Great Sporting Comebacks

BRUMBIES scoring in the last seconds when all the Bulls had to do was tackle the okeX(-D><

The greatest come back..................now that Tiger decided to use his irons on the greens

shrek Wrote:

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> Bulls winning the Super Rugby title in 2007 when
> after the whistle the Sharks just needed to kick
> the ball out and Hababa scored close to the posts.
> -D

After the ref and linesman had missed a Bulls forward pulling the ball back into the ruck with his hand right under their noses.

Tipster Wrote:

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> shrek Wrote:
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> > Bulls winning the Super Rugby title in 2007
> when
> > after the whistle the Sharks just needed to
> kick
> > the ball out and Hababa scored close to the
> posts.
> > -D
>
> After the ref and linesman had missed a Bulls
> forward pulling the ball back into the ruck with
> his hand right under their noses.


If (think it was Frans Steyn but could have been Monty) had slotted an easy penalty with 2 minutes to go the rest would be immaterial.

Every year that Newcastle stay Premier League is a great comeback!!

The only sporting event I have attended that became so tense I could no longer watch happened in a Datsun Shield semi final (60 overs) between Natal and Transvaal at Kingsmead in January 1980 and it almost ended in one of the great comebacks.

Transvaal were known as the mean machine and were considered virtually unbeatable that year and although these days I'm definitely a 5-day test fan as opposed to Pyjama cricket, the Datsun Shield final in those days was almost as big as the FA Cup and we were one game away from making it.

Brian Bath was called into the Transvaal team as a specialist one day batsman and made 57 and shared in a partnership with the immortal Graeme Pollock who made 135 not out.

The two shots I remember of Pollocks were in the last over hitting Vince van der Bijl over the commentary box behind his head.

Van der Bijl stood with hands on hips and couldn't believe what he was seeing.

Transvaal made 278 for 6 which in those days was considered a good one day score.

The hapless Natal then came in and were soon 44 for 5.

Darryl Bestall had been the darling of the Natal crowds two seasons before but didn't please them by then leaving for EP.

After a shocking season down there he returned but his dismal form didn't go away.

Hence, with Natal once again disgracing themselves, he was jeered all the way to the wicket when he came it at no.7 to join Peter Williams.

However, the jeers soon went away as he finally recaptured form.

One shot I remember was a sweep for six onto the old members stand roof.

Williams meanwhile was playing his socks out and I recall him being particularly strong with the wristy flick to leg.

Bad light stopped play but in those days provision was made and the game was resumed the next day.

When this pair had taken the score to 217 the impossible seemed possible and the crowd was spellbound.

However, the tension got to Williams, who presented an easy catch to mid off.

His 114 runs before that had been chanceless.

Bestall followed shortly afterwards for 63 in what if I'm not mistaken was a dodgy caught behind decision.

Van Der Bijl gave us some hope and when we were about 30 odd short, I could no longer watch and retreated down the stairs and relied on the crowd noises, running up the stairs after each ball to see what happened.

Van der Bijl was caught brilliantly in the deep, ironically by the athletic substitute who had replaced Bath, an immobile sort who had to go off for "illness".

Natal fell 26 short and by today's standards would have been considered well beaten, but I'm not sure if people on here remember that provincial cricket in those days was more fiercely competitive than most test matches we see nowadays and beating the mean machine in any game was as big as a test win against Aus these days.

Williams was named the man of the match by Charles Fortune, mainly due to the response he got when asking the crowd who should get it.

I predict it will be alex ferguson, coming back to rescue anushited frim relegation..

easy Wrote:

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> I predict it will be alex ferguson, coming back to
> rescue anushited frim relegation..

Here we get durban poison, what you smoke over there Easy...-

2003
VVS Laxman and Rahul Dravid put on 303 on this day against Australia from 93.5 overs in the second Test in Adelaide to turn the match around for India. They had been 85 for 4 but Dravid scored one of the finest hundreds played overseas by an Indian batsman. He posted 233, helping them keep in touch with Australia, who had posted 556 on the back of Ricky Ponting's 242. The ghosts of Kolkata 2001 - when India beat Australia after following-on, and which was the last time an Indian pair had put on more than 300 - were alive and well. And those spirits were even more animated two days later, when India became the first side since Kepler Wessels' South Africans to take a series lead in Australia.

McGrath asked the Zimbabwean batsman Brandes why he was so fat

Brandes comeback was "everytime I shag your missus she gives me a biscuit"

@Tipster...nice one....(tu)

Wanderers , greatest cricket game of all time AUS vs RSA