10 from 2, a six and a four would do it, Vaas pulls back at the time of delivery 49.5 Vaas to Chanderpaul, FOUR, well well! Vaas over pitches outside off, the field is close and he creams that past mid-off can he seal it with a six! 49.6 Vaas to Chanderpaul, SIX, This is the stuff of dreams! Off all times Vaas has to bowl a full toss! Chanderpaul waits for the gift, clubs that across the line and the ball just goes sailing over Jayawardene at deep midwicket. He waits and waits for the ball to clear the rope, a rather long and agonising one, he breaks out in celebration and the entire troupe from the dressing room rush onto the field and crowd around him. We can just imagine the scenes at Unity Village in Guyana, Chanderpaul's home
Re: last ball six...
by bango tango on Feb 23, 2011 10:40 PM
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: Re: last ball six...
by bango tango on Feb 23, 2011 10:40 PM
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.
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by bango tango on Feb 23, 2011 10:41 PM
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.
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by bango tango on Feb 23, 2011 10:41 PM
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.
