Our Best ODI Win

[Eastdog]

I started a thread on our best test wins so this is a follow from that about our best ODI wins in the history.

[westdog54]

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I'll post mine when you post yours Eastie.

[Eastdog]

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This was before my time but on youtube a while back I watched the 83/84 ODI series against West Indies - the final which we didn't win but was very exciting none the less.

[bulldogtragic]

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I'll post mine when you post yours Eastie.

I will post mine when you post yours.

[chef]

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The first game in South African WC always sticks in my mind as a great game and set us on the way to a great cup, coming of age for Symmo too.

[boydogs]

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World Cup v South Africa where we ran them out to win by a run

[LostDoggy]

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Against the Windies '95 SCG, when Bevan hit a straight drive for 4 off the last ball. Never forget it, my interest in cricket was peaking and Bevo (topical today) was my favourite player. Low scoring game but so much tension.

[chef]

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World Cup v South Africa where we ran them out to win by a run

We didnt win that game

[Twodogs]

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The first World Cup we won in '87 in India. It had been pretty demoralising being an Australian cricket fan for a few years leading up to that with regular humiliations at the hands of the West Indies, the poms and even NZ thumping us on regular occasions. Ivan remember holding on for a draw in a Test match against NZ and celebrating like we had won it.

Things were pretty dreary there for a while and the day we won the final I think is the happiest I've felt about an ODI.

[Remi Moses]

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This was before my time but on youtube a while back I watched the 83/84 ODI series against West Indies - the final which we didn't win but was very exciting none the less.

Was that the tie ? Aussies blew that game it that's the one.
Remember the Windies were filthy ( they were leading one nil in a three game series)
That they had to come back the next day . Needless to say a fired up West Indies back then meant severe pain for their opponent,and they flogged us.

[Remi Moses]

Re: Our Best ODI Win

The first World Cup we won in '87 in India. It had been pretty demoralising being an Australian cricket fan for a few years leading up to that with regular humiliations at the hands of the West Indies, the poms and even NZ thumping us on regular occasions. Ivan remember holding on for a draw in a Test match against NZ and celebrating like we had won it.

Things were pretty dreary there for a while and the day we won the final I think is the happiest I've felt about an ODI.

Ditto for me . The cricket team improved from that moment on
I haven't been to a 50 over game since 89/90, as after the 20th Mexican wave realised the crowd wasn't there for the cricket.

[boydogs]

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We didnt win that game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7BNvHI-7BE

[Eastdog]

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Was that the tie ? Aussies blew that game it that's the one.
Remember the Windies were filthy ( they were leading one nil in a three game series)
That they had to come back the next day . Needless to say a fired up West Indies back then meant severe pain for their opponent,and they flogged us.

Yep it was a tie

Here are highlights of that match at the MCG.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3Pd-ob3PE

[Twodogs]

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Was that the tie ? Aussies blew that game it that's the one.
Remember the Windies were filthy ( they were leading one nil in a three game series)
That they had to come back the next day . Needless to say a fired up West Indies back then meant severe pain for their opponent,and they flogged us.

Yep the dark Chappell/Hughes farce was over and we were starting to gel under Border. It was after World cup that the real quality players started to trickle through and get added to the team. Mark Taylor, Ian Healy, Glen MacGrath, Shane Warne, Justin Langer, Mark Waugh, Matthew Hayden and later Mike Hussey, Adam Gilchrist and Brett Lee made us almost unbeatable. Only a few players from the World Cup win got to go on that ride though.

[chef]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7BNvHI-7BE

And it was a tie, not a win

We still went through, but we didn't win that game.