Cricket matches....where you just had that Feeling(Good/Bad)

[maniac]

There are times you just have a feeling in your stomach that something weird is going to happen.... Doesn't have to be a specific result but could be a performance. For eg;99 WC match India vs SL.....Ramesh was bowled in the very first over I think and I just felt he was going to be out,could sense it. Similary,WI vs Kenya 96 WC....just knew Kenya was wiining...something different about their body language that day. Many more such instances....Afridi's innings in Kanpur,India's collapse against SA in the Wc game were 2 other instances when I had that doubt. Also we all know SA will choke in WC's but you can just sense when the cat is among the pigeons. List your experiences

[deathmonger]

There are times you just have a feeling in your stomach that something weird is going to happen.... Doesn't have to be a specific result but could be a performance. For eg;99 WC match India vs SL.....Ramesh was bowled in the very first over I think and I just felt he was going to be out,could sense it. Similary,WI vs Kenya 96 WC....just knew Kenya was wiining...something different about their body language that day. Many more such instances....Afridi's innings in Kanpur,India's collapse against SA in the Wc game were 2 other instances when I had that doubt. Also we all know SA will choke in WC's but you can just sense when the cat is among the pigeons. List your experiences

Mohali. Whwn Akmal and Hafeez were going good I felt that their innings would also take a similar turn to ours (good start followed by regular loss of wickets and slowing of run rate) and it did.

[Cricketics]

Against Sri Lanka recently at Hobart. Had a feeling we won't go down in the tri series like that. We did win that game eventually. Chasing over 300 runs. I thought Sehwag and Tendulkar will score llike Jangaliz and upset Sri Lanka, but Kohli did all of that and came to the rescue. Lords Final 2002. Mohali test vs Aus with Laxman. Never lost hope here. Actually we were all here that time on ICF. It was a fantastic finish. I remember lot of people awake that itme and watching the game together on ICF. I actually never lose hope. It's another thing that we don't win all the times, but I am one of those who will keep hoping for a miracle even when last pair is batting and we need 100+ runs

[SLICKR392]

I try to jynx the opposition, works most of time. =P @Topic The Test match at trentbridge...Somehow had the feeling we might win it before it started.

[ShebbySB]

Mohali. Whwn Akmal and Hafeez were going good I felt that their innings would also take a similar turn to ours (good start followed by regular loss of wickets and slowing of run rate) and it did.

Ditto

[ricky8741]

yesterday at my backyard

[akshayxyz]

Against Sri Lanka recently at Hobart. Had a feeling we won't go down in the tri series like that. We did win that game eventually. Chasing over 300 runs. I thought Sehwag and Tendulkar will score llike Jangaliz and upset Sri Lanka, but Kohli did all of that and came to the rescue. Lords Final 2002. Mohali test vs Aus with Laxman. Never lost hope here. Actually we were all here that time on ICF. It was a fantastic finish. I remember lot of people awake that itme and watching the game together on ICF. I actually never lose hope. It's another thing that we don't win all the times, but I am one of those who will keep hoping for a miracle even when last pair is batting and we need 100+ runs

same here. After SL innings I had to go out, and was the first time in couple of years when I did not check Indian scorecard, even once. But I kept getting this feeling that something special is going on, and was pleasantly surprised later in the evening.

[Sidhoni]

Recently against Pak in the Asia Cup. I always knew we were in with a chance with our strong line-up.

[Old guy]

my specialty :om: i predicted all asia cup on gut feeling even world cup beat that! :P btw that tie vs england ...once zack got strauss i jsut joked at home its ognna be tie now and in the end :((

[Sachinism]

You remember those occasions you were right, forget those where you were wrong and then you'll believe you are Nostradamus

[adi B]

99 wc vs zimboks, knew we would lose similarly in 2001 vs kenya, 246 was too much acc to me nd it was proved right ind vs pak in 2005, india scored 320 odd, but still had a feeling pak would chase nd they did india vs england oval one day 2007, had a feeling india would win it 2day i know windies will win vs aus :--D

[Old guy]

You remember those occasions you were right' date=' forget those where you were wrong and then you'll believe you are Nostradamus[/quote'] but im never wrong :dontknow:

[Number]

India vs Ireland. :giggle:

[Old guy]

India vs Ireland. :giggle:

i will be supporting ingerland :icflove:

[shinchan]

World Cup final was not sold out

The 2011 World Cup final in Mumbai may have been the hottest ticket in town, with reports of individual tickets selling for as much as $10,000 on the black market, but according to the Mumbai Cricket Association, the final was not actually sold out. A report prepared by the association shows that 405 tickets remained unsold, ESPNcricinfo understands. These include 96 tickets in the Sunil Gavaskar stand (lower) at a cost of Rs 1,500 ($30) each. The total value of the unsold tickets was Rs 73.4 lakhs (approx $144,000). The news that the association was not able to sell all its tickets comes as a surprise given prior reports of the match being sold out and the thriving black market that arose around the game. A day before the final, even RR Patil, the home minister for Maharashtra state, said "all the tickets have been sold". When contacted by ESPNcricinfo, Ratnakar Shetty, the tournament director for the event and a current vice-president of the MCA, said "this is not something we need to discuss" with the media and that the issue would be dealt with by the association's managing committee, which is scheduled to meet on March 31. He added that the members of the association were responsible people and that they would deal with the situation. The MCA's report shows that a total of 31,118 tickets were up for sale, though only about 4000 of those were available to the general public because the association was contractually obligated to offer tickets to the ICC and its member clubs. In all, the sale of tickets realised Rs 22.89 crores (approx $4.5 million). The game, which India won in spectacular fashion when captain MS Dhoni hit Nuwan Kulasekara for six, was also watched on television by 134.5 million Indians, according to TAM Sports, a television ratings agency. Ticketing was a controversial issue throughout the World Cup. Police in Bangalore conducted a baton-charge on fans queuing up for tickets for the India-England group game. The 7000 tickets were sold out within three hours, officials said, leaving hundreds of fans - many of whom had queued up overnight - angry and disappointed. Demand for tickets for the final soared to the point that the official ticketing website - Kyazoonga.com - crashed amid a scramble for the 1,000 tickets that were offered online. At one stage, the website had 500,000 concurrent users trying to buy tickets to the World Cup final. Many fans also complained about not receiving tickets they had bought online and the ICC was eventually moved to ask its president Sharad Pawar to intervene. A letter written to Pawar by David Becker, the ICC's legal head, and published by the Indian channel NDTV, warned of the growing discontent among the ICC's commercial partners over tournament tickets due to them and the possible financial fallout. An ICC spokesperson did not want to comment on the matter of unsold tickets, however, saying that it would not be "appropriate for us to comment on the ticket allocation of MCA or BCCI". However, following the World Cup the ICC did appoint consultancy firm KPMG to conduct "an independent review of the ticketing process in order to determine whether proper controls existed for the allocation, distribution and accounting for all tickets so as to avoid in future the allegations of 'black market' selling of tickets". According to an executive summary of KPMG's report, the scope of the review covered the ticketing operations of the ICC, official tour operators and Kyazoonga. It did not, therefore, cover distribution of tickets through local cricket associations. While the report did not unearth evidence suggesting that the ICC, official tour operators or Kyazoonga were responsible for black marketing of tickets, it did state that the ICC needed to make sure that sufficient tickets were available to the public in the future and that there should be "central control and management of tickets [and] better record keeping." http://www.espncricinfo.com/india/content/current/story/559106.html

this is really sick.thanx BCCI:hatsoff:

[Ultimate_Game]

This news shouldn't be that surprising. When most of the tickets were earmarked for corporates & politicians, and the tickets were actually being black marketed by members of state associations this was bound to happen. When people who were supposed to sell the tickets to fans were themselves busy selling the tkts at inflated prices to make a profit, a few tkts were bound to be unsold.

[mishra]

Everyone is VIP in India and wants preferential treatment.... Paki meeting us in semis and Zardari visit forced our pm and his guards to watchh India Pakistan. To top it Mahinda Rajapakse came uninvited with his dignitaries. I am sure some of Indian Z categories would have been forced to miss it on political grounds.. But number 4000 for general public was never justifiable

[shinchan]

Everyone is VIP in India and wants preferential treatment.... Paki meeting us in semis and Zardari visit forced our pm and his guards to watchh India Pakistan. To top it Mahinda Rajapakse came uninvited with his dignitaries. I am sure some of Indian Z categories would have been forced to miss it on political grounds.. But number 4000 for general public was never justifiable

more disgusting is out of that 4000 10% tickets was not sold

[Magneto]

Happens in all matches. You see a 'sold out' sign and quite a few seats in the stadium are empty.

[Sidhoni]

The no. of tickets available for general public should be far more than what it is now.