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Originally Posted by Prince EWS
I think he's talking about an ODI. He took seven against England in the 2003 World Cup - he backed it up by taking Australia home with the bat at #10 in support of Bevan for a partnership of 50 odd as well. Top game that was; one of my favourite ODIs.
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Originally Posted by Top_Cat
What PEWS said. That ODI match was the only time I ever saw Bichel look absolutely top shelf. His ball to get Vaughan was good enough but the ball to knock over Hussain was just unplayable.
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Oh, that.
Well Bichel was damn superb that whole tournament really, for mine - and in fact had been between that Super Challenge thingy against Pakistan in 2002 and the end of it, though the Cup was his last hurrah (went for 5.51-an-over at 49.61 in his 15 ODIs thereafter) and he'd never been much good until winter 2002 (4.69-an-over at 36.26 in 27 previous games). But I thought we were on about Tests.
But yeah, I don't think Bichel's ODI superlativeness was confined exclusively to that game, there were another 14 in 2002 and 2002/03. The England game was certainly the peak of that little period though - stunning spell.