SA Footy

What match always springs to mind when you are discussing classic games with your mates. The 400+ chase down by the Springboks against us would have to be right up there along with the Herschelle Gibbs/ Steve Waugh World Cup match.

2 matches for me, 1999 world cup semi final tie and new years day 1996 with Michael Bevan hitting a 4 of the final delivery after Australia were dead (I think they were 5-6 for 20-odd)

test
australia vs windies adelaide 92/3
india vs australia kolkata 2000/1
india vs australia adelaide 2004/5

one-dayers
south africa vs australia joburg 2006?
australia vs windies sydney 1996
sri lanka vs england adelaide 1999ish when arjuna took the team off

domestic
shield final 1995
south australia chasing down 504 vs queensland
south australia beating new soth wales in a shield game in the mid 90s- i think this was the game when lehmann and nobes were using the same bat

Have to agree with you LK. That match with Bevan always springs to mind as one of the best one dayers of all time. Also Roger Harper claiming a caught and bowled and Bevan didn't walk with about 7 or 8 overs to go.

1999 World Cup semi. Pulsating.
The 1989 Ashes tour.
Mark Waugh's debut test.
Steve Waugh's century in Sydney in his last test against the Poms.

Australia v West Indies at Adelaide Oval in 1992/93. Australia lost the Test by one run.

There are some others like Steve Waugh's 200 in Kingston, the Gilchrist and Langer partnership at Bellerive to beat Pakistan (only Gilly's second test), Australia beating England in Adelaide during the last Ashes. I could go on. Test cricket seems to produce those moments you will never forget. Graham Smith walking out to bat the other day is something i will always remember for example.

Dogwatcher wrote:1999 World Cup semi. Pulsating.
The 1989 Ashes tour.
Mark Waugh's debut test.
Steve Waugh's century in Sydney in his last test against the Poms.

Golden, I got a chill up spine when I read that. I was holding them in that day.

I watched it on the couch. When he was on about 60 I said to the missus "Sit down and watch this, you're going to see something special". I was right.
The following year we were in Perth on our honeymoon and I was desperate to keep in touch with the cricket, cos it was Tugga's last test (I was hoping he'd hit a century) and ended up sittin' with a grandpa for about 20 minutes with an old man who had a transistor radio going. I didn't see the end of his career but was keeping the tears back whilst sitting opposite the macaw enclosure.

Farewell matches are always a killer, Jason MacCartney's footy one was the most emotional games of anything I've ever witnessed.

Didn't see it but remember where I was that night too - watching the Doggies cream Norwood at the Parade.

We're in the cricket forum numnuts.

SA v Qld I reckon two years back where Harris creamed a six to win it.

silicone skyline wrote:We're in the cricket forum numnuts.

SA v Qld I reckon two years back where Harris creamed a six to win it.

Sorry SS, I had the pleasure of watching that too, Allan Lamb destroying Fatty Reid's confidence at the SCG was a pearler aswell.

That was a fantastic knock that one.

Blewie's debut hundred.

Listening to the end of the Shield final on the radio in the kitchen at Fasta Pasta, not allowing the bosses to open the store until the last ball was blocked.
I saw part of Gilchrist's innings too - left uni early to go have a look.

Dogwatcher wrote:That was a fantastic knock that one.

Blewie's debut hundred.

Listening to the end of the Shield final on the radio in the kitchen at Fasta Pasta, not allowing the bosses to open the store until the last ball was blocked.
I saw part of Gilchrist's innings too - left uni early to go have a look.

Peter McIntyre and Shane George, I think the whole state tuned in that day.

The 99 world cup semi for mine.
The 05 Ashes in England when Lee & Kasprowicz nearly pulled off a miracle win. Memorable for all the wrong reasons in the end.

Lightning McQueen wrote:

Dogwatcher wrote:That was a fantastic knock that one.

Blewie's debut hundred.

Listening to the end of the Shield final on the radio in the kitchen at Fasta Pasta, not allowing the bosses to open the store until the last ball was blocked.
I saw part of Gilchrist's innings too - left uni early to go have a look.

Peter McIntyre and Shane George, I think the whole state tuned in that day.

If you look in the background of the photo of the SA boys getting the shield there's a massed crowd and right amongst it is a young Quinno Graham and Anthony Baird (who you might know from around Lizbef).

A one-dayer in Australia between NZ and South Africa around 97/98.
Also the game(s) when we were struggling with the bat and Michael Bevan rescued us.

Good Thread.

1999 World Cup Semi Vs South Africa
Bevans 4 against the Windies to win the unwinnable.
Steve Waughs Hundred against England at the SCG
The Ashes in 2005 (Especially Game 2 and 3)
Mark Waugh's Brilliant match winning century in South Africa on a dodgy wicket (Cant recall the Year)

Will certainly remember this match for the Smith Incident.

Pidge wrote:A one-dayer in Australia between NZ and South Africa around 97/98.
Also the game(s) when we were struggling with the bat and Michael Bevan rescued us.

With help from Andy Bichel if i rember rightly?

Pup wrote:

Pidge wrote:A one-dayer in Australia between NZ and South Africa around 97/98.
Also the game(s) when we were struggling with the bat and Michael Bevan rescued us.

With help from Andy Bichel if i rember rightly?

Correct.