*Official* India Tour of England 2018

[OverratedSanity]

idk why it's so famous lol

Coz it was a great match and Ganguly took his top off

 

[R!TTER]

i would prefer if dhoni had a go rather than just bat dot balls and look average

He's looked avg for a good 4 years now, even on the last tour of England we lost the T20 due to him. The ODI series was won on the back of openers, he's done jack all when the top 3 have failed.

 

[cnerd123]

idk why it's so famous lol

I didn't even watch cricket back then but somehow I still know about it

Ganguly celebrating with his shirt off is why its famous imo.

I don't recall watching the game live but I know it was a big deal around the time, and yea like VCS said I grew up with the replays lol.

If India somehow win today I want Kohli to rip his shirt off too.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

But it was a pointless one day game. Surely winning a test series in England or stuffing the worlds best side (Australia) at home or even those world cup wins are far greater. This pointless game seems to get far too much attention.

 

[vcs]

Anyway, it's good for the series if England win this game.

Dead rubber would have been boring.

 

[Cow]

Don't worry. There was oxygen in the air and the earth was rotating around the sun in the Natwest final.

 

[OverratedSanity]

But it was a pointless one day game. Surely winning a test series in England or stuffing the worlds best side (Australia) at home or even those world cup wins are far greater. This pointless game seems to get far too much attention.

It clearly wasn't pointless to the players at the time, nor to the viewers.

JAMODIs have plummeted in importance in the last ten years or so, but until the early 2000s, lots of fans still loved watching them and remember those series with fondness.

 

[mr_mister]

was a good decision to bet on belgium in the soccer and england in the cricket on a multi. i also did a separate bet for england to hit more sixes than india.

basically im up 300 bucks unless Pandya has one of those days where he middles everything

 

[garylyon]

Ganguly celebrating with his shirt off is why its famous imo.

I don't recall watching the game live but I know it was a big deal around the time, and yea like VCS said I grew up with the replays lol.

If India somehow win today I want Kohli to rip his shirt off too.

Kohli won't do that. He isn't ripped like Ganguly

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Surprised myself that there was a Natwest final when T20 started in 2005

 

[mr_mister]

hoping for a typical Dhoni knock of 40(60)

 

[Mr Miyagi]

was a good decision to bet on belgium in the soccer and england in the cricket on a multi. i also did a separate bet for england to hit more sixes than india.

basically im up 300 bucks unless Pandya has one of those days where he middles everything

Legend.

 

[cnerd123]

But it was a pointless one day game. Surely winning a test series in England or stuffing the worlds best side (Australia) at home or even those world cup wins are far greater. This pointless game seems to get far too much attention.

Chasing 322 after being 146/5 away from home was not a common feat in ODIs. Plus that was the final of a tri series, so there was something at stake.

Cmon Hardik pull off a Yuvi here

 

[Mr Miyagi]

hoping for a typical Dhoni knock of 40(60)

Bahaha #Dhonimeme

 

[Daemon]

hoping for a typical Dhoni knock of 40(60)

CSK fans will find a way to defend that

 

[R!TTER]

It clearly wasn't pointless to the players at the time, nor to the viewers.

JAMODIs have plummeted in importance in the last ten years or so, but until the early 2000s, lots of fans still loved watching them and remember those series with fondness.

It was also the only multilateral tournament final we'd won. Ganguly lost 8 or 10 others IIRC, the CT 2002 was shared twice

 

[OverratedSanity]

Chasing 322 after being 146/5 away from home was not a common fest in ODIs. Plus that was the final of a tri series, so there was something at stake.

Cmon Hardik pull off a Yuvi here

It broke the world record for a successful chase iirc. Don't know why anyone's pretending it wasn't big deal. It very much was at the time because of all these things (record chase, Ganguly taking his shirt off aping Flintoff who did it the previous year against India, etc). It was awesome.

 

[OverratedSanity]

CSK fans will find a way to defend that

Pretty sure they're busy watching the Tamil Nadu Premier league right now.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Chasing 322 after being 146/5 away from home was not a common feat in ODIs. Plus that was the final of a tri series, so there was something at stake.

Cmon Hardik pull off a Yuvi here

Tri series? Whoopee, cared more about the dump I took when I got up that day and any day that summer when a tri series match was on.

 

[Cow]

The leadership of Ganguly was the strongest argument for the caste system that I've ever heard.