Top 10 Most Memorable Cricket Matches Of The Last Decade

It would go on to be some of the most memorable games played over the last ten years as I recount all that happened, game by game.

1. 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup Final: England vs. New Zealand

Date: July 14, 2019
Venue: Lord's, London
Summary: For the first time in the world cup history an incident is going to be witnessed here wherein a match played between two of the heavy weights of the game goes to the Super Over as match and Super Over too are tied, however England outsmarted West Indies with an upper hand in count of boundaries at the end but historic in finishing one of the most memorable cricketing history has ever witnessed.

Date: April 3, 2016
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Summary: West Indies needed 19 of the last over and it was Carlos Brathwaite who went into the books of T20 cricket history as he hit four successive sixes that took the game out of Ben Stokes' hands and handed it to West Indies.

Date: June 18th, 2017
Venue: The Oval, London
Summary: The honeymoon period of the new administration swept Pakistan to a win as Pakistan shocked India by a 180-run victory thereby getting themselves into the book of history as one of the greatest upsets of all time. Fakhr perched on to enter the elite club of centurions with his hundred and some sizzling bowling by Mohammed Amir did their part to ensure the win for Pakistan.

Date: July 10-14, 2013
Venue: Trent Bridge, Nottingham
This was a Test match that England won, but only by 14 runs. The agony and the ecstasy of the three tests, however, revolved around the unbelievable feats of bat and ball by James Anderson, who takes away 10 wickets and a career debut by Ashton Agar, going into history as he smashed all records as a No 11 batsman.

Date: March 24, 2015
Venue: Eden Park, Auckland
Summary: It was all drama and to the letter when the complete tonic semi-final began on the right note with Grant Elliott whacking a six of the last but one ball; it was for the first time in history, New Zealand went into the final of the cricket World Cup. South Africa left shattered by this thriller that came with the rain playing its part.

Date: March 22-26, 2018
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town
This case of ball tampering is also very notorious in which the cricket players of Australia are notable. This match was also quite at the mercy of the scandal of ball tampering but this really hurt the Australian Cricket department.

Date: August 22-25, 2019
Venue: Headingley, Leeds
He has played one of all-time great innings of all time with his contribution to a match-winning, unbeaten score of 135 and chasing down 359 runs for an edge-of-the-seat one-wicket win for England.

Date: November 2, 2014
Venue: Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
India finally reach 360 in 43.3 overs without losing a wicket. Rohit Sharma 141* and Virat Kohli have set the record for the fastest hundred an Indian has made in ODIs and this was for 52 balls.

Date: November 13-17, 2015
Venue: WACA, Perth
Test Preview: The Test is remembered for Ross Taylor's 290 - the highest by a visiting batsman in Australia - and David Warner's twin hundreds that helped pull off a high-scoring draw.

Date: March 18, 2012
Venue: Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium, Dhaka
With a full-charged victory-crusade chase of 330, imposed by Pakistan on India as their innings wrapped up that of West Indians', Virat Kohli set firecrackers sparkling. It is one of the most memorable innings in ODIs.

The matches do not only keep glued audiences in front of the screen but also write the drama of how cricket is a truly global spectacle.

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