Lillee, who had clearly been intending to diligently bowl line and length until then, took the first ball of the England innings, and his runup began from somewhere inside the sightscreen.
On Saturday night, Venus and Serena Williams did not hit the first ball until 9 25.
There was a jaunty innings from Root, who angled his first ball to the third man boundary, clobbered Kyle Abbott meatily over midwicket for six and was looking in top form until he played back to the first ball from Piedt, and was lbw as it turned in to him, a close call by the umpire Aleem Dar.
The following parameters were calculated by the computer: time (from touching the first ball until touching the eleventh ball), path ratio (percent of measured path length relative to the ideal path), collisions (number of times the probe / arthroscope contacted any tissue), and injuries (collisions beyond a threshold force).
I would be nervous until the time I faced the first ball.
Elgar, surprisingly, is defending, until the fourth ball, when he knocks a single to square leg.
He sticks to a goodish length until the fourth ball of the over which is fuller and whizzes past Fulton's defensive prod.
That is until the fourth ball, when he strays onto Carberry's hips and gets flicked for four to fine leg.
Bresnan keeps him waiting until the fourth ball, which he skims off the face past the slips for two - that's a marvelous knock, Dravid's second hundred as a fill-in opener.
Updated at 6.32am GMT 6.28am GMT 34th over: India 134-5 (Jadeja 32, Raina 54) Jadeja plays patiently until the fifth ball of Root's over which he larrups about 80ft in the air into the stands behind the bowler.
