Consolation: Man of the Match.

[Deja moo]

I assume that comment was a joke?

Didnt mean it of course...but couldnt resist trying out that word.

 

[tooextracool]

i remember around 3-4 years ago when tendulkar was caught red handed tampering with the ball and gavaskar like the unbiased SOB that he is backs tendulkar up by saying that he was only trying to make it easier for the batsman to see the ball!

 

[Dasa]

I assume that comment was a joke?

Yes, 'twas a joke.

 

[Neil Pickup]

We've got some high-level intellectual debate going on here, haven't we?

 

[Loony BoB]

I guess nobody can answer the second question, then. I sent it into Cricinfo to try my luck with the Ask Steve column. Fingers crossed on that one...

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Hint for Loony BoB: Search for all the ODI teams on StatsGuru. Turn on advanced filter, put wickets lost 0, and match result to lost.

 

[Loony BoB]

Thanks - can you tell me how to set it to wickets lost? I can search with "Wickets from: _ to _" for batting and bowling, but I'm not sure how that can be fitted to find how many wickets were lost.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Batting filters, wickets from 0 to 0, that would be.

(as the team in question would be batting, and losing no wickets, and still losing the match)

 

[Loony BoB]

In that case, looks like it's never happened in an ODI, figures. Oh well.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Bets I can manage are five games where the losing side lost two wickets:

ODI 56
Pakistan v India, 1978/79, 3rd One-day International
Zafar Ali Stadium, Sahiwal
3 November 1978 (40-overs match)

Pakistan 205 beat India 183-2

Bishen Bedi conceded the match in protest against the short pitched bowling tactics of Pakistan. Sarfraz Nawaz's last 4 deliveries were all out of reach of the batsmen, and not called wide by the umpire.

ODI 619
Rothmans Cup Triangular Series, 1989/90, 6th Match
New Zealand v Australia
Eden Park, Auckland
10 March 1990 (50-overs match)

Australia 239-6 beat New Zealand 167-2 (Rain-affected)

ODI 717
Benson & Hedges World Cup, 1991/92, 4th Match
Pakistan v West Indies
Melbourne Cricket Ground
23 February 1992 (50-overs match)

Pakistan 220-2 lost to West Indies 221-0

ODI 732
Benson & Hedges World Cup, 1991/92, 19th Match
India v Zimbabwe
Trust Bank Park, Hamilton
7 March 1992 (32-overs match)

India 203-7 beat Zimbabwe 109-2 (Rain-affected)

ODI 2096
West Indies in South Africa, 2003/04, 5th One-Day International
South Africa v West Indies
New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg (day/night)
4 February 2004 (50-over match)

West Indies 304-2 lost to South Africa 310-6

I love research

 

[Loony BoB]

Thanks, Neil! Wow, 304-2 just to lose. Heh. Bummer.

 

[Linda]

Has a team ever gone through the 50 overs without losing a wicket then? Not necasserily losing the game, I mean.

 

[JASON]

Consolation :Man of the match

There has been lot of insinuation and rumours regarding ball tampering in some parts of the world. Some have suggested this as one of the reasons why South Africans do exceedingly well at home, but not so well outside their home patch. This has been said particularly, not of their frontline bowlers, but of bowlers of the calibre of Jacques Kallis and Lance Klusener.

 

[JASON]

Jason

my previous response was in reply to a post previously along this thread regarding ball tampering. As a newcomer to this site I have still not found a way of using the 'quote' icon for replying a particular post in the thread.

 

[Linda]

Press 'Quote' on the post your replying to.

 

[marc71178]

And I've never heard any of those allegations against the South Africans.

 

[Jamee999]

Has a team ever gone through the 50 overs without losing a wicket then? Not necasserily losing the game, I mean.

1st 200* SC Williams & S Chanderpaul West Indies v India Bridgetown 1996/97

 

[Neil Pickup]

There are a few cases of the openers finishing the game - but as no teams have lost with 0 down, the only way a team could bat through 50 overs without loss would be scoring the winning runs of the last ball.. not likely IMO.

 

[Sehwag309]

1st 200* SC Williams & S Chanderpaul West Indies v India Bridgetown 1996/97

Ind 197/0 Beating Zim 196

SA 168/0 Beat Ind 164

 

[Revelation]

Lara won the MAN OF THE SERIES in Sri Lanka despite WI losing 3-0 in 2001. He also picked up the MOM in the 3rd Test when he scored 221 and 130 in the same test but WI still lost.