Date-stamped : 08 Dec93 - 10:05
SOURCE: The Guardian  DATE: 05 April 1993  SPO  PAGE: 16 Cricket:
Pakistan lose and tie the same match

 ESHA NESS was not the only winner to lose out this weekend. West
Indies  thought  they  had  beaten  Pakistan in the final one-day
international in Georgetown - and clinched the series 32 -  until
the match referee Raman Subba Row overruled match regulations and
declared a tie.
 The confusion occurred after hundreds of spectators poured on to
the  pitch as Ian Bishop hit what he thought were the winning two
runs. They brought the sides level,  with  West  Indies  claiming
victory on the basis of fewer wickets lost.
 However, Pakistan protested that their fielder, Wasim Akram, was
impeded  by  the  crowd.  His fumble at long on enabled Hooper to
complete the second run to take West Indies to 244 for five. Pak-
istan posted 244 for six.
 Two hours later Steve Camacho, the secretary of the West  Indies
Cricket Board of Control, announced that Subba Row had ruled that
the match was a tie.
 West Indies had seemed to have victory well in hand after Richie
Richardson hit an attacking 41. He departed stumped by Rashid La-
tif off the left-arm spin of Aamir  Sohail.  Desmond  Haynes  and
Hooper  (69  not  out)  then  shared  a  well-paced fourth-wicket
partnership of 106 to take them close to the target.
 But the return of Waqar Younis and Akram cut  the  scoring  rate
and  when Waqar dismissed Haynes for 82 in the 47th over West In-
dies still needed 21 runs to win.
 With 12 runs required from the last seven balls, Pakistan seemed
to have taken command, but a boundary by Hooper left it tantalis-
ingly poised with four needed from two deliveries. Hooper took  a
single, leaving Bishop to face the final ball.
 Pakistan's total was based around a century partnership  between
Inzamam  Ul-Haq (52) and Basit Ali (57). The pair added 103 in 20
overs after Pakistan lost Javed Miandad to be 85 for three in the
23rd over.

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(from 1994 Wisden)
The match finished with the scores level but the players left the
field believing West Indies had won, having lost one less wicket.
However, ICC referee Raman Subba Row intervened to declare a tie,
because a crowd invasion impeded the fielding side while the last
ball was still in play.  With two runs needed to equal Pakistan`s
score,  Bishop  pushed  the  ball to deep mid-on.  Even as he and
Hooper ran the first, thousands of spectators  swarmed  onto  the
ground.   Substitute Zahid Fazal returned the ball to the bowler,
Wasim Akram, who dropped it, possibly distracted  by  the  chaos.
West  Indies  accepted Subba Row`s decision as "absolutely fair".
This result, after a see-sawing match, also left the series  teid
2-2.   Pakistan got the bulk of their 244 runs during the first 7
overs and the last 17. In between, they lost momentum and wickets
against  keen bowling by Ambrose, Hooper and Cummins.  Dismissing
Lara early, they had a firm grip on the  match  until  Richardson
came in to blast 41. Even then all would have been over had Hoop-
er not been missed on 27.  Haynes helped  him  take  West  Indies
within 22 runs of their target.  Then two wickets went in succes-
sive overs, leaving 11 needed from the last.

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