Good on Martin Crowe for padding up and heading back out to the crease in his 50th year.
Arguably New Zealand's best batsman, and without question our most elegant, Crowe made his unlikely comeback after prompting from his mates that he only needed 392 more runs to reach a milestone of 20,000 first-class runs.
We all go through mid-life crisis in our own way - for me it was running very slow marathons; for Crowe, taking up the bat again is an excuse to get fit, lose weight and focus on a goal.
He started slowly, painstakingly gathering 18 not-out in his first innings for Cornwall's first-grade reserves. Hardly a swaggering beginning, but I bet Brendan McCullum would have been glad to have that score next to his name in the first test in Zimbabwe.
And his hand-eye co-ordination is apparently better now than it was in his heyday and his competitiveness remains the same. I'd love to see him bat his way to the 20,000-run target.
