Shivnarine Chanderpaul ...10 of last 2 ball , bowler Vaas .. West Indies 236 for 9 (Chanderpaul 62*, Gayle 52, Mendis 3-39) beat Sri Lanka 235 for 7 (Kapugedera 95, Silva 67, Bravo 4-32) by one wicket
Javed Miandad - Pakistan v India, Australasia Cup final, Sharjah, 1986 The most legendary of them all. Nobody could have scripted a better climax - a tournament final between India and Pakistan, four needed off the last ball, and a rampaging Javed Miandad fighting a lone battle. Chasing 246, Pakistan lost their ninth wicket with five runs needed to win, as Tauseef Ahmed joined Miandad, unbeaten with a dogged century. Chetan Sharma, who bowled the final over, dished out a slow, friendly full toss on leg stump which Miandad spanked over the square leg almost on his knees. His wild celebrations with Tauseef sent one nation into a frenzy and the other into a state of paralysis. It was Pakistan's first victory in a one-day tournament, and its psychological impact on India was palpable for years, in contests between the two rivals.
Re: last ball six
by wizardo id on Nov 20, 2009 09:38 PM
"psychological impact on India was palpable for years, in contests between the two rivals."
agreed, the last ball six had a huge impact. but, how come the psychological effect disappeared when we stopped playing in the gulf ? match fixing was stronger than the last ball six.
Re: last ball six
by MahendraSingh Dhoni on Nov 20, 2009 10:54 PM
Hey dude how do you say "It was Pakistan's first victory in a one-day tournament" ? It was their first title match win.
Brendan Taylor - Zimbabwe v Bangladesh, Harare, 2006 This time the minnows possessed the license to thrill. With Zimbabwe requiring an astronomical 28 off the last two overs, Brendan Taylor and Tawanda Mupariwa caused a few tremors in the penultimate over, taking 11 runs off it. The final over from Mashrafe Mortaza had it all - a six off the second ball by Taylor, a single which was refused, a run-out, a one-handed swish to midwicket for a boundary. With five required off the last ball, a six seemed the only option, as Taylor sent the home crowd into raptures with a lofted six over midwicket.
Asif Mujtaba - Pakistan v Australia, Hobart, 1992-93 Another typical Pakistan heart-stopper, this time off Asif Mujtaba's bat. Needing 17 to win off the final over, Mark Taylor tossed the ball to the `Iceman' Steve Waugh, whose famous last-over spells became a part of World Cup folklore during their successful campaign in 1987. Mujtaba lived up to his own reputation as a finisher, and paid scant respect to Waugh's, carting the ball at will, with a last-ball six to level the scores. Technically, there was no winner, but the moral victory was certainly Pakistan's.
Lance Klusener - South Africa v New Zealand, Napier, 1998-99 This was a prelude to Klusener's heroics in the World Cup. Chasing 193, South Africa needed 11 off the final over from Dion Nash with two wickets in hand. New Zealand drew first blood with Mark Boucher skying the ball straight to the fielder at midwicket, but significantly, the batsmen crossed. With ten still required, Klusener bludgeoned the third ball to the backward point fence. Two singles later, Klusener was back on strike for the last ball with four required. Nash's attempted yorker went totally haywire, as Klusener duly smashed it over the long-on boundary. A dejected Nash failed to exorcise the ghosts of the previous year, when his attempt at guiding his team home in another thriller, in Brisbane, was foiled by a running catch at the boundary by none other than - you guessed it - Klusener.
I think people are jealous about Sachin's records. I can't understand why so many hate comments here. Sachin has played out the whole day with Gambhir and Laxman. Doesn't he deserve a 100?
In test cricket it's always batsman's choice whether to continue play or stop when he wants, that's why there are things like 'declare'. It's always batsmen on the field decide but the captain of batting side can override on field batsmen's decision.
Does Dhoni have any guts to call Sachin Tendulkar to the pavilion when Sachin is on 80s?
Dhoni and entire team was happy seeing Tendulkar continued, it's only jealousy people are posting hate comments here.
when the match continued, Sankakara made it even tougher for Laxman and Sachin to get their 50 and 100. The bowlers started bowling negative line. It was great challenge by Sankakara, but Sachin was determined to face it and he did try and kept his nerve and got that 100. It was awesome watching a great phase of play for half an hour.
This 100 of Sachin is well earned and Sachin can be proud of it.
To All Sachin Fans who think he has scored a century agnst a quality bowling attack having Muttiah .... Muttiah Muralitharan has been Sri Lanka's go-to man for several years now, but over the last three years he's had to work much harder for his wickets. He finished the Ahmedabad Test with match figures of 3 for 221 from 63.5 overs, of which only one victim was a top-order batsman. Equally worrying was his lack of bite on the last day, admittedly in conditions which offered little assistance for bowlers. It's only the sixth time he finished wicketless in the fourth innings of the Test, but the first time he didn't take a single wicket after bowling more than 20 overs in the last innings.
Re: To All Sachin Fans
by bango tango on Nov 20, 2009 09:26 PM
It could be dismissed as a one-off, except for the fact that Murali's form has been on the decline since 2007, especially when playing away from home. His overall stats during this period are still respectable - 112 wickets in 20 Tests at 26.51, with nine five-wicket hauls - but dig a little deeper, and cracks begin to appear.
Re: Re: To All Sachin Fans
by bango tango on Nov 20, 2009 09:27 PM
Of his 112 wickets, 39 have come in five Tests against Bangladesh, at an average of 14.46. Take away those numbers, and his overall average during this period climbs to 32.95. Even that average has been propped up by his numbers at home; overseas, he has only taken 20 wickets in seven Tests, each costing him 60 runs. To be fair to Murali, some of those matches have been played on the flattest featherbeds - earlier this year, for example, when Sri Lanka toured Pakistan, the first Test in Karachi yielded 1409 runs for the loss of 13 wickets in the two first innings.
Re: Re: Re: To All Sachin Fans
by bango tango on Nov 20, 2009 09:27 PM
What is equally surprising, though, is Murali's lack of effectiveness in the second innings of Test matches during this period. He has bowled in 17 such innings during this period, but has only taken 45 wickets, at an average of more than 32, which is ten runs higher than his first-innings average.
More than once, Murali has been lethal in the first innings, but far less effective in the second. In Port of Spain last year for example, he took 5 for 79 as West Indies were bowled out for 294 in the first innings. In the second, with West Indies chasing 253 for victory, Murali returned disappointing figures of 1 for 92 as West Indies won by six wickets. Against Bangladesh later that year, he claimed 6 for 49 in the first, but toiled 48 overs to take 4 for 141 in the second.
"We were expecting a batting pitch but thought it would deteriorate after the third day. But it did not." This is what he said after the match. Before the match the curator told this - that pitch will help fast bowlers on day 1 and then it will help batting and on 4th and 5th days will help spin. Dhoni said, he did not think so and it will be a batsman's wicket. Probably he had to say this to defend the likes of Ishant and Harbhajan who have lost their ways.
I lacked pace and bounce. Otherwise, our spinners would have got a few of the Indian wickets in their second innings and would have put pressure on them. That was the disappointment," said Jayawardene, who scored 275.
