What cricketing memories remain locked in your archive for eternity?

[Pothas]

Flintoff's spell on the final day of Lords 09

Watching Boxing Day 2010 while extremely intoxicated and trying to figure out what was real

Stop stealing my memories.

 

[nightprowler10]

1. Wasim's 2 in 2 in '92 WC final.
2. Sohail's uprooted stump in '96 WC quarter-final
3. England in Pakistan '05. Really, like the whole series, but Akhtar uprooting Giles' middle and leg stumps sticks out the most.
4. Kamran's knock and Asif's bowling in Karachi '06
5. Inzamam walking off in his last WC match
6. Amir's first over to Dilshan in T20 WC '09

 

[GIMH]

[*]England in Pakistan '05. Really, like the whole series, but Akhtar uprooting Giles' middle and leg stumps sticks out the most.

Only good bit of that series was a heap of fans steaming in because Afridi was coming in to bat, only for them all to turn straight back out after he was cleaned up first ball by god himself

2nd test iirc

 

[nightprowler10]

Only good bit of that series was a heap of fans steaming in because Afridi was coming in to bat, only for them all to turn straight back out after he was cleaned up first ball by god himself

2nd test iirc

Haha yeah. He hit some great shots in the first innings, so when he got bowled through the gate first ball when Pakistan desperately needed someone to stick around you could hear Inzamam on the other end yell out in frustration. I think that was the same match he was caught dancing on the pitch.

 

[BeeGee]

Sitting in the stand when Richard Hadlee bowled Sanjay Manjrekar to take his 400th test wicket. First bowler in history to take 400.

 

[marc71178]

Siddle ripping thru someone at the MCG a few years later.

Clearly it really sticks in the mind when you can't even remember who he ripped through.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Have to say being at Oval when we beat West Indies in 2000 for first time in 31 years was great. The ground was heaving and they even put fans in the hospitality areas to maximise support. One of the few days that ECB get things right.

Also got to say the Adelaide test when the crims were 2-3 was mindblowing as was Melbourne which has been mentioned lots.

 

[vandem]

Malcolm Marshall lesson on how to bowl to tailenders. Kiwi keeper Smith is slashing boundaries but only has #11 Chatfield for company. Smith takes a single to give Marshall 2 balls at Chats. 1st ball slides past the edge. Changes his line to around the wicket. Logie crouches at short leg. We all know what's coming next. Not a bouncer. But a searing short ball at the ribs. Chat c Logie c Marshall 4. Simple. Efficient.
2nd Test: New Zealand v West Indies at Auckland, Feb 27-Mar 3, 1987 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Previous year, Jeremy Coney lesson on captaincy. Aussie have a 50 run 1st innings lead on a turning Eden Park, are 3-50 in 2nd innings. Border starts cautiously, then tonks off-spinner Bracewell to mid wicket. Will he lead Aussie to match-winning 250 run lead? Coney responds by moving a man from leg to off, making more gaps on the leg side. Dumb! Bracewell bowls, Border goes to lap into vacant leg side. Loop / in-drift / away-spin? Border b Bracewell 6.
3rd Test: New Zealand v Australia at Auckland, Mar 13-17, 1986 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[duffer]

Brett Lee's six off Balaji at the SCG. I was there, it hurt.

 

[African Monkey]

-Michael Papps getting hit twice by Brett Lee
-Chris Harris leading us to recovery in the 3rd test v England in 01/02 after being 19/4
-Adam Parore getting out hit wicket with his helmet falling off from an Brett Lee bouncer

I'm sure there's many more lol

 

[ImpatientLime]

England chasing 191 v Ambrose and Walsh at Lords in 2000.

Dominic Cork was so good in that match, 7 wickets and a gutsy 33* to see them home. Really felt like the beginning of an upturn in fortunes for English cricket. Great great day.

 

[smash84]

Seems more like a downturn for the WI

 

[fredfertang]

Seems more like a downturn for the WI

It is odd now, at a time when I've been desperately hoping for years that the West Indies will do well in any Test they play, that not that many years ago it was a case of always wanting their opponents, even if it was Australia, to beat them just to provide some evidence that they weren't superhuman after all

 

[smash84]

yeah, same here actually. They would just kill the competition. Much like I would anybody to just beat the Aus of the 00s.

 

[Red]

Clearly it really sticks in the mind when you can't even remember who he ripped through.

Yeh.

 

[andmark]

Pretty much all of 2005 Ashes notably Edgbaston- particularly the last ball- and Warne getting his 600th wicket at Old Trafford in 2005 whilst I was there.
Jonothan Trott's debut century at the Oval 2009.