The matches come THICK and FASTDisappointing defeat but the sheer beauty of a bilateral ODI series is there is quickly another opportunity to put things right.
Come on boys, you can do it!
Happened once before for England, in a match against Sri Lanka in Peshawar in the 1987 world cup.
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The final 10 minutes of day 2 (?) are right up there with the best few moments of sport I’ve watched this year.Happened once before for England, in a match against Sri Lanka in Peshawar in the 1987 world cup.
ENG vs SL Cricket Scorecard, 10th Match at Peshawar, October 17, 1987
Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get England vs Sri Lanka 10th Match, cricket scorecard, Reliance World Cup 1987/88 dated October 17, 1987.
England won that game as well, with Alan Lamb winning man of the match. Presumably for his 76 off 58 balls, rather than the single over he bowled as England's 9th bowler in the innings.
In total there have been 19 matches where a team's used 9 bowlers. Rohit Sharma's the only player to have been a team's 9th bowler twice.
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I actually found this thread while looking to see if anybody had mentioned New Zealand whitewashing India in India, which must rank up there as one of the great sporting upsets of all time.
He used to open for us before getting lured oop north
