Sanvir Singh’s power show lights up Sher-E-Punjab
The Fazilka Falcons captain turned a record price tag into runs, sixes and match-defining performances.
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One wicket, 359 runs and the innings that keeps getting harder to explain
England were bowled out for 67 in the first innings at Headingley in 2019 and still won the Test. Ben Stokes finished 135 not out, with Jack Leach on one.
The treble that was built in midfield, not in front of goal
Manchester City won the league, the FA Cup and the Champions League in 2023. The tactical decision that made it possible was moving a full back into the centre.
Two championship points saved, and the first Wimbledon final decided at 12-12
Djokovic beat Federer 13-12 in the fifth in 2019, the first year a final set tie-break existed at Wimbledon. Federer served for the match at 8-7.
The twisties, the withdrawal, and the three years that followed it
Simone Biles withdrew from five finals in Tokyo after losing her spatial awareness mid-air. She came back and won again, which is the part the sport is still learning from.
Four goals down and through: the only comeback of its kind in the European Cup
Barcelona lost 4-0 in Paris and won the return 6-1, the winner arriving in the ninety-fifth minute. No side had overturned a four-goal first-leg deficit before, and none has since.
The chase at the Gabba that ended a 32-year record, with a team nobody picked
India arrived in Brisbane in January 2021 without four of their first-choice bowlers, chased 328 on the final day and ended Australia's unbeaten run at the ground.
Ten matches, no sets dropped: the qualifier who won a major
Emma Raducanu came through three qualifying rounds and seven in the main draw at the 2021 US Open without losing a set. Nobody had done it before.
1:59:40 in Vienna, and why it was never going to be a world record
Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon distance in under two hours in October 2019. The conditions that made it possible are exactly the ones that disqualified it.
Three comebacks and a final: how Real Madrid won a European Cup they were outplayed in
Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and Manchester City were all ahead on aggregate and all went out. Then Madrid beat Liverpool with a quarter of the possession.
A final that finished level twice and was decided by a counting rule
England and New Zealand tied at 241 at Lord's in 2019, tied the super over at 15, and the trophy went on boundaries. The rule was changed the following year.