Allan Border

'Get nicked': Inside cheeky AB sledge that sparked iconic, gruelling Aussie classic.

“I wasn’t too sure about getting sent off in cricket and I said ‘Hey Boonie, he can’t send me off can he? “It felt like we won it. He lost 5-10kgs in that innings.” “They had to put him into an ice bath. I was thinking to myself ‘you want to go off, you’re 180 not out’. “I went and talked to Dean Jones about doing that role at No. “The umpire’s finger went up even before the appeal went up, I think he was keen to be a part of history and it was just chaos, people just running around,” Waugh said. He was really struggling. “I remember running in to try and save two runs and the ball bobbled and hit my wrist and AB was getting the teapot going,” Waugh said. I’ve go to go off’. He was trying to get fluid down but he kept throwing it back up. 3 and he jumped at the opportunity, he was over the moon ecstatic, he was back in the team.