In article 1622@rand.mel.cocam.oz.au, gat@superb.mel.cocam.oz.au (Graeme Turner) writes:
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>>David Gower pointed out that when a batsman was injured, it was customary for the umpire to call Dead ball, so that the batsman in question could not be stumped or run out.
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>>After Lara had recovered, just before play restarted, he pointed out quite pointedly that there were 'Two balls left'.
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>This was NOT said on TV !
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>This line was posted to this newsgroup a couple of weeks ago and came from
>a match quite a few years.
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>How do I know ?
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>When Lara copped one I waited to see if the commentator would repeat the
>line. Needless to say he did not !!
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I dont know which game you were watching, but I vividly remember gower saying that in the second final. I can remember this because Steve Waugh bowled three deliveries
after after the incident, which made me burst into rapturous laughter, because I
thaught that Gower had just said the comment because he wanted to, and he thaught
three balls to go was close enough to two. I was then told by someone I was watching
the game with that one of the balls was a no ball, so the comment was not as funny as
