Most shocking/unbelievable finishes you saw

[Lori]

Cal Stanford.

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[Lori]

I'm still trying to go through things that made me shout/laugh/cry or just be amazed. Sadly this next one is almost impossible to explain to an American audience, yet it is truly ridiculous and shocking.
It will lose something in the explanation which I've put below the link for anyone wanting to brave it.

South Africa knock themselves out of the cricket world cup


Cricket is basically baseball but where each base counts as a run, and you run backwards and forwards between home and first.

Scoring one run is pretty easy. (Smashing a home run is worth six, Hitting a ground rule double is worth four) You just need to hit the ball far enough that you can run to the other end before someone throws the ball there. Just like running to first base, except cricket bats are bigger.

In this game, the only number you need to look at in the first half of the video is the one that starts off at around 106 in the bottom left. This is Sri Lanka's score and it is what S.A. will need to beat.

When they show SA batting is where it gets very messy.
When it rains, a reasonably tricky formula is applied to work out who wins. SA have battled their way into position where they are big faves to win and it begins to pour with rain.

The commentators know that SA need to score one run without getting out off the final ball. Something at this stage that is very easy.
However the SA batsman has got the message that all he has to do is not get out. He therefore plays the ball gently along the ground (you don't have to run when you hit the ball in cricket if you don't want to) to be completely safe and because of the miscommunication, this ensures their elimination from the tournament.

Lori (Explanation partially included because of recent threads questioning what cricket is)

[Quadstriker]

Thanks for the explanation, I'm still trying to figure this Cricket thing out...

[Lori]

Excuse the roll I'm on here.... figure that there will be a few English ones that people in the USA would never hear about. I'm trying to ignore a few famous, but basically boring ones.(Like us winning the soccer world cup.)

In this one, Carlisle are the bottom team of the bottom professional soccer division. If they stay that way, they will be relegated to the amateur leagues. The score is 1-1 and they've already played 5 minutes of stoppage time.
The goalkeeper decides there is nothing to lose and prevents the club from being relegated and possibly even liquidated due to large debt. The fans are quite happy about this [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img] Keep your eyes on where the referee ends up.

Jimmy Glass goal

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