These are my top 10 Cricket Moments 1976-2006

[Krishna_j]

These are my top 12 Cricket Moments 1976-2006


1.Shane Warne "that ball" to Mike Gatting - Old Trafford 1993

2.Michael Holding To Geoff Boycott - Bridgetown 1981
- what a ball !!

3.Sunil Gavskar 10,000 th run - Ahmedabad 1987

4.Viv Richards Six off Mike Hendrick - Lords 1979 World Cup
- last ball of the innings audacious pre-meditated swing to mid wicket

5.VVS Laxman 281 vs Aus - Calcutta 2001

6.Anil Kumble 10-74 vs Pak - Delhi 1999

7.Greg Chappell farewell innings 182 - Sydney 1984

8.Kapil Dev Lifts the World Cup - Lords 1983

9.Dennis Lillee bowls Viv Richards - WI 4-10 - Melbourne 1981

10.Virendra Sehwag 309 vs Pak - Multan 2004

11.Ian Botham vs Aus - Ashes Series 1981

12..Richard Hadlee vs WI 11 wickets + 50 - Dunedin 1980
the underdogs win

 

[FRAZ]

I guess it's the dial up connection on your side because it's quite annoying to have double or triple threads again and again !

 

[shortpitched713]

These are my top 12 Cricket Moments 1976-2006

You really like that time interval, don't you?

 

[andmark]

It should be the Edgebaston wonder ball.

 

[Dravid]

No 300 run partnership by India in ODI?

Anyway my top 10 from 2003-2006...my time watching Cricket lol.

1) India getting to the World Cup Final

2) India winning the adelaide test

3) Record partnership earlier this year by Sri Lanka

4) Sehwags 309

5) Laras 400

6) Saf chasing down 434

7) Bangladesh beating Australia

8) Sachins 10,000th test run

9) Sachins 35th 100

10) 300 run partnership by Dravid and Laxman in tests.

 

[nightprowler10]

Off the top of my head:

1) Miandad's Sajda after hitting the winning runs against New Zealand in '92 WC semi final.

2) Wasim's back to back deliveries in the final and Imran's speech.

3) Saeed Anwar's 194.

4) Inzamam's 329 and Akhtar's 6/11.

5) Akhtar's back to back deliveries that got Dravid and Sachin.

6) Multan 2005.

7) Afridi's 4 sixes off Harbhajan.

8) Yousuf's double century against England.

9) Asif's spell against Sri Lanka.

10) Asif's over to KP in the ODIs

 

[Jono]

I'll try and be as unbiased as possible. Its based on my time watching cricket, skewed slightly towards tests but not that much, because these are moments, not quality of cricket. ODIs seem to bring out tremendous moments quite often. All off the top of my head here. The main criteria is did I say "Holy crap... did that just happen?" Just stuff that made me stand up and go "Wow, glad I was able to watch that live."

1) Laxman's 281 and India's win after following on
2) Bangladesh def Aus 2005
3) WC 99 Semi-Final. Amazing, heart-breaking and awesome all at the same time.
4) Bevan last ball 4 to win vs. WI, Jan 1996
5) Michael Kasprowicz c G jones b S Harmison
6) SA chase down 434
7) Adelaide Test 2004 - Australia score 500+ runs in the first innings against India... and lose!
8) Tendulkar getting his 35th test century. Tonning up 35 times at the highest level possible, unbelievable.
9) NWS Final. India 5/150 chasing 300+ at a time when that was very rarely chased (funnily enough, only 4 years ago). Two young kids in Kaif and Yuvi get them over the line.
10) Champions Trophy Final 2004 - Ian Bradshaw and Courtney Browne guide WI to victory. Crazy. Can't imagine what their odds would have shot up to at 8 down.

 

[silentstriker]

1. Laxman's 281 (vs. Aus)
2. Gavaskar's 221 at the Oval
3. Glorius Ian
4. Glorius Freddie
5. India winning overseas in WI
6. Dravid's 270 (vs. Pak)
7. Sachin's 35th
8. Kapil Taking 432nd wicket (break world record)
9. 1-1 in Australia (adelaide)
10. Kapil Dev lifting 1983 trophy

Now these are from a perspective of an Indian fan, so the top 'ten' are entirely my own personal experiences. They are not the 10 most important things to happen to cricket in the last 25 years, but I assume the OP was asking about best moments personally.

 

[whitedazzler]

1 edgebaston
2 leeds
3 rsa v aus 5th odi
4 bangladesh beating australia
5 rsa v aus wc semi 99
6 india winning the adelaide test
7 icc champions trophy final 2004 wi v eng
8 nz winning champions trophy 2000
9 nz v aus first and last tests 2000
10 any nz victories lol

 

[Perm]

I haven't been watching cricket that long but I'll give it a go.

1. Edgebaston
2. Lara becoming the highest test run scorer
3. England winning the Ashes
4. Mark Richardson getting cramps
5. NZ winning the 3rd Chappell Hadlee game chasing down a then record score
6. Fleming and Franklin's big partnership in South Africa
7. Chris Cairns last game for NZ
8. Bravo's 6 wickets at the Adelaide Oval
9. Gilchrist's consecutive centuries in the VB series
10. Hitting my first double century in backyard cricket

 

[Beleg]

Inzamam vs. New Zealand '92 WC semi-final
Wasim Akram getting rid of Lewis and Lamb on two consecutive deliveries
Alan Donald to Michael Atherton
Saqlian Mushtaq seals the deal in Madras '99.
Inzamam's 50 at Arnos Vales against WI in the 2000 tri-series - one of the best ODI innings I have ever seen.
Shoaib Akhtar clean bowling Lance Klusener at Sharjah - Pakistan's first win over SA after a long period of time.
Jonty Rhodes taking the most amazing catch at Sharjah, against Sri Lanka (I think) - I can still vividly remember the manner in which his body twisted and bolted during the process. just completely unbelievable.
Pak vs. WI at St. John Antigua, WI win by 1 wicket - I have probably never been angrier in my life then I was when that Jimmy Adams edge was given not-out by the umpire.
SA going out of the 2003 WC. the manner in which they folded out was pretty heart-breaking (and I wasn't even a SA fan by that point)
WC 99 semi-final - the run-out of Alan Donald / Wasim's spell against England at Faisalabad during the 2000 tour. the best continuous display of bowling which failed to get a wicket - criminal.

 

[Slifer]

1. WI winning the 4th test in Adelaide against Aust by 1 run (1992)
2. WI bowling out England for 46 in 1994 test in Trinidad
3. Lara scoring 375 to beat Sobers' world record
4. WI successully chasing record 400 runs to win 4th test against Aust. in 2003
5. Lara's 277 in Sydney test against Aust in 1992
6. WI losing by an innings in 1995 to Australia to end 15 year unbeaten run
7. Laxman's 281 against Aust., what an innings
8. WI revenge tour in 1983 in India
9. Malcolm Marshall's entire career but particularly him batting one handed then turning around and taking 7 for 53
10. Viv's 189* against England in an ODI he dominated
11. Lara breaking test World record AGAIN 400*
12. WI unexpected win in India in 1994 in 3rd test to extend unbeaten run

 

[Josh]

2 of Bevan's ODI innings; one against WI at the SCG and one against NZ at the MCG would be very high on mine.

 

[burr]

Mine will certainly be biased because I don’t get to watch cricket other than that involving Australia. This is it in no particular order and they’re not really ‘moments’ as such:

1. Laxman innings in that 2001 series. That test and whole series in general. Incredible.
2. Aus winning in India in 2004. Martyn’s emergence as a sub-continental specialist
3. Ashes 2001. Martyn finally gets picked and bats like something out of a dream. Still the most perfect batting I have witnessed.
4. WC 1999 tied semi-final. The most exciting match ever
5. Bevan getting Aus over the line against NZ in one-dayer at MCG which Aus had to win to stay in series. I was there, have never been in such an electrifying atmosphere before.
6. Shane Warne wonder ball.
7. 1995 Aus regaining Frank Worrell trophy.
8. Laxman during 2004 series in Aus; gorgeous batsmanship.
9. Healey hitting that six in South Africa to win test or series I think.
10. Warne’s seven wicket haul to South Africa in the famous match Aus lost in ’94. That was when he was at his peak with that deadly flipper. A privilege to have seen him at his best.

 

[Krishna_j]

Would love to see a Lankan or B'desh reply on thier moments

 

[Johnners]

These are mine, purely from an Australian point of view, from about 1995 cause thats as far back as i can remember.

1. Ricky Pontings Consecutive Double Centuries against India 03/04
2. Steve Waughs final Ashes Century 02/03
3. Glenn McGrath opening spell, Lords 2005
4. Shane Warnes 05 Ashes series - The Single Greatest performance from a player in a losing Side IMO
5. Mark Taylors 334* vs. Pakistan - Great Innings from a Captain under the pump
6. Ricky Ponting & Damien Martyn's partnership in the 2003 WC Final
7. Glenn McGrath 8-37, Lords 1997/1998
8. Adam Gilchrist Double Century vs. South Africa 2002
9. Andy Bichel vs. England in the 2003 WC
10. Steve Waugh's Career - Got more respect for this man than any other living cricketer. Great Role Model, Great Cricketer!!!!

 

[Slow Love™]

9. Healey hitting that six in South Africa to win test or series I think.

I can't be arsed writing up a top ten (I might have done it in a previous thread sometime), but that's one that doesn't get mentioned a lot that's definitely right up there for me. It was at Port Elizabeth in '97, and yeah, it was to win the series (we went 2-0 up). We got beaten convincingly in the third test, so it was just as well, or the series may well have been lost.

Great test too, one of the best I've seen - the advantage constantly shifted from one team to the other throughout the match. And Healy hit it so casually, too, with only McGrath left back in the shed. I was pretty sure he'd opt for the single off the last delivery of the over (or as close as he could get to it) treatment, while he waited for a four-ball.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

That's an amazing match, yeah. Australia were absolutely dead after giving up a 100 run first innings lead on a greentop and then letting SA get to 0/100 odd. It's the test where Gillespie really announced himself as an international force with 8 wickets as a 21 year old, and Mark Waugh played the best innings of his career with a fourth innings century.

Only 600 odd runs scored in the match, but an absolute cracker. Up there with West Indies '95 and India '04 in terms of achievements for the side as well, as it was the first time anyone had beaten South Africa in a test series at home since re-admission.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I have probably never been angrier in my life then I was when that Jimmy Adams edge was given not-out by the umpire.

Pakistan threw that game away. You should be angry at Pakistan, not the umpires.

 

[pasag]

For me, my number one is the end of the second test in Durban this year with Warne racing against the bad light to win the game singlehandedly with only a few minutes left. I was watching with my fingers over my eyes, I was so nervous. I have never been so happy as when we won that test.

Waugh's last ball of the day century is also up there. I remember it like it was yesterday.