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The "Can't believe they lost from there" Thread

quincywagstaff

quincywagstaff

International Debutant
West Indies v Australia in 1996 WC semi-final. From a virtually unassailable position just made every mistake in the book; panic slogs, foolish running between wickets, (Richardson going for single in final over), pointless changing the batting order... it had it all.

The most startling thing about it was that the commentators were even noting that when the Windies still had 7 wickets in hand they were playing some unnecessary slogs. Just a total loss of nerve and belief they could get there by batting sensibly.
 
Gob

Gob

International Coach
quincywagstaff said:
West Indies v Australia in 1996 WC semi-final. From a virtually unassailable position just made every mistake in the book; panic slogs, foolish running between wickets, (Richardson going for single in final over), pointless changing the batting order... it had it all.

The most startling thing about it was that the commentators were even noting that when the Windies still had 7 wickets in hand they were playing some unnecessary slogs. Just a total loss of nerve and belief they could get there by batting sensibly.
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Most of that was down to Shane Warne who turned out to be a hero. Well he was already a hero then and that made him a super hero.
 
Lillian Thomson

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
It's often forgotten amongst the comical West Indies chase that they actually won an important toss and had Australia something like 15 for 4 after 10 overs with Ponting and both Waugh's already out.
 
Starfighter

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
The first day of that match was one of the first days of test cricket I paid any serious attention to. Didn't watch the other days for some reason, and looking up the match a couple of years later I was staggered to find that Pakistan had somehow lost.
 
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