The dress code for the Noble dinner is ~ Gentlemen :white tie and tails, while ladies should be dressed in an evening gown. This is the perfect time to dress up and look like royalty! Wearing your national costume is an alternative to white tie and tails or evening gown. A Tie !!.. .. it was once a rarity – it has occurred only twice in Tests- the first of its kind between Australia and West Indies in Dec 1960 and the other one at Chepauk Stadium in Sept 1986 when Greg Mathews got Maninder Singh out. Yesterday at Dubai the score card would read :Afghanistan 252 for 8 (Shahzad 124, Nabi 64, Jadeja 3-46) tied with India252 (Rahul 60, Nabi 2-40, Rashid 2-41) ~ more than the card, it was an epic thriller when India's middle order unravelled, leaving them seven to get off the final over, bowled by Rashid Khan, with just one wicket in hand.
Remember the 11th match Group B of the WC 2011- thematch was a real humdinger and went down till the last ball – a tall scoring match at that676 runs – 18 wickets.It was rank poor performance by Indian bowlers not able to defend 338.The ground fielding was poor, slow movers, bad throwing arms, slackened attitude. With only 12 balls to go, England were 310/7 – tail enders Bresnan and Swann at the crease and 29 required. It was Piyush Chawla – a dot ball and then second was swept by Swann for a huge six.The fifth ball Bresnan hoisted him over midwicket for another six.15 conceded and in the last they required 14 off 6 with 2 wickets in hand.That match also brought the comic 2.5m rule to the fore. Earlier on 6th Dec 1991, at Perth – the falling West Indies with a line of Desmond Haynes, Philo Wallace, Richie Richardson, Brian Lara, Carl Hooper, Keith Arthurton, Malcolm Marshall, David Williams, Curtly Ambrose, Cummins and Big Patterson.. chased 127 – the fall of wickets were to read : Fall of wickets: 1-0 (DL Haynes), 2-23 (PA Wallace), 3-25 (RB Richardson), 4-55 (CL Hooper), 5-55 (KLT Arthurton), 6-61 (BC Lara), 7-69 (D Williams), 8-76 (MD Marshall), 9-113 (CEL Ambrose), 10-126 (AC Cummins) To those who commented Kapil in making Chetan Sharma bowl that last over to Miandad at Sharjah – it was Perth – 50 over match – Kapil Dev had figures of 2/30; Manoj Prabhakar 1/30;Javagal Srinath 2/27 & Subroto Banerjee 3/30 (and all of them had completed their quota of 10) – so 41st over – Sachin was called to bowl by Azharuddin, who had no control on what was happening. Sachin gave 5 in 5 and off the last ball had Cummins beautifully caught in slips by diving Azhar.A tie at Perth ! On Apr 30, 2014 - Statistically, Rajasthan Royals made 152 for 5 (Rahane 72) tied with Kolkata Knight Riders 152 for 8 (Gambhir 45, Faulkner 3-11) ~ then came the Super Over….. KKR made 12 (yes only 12 in 6 balls) were all out – RR too made 12 – so tie in Super over too. With regards – S. Sampathkumar 26th Sept 2018.