Some thing you may not know about Jack Bauer.

When Jack Bauer goes to the airport and the metal detector doesn't go off,
security gives him a gun.

Nobody says 'hit me' when Jack Bauer deals Blackjack.

If you wake up in the morning, it's because Jack Bauer spared your life

Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas

Jack Bauer is the leading cause of death in Middle Eastern men

Jack Bauer removed the "Escape" button from his keyboard. Jack Bauer never needs to escape

If you're holding a gun to Jack Bauer's head, don't count to three before you shoot. Count to 10. That way, you get to live 7 seconds longer

Jack Bauer doesn't miss. If he didn't hit you it's because he was shooting at another terrorist twelve miles away

Jack Bauer once arm wrestled Superman. The stipulations were the loser had to wear his underwear on the outside of his pants

Every mathematical inequality officially ends with "< Jack Bauer"

Superman's only weakness is Kryptonite. Jack Bauer laughs at Superman for having a weakness

When President Palmer quit to start doing Allstate commercials, it took him 43 takes before he could stop saying, "You're in good hands with Jack Bauer"

Jack Bauer is allowed to leave his phone on during a movie

Jack Bauer can get McDonald's breakfast after 10:30

Jack Bauer got Hellen Keller to talk

If Jack Bauer was in a room with Hitler, Stalin, and Nina Meyers, and he had a gun with 2 bullets, he'd shoot Nina twice.

Upon hearing that he was played by Kiefer Sutherland, Jack Bauer killed Sutherland. Jack Bauer gets played by no man.

Jack Bauers calender goes from March 31st to April 2nd, no one fools Jack Bauer.

Jack Bauer once forgot where he put his keys. He then spent the next half-hour torturing himself until he gave up the location of the keys.

1.6 billion Chinese are angry with Jack Bauer. Sounds like a fair fight.

Jack Bauer played Russian Roulette with a fully loaded gun and won.

Jack Bauer once won a game of Connect 4 in 3 moves.

If Rosa Parks was in Jack Bauer's seat, she'd move to the back of the bus.

Jack Bauer was never addicted to heroin. Heroin was addicted to Jack Bauer.

Australians all let us rejoice,
For we are young and free;
We've golden soil and wealth for toil,
Our home is girt by sea;
Our land abounds in Nature's gifts
Of beauty rich and rare;
In history's page, let every stage
Advance Australia fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing,

"Advance Australia fair!"
When gallant Cook from Albion sail'd,
To trace wide oceans o'er,
True British courage bore him on,
Till he landed on our shore.
Then here he raised Old England's flag,
The standard of the brave;
With all her faults we love her still,
"Brittannia rules the wave!"
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"

Beneath our radiant southern Cross,
We'll toil with hearts and hands;
To make this Commonwealth of ours
Renowned of all the lands;
For those who've come across the seas
We've boundless plains to share;
With courage let us all combine
To advance Australia fair.
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"

While other nations of the globe
Behold us from afar,
We'll rise to high renown and shine
Like our glorious southern star;
From England, Scotia, Erin's Isle,
Who come our lot to share,
Let all combine with heart and hand
To advance Australia fair!
In joyful strains then let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"

Shou'd foreign foe e'er sight our coast,
Or dare a foot to land,
We'll rouse to arms like sires of yore
To guard our native strand;
Brittannia then shall surely know,
Beyond wide ocean's roll,
Her sons in fair Australia's land
Still keep a British soul.
In joyful strains the let us sing
"Advance Australia fair!"

The end is now in sight for one of the great international careers: that of Glenn McGrath - the batsman. While McGrath's bowling career has been a long story of sustained, tedious excellence, his batting has been a secret joy - gloriously inept and largely unreported.

He has always been an enjoyably bad batsman in Tests, but it is in one-day internationals that he has really flexed his lack of muscles. Somehow, he has managed to collect fewer one-day runs than wickets. As retirement looms, it's time to take a close look at the phenomenon that is Glenn McGrath: the anti-Tendulkar. Here are 30 things you may not know about his one-day batting.

McGrath faces one ball per match. He has played 239 one-day internationals and faced 236 balls.

The ball he faces is typically a dot. He has only scored 115 runs.

His average innings lasts three-and-a-half balls.

Mostly, he is not out: he has been out only 30 times in 68 innings.

In an average year, he has five innings, faces 17 balls and makes seven runs for twice out. One of his two dismissals is a duck.

He has gone through 27 series without scoring a run.

He has gone through 14 series without even having a bat.

His average is 3.83. It goes up in New Zealand, to 16.00, and down in England, to 1.00. He is better away (4.20) or on neutral turf (4.00) than at home (3.56).

His favourite opponents are New Zealand, whom he has pummelled for 37 runs at a rate of more than one a match (31 games). Against South Africa, he has managed only 12 runs in 39 games.

He started as he meant to go on, with a duck.

In his first series, he batted four times.

He has never batted that many times in a series since.

He has hit seven fours, at a rate of one every two years.

He is still waiting for his first six. (In Tests, he did once hit one.)

His most prolific series was the home triangular of 2001-02, against South Africa and New Zealand, when he made 14 runs.

West Indies have only ever got him out once (in eight innings) and India twice (in nine).

In 2004, he didn't make a run, despite playing nine games. In 2001 he played 18 games and made only one run.



No such luck in the one-day arena for McGrath © AFP



His highest score is 11, at Auckland in 1999-2000, which is apt because that is where he almost invariably bats.

He hasn't reached double figures this century.

He prefers day-nighters, averaging 4.31, whereas he only manages 2.50 in day games.

Only twice has he appeared anywhere other than No.11.

The first time was in the Tsunami Appeal match of 2004-05, when he went in at No.6, which proves that it wasn't a serious match and has no business being included in the records. It didn't affect his game: he still made 0.

The second time was the other day against England at Sydney, when he had a shock promotion to No.10, which suggests that Adam Gilchrist, the captain that day, doesn't rate Shaun Tait very highly - although Tait scored 11 off 10 balls, while McGrath had managed only 1 off 7. Australia lost by 92 runs.

Of McGrath's 115 career runs, 94 have been made in defeat, in 71 games.

He has finished on the winning side 160 times, batting only 14 times, making 18 runs, and only being out three times. If he bats, it means Australia are in trouble; if he passes 5, they lose.

When Australia tie a match, he always bats, but never gets off the mark.

He is twice the batsman in big tournaments. When there are five or more teams involved, his average is 6.00, whereas in two-team series, it's 2.77.

He's a liability in semi-finals. He has played seven, batted five times, and never made a run.

In the World Cup, he has played 28 games and made three runs, all in the same innings, against NZ at Port Elizabeth in 2003. Shane Bond took six for 23, and Australia still won by 96 runs.

If McGrath bowled to himself, he'd never concede a run.