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20 Greatest ODIs (by ESPNCricinfo)

ankitj

ankitj

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Wracked by nerves, he spent 33 overs of the innings away from all his team-mates, in the fourth umpire's room. All kinds of questions raced through his mind. "What if it came down to me, with Lance helpless at the other end?" "How would I remember where all the fielders were?" "How do I get Klusener on strike when all the gaps are plugged?" He dreaded having to bat, and when it appeared he had to, he couldn't remember anything said to him as he left the dressing room. Out in the middle he was awestruck by the calm of Klusener; awe turned into ecstasy on the second of those astonishing last-over fours: "What an amazing shot - what nerve!" At the fateful moment, however, "my legs felt like jelly, as though I wasn't making any headway at all"; it was "a dreamlike sequence, almost in slow motion", until "the Aussies fell into each others' arms and my world just fell apart". Donald describes the stunned and teary dressing room, Klusener and he repeatedly trying to absolve one another; the guilt at facing fans "who had paid so much to come over and see me throw it away with one moment of panic"; the insomnia; the fortnight off county duty because of his emotional state in this "nightmare summer in England", plagued further by injury; the loop-watching of that run out in a bid to overcome it, the replays telling him that it was "the sort of thing you see on the village green every Sunday. Not in a World Cup semi-final, featuring a guy who has played for his country for more than a decade."
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Twenty years after the game, Klusener told Sidharth Monga for the Cricket Monthly that the video plays all the time and it does not bother him: "I have seen the movie before. I made the movie." As pithy as his "Nobody died" at the time. A consummate finisher with word and bat
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Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
subshakerz said:
Exactly. Pound for pound the greatest game ever. The fact that the 400 bashing and the slow burner final get ahead of it is so sad.
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I'm with you on this - the slow burner really only got going when Stokes/Buttler came together. Up to that point it was pretty tedious cricket (CdGH bowling dibbly dobbly dot balls is not my idea of the Greatest ODI).

As for the 400, great match, but Mick Lewis playing the first of his 7 ODI's, and what score is it if under non-altitude conditions?
 
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subshakerz

Hall of Fame Member
Molehill said:
I'm with you on this - the slow burner really only got going when Stokes/Buttler came together. Up to that point it was pretty tedious cricket (CdGH bowling dibbly dobbly dot balls is not my idea of the Greatest ODI).

As for the 400, great match, but Mick Lewis playing the first of his 7 ODI's, and what score is it if under non-altitude conditions?
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Yeah. The 2019 final was the greatest finish ever but the 1st innings was flat out difficult to watch or get excited about.

As for the 400 game, aside from the finish, was there really a memorable passage of play aside from relentless bashing? Seemed like a blur. Though the slow sense of belief as SA proceeded was exhilarating.
 
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Jumno

First Class Debutant
The 2019 cwc was full of drama in the 2nd innings

First ball, 86-4, last four overs, 22 off 9
 
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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Everyone still assuming it's those two matches... it probably will be but I don't want to count my chickens given the editorial choices so far.
 
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Jumno

First Class Debutant
It's got to be those two matches, it has to, I have a feeling that the 2019, being a WC final will make it
 
Molehill

Molehill

Cricketer Of The Year
Seems like this thread got forgotten what with the actual World Cup rather rudely starting.

Number 2 is the 438 game.

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The maximum game

The 438 ODI was like no other before it, and remains astounding even in an age of gigantic scores
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