The coreboard at the Pietermaritzburg Oval in South Africa during this February 14 2003 World Cup game makes astonishing reading.Sri lanka paceman Chaminda Vaas had reduced Bangladesh to 5-4 in the first over, taking all four wickets. Vaas took a hat-trick with the first three balls of the game, setting up a 10-wicket win.
Umpires Max O’Connell and Donald Weser persuade Australian batsman Dennis Lillee to swap his aluminium bat for a standard wooden one. In the 1979 Ashes Test at Perth, England captain Mike Brearley noticed the ball had gone out of shape since Lillee’s arrival at the crease. There was no stipulation against aluminium bats so Lillee didn’t budge.Australia captain Greg Chappell had to come out to intervene. Lillee finally threw away his bat in anger.
Helmets with visors were a rarity for long. On February 18, 1986, in an ODI in Kingston, Jamaica, Mike Gatting was struck on the nose by a bouncer from West Indies’ Malcolm Marshall. The story goes that the ball came back with pieces of Gatting’s nose bone dislodged on it.
Captain MS Dhoni swings the six that ended India’s 28-year wait for a World Cup. In the final against Sri Lanka at Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium, an out-of-form Dhoni promoted himself up the order. He made an unbeaten 91, sealing a memorable win.
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