1987
Viv Richards brutalised the Sri Lankan attack in a World Cup match in Karachi. He smote 181 from only 125 balls, and his last 81 runs came off 27 deliveries. West Indies made 360 for 4, the highest ODI total at the time, and Sri Lanka didn’t even bother trying to get them - instead they settled for a 191-run defeat with only four wickets down. Ashantha de Mel got Richards in the end, but his 1 for 97 was the most expensive ten-over spell in ODI history at that time.
1999
Another one-dayer between West Indies and Sri Lanka, and another masterclass from an all-time great. In Sharjah, Curtly Ambrose returned figures of 10-5-5-1, the second-most economical ten-over spell in one-day history. But he almost ended up on the losing side. West Indies were 115 for 6 chasing 179 before Jimmy Adams saw them home with a cool unbeaten 74.
1987
On the same day, England staged the sort of collapse that would become wearyingly familiar in one-day cricket. They needed 34 off four overs to beat Pakistan in their World Cup game in Rawalpindi with six wickets in hand but lost the plot completely as all six went down for 15 in 16 balls.