What if....my version

Like I had the first mover advantage in the previous topic, you have it this time which makes my task relatively tougher. You have picked the cream of our cricket watching career already – but really that’s a silly excuse isn’t it?

This is mine:

1.What if Indo-Pak partition didn’t happen?
2.What if Shane Warne was born in India?
3.What if Sachin had connected that doosra from Saqlain cleanly?
4.What if BC Cooray didn’t come in the way of that Richardson’s thunderbolt of a sweep?
5.What if India had been knocked out in the first round of T20 World Cup in SA?
6.What if Healy had caught that Lara’s outside edge in Bridgetown?
7.What if that scoop of Kasprowicz was dropped by Geraint Jones?
8.What if Walsh wasn’t such a wonderful sportsman (remember he didn’t mankad Saleem Jaffar in the 1987 WC which cost them a semi-final berth)
9.What if Barry Richards had a long career (and did a Hussey)? – so that we would have known the real greatness of the man!
10.What if Steve Bucknor didn’t turn both deaf and blind at once in Sydney?

These are surely not my top 10 what if’s, but these are the 10 most spontaneous ones as of now…

What if..........

“The greatest of all mysteries is What if”, writes Forsyth in his book The Odessa File.
As the book is about the Holocaust, that’s a big what if. This comes in the aftermath of the Kennedy assassination. What if Kennedy had gone in the car with the roof closed?
How would have that changed the history of the world? What if the Nazis had won the second world war? These are questions for which you would never know the answers unless, you believe in parallel universes where u have a different version of the events going on.

So what has that got to do with cricket? Well, here are my ten biggest What ifs in cricket.

1. What if Viv Richards hadn’t played “that shot” or connected cleanly?

2. What if Donald had run instantly in the last over?

3. What if rain hadn’t intervened during the SA-England semi final WC 92?

4. What if Ravi Shastri had refused to take the single of the fourth ball of the final over leaving him two balls to get two runs at Chennai?

5. What if Gatting had come down the track and connected the slow looping leg break on the full?

6. What if Azhar had opted to bat in the semi final of WC 96?

7. What if Mcgrath hadn’t stepped on the ball before Edgbaston ’05?

8. What if Steve Waugh had opted to bat in the second innings of Calcutta Test?

9. What if Kapil Dev had chosen someone else other than Chetan Sharma to bowl the last over?

10. What if Mike Gatting had not played the reverse sweep?

So what are your what ifs?????