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[Ernest]

What are your most memorable events in cricket you have seen?, mine was watching Chris Old bowl against Pakistan in 1978,

7/50 1st Test v Pak in Eng 1978 at Birmingham, these figures include 4 wickets in an over, his bowling that day was memorable.

What have you seen?, best hat trick, most 6s in a match, anything that was special, need not be in Test Cricket.

[Mike Small]

Many. But the latest was most recently when Harmison took 7/12 against the Windies at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica. The Windies were shot out for 47 in 25 odd overs with Harmison bowling with some extra ordinary fields towards the end. Was just amazing.

[Rachael]

Johnty Rhodes just reaching a tracer bullet of a cut over point... palming the ball into the air as he knew he couldn't take it cleanly... and then scrambling off the deck to gather the ball before it hit the deck.

Can't recall the bowler, the batsman, the ground or the match.. but that catch will stick with me forever.

[Ernest]

Yeah it just bugs you, I can remember Ramps making the best catch I have ever seen, he had to jump high to his right, square leg I think, anyway it was legside, and the ball had ben hit as hard as Freddy could have, but I dont remember who the batsman was, or even who we where playing.
What a catch.

[Shaka]

Mine was a while back in the West Indies when England were cruising to a draw at tea on the last day with only two wickets down and Curtley Ambrose came back after the break and destroyed the England batting order with a seven wicket haul. Nothing too unusual about that you may think (it was a while back when England used to lose pretty regularly in the Caribbean), but what makes it stand out in the memory is the Windies crowd bursting into song with "London Bridge is falling down"

Sorry I can't place the time of the tour but I'm sure someone here will recall it.

[Teatime FatCat]

Funny, I always remember the obscure ones -


Richard Illingworth taking a wicket with his first ball in tests

Pringle bowling superbly to take 1 for 8 in 10 overs in a world cup

The look on Hicks face as he was yorked by Waqar for the first time


and my best was three balls from Tino Best to Gilchrsit in the test series of a couple of years ago in the windies. I think he hit the first over cow, just clearing the boundary for six, he then hit the next ball high into the crowd in the same spot, and then he hit the final ball from a now steaming Tino, straight over the stand and out of the ground at cow corner. Now that was funny!

[Occasional Fan]

At the risk of sounding a bit like Max Boyce talking about Welsh rugby, I was at the Kensington Oval when England won the series earlier this year taking the first away series off the Windies for 36 years. It wasn't much of a match, perhaps, but it was a great moment. Hoggie bagged a hat-trick as well.

[Occasional Fan]

Originally Posted by Rachael

Johnty Rhodes just reaching a tracer bullet of a cut over point... palming the ball into the air as he knew he couldn't take it cleanly... and then scrambling off the deck to gather the ball before it hit the deck.

Can't recall the bowler, the batsman, the ground or the match.. but that catch will stick with me forever.

Was it a one-dayer against England at Newlands in 2000? Or am I just dreaming that I was there? I remember the catch, but I could well have seen it on the box and then convinced myself that I was present. There's a name for that sort of delusion.

[Richie Benauds Love Child]

"Memmmmmmmmmrieesssss , like the corner
of my mind
Misty, water coloured mmmemmmmmmriesssssss
of the way
we weeeerrrrreeeee"

Possibly the mighty-mullet that was Robin Smith, scoring 80odd (I think) on cloudy day on an edgebaston pitch that resembled ploughed concrete against WI of walsh and ambrose at their peak. He scored loads more that everyone else that day despite taking tonnes of painful looking body blows. I THINK he might have had his jaw broken that day, but if not it was probably that series.

Bravery personified.

[Rachael]

Well, RBLC.. I'm not sure it SHOULD have had the same impact on me as it did at the time (I blame being an impressionable youth) but the Robin Smith innings is without doubt the most memorable single session of cricket I watched in the days before anyone bothered explaining the game to me.

Sticks in my mind because a few years later I singled the innings and the batsman out in company where I should have known better and got patronised horribly for my naivitee in thinking that Smith's bravado and heroism must have been backed by some fantastic cricketing ability that should mark him as greater than his peers: I went off suitably embarassed.. and started my slow crawl towards an appreciation of the less obviously dramatic aspects of the game.

I'm pretty sure it WAS the innings where his jaw was smashed in though... dodged all the short stuff.. and got caught by one that spat off the bat. He was wearing a helmet..but no face guard: ended a right mess.