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Even in a gentleman's game, things get out of control sometimes. Winning and losing is a part of the game but at times losing is too harsh to stomach and consequently enders the feeling of revenge.

Some revenge hardly materialize while other come soon than expected. So in your memory lane of cricket, which revenge moments were the best and which do you crave to see and witness in future.
 
A Canadian police officer (Seemed like Sri Lankan origin) gave me a speeding ticket during the 2023 World Cup.

A few days later, BD beat SL in the World Cup and qualified for CT 2025. BD also eliminated SL in the process.

That felt good due to the speeding ticket I received.
 
Afghanistan have recently taken revenge of their humiliating loss in the T20 WC SF against South Africa. Hopefully they would be feeling good now.
 
Afghans beat BD in a Test back in 2019. BD came back strongly a few years later by beating them by 500+ runs.

That was a good comeback.

Anyway, BD and Afghanistan are on friendly terms. No genuine revenge mentality.
 
Most teams still waiting to extract revenge against Aussies
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Most consecutive wins in men's ODIs:

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36 AO to breaching, pillaging, marauding, tearing down and laying to rubble the Ozzie fortress and picking the series up as well, that too with your reserve squad , it was sweet to be honest seeing the shell shocked Ozzie and Pakistani faces... no * against the wins, no moral wins, just plain simple knockdown
 
Best revenge. That's a good one.


Starc the sandpaper boy cheating scum was talking a lot of crap b3fore 3rh test of 2017 final about how india will lose BGT at home.

Rahane took over from varat useless kohli and captained us to a fine win in the final test
We destroyed Oz at home. Rahane is undefeated as captain vs all teams.
 
The hyping how Waqar was going to destroy us in the 96' WC and how Akhtar was going to do the same in the 03' WC. Loved both those occasions.

Thats a good call .. Yup remember that clearly.🤣

Overall the #8-NOTHING record is a surreal ownage like none other in sports history. Lucky to have watched every single ball of ALL those matches live ... priceless memories but the 96 QF and 2003 take down of the pindi passenger train were something else.
 
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Nasser Husain calling MO Kaif a bus driver and Mo Kaif nailing the Natwest trophy 2002 , after hitting winning runs in a then world record chase & whistling at Nasser hussain - the day the driver took us home :)
 
Nasser Husain calling MO Kaif a bus driver and Mo Kaif nailing the Natwest trophy 2002 , after hitting winning runs in a then world record chase & whistling at Nasser hussain - the day the driver took us home :)
Forgot that one though was at the stadium..

Perfect riposte to Ronnie Irani and Freddie Flintoff...Dada taking his top off and sending fudges to the opponents.
 
I guess Match between Windies and some Eng county game, at the toss the county captain struggling to name who he selected and who he left out and waffles on, King Viv complete with that pomp - Swagger - that imperious voice et all.. : " You can play anybody, Mon...!"....not exactly a revenge moment but what was left unsaid (We'll still dust you off :) ...) is legendary stuff :)
 
Nasser Husain calling MO Kaif a bus driver and Mo Kaif nailing the Natwest trophy 2002 , after hitting winning runs in a then world record chase & whistling at Nasser hussain - the day the driver took us home :)

Why did Nasser call him that? Any context?
 
West Indies took revenge on Tony Greig once.

Tony Greig said something like "England would make Windies grovel". That agitated West Indies and they ended up winning 3-0.

Here was what Tony Greig said that fired up the West Indies team --> I like to think that people are building these West Indians up, because I am not really sure they’re as good as everyone thinks they are,” he started and touched upon their defeat in Australia and struggle at home against India. “Sure, they’ve got a couple of fast bowlers, but … you must remember that (if) the West Indian get on top they are magnificent cricketers, but if they’re down, they grovel. And I intend, with the help of Closey and a few others, to make them grovel.”

Source: https://cricmash.com/conflicts-controversies/2015/1/25/tony-greig-and-the-grovel-affair.
 
Do you guys remember Andre Nel vs S Sreesanth's rift?

That six and the dance was a funny one.
HAHAHAH...that was hilarious, Apparently Nel kept telling Sreesanth he was a rabbit and did'nt have the heart/ticker for a fight, at one pont Sreesanth lost it - hit Nel over his head for a six and did that ridiculous cowboy rodeo dance and later said he wanted to convey the message to Nel 'you can't ride me' ....that test match co incincided with the 'Dhoom' series movies and all channels had this dance with the 'Dhoom' title score in the background ... :afridi
 
It had everyone laugh out of their seats. After years of being a bully Nel finally got something tellling him back in the most epic fashion.

Only Sreesanth :yk
Sreesanth is a fighter. He is also a winner. Won t20 wc and odi wc. Nel is nothing.
 
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Day before Sachin: Shoaib akhtar who??
Next day his & dravids stumps spread over Calcutta cricket ground. Daddy of all revenge. Crowd had to be sent home.

Make a Bollywood movie of that if you can.
 
Day before Sachin: Shoaib akhtar who??
Next day his & dravids stumps spread over Calcutta cricket ground. Daddy of all revenge. Crowd had to be sent home.

Make a Bollywood movie of that if you can.
SRT genuinely didn't know who Akhtar was.

On the other hand, Gul publicly targeted Sehwag before Mohali and had his career effectively finished by Sehwag in the match .
 
Day before Sachin: Shoaib akhtar who??
Next day his & dravids stumps spread over Calcutta cricket ground. Daddy of all revenge. Crowd had to be sent home.

Make a Bollywood movie of that if you can.

Sachin never said "Shoaib Akhtar who" or whatever lol..
 
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Nothing tops Mitchell Johnson's revenge arc.

He was an object of ridicule by the Barmy army. He pretty much was a laughing stock at one point.

But he finished up his Ashes legacy with one of the test most devastating fast bowling performances I've ever seen across a whole series.

Pace, bounce and fire. The English fell apart on the crease and off the crease. It was enthralling viewing. The English batters seemed to be shaking before every delivery.

One of the greatest comeback stories in sport.
 
Who else remembers the epic Brian Lara vs Shane Warne rivalry?

I'm still pumped thinking about Lara's 153 (1999) at Barbados against Australia. He took on Warne, scoring 64 runs off 67 deliveries. Warne dominated him in previous encounters (7 dismissals in 14 innings).
 
Another incident I remember was Sarwan vs McGrath.

McGrath was sledging Sarwan. Sarwan responded by speaking about McGrath's wife. McGrath became furious.

West Indies ended up winning the Test as they chased down 418.

 
No one is mentioning Pakistan's CT 2017 victory after ridiculous loss in 1st game against arch rivals..
That tournament victory was very inspiring.
Yep the best revenge moment for Pakistan that they can't ever forget. Part of some awesome memories.
 
One of my favourite moments in cricket.


Mascarenhas had hit 5 sixes earlier that year against Yuvraj, in return Yuvi hit 6.
Never have I seen a better display of six hitting. That was a deliberate attempt at revenge.

Before that over, Flintoff and Yuvi had a verbal spat too
 
When Ramiz Raja took over PCB and Misbah quit/oe fired was best Revenge **** happened
 
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Shami & Bumrah giving it back to Anderson with the bat & then Kohli’s famous ‘60 hrs of hell’ speech egging on India to that amazing Lords Test win has to be right up there for me. What a Test captain Kohli was!
 
Devon Malcolm vs SA

Knock on the head

“You guys are history”

9-57

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The best revenge moment for me…I have two

1. Pakistan loses to USA, exposing everything wrong with Pakistan cricket

2. When Pakistan lost to India in New York especially when one person was making mithai orders midway through the game, tagging people to gloat….claiming he will always have the last laugh


Alhamdolillah, what a humbling that was served that day!
 
2. When Pakistan lost to India in New York especially when one person was making mithai orders midway through the game, tagging people to gloat….claiming he will always have the last laugh


Alhamdolillah, what a humbling that was served that day!
I agree.

I spoke too early on that day because I conveniently forgot how rubbish Imad Wasim is.
 
My best revenge moment in cricket was defo 2023 WC and 2017 ct.

In both tournaments you didn't expect either side to win as they were at the bottom of the table at one point.

Then each side grinded and won all their games and then in the finals bullied India into submission so much so that in both tournaments no one even prepared a winning speech for pakistan or Australia.

Another revenge moment was defo India vs Pakistan Asia cup. Before that game every fan was delusional thinking pakistan was no 1 and unstoppable before India and then every other team in the WC excluding bamgaldesh, Ned, And sri lanka gave pakistan a brutal reality check on where they stand.
 
Pakistan Champions Trophy 2017 win after such a heavy defeat against India was a remarkable comeback and surely one of the best revenge of defeat.
 
CT17 was very sweet. Getting demolished in the group with the likes of Shehzad and Wahab in it. Then making one of the greatest comeback. Beating a red hot Indian team. In fact in a humiliating defeat in the Final. One of the biggest defeats in an ICC Final event.
 
CT17 was very sweet. Getting demolished in the group with the likes of Shehzad and Wahab in it. Then making one of the greatest comeback. Beating a red hot Indian team. In fact in a humiliating defeat in the Final. One of the biggest defeats in an ICC Final event.
What about Australia 2023 WC victory over India.??
 
Australia's 5-0 Ashes victory during 2013 home Ashes. It was the series where Michael Clarke said to James Anderson, "Get ready for a broken arm."

That was a sweet revenge because Australia lost in England before that Ashes.
 
What about Australia 2023 WC victory over India.??
Australia wasn't a minnow.

The thing is even during the world cup their were multiple posters including myself claiming that even though Australia is at the bottom of the table, they can still easily win the world cup because that's just how they are. It's nothing new.

Whereas no one can ever claim that with a straight face for pakistan. Unlike Australia Pakistan wasn't even suppose to be in ct, They fluked their way in by whitewashing West Indies which even pakistan didn't think was possible considering in 2019 they got bundled up for 103
 
Australia wasn't a minnow.

The thing is even during the world cup their were multiple posters including myself claiming that even though Australia is at the bottom of the table, they can still easily win the world cup because that's just how they are. It's nothing new.

Whereas no one can ever claim that with a straight face for pakistan. Unlike Australia Pakistan wasn't even suppose to be in ct, They fluked their way in by whitewashing West Indies which even pakistan didn't think was possible considering in 2019 they got bundled up for 103
But it was a revenge 100% for their group stage defeat
 
But it was a revenge 100% for their group stage defeat
It wasn't because Australia doesn't give 2 damns about Indian cricket.

Indian media have overglorified it because their desperate for approval by any nations and because many nations will obviously say nice things about others, that's how professionals work.

But for them it's not a big deal and india isn't aussie concern, Their just an opponent and don't get any satisfaction from walking all over them in their own den.

Indians themselves are salty and senti for said event, Australia doesn't even care.

It's revenge for pakistan as pakistan as well as India are too invested in each other's affairs.

Australia wouldn't care nor does it care. That's why you'll find Indian and pakistani fans desperately clinging om to Amy piece of aussie media that they can find and using that as a system of approval.
 
Australia taking 2024-25 BGT very seriously as they were humiliated by India from 2015 in test cricket .

They want to badly win this time BGT to take revenge .

Rohit slapped Australian bowlers in T20 world cup to take revenge of 2023 world cup and knockout them in group stages .

India will again smashed them in CT2025 .
 
1992: Adelaide 74 all out group game to world final victory vs England. Topped off by the test series win in the summer of 1992.

Calcutta 1999. Even though the test series was 1-1, losing the second test was a poor performance, but credit to Kumble and Jayaprakash. The thumping in the Calcutta test was sweet.

2006 Karachi test. Made up for 2004 and all the more sweeter for the horrendous start to that Karachi test.

2017 champions trophy
 
1992: Adelaide 74 all out group game to world final victory vs England. Topped off by the test series win in the summer of 1992.

Calcutta 1999. Even though the test series was 1-1, losing the second test was a poor performance, but credit to Kumble and Jayaprakash. The thumping in the Calcutta test was sweet.

2006 Karachi test. Made up for 2004 and all the more sweeter for the horrendous start to that Karachi test.

2017 champions trophy
Don't forget current NZ vs India, I can't imagine anything more humilating then an Indian representing NZ humilating India in their own den after the semi final of 2023, that too in Cricket's most historic format.
 
Don't forget current NZ vs India, I can't imagine anything more humilating then an Indian representing NZ humilating India in their own den after the semi final of 2023, that too in Cricket's most historic format.
Agreed - but the kiwi’s have India’s number in tests. A very calm WTC win a few years ago too.

bUT wHy iS It pLaYeD IN eNGlanD? sO uNFaIr
 
Agreed - but the kiwi’s have India’s number in tests. A very calm WTC win a few years ago too.

bUT wHy iS It pLaYeD IN eNGlanD? sO uNFaIr
Indian fans are just upset so let them cry and whine.

Their all still under the delusion that I stopped supporting them when I never supported them.

I only got more aggressive with them because they started shoving Tendulkar and Kohli and Bumrah into my ear so I had to grind them into reality a bit.

All their moments + their team + their players are no where near as good as they believe themselves to be.

No player in the world like Dhoni would get a biopic or be considered a god like Sachin if they weren't born in India.

Sachin is an atg, Dhoni is an okay player good in odi weak and bang average in other formats and bang average overseas, but has been turned into an atg by Indians making movies about him.
 
Indian fans are just upset so let them cry and whine.

Their all still under the delusion that I stopped supporting them when I never supported them.

I only got more aggressive with them because they started shoving Tendulkar and Kohli and Bumrah into my ear so I had to grind them into reality a bit.

All their moments + their team + their players are no where near as good as they believe themselves to be.

No player in the world like Dhoni would get a biopic or be considered a god like Sachin if they weren't born in India.

Sachin is an atg, Dhoni is an okay player good in odi weak and bang average in other formats and bang average overseas, but has been turned into an atg by Indians making movies about him.
Bro very soon, you’ll be convinced that Tendulkar was an overrated stat padder. Stick around! 😂
 
Bro very soon, you’ll be convinced that Tendulkar was an overrated stat padder. Stick around! 😂
I put Tendulkar in my atg 11 pdi and test team as I feel he deserves to be their.

I just don't believe in hiding behind folklore myths to appease toxic Indians.

For example Indian fans have made excuses after excuses againat me for 2003 wc final talking about Mcgrath and all that.

Like bro they need to keep quiet, What have I said that's wrong?

First off Indian fans are telling that their isnt a single batter who dominated Mcgrath but are all telling me that Sachin is a god and the best of the best?

The excuse that Sachin couldn't do anything because the score was 360 something and mcgrath was bowling doesn't work if you lot glorify Sachin as a god who is completly invulnerable.

A god of cricket should not be mellowed down by a human.

Secondly Sehwag performed spectacularly that day, his team let him down, Had Sachin and the other batters supported sehwag the outcome would have been much closer as Sehwag was attacking and sehwag didn't have much trouble with aussie bowlers?

So you're telling me the entire unit including God had issues but sehwag did not?

That's my issue, Indian fans need to learn that Sachin had plenty of faults and he isn't some sort of messiah. Just like any player in history he's had awful moments, Has caused his team to lose and while he has match winning innings, he also has some misbah stat pad losing innings in his long career.

He's a terrific batsmen but the whole most complete batter ever is total nonsense.

Had Sachin been born anywhere else these Indian fans would be agreeing with me, but they won't cause Sachin has the indian tag.
 
Nothing is bigger in cricket than the comeback of Indian team after getting 36 all out in Australia. It will be talked about in decades to come as the greatest revenge in entire history of cricket since the inception of this great sport.

With main players out and back to the wall:

1. They won in MCG Boxing test

2. Drew in Sydney with a partnership between Ashwin and Vihary

3. And finally breached the fortress Gabba and defeated Australia there after 43 years with a bowling attack of T.Natarajan, Siraj, Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar.

No series can beat this.
 
Venkatesh Prasad clean bowled of Aamir Sohail after Aamer Sohail pointed towards the boundary saying he's going to hit in that direction. One of the best moments of Indian cricket in the 90s.
 
Nothing is bigger in cricket than the comeback of Indian team after getting 36 all out in Australia. It will be talked about in decades to come as the greatest revenge in entire history of cricket since the inception of this great sport.

With main players out and back to the wall:

1. They won in MCG Boxing test

2. Drew in Sydney with a partnership between Ashwin and Vihary

3. And finally breached the fortress Gabba and defeated Australia there after 43 years with a bowling attack of T.Natarajan, Siraj, Shardul Thakur and Washington Sundar.

No series can beat this.
Yea best ever test series in history of test cricket .

That's why Australia is very desperate for taking revenge this time . Watch out for their pockets as well .:ssmith
 
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