What were you thinking when

[SteveNZ]

What were you thinking when you made this thread....c'mon man, 5 years almost. This is hard to relive.

I remember exactly what I was thinking. At 15 off 6, I was delirious (I'd stayed up all night and watched every ball). At 15 off 4 I knew we'd won, and I think I started screeching. Then a six, oh **** 9 off 3 isn't impossible, we might not win. Then the next ball, I think I started to yell a lot, knew we'd lost, then I think honestly crumpled into a ball on the ground on the 6th ball. It was school holidays but I woke my kids up, they didn't know WTF was going on. Funnily enough, I'd woken the new-born oldest one in 2015 when Grant Elliott hit Steyn for six (and got in trouble for it)

When Buttler and Stokes started going in the Super Over, I figured we'd lost - that we wouldn't have the firepower to get those runs. Then that changed when Jimmy humped it into the stands, then back again. I remember thinking at the time, as Archer was running in, that I wanted to see Gup go across his stumps and try to flick fine...but he pulled out a safe, low-success option which was pushing into a leg side where 3 boundary riders were. Understandable under pressure but it wasn't likely to work, unless he bunted it shorter - which you're not going to do with adrenaline pulsing through your veins.

Crazy, crazy memories. Hopped up on energy drinks, coffee, cold showers and beers towards the end to get through.

 

[Jumno]

I only remember a clear thought from the final ball of that over, or whenever the dot ball yorker was, because I was basically nodding like 'yep, did what was expected. Stokes was equal to it but not better than it, fair enough, super over time." The rest of the over was just intense staring at the TV 3 feet from it with the boys. Was the 6 that should have been 5 that over? By that point I was already pretty mad that every 50/50 lbw was going to the Big 3 team.

The final ball of the super over was the worst. When Guptill hit it the initial trajectory seemed so obviously two, but it wasn't. It was a tie.

He hit it in front, giving Roy a chance. I think Guptil rushed into the shot. A ball that was heading slightly wide of leg stump.

He could've for all money, hit it slightly behind.