WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI!

[Dirty_South]

Flood lights have conked out The arena has plunged into darkness.. All the lights are out. Play has obviously been held up. Madness. Boucher played out a Yorker. There was a sound as if a bulb fused. Power failure and darkness carpeted the arena. This is unbelievable! There has been instances where one flood light has failed but this is the first time I am seeing all the lights fail at the same time. Looks like a massive power cut and sources inform us that it's not just the stadium that has been affected. Two balls short of 20 overs which is the minimum required for a result - perfect timing if your a South African fan. :wtg:

[yoda]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! wonder what barry has to say about this. :lmao: i bet the ahole would be screaming 3rd world if this had happened in india.

[ali0786]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! this is ridiculous..if lights dont come on match will be abondoned cuz there are still 2 balls remaining for a result..

[Birbal2]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Maybe this is MATCH FIXING too... :hic:

[kabira]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! they should have used Kapil's company for flood lights..

[MundaPakistani]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! "Keith Lane our man at the ground tells us that, Buildings around the ground seem fine, street lamps are also on but everything in the ground is down" :chin:

[Dirty_South]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Match Fixing????

[yoda]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Is Gibbs around?

[apocalypse]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Dann has a "A very useful piece of info. I am sitting here i Copenhagen, Denmark only 5,480 miles away, and here we have power as well !!"....Thanks Dan, few of my colleagues were worried that it was the aliens invading :lmao: :lmao:

[gs]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Wonder what Inzy is thinking! :shrug:

[yoda]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Time for Afridi to do some pitch dancing.

[King]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Wow.. must be the first time this has happened. If the gme doesn't happen it should be ruled in favour of Pakistan really. Just a margin of two balls deciding the ODI as a no result is a scam.

[Dirty_South]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Hw can u hand over the game to Pak....Saf still have Bouchy,Hall,Kemp....who knows???? :lmao:

[Dirty_South]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! welllllll.....lights are back..... :mad:

[apocalypse]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI!

It was the third Test of the 1978-79 series in Calcutta between Alvin Kallicharran's West Indies and India. West Indies were set to chase 335 in the final innings and were battling for a draw. Kallicharan and David Murray the wicketkeeper, shared a vital partnership, but a mini collapse followed. and at 183 for 8 India had a great chance to wrap it up However, with the light fading fast at the Eden Gardens and Sew Shivnarine playing a stubborn innings at one end, West Indies still had some hope of saving the game. Unlike today, the batsmen had to appeal to the umpires if they felt the light wasn't good enough. That's what they did then, and India would have fallen short by two wickets if the appeal had been upheld. However the crowd at the ground, nearly 70,000 were not going to give up easily. They had brought along hand-held fire torches, originally meant for the celebrations and decided to light them at that point. It was a great sight to see almost everyone in the stadium clutching a torch and the light generated was enough to make the umpires decide to resume the game. Floodlights were not too common in those days and the sight of all those lit torches was absolutely unbelivable. Just when the West Indians thought they had done enough to draw, they had to bat out another 15 odd minutes with flames burning all around the ground. One more wicket fell and the tension was simpy unbearable. The last wicket pair, Sylvester clarke and Shivnarine, hung on grimly however, appealed for light again and were lucky to get away with a draw. It is often said that the crowds are as much a part of a sporting spectacle as the players and it was never more true than on this occasion.

interesting :)

[King]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Well no need now, the match is back on. That's a four by Boucer off the second ball.

[Guest dada_rocks]

Re: WTF! lol ! Saf vs Pak 2nd ODI! Eveen durign last world cup this kind of incident happened.. Mind u south africa itself is a third world country.. white skin of some population doesn't make a developed world.