Going Underground
YouTube is the best place to go to watch cricket clips from the modern era right through to yesteryear. And with the World Cup just around the corner here are some of the best clips to get you in the mood for the Caribbean extravaganza.
Rod Gilmour
20-Feb-2007
YouTube is the best place to go to watch cricket clips from the modern era right through to yesteryear. And with the World Cup just around the corner here are some of the best clips to get you in the mood for the Caribbean extravaganza.
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The Winners
Watch the 66-1 outsiders claim the 1996 World Cup final, with Billy Ocean and Queen background music. A medley of how the Sri Lankans have made their name: Murali's and Aravinda's spin; masterful pinch-hitting and stroke-play. Click here
Watch the 66-1 outsiders claim the 1996 World Cup final, with Billy Ocean and Queen background music. A medley of how the Sri Lankans have made their name: Murali's and Aravinda's spin; masterful pinch-hitting and stroke-play. Click here
Iconic, smiling images of Indian skipper Kapil Dev lifting the World Cup trophy at Lord's in 1983. Closing ceremony interviews with Kapil and a disappointed Windies skipper Clive Lloyd - but he had already won it twice.
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The Thrills
A 13-second clip but does a South African fan need more? One of the defining moments in World Cup cricket with the Australians coming from all quarters and madness from Allan Donald and Lance Klusener. Click here
A 13-second clip but does a South African fan need more? One of the defining moments in World Cup cricket with the Australians coming from all quarters and madness from Allan Donald and Lance Klusener. Click here
Superb left-arm bowling from ODI great Wasim Akram, which put Pakistan in the driving seat during the 1992 World Cup final.
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An array of shot-making from the blade of Sachin Tendulkar during the 2003 World Cup. There's so much here that it's been put together in two parts.
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An Andrew Strauss-style catch from the second Waugh - this time in the environs of Lord's and the 1999 World Cup final.
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These three balls are everything a fast bowler should have in his armoury: nasty bounce, accuracy and an in-swinging yorker, as Kenya found out to their cost at the South Africa World Cup.
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No list of fielding dismissals would be complete
without seeing the quick-fire reaction of South African legend Jonty Rhodes. Unsurprisingly, Inzamam is the hapless batsman.
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One of the World Cup's unsung heroes. Canadian John Davison taking West Indies to the cleaners with some power-hitting. A one-handed catch of the highest quality to dismiss him as well.
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Ones they want you to forget
One of the World Cup upsets. Debutants Kenya beating twice-winners West Indies. Click here
One of the World Cup upsets. Debutants Kenya beating twice-winners West Indies. Click here
How often do you see this in world cricket? A double-bouncer and Andy Bichel gives this delivery some raw treatment.
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The funnies
Some excellent sledging from Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara to incoming batsman Shaun Pollock. "He's going to let his whole country down now ... " Choice words from a wicketkeeper. Click here
Some excellent sledging from Sri Lankan Kumar Sangakkara to incoming batsman Shaun Pollock. "He's going to let his whole country down now ... " Choice words from a wicketkeeper. Click here
Another sledge clip but with a difference. A 2003 World Cup advert featuring Adam Gilchrist, bizarrely, as a Kiwi.
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Rod Gilmour is a freelance journalist