India Pakistan Classics
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One of the best test match classics should be Chennai 1999 where Pakistan won by 10 runs!! It was an awesome game as Sachin braved a back injury and scored 136 runs. But Saqlain had other plans and won Pakistan the match!
If Planetcricket matches are included, then the currently concluded India vs Pakistan 2nd test (again at Chennai!) played by me on C2004 can be rated a classic. It was closely fought and Pakistan won by 5 runs..
(Just joking!)
If Planetcricket matches are included, then the currently concluded India vs Pakistan 2nd test (again at Chennai!) played by me on C2004 can be rated a classic. It was closely fought and Pakistan won by 5 runs..
(Just joking!)
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Sharjah odi where India were bowled out for 125 (Imran took 6/14 
), then came back to rout Pakistan for 87..
http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_dat...OURNEYS/R4NC/IND_PAK_R4NC_ODI1_22MAR1985.html
), then came back to rout Pakistan for 87..http://www.cricinfo.com/link_to_dat...OURNEYS/R4NC/IND_PAK_R4NC_ODI1_22MAR1985.html
sachinisgod
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there are a few of them that spring to the memory very easily:
First ODI, Karachi, 2004
Centurion match in WC2003
Quarterfinal in WC1996
the last ball six match
the Chennai test match 1999
the following Delhi test match
fourth odi, lahore 2004...
First ODI, Karachi, 2004
Centurion match in WC2003
Quarterfinal in WC1996
the last ball six match
the Chennai test match 1999
the following Delhi test match
fourth odi, lahore 2004...
How can u guys forget the 1996 World cup Quarter final between ind and pak at Banglore .
Firstly On Indian batting,A.Jadeja Destroyed Waqar Younis by hitting 40 runs off him in 2 overs included 6 fours and 2 big hits.
Then on pakistans chasing, Aamir sohail teased Venkatesh prasad after hitting 2 consecutive boundaries off him and payed for it with his wicket, His off stump crushed off on the very next delivery By V.Prasad.
Final scores were:
India 287/8
Pak 257
India won by 30 runs
Man of the match: N.Sidhu (93).
Firstly On Indian batting,A.Jadeja Destroyed Waqar Younis by hitting 40 runs off him in 2 overs included 6 fours and 2 big hits.
Then on pakistans chasing, Aamir sohail teased Venkatesh prasad after hitting 2 consecutive boundaries off him and payed for it with his wicket, His off stump crushed off on the very next delivery By V.Prasad.
Final scores were:
India 287/8
Pak 257
India won by 30 runs
Man of the match: N.Sidhu (93).
I just saw a match reduced to 48 overs. India made 306 with 100s for Sidhu and Tendulkar, and Pakistan was bowled out for 270+(? I forgot the actual score, around this area) in 47 overs with 3 wickets for Prasad and 2 a piece for Kumble, Tendulkar and Srinath......great match.....
sachinisgod
International Cricketer
i don't remember it was reduced to 48 overs...it was in Sharjah - summer of 1996...that was the first time India had managed a total of over 300...the third team was SA...there was a bitter confrontation between Sidhu and Sohail...Sachin and Akram had to take control of things there...and btw the great-could-have-been Azhar hit 24/26 runs in the last over...i haven't seen that Pakistani bowler after that tourney...
Only match that comes to my mind immediately when India-Pakistan matches are discussed is the Australasia cup final. Miandad hitting a six of the last ball off Chetan Sharma when 4 runs were needed to win the match. Poor Chetan Sharma. Whenever people talk about him he still gets brickbats for bowling that full toss. 
Other than that I think all the WC matches were memorable (except the 99 WC match to an extent).
1992: The More-Miandad confrontation is memorable. India beats Pak for first time in a WC match.
1996: The famous Aamir Sohail dismissal. How embarrasing for a batsman to get out that way
1999: Prasad takes a 5-for :hpraise
2003: Sachin going berserk
Other than that I think all the WC matches were memorable (except the 99 WC match to an extent).
1992: The More-Miandad confrontation is memorable. India beats Pak for first time in a WC match.
1996: The famous Aamir Sohail dismissal. How embarrasing for a batsman to get out that way
1999: Prasad takes a 5-for :hpraise
2003: Sachin going berserk
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ZoraxDoom said:
He was bowled with his off stump flying!! The previous ball after he had hit a four on the off side, he directed Venkatesh Prasad to go and get the ball. The next ball he stepped out to hit, he was clean bowled and Venkatesh Prasad directed him to go back to the pavilion! That was a terrific moment!
Ramz
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the best match ive ever seen was the 1st ODI Karachi 2004.. simply wiked match. so many world records were broken.
Pak_cricketer
Chairman of Selectors
One resounding stroke
Dileep Premachandran
February 25, 2005
This is the second in our series of ten great encounters between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan 248 for 9 (Miandad 116*) beat India 245 for 7 (Gavaskar 92, Srikkanth 75) by 1 wicket
Javed Miandad: the last-ball hero
Almost two decades later, Javed Miandad, the scrapper who knew not how to throw in the towel, would confess to having almost done just that. When Imran Khan departed with 37 runs still needed, Pakistan needed eight an over. "I thought then that we had no serious chance of victory," wrote Miandad in his autobiography. "I just wanted to salvage some pride for Pakistan. I had no plan, other than to bat out the full fifty overs in the hope that we would at least lose with some dignity."
He managed far more. With 31 needed from the final three overs, Miandad whittled the target down to 18 with the aid of a superb six over long-on off Chetan Sharma. But despite the presence of the big-hitting Wasim Akram in the middle, Pakistan could manage just seven from Kapil Dev's final over, leaving Sharma, a 20-year-old who had already earned 28 ODI caps, with the task of denying Miandad, who had cut his way to an imperious hundred in his previous over.
But though Akram was run out going for a second run off the first ball, Miandad smashed the next to the mid-on fence to ease the pressure. The next delivery was fetched nonchalantly from outside off stump, but a splendid diving stop from Roger Binny kept the batsmen to just one. Zulqarnain's swat at the ensuing ball saw the stumps rearranged, leaving Tauseef Ahmed, a man with no great batting pedigree, to conjure up five from the last two balls. With Miandad urging him to scamper a single at any cost, Tauseef tipped the ball to short-cover and set off. Mohammad Azharuddin, India's premier fielder, pounced and picked up in one fluid motion but, crucially, his shy at the stumps missed with Tauseef still yards short.
With four needed, it was merely a question of who would blink first. Miandad, with more than a decade of experience behind him, anticipated the yorker, and sure enough, Sharma attempted just that. But when the ball slipped out of the hand, the potentially lethal stump-wrecker metamorphosed into a woeful leg-side full toss. For those watching, time stood still as Miandad's bat arced swiftly to send the ball soaring over the midwicket boundary. It was a heist that would have done Ronald Biggs and friends proud, and Miandad himself admitted: "Up until the final delivery, India's dominance remained supreme."
That dominance had been built on a stolid 92 from Sunil Gavaskar, buttressed by half-centuries from Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Dilip Vengsarkar. And with Pakistan's top order not doing enough to supplement Miandad's courageous effort, it appeared that the Indian total of 245 would be more than enough, in an age when turbo-charged starts and pinch-hitting were almost unheard of.
In retrospect, that one resounding stroke was to signify far more than a final won. For years afterwards, India were no match for Pakistan in the one-day arena, shell-shock victims unable to regain a sense of perspective. There may have been tears in the Pakistani dressing room that evening, but it was India that were to weep over the unimaginably deep Miandad-inflicted cuts for the best part of a decade.
THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!
Dileep Premachandran
February 25, 2005
This is the second in our series of ten great encounters between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan 248 for 9 (Miandad 116*) beat India 245 for 7 (Gavaskar 92, Srikkanth 75) by 1 wicket
Javed Miandad: the last-ball hero
Almost two decades later, Javed Miandad, the scrapper who knew not how to throw in the towel, would confess to having almost done just that. When Imran Khan departed with 37 runs still needed, Pakistan needed eight an over. "I thought then that we had no serious chance of victory," wrote Miandad in his autobiography. "I just wanted to salvage some pride for Pakistan. I had no plan, other than to bat out the full fifty overs in the hope that we would at least lose with some dignity."
He managed far more. With 31 needed from the final three overs, Miandad whittled the target down to 18 with the aid of a superb six over long-on off Chetan Sharma. But despite the presence of the big-hitting Wasim Akram in the middle, Pakistan could manage just seven from Kapil Dev's final over, leaving Sharma, a 20-year-old who had already earned 28 ODI caps, with the task of denying Miandad, who had cut his way to an imperious hundred in his previous over.
But though Akram was run out going for a second run off the first ball, Miandad smashed the next to the mid-on fence to ease the pressure. The next delivery was fetched nonchalantly from outside off stump, but a splendid diving stop from Roger Binny kept the batsmen to just one. Zulqarnain's swat at the ensuing ball saw the stumps rearranged, leaving Tauseef Ahmed, a man with no great batting pedigree, to conjure up five from the last two balls. With Miandad urging him to scamper a single at any cost, Tauseef tipped the ball to short-cover and set off. Mohammad Azharuddin, India's premier fielder, pounced and picked up in one fluid motion but, crucially, his shy at the stumps missed with Tauseef still yards short.
With four needed, it was merely a question of who would blink first. Miandad, with more than a decade of experience behind him, anticipated the yorker, and sure enough, Sharma attempted just that. But when the ball slipped out of the hand, the potentially lethal stump-wrecker metamorphosed into a woeful leg-side full toss. For those watching, time stood still as Miandad's bat arced swiftly to send the ball soaring over the midwicket boundary. It was a heist that would have done Ronald Biggs and friends proud, and Miandad himself admitted: "Up until the final delivery, India's dominance remained supreme."
That dominance had been built on a stolid 92 from Sunil Gavaskar, buttressed by half-centuries from Krishnamachari Srikkanth and Dilip Vengsarkar. And with Pakistan's top order not doing enough to supplement Miandad's courageous effort, it appeared that the Indian total of 245 would be more than enough, in an age when turbo-charged starts and pinch-hitting were almost unheard of.
In retrospect, that one resounding stroke was to signify far more than a final won. For years afterwards, India were no match for Pakistan in the one-day arena, shell-shock victims unable to regain a sense of perspective. There may have been tears in the Pakistani dressing room that evening, but it was India that were to weep over the unimaginably deep Miandad-inflicted cuts for the best part of a decade.
THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!
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