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[The_Bird]

Lets get back to this being a cricket forum for CRICKET!!!!


Please post your Top 3 Iconic shots, the shots that will always live in your memory and you get goosebumps seeing them back!!


Here's mine

Nathan Astle - the 3rd one is the best for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNPCUqCCii4

Eoin Morgan - Just Incredible and easy to forget

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDcgElEcO3M

Vaughan in his pomp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7d-If78gjI

[Cover_Drive]

Nothing is close to Micheal Vaughan's that is absolutely fantastic! Perfect!

[Buzz]

flintoff smashing the ball into the crowd and being dropped by his dad.

Brian Charles Lara pulling the ball for four to to reach 366

[Bulldog Cricket]

IVA hook shot. Never wore a lid And played against some of the fastest bowlers of all time. Was lucky enough to watch him live on many occasion. He's was 20 years ahead of his time.

Just have a look on YouTube. I could watch him all day.

[Bulldog Cricket]

Second would be beefy hooking lillie out the ground at headingly in 1981.

[Bulldog Cricket]

Third and a bit more upto date. Chris gale pumping bret lee out of the oval a few years ago.

[12man]

How to start an innings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YKJf2OG2JY

Destroying Merv Hughes
 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNggUD_MrNY&feature=related

[Number4]

IVA hook shot. Never wore a lid And played against some of the fastest bowlers of all time. Was lucky enough to watch him live on many occasion. He's was 20 years ahead of his time.

Just have a look on YouTube. I could watch him all day.

IVA all the way for me

[Bulldog Cricket]

 ^ Best ever by a distance.

[joeylough]

flintoff smashing the ball into the crowd and being dropped by his dad.

I remember where I was when that happened. Sat on the sofa (should have been revising) watching channel 4

http://youtu.be/SdZQU-EGT50

[alba caerulea]

These first two games I was at which is why they stick in the memory

Eoin Morgan hitting a straight 4 off a seamer to bring up his ton and win the game for England V Australia at the Rose Bowl in 2010. Unbelievable innings

Any one of about 5 pull shots from Michael Vaughan off the bowling of Brett Lee at Edgbaston in 2004. Trescothick was quality aswell but I was sat square of the wicket and Lee was rapid at the time. Vaughan was a lovely player to watch when in form

3rd one for me has to be Mark Butcher playing on the rise through point during his 173 at Headingley in 2001. I think this is still, all things considered, the best test innings I have seen from an England batsman. I think the stroke at around 4.15 in the video below is the pick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPEpkMTArww

[Johnny]

My first ever test match was 1993, England v Aus at Trent Bridge. We were sat square of the wicket and the clatter that the advertising boards made when when Robin Smith smashed a square cut into them off Brendan Julian is something that will stick with me forever

[PedalsMcgrew]

The first shot in this vid.............I used to love watching Sir Viv but it was always this guy in that WI team that excited me the most...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o7rCre5FjE

And in this video the shot he plays at 1 min Serious power from Beefy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ4FzJLWhYc&feature=related

[Aswani Cricket]

I'll never forget Viv Richards at Lord's when he moved across his stumps, Mike Hendrick bowled a full toss headed for middle stump, and Richards flicked it for 6 over square leg, last ball of the innings .. I think he had 189 n.o.

[tim2000s]

At the Oval this summer with M77, watching Chris Gayle launch England's best out of the ground. The flat six to square of Bresnan (I think, or maybe it was Jimmy) that hit the scoreboard before bouncing, and the other on to the pavilion roof. Incredible power...