India vs England
13 July 2002
Sourav Ganguly removed his shirt and waved it from the Lord's balcony after India's dramatic NatWest Trophy victory, in response to Andrew Flintoff's similar act in Mumbai.
Pakistan vs Australia
2002-10-11
The contest between Shoaib Akhtar's 100mph+ pace and Matthew Hayden's muscular counter-attacking technique across the 2002 Pakistan-Australia series produced cricket's most violent battle between raw pace and deliberate power batting.
New Zealand vs England
2002-03-15
Nathan Astle scored the fastest double century in Test history in just 153 balls, turning an impossible chase into cricket's most entertaining assault on bowling.
Pakistan vs New Zealand
8 May 2002
New Zealand abandoned their tour of Pakistan in 2002 after a bomb blast outside their hotel in Karachi killed 14 people, marking one of the earliest security-related disruptions to international cricket.
India vs England
2002-07-13
India needed 146 off 25 overs with 5 wickets down in the NatWest Trophy Final. Mohammed Kaif (87*) and Yuvraj Singh (69) guided India to victory, with Sourav Ganguly memorably removing his shirt on the Lord's balcony to celebrate.
Pakistan vs New Zealand
2002-09-02
Inzamam-ul-Haq scored 329 for Pakistan against New Zealand in Lahore — Pakistan's highest individual Test score — in an innings of controlled authority that lasted 571 minutes and placed him among the great Test batsmen of his era.