Champagne moment of the summer

Your Champagne moment of the summer:

Mine would be, any time we actually got some cricket with all the darn rain.

Amla getting to the triple

KP hitting Steyn for six.



Stout moment:

England dropping Amla.

I think Tino Best reaching his 50 was something of a champagne moment.

Otherwise I think you've got to go with Amla.

Champagne moment :

Amla's triple for me. The first to do it for SA and with such quality as well.

Worst moment :

Resignation of Strauss.

Shelsey93 wrote:I think Tino Best reaching his 50 was something of a champagne moment.

Otherwise I think you've got to go with Amla.

Good one, imagine if he got the hundred.

Ravi hitting that huge Six to bring up his hundred at Trent Bridge

skyeman wrote:Ravi hitting that huge Six to bring up his hundred at Trent Bridge

Lets hope!

Shelsey93 wrote:

skyeman wrote:Ravi hitting that huge Six to bring up his hundred at Trent Bridge

Lets hope!

facepalm

I think KP smashing Steyn straight back over his head for six has to take it. Simply awesome.

Fists of Fury wrote:I think KP smashing Steyn straight back over his head for six has to take it. Simply awesome.

Has to be meeting the Corporal, ChichesterSurreyFan and Carrotdude.

Not even Pietersen's unbeaten double hundred the next day gets close!

Champagne moment.

Amla "I'm not even the second best batsman in my team"

Biltong wrote:Champagne moment.

Amla "I'm not even the second best batsman in my team"

So humble.

And after scoring that 150 in the first ODI, he said "you need a bit of luck to score that".

Personally my highlight/highlights have been Hashim Alma's batting.

311 at the Oval
100 at Lords
150 at the Rose Bowl
97 at Trent Bridge

He's been unreal for sometime now!

I'm glad he plays for my team!

Gerry SA wrote:Personally my highlight/highlights have been Hashim Alma's batting.

311 at the Oval
100 at Lords
150 at the Rose Bowl
97 at Trent Bridge

He's been unreal for sometime now!

I'm glad he plays for my OUR team!

Fixed that for ya.

As good as Amla has been though, and he has been extraordinarily good, I can't look past the fact that, if England could catch, he would only have passed 50 once (maybe twice) in this entire tour. That sours it somewhat for me, particularly given that they were almost all relatively simple chances.

Still, can't argue with his batting being the champagne moment, though perhaps Pietersen's 149 is the most worthy of the word, given the explosive nature in which it was unleashed, just as champagne is from the bottle.

It has to be KP's hundred.

Boycott on the Tuffers and Vaughn show; A question was asked and Boycott said "Sorry i have to watch csi" and he hung up the phone.

And Boycott meeting Alice Cooper, don't think he had a clue who he was.

guildfordbat wrote:Has to be meeting the Corporal, ChichesterSurreyFan and Carrotdude.

Not even Pietersen's unbeaten double hundred the next day gets close!

Guildford - the pleasure was as much for us Surrey "3Cs" . Maybe ought to be classified as more of a "satisfying pint" kind of moment....!

My champagne moment - at least when staring at Cricinfo - was recently when Batty took the last Middlesex wicket after prolonged last wicket partnership, so we finally won the match by 8 runs that had seemed to have slipped right away from us with a succession of lower order partnerships....

Off subject ever so slightly and without trying to sound too pro cricket section. This is one of the most sensible and straight talking sections on 606 v2. I read practically all the sections, bar the fishing {no offence intended} and although we do have the odd spat on here and get riled by the odd poster, it never leads to an all out slanging match, which on certain sections it invariably does.

Keep it going guys and hopefully we can gain some new additions to the section.

Champagne toast to you all.

skyeman wrote:Off subject ever so slightly and without trying to sound too pro cricket section. This is one of the most sensible and straight talking sections on 606 v2. I read practically all the sections, bar the fishing {no offence intended} and although we do have the odd spat on here and get riled by the odd poster, it never leads to an all out slanging match, which on certain sections it invariably does.

Keep it going guys and hopefully we can gain some new additions to the section.

Champagne toast to you all.

Yep, although I do think the spats have been a little more regular of late. Lets keep up the good work

Really? Even sonic boom has been quite reasonable for the most part and made some actual contributions recently.
The abuse is rarely personal (Im not going to mention a certain individual who riled me recently mind) and almost always aimed at Ravi Bopara, so as long as he doesnt start posting here we can live in peace for the most part.

With minor exceptions the standard of debate on the cricket boards has been very good. There are some excellent posters....

My champagne moment has been revised today - to the moment Surrey bowled out Notts to ensure survival, after season comprising tragedy (Tom Maynard), under achievement, and controversy. Finally the team has got it together for several matches in a row....

guildfordbat wrote:Has to be meeting the Corporal, ChichesterSurreyFan and Carrotdude.

Not even Pietersen's unbeaten double hundred the next day gets close!

It was great to meet up! - I've really appreciated everyone's expertise on this Board.. although at present I don't get to see nearly enough cricket for my liking... 1 day a year at Guildford (and lets be honest, with the weather in recent years... its amounted to about 1/2 to a 1/3 day's county cricket a season!)... reading all the excellent contributions.. does bring one much closer to what's going on... Agree with other comments... this board is blessed by really good, knowledgable contributors, also with a good sense of humour too!

I think Surrey's win against Middx and that last wicket probably has to be my moment.. especially given how agonising our defeat was against Middx earlier in the season.... Who knows but imho, I think if we'd lost that match against Middx, there would have been no coming back... what made it all the more extraordinary was that dreadful 1st day... After the mauling that Durham gave us... and then the awful 1st day against Middx... to then come back and win, albeit only just! was definitely a moment!

I'm sure, Guilford bat.. that come the long dark winter evenings.. you'll be able to think back to that Peterson double hundred... when I heard about it the next day... I have to say I was gutted that we'd missed it by 1 day! but so glad you were there to appreciate it! Can't wait for next season to start...

Chichester - lovely post.

You make an extremely good point as to how dreadfully things would have probably ended up if we had lost to Middlesex.

Btw, I believe Mike Selig has copyright on the spelling of ''Guilford'' ....

Hi Guildfordbat.... apologies for my appalling typing... Is there a breach of copyright fee to pay?!! - apologies to everyone... Us Surrey fans are not trying to hijack this thread... but I'm sure many county cricket fans out there will appreciate what a difficult season it has been for the club with the off field tragedy... hence our champagne moments being a bit Surreycentric with the overwhelming sense of relief that we've managed to stay up! - I also must apologise for saying in my last post that I couldn't wait for the next season to start.. as the current season is not over and there are the crucial last fixtures for Div 2 teams in the mix for promotion...

Mine is not on the field, but everytime I heard the "England should win this easily" line when playing against the Proteas.