Breaking the pain barrier

“Just to do that is more than impressive…It is one of those epic tales of grit and determination.” Another quote on Glenn ‘201 not out’ Maxwell as he stood with a smile that spread all the way to the Australia dressing room on Tuesday night, right? Glenn Maxwell is attended by a member of team support staff during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between Australia and Afghanistan The quotation is attributed to Dr Steve Shoemaker, an orthopaedic surgeon, in The San Diego Union-Tribune and refers to Tiger Woods winning the 2008 US Open after having used his clubs for support through the weekend. This was like Alvin Kallicharan’s 10-ball 35-run assault on Dennis Lillee in the 1975 World Cup spread across the Afghanistan attack and for much longer. “Knowing what was at stake, Trautmann played on for the final quarter of an hour, unaware that he was jeopardising his life in the process,” writes Colin Schindler in ‘Manchester United Ruined My Life.’ As per Schindler, Trautmann made "City supporters out of little boys all over Manchester that day". A brutal foul while, “in full spectacular flight towards the Italian goal”, in the words of Brian Glanville in ‘The Story Of The World Cup’, had led to a dislocated shoulder but Beckenbauer returned with an arm strapped to his side.