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Worst choke ever

Lillian Thomson

Hall of Fame Member
1984 Nat West Final between Kent and Middlesex. Kent needed to prevent a run being scored off the last ball of the match to win and spent several minutes placing the field. Richard Ellison then bowled a full toss just outside leg stump as a nice gift to John Emburey who hit it for 4.
(Perhaps not the greatest choke ever but it still rankles.)
 

Satyanash89

Banned
Has Mathews-Malinga vs Australia at MCG 2010 been mentioned yet?
108-8 chasing 240, and Mathews and Malinga start swinging their bats around, initially just to have a laugh or two, but somewhere along the way, it got far more serious. Aussie bowlers just completely bottled it, imo... didn't get a single yorker in, bowled wides, no-balls, and just **** themselves in fear as Sri Lanka got closer to the target, cause Laxman and Ishant Sharma had done something very similar just a few days previously at Mohali :laugh:

Incidentally, the guy who broke the partnership with a direct hit was Steve Smith, the same guy who won the Mohali game for India with an overthrow... how awesome was that :-O

Anyway, bext ODI comeback ever, and in my opinion, one of the biggest chokes
 

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