she looks straight into the spectators on her final line.
On 20 occasions the ball sped to the boundary and on three it disappeared straight into the spectators.
The Lumiere brothers, the cinema's pioneer realists, shocked audiences in 1895 with a 40-second film of a train appearing to come straight towards the spectators.
Like the sequence in which the dancers lead audience members into the center to copy their poses (I can testify that at the second performance on Sunday this was a lot of fun), the hand-holding and eye contact miraculously bypass contrivance and lead the spectator straight through the theater's fourth wall and into a mysterious region of shared experience.
Many match-goers are also excited by the introduction of Friday night football, with one belief being it will boost the all too often stagnant atmosphere at Premier League stadiums because spectators arrive straight from work or the pub in a state of "the weekend is here" delirium.
The London 2012 Olympic Games will be my third straight Games as a spectator.
It was played, also in front of 1,500 spectators, at Harlequins straight after a men's European match and free entry was on offer to those who just wanted to see the women play.
I was proud of him for participating but angry that as a closeted gay man I couldn't even cheer my straight friend on as a spectator.
The prancing horse emblem can be seen on the giant red roof of Ferrari World, straight ahead, while all around are the spectator stands of Yas Marina Circuit.
McGuinness also noted the success of the 2010 Olympics, in which 150,000 spectators showed up downtown for 17 straight days.
