"I honestly did not believe it was possible to do so in front of the wicket. I had to take an educated risk and guessed that was the best way to do it. I could have been knocked over but those are the risks and gambles you have to take," Brendon McCullum told Cricinfo in an interview in 2010. He was talking about facing up to Australian tearaway Shaun Tait in that over, the end of which left many in the AMI Stadium in Christchurch gasping.