Obscure and random cricket matches you remember.

[Straight Drive]

1983 WC win over Windies. Saw Madan Lal at his best. Rare sight given the context. I think that was the only match he claimed Richards wicket. One can rightfully debate that it was Kapil's wicket though.

Edited March 29, 2020 by Straight Drive

[Rasgulla]

2012 when we lost to Bangladesh due to selfish batting by fraud!

[nevada]

1997(or 98, don't remember exactly) India was playing SL, who were in beast mode back then. India batted first and promoted Robin Singh to #3. He scored a century and then the game got rained out without SL batting at all.                        2011 - India vs WI ODI series. India were chasing and kept losing wickets, ending up in a near hopeless situation. Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron had a nice partnership to get us tbe win. In that same series, Manoj Tiwari scored a century but after that, he didn't play for India for quite a spell. 

[rageaddict]

19 hours ago, nevada said:

1997(or 98, don't remember exactly) India was playing SL, who were in beast mode back then. India batted first and promoted Robin Singh to #3. He scored a century and then the game got rained out without SL batting at all.                        2011 - India vs WI ODI series. India were chasing and kept losing wickets, ending up in a near hopeless situation. Umesh Yadav and Varun Aaron had a nice partnership to get us tbe win. In that same series, Manoj Tiwari scored a century but after that, he didn't play for India for quite a spell. 

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/16046/scorecard/64559/sri-lanka-vs-india-3rd-odi-india-tour-of-sri-lanka-1997

 

Sri Lanka actually batted and got off to a flying start.  I remember the SL score was something around 80 in 8 overs , then Jayasuriya was dismissed leading to a collapse only for the match to get washed out in the end.

 

Edited March 30, 2020 by rageaddict

[Autonomous]

South Africa Vs Pakistan, 2010 at Abu Dhabi

 

Pakistan winning by 1 wicket.

 

Abdul Razzaq with 109* off 72

[nevada]

14 hours ago, rageaddict said:

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/16046/scorecard/64559/sri-lanka-vs-india-3rd-odi-india-tour-of-sri-lanka-1997

 

Sri Lanka actually batted and got off to a flying start.  I remember the SL score was something around 80 in 8 overs , then Jayasuriya was dismissed leading to a collapse only for the match to get washed out in the end.

 

Thanks for the scorecard! It was 20 years ago,  so what I mostly remember is the century and being unhappy that a winnable opportunity was lost. Those days the SL team with Jayasuriya and De Silva was a formidable opponent.  Looking at the scorecard, Singh also got 3 wickets. A century, wickets, but still no win. Luck was with the Lankans at that time!