Cricket World Cup: How to catch a fortune

Jamie Gough celebrates after making the catch. Be prepared for the Cricket World Cup. Photos / Getty Images, Peter McIntosh

So you've got your bright-orange T-shirt and match ticket and have been practising your one-handed boundary catches relentlessly for weeks for the Cricket World Cup.

All you need now is to be sitting in the right spot when Black Cap's Brendon McCullum blasts one over the Eden Park boundary against Australia tomorrow.

When it comes to McCullum, the right spot can be just about anywhere, graphics created by stats company Optus for Catch-a-Million promoters Tui show.

There is a slight leg-side bias to the Black Caps skipper's 177 ODI sixes, but he has also belted plenty straight and over cover and point.

It's a different story for Black Cap Ross Taylor, whose fondness for the slog-sweep has seen him hoist all but six of his 110 sixes to the leg side, with the vast majority disappearing over mid-wicket.

The best time to sneak in that loo break would appear to be when Kane Williamson is on strike. He may be the best batsman of a generation but he doesn't exactly dig the long ball, hitting just 18 sixes in 68 matches. But make sure you don't leave your seat when Corey Anderson comes out to bat, particularly if you're on the left-hander's leg-side. In 29 matches Anderson has already smashed 41 sixes - the side's best ratio of sixes to matches.

It will also pay to keep an eye on Aussie Shane Watson, who has hit 124 sixes in 181 matches.

With its short boundaries - just 55m straight and 65m wide - Eden Park should be a six-catcher's paradise. But of the five big-money catches (three in the World Cup and two last year) taken so far, three have been claimed at Hamilton's Seddon Park.

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