Loss matches that you can’t get over or don’t have fond memories!!

[Moss]

West Indies getting hammered by Australia 5-0 in 2000/01 was predictable yet just so sad to see. I quite liked Jimmy Adams and thought he might be the guy to get things back on track, but he couldn't buy a trick in the field (good luck I suppose when your attack is an ageing Walsh, Marlon Black,Dillion, McLean, Colin Stuart and who have you) and with the bat was close to useless. Possibly the most one-sided series I've seen between two top eight teams and as someone who'd started watching when the Windies were still a force, was gutting.

As for what came earlier between the two sides. I suppose those Australian fans old enough might include the Adelaide and Perth tests against the Windies in 1992/93. Of course Australia had turned the tables by 1995 but Border coming that close and not achieving a series win against the Windies must have been a great "what-if" at the time.

 

[wpdavid]

This inspired me to have a look, I had almost managed to forget about the 'teesra.' England were so bad, it really is up there with the worst ever.

17/18 ashes was deeply depressing, not as humiliating as the previous one but at least there was some theatre with Johnson, 17/18 was just crushing in the dullest way possible.

I remember very little about the 17/18 ashes beyond Smith batting forever and Vince running himself out when a hundred was there for the taking. Kind of sums up his career, I suppose. I don't think I posted much beyond acknowledging that Smith batted quite well in the first test. It all looks rather inevitable now, and it's easily forgotten that we actually looked quite useful when beating SA at home a few months previously. I remember Faf being interviewed at the end of that series and being asked how he felt England would fare in Australia. Being a diplomatic sort, he suggested that England would do OK if conditions suited them, but otherwise Aus would win. Given that the series was going to be in Australia, he knew full well that we'd struggle to take enough wickets to be competitive, and so it proved. Not dissimilar to the series in India when we spent the whole series batting first, thinking we'd set reasonable totals and then watching India rack up 600 for 5. In the end, I was just numb to it, and I don't think I posted much in that series either.

 

[Kirkut]

Ha ha yeah. He (Shastri) went for the low hanging fruit and suggested Hussain and England were jealous because of the IPL and the fact that they'd never been bloody no.1 one in the world. Just when India were about to surrender that ranking to umm.. England

It was also the beginning of Tendulkar's 100th 100 becoming a meme than once in a lifetime occasion.

 

[andruid]

Second ever World Cricket League Division 1. Kenya showed up as defending champions, only to go and lose every match and finish bottom of the pile.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

2023 WC final. I thought over time it wouldn’t feel as bad, but in retrospect, it would’ve been so awesome to have won that: a performance of overall dominance to rival Aus of 2003 and 07, Rohit’s redemption as captain following the humiliating exit from the 2022 T20 WC, the greatest Indian ODI player pipping over that other goat, one of the most dominant bowling units ever, revenge for the 2003 final etc

 

[ma1978]

The 2011 test series in England. Starting out, India was coming off a WC win and a very good test series in SA and Sachin still looked like the best bat in the world. Once they got on the pitch, Dravid notwithstanding, you knew it was the end of an era