Cricketers who are remembered for just ONE innings or incident

[adi B]

Carlos  brathwaite - remember  the  name !!

Adam Sanford for that one series against india. 

Aminul islam first centurion from Bangladesh ,sadly against us lol.

John Davison for that rollicking ton 

Kevin o Brian 

[neel roy]

2 hours ago, nevada said:

Mohd Kaif - NatWest final. He hasa IDI century and played a few other impactful innings too, but NatWest is his best and brightest moment.

Kaif had a very stupid moment. Tendulkar Karthik redux.. original version

 

Of all Ganguly s innings my personal opinion is the best innings he ever played ( and I think it will be within top 5 in overseas chase for all Indian batsmen) was in Kandy 2001 against Srilanka in their heydays. Muralitharan and Vaas in their prime. Both Tendulkar and Laxman was out with injuries and  Ganguly lost the toss and  Srilanka managed 274. India got bowled out for 232 giving Lankans a lead of 42.. Venkatesh Prasads best bowling in tests 5/72 followed with Zaheers 4 for and Lankas were shot out for 221 giving India a 4th innings chase of 264.  Ganguly was absolutely brilliant along with Dravid (75) and they had a partnership of 91 runs. Dravid fell and Kaif came to bat. So India were only 3 down and score was 260. Vaas bowling and Kaif on strike. Ganguly not out 98 on opposite end waiting for his ton.. inexplicably out of the blue Kaif hacks a leg side boundary and India won. Lol. I still remember ganguly s face. Stunned. He couldnt believe it. Stood there flummoxed. Then Kaif came and hugged him and Ganguly then raised his arms. Commentory team was also absolutely gobsmacked. Lol. But overall we often forget that ridiculous chase.. unfortunately as it happens India lost the next match and series 2-1..

[nevada]

1 hour ago, neel roy said:

Kaif had a very stupid moment. Tendulkar Karthik redux.. original version

 

Of all Ganguly s innings my personal opinion is the best innings he ever played ( and I think it will be within top 5 in overseas chase for all Indian batsmen) was in Kandy 2001 against Srilanka in their heydays. Muralitharan and Vaas in their prime. Both Tendulkar and Laxman was out with injuries and  Ganguly lost the toss and  Srilanka managed 274. India got bowled out for 232 giving Lankans a lead of 42.. Venkatesh Prasads best bowling in tests 5/72 followed with Zaheers 4 for and Lankas were shot out for 221 giving India a 4th innings chase of 264.  Ganguly was absolutely brilliant along with Dravid (75) and they had a partnership of 91 runs. Dravid fell and Kaif came to bat. So India were only 3 down and score was 260. Vaas bowling and Kaif on strike. Ganguly not out 98 on opposite end waiting for his ton.. inexplicably out of the blue Kaif hacks a leg side boundary and India won. Lol. I still remember ganguly s face. Stunned. He couldnt believe it. Stood there flummoxed. Then Kaif came and hugged him and Ganguly then raised his arms. Commentory team was also absolutely gobsmacked. Lol. But overall we often forget that ridiculous chase.. unfortunately as it happens India lost the next match and series 2-1..

Totally forgot about this incident! This was also the series where S Ramesh played his last game for India. 

[Vilander]

On 3/7/2021 at 10:31 PM, Rasgulla said:

Denying sachu 100 and scoring the winning runs. Absolutely Classic and GOLD

 

 

funny shiznet man

[neel roy]

6 hours ago, Vilander said:

funny shiznet man

Actually if you see it was not DKs fault. The ball was on leg stump. It was yorker length. Muscle memory and he touched it and it was 4. 

[Vilander]

2 hours ago, neel roy said:

Actually if you see it was not DKs fault. The ball was on leg stump. It was yorker length. Muscle memory and he touched it and it was 4. 

Yeah and Sachin was saying its ok don't bother or something on those lines.

[addicted4444]

Venkatesh Prasad for the 1996 World Cup match against Pakistan. 
 

It’s not fair to include him because he was the #2 bowling option for India for a long time, and is the inventor of the concept of bowling slower deliveries in the death overs. And he had several MoMs and match changing bowling innings besides. 
 

However, anytime one mentions him, that one incident against Aamir Sohail looms large. It was arguably the most memorable single incident in Indian cricket in either the 90s or 2000s. 

[Vk1]

Thread intention was perhaps to list players who were kind of one hit wonders.. not the best performance of avg players

[Vijy]

Just now, Vk1 said:

Thread intention was perhaps to list players who were kind of one hit wonders.. not the best performance of avg players

yes, it has deviated quite a bit.

 

returning back to the original theme of the thread, I will nominate Charles "Father" Marriott - only bowler to take a 10-fer in his only test and never play again. given that a 10-fer is like a 200, it's akin to scoring a 200 and never playing again.

[Mariyam]

2 hours ago, Vk1 said:

Thread intention was perhaps to list players who were kind of one hit wonders.. not the best performance of avg players

Open to interpretation, ya?

 

Those players who have had great careers but are remembered for that one incident/innings?

 

I remember Kambli for crying when we lost some WC game. Don't recall the details, I was far too young/uninterested.

Also, Dhoni will be remembered for that WC winning 6, even though he's had a stellar career.

[neel roy]

3 hours ago, Mariyam said:

I remember Kambli for crying when we lost some WC game. Don't recall the details, I was far too young/uninterested.

I was in the stands as a young boy :). 1996 world cup semi final. Eden gardens. Against Sri lanka. We should have won the match. Jayasurua and Kaluwitharna gone without scoring.Brilliant Srinath.  Srilanka still scored 250 odd due to de silva and gurusinha. India going great guns chasing with Sachin in flow and our famous commentator Manju in tow.. then suddenly Sachin gets stumped ( he went out of the crease, ball hit his legs and he couldnt see it.. wk did the rest). Pin drop silence. 100,000 spectators.. me exactly on the mid on boundary stand with a WILLS Plackard 4.... ball started spinning massively.. we collapsed and then the fire began. People started burning the plackards and newspapers and bottles were thrown in the field..match was abandoned... Lanka won.. there was a story that some official had planted this rumor among spectators that if match gets abandoned then there will be a rematch and india might win .. what a fool... the lasting memory of Kambli crying and being taken out of the field is still etched in my memory..apparently Azhars luckiest ground was Eden ( scored his debut century here, won Hero cup and also was MOS in Hero cup) and so the groundsman had told Azhar categorically to bat first as it would spin later. Azhar after winning the toss chose to bowl only because in a group league match Lankans had chased down a 270 Plus Indian target with ease and Jaysuryas assault in that match had made Manoj Prabhakar bowl spin..anyways India lost the match.. Azhar lost captaincy and within 6 months the flagbearers of modern Indian cricket the fab 4 came into existence and took shape for the first time.. who knows what would have happened to Indian cricket if Azhar had batted and India had won the world cup..maybe in some alternate universe.. 

Edited March 10, 2021 by neel roy