Best performances over a series

[Burgey]

Have to agree with SS's inital post.

Would also add:

Short series batting - Hayden v India in 2001
Long series batting - surprised no one mentioned Bradman 1930 v England - 974 runs; Richards v England 1976 - I think he scored 900 odd runs as well; and M Taylor v England 1989 - 800+ runs.

 

[silentstriker]

Long series batting - surprised no one mentioned Bradman 1930 v England - 974 runs;

Maybe because I stated that only performances that you've watched live count.

 

[gwo]

Only limit to those you have seen live (on the ground or on TV). And this is performances over a series, not a match or a game.

How about Chanders v Aus 2008 just recently?

118, 11, 107*, 77*, 79*, 50 (also 25% of his teams runs)

 

[Burgey]

Maybe because I stated that only performances that you've watched live count.

Yeah, like I said "I'm not surprised no one's mentioned Bradman coz it's only series we've seen"

 

[gwo]

Some more Imperious Batting performances

Ponting v West Indies 2003
117, 42, 206, 45, 113, DNB

Average: 130.75 (25% of teams runs...but australia only really had 3 full innings)


Hussey v Sri Lanka 07/08
132, 133, 34*

Average: 149.50

S. Waugh v Sri Lanka 95/96
131*, DNB, 170, 61*

Average: 362 (29% of team runs)

 

[subshakerz]

The greatest bowling performance over a long series:

Imran Khan's 40 wickets vs. a mighty Indian batting lineup on dead pitches in 82-83. An all-time great fast bowler at his peak with express pace and complete control of new ball and reverse swing.

 

[aussie]

For batting i'd have to go for Lara vs SRI 01 & AUS 99, Laxman vs AUS 01 & Tendulkar vs AUS 98.

Fast bowling: McGrath 97 vs ENG & 99 vs WI, Akhtar 05 vs ENG & Freddie in 05. Also honourable mentioned to Darren Gough efforts in the winter of 2000/01 vs PAK & SRI.

Spin bowling: Harbhajan 01 easily with honourable mentions to Warne in 05 & vs SRI in 04 on his comeback.

 

[Jono]

For crying out loud, your knowledge of CWers is poor. Unbelievable that someone with 18,500 posts can not know how old someone with 32,000 posts is!

Camps is 21.

I don't think you can expect that of people, no matter how many posts they have. Whether it be names or how old they are.

 

[wpdavid]

A couple of contributions from Viv

Long series - 1976 in England - 829 runs at 118.
Scores of 232, 63, 4, 135, 66, 38 and 291 (he missed one of the tests)

Short series - 1979/80 in Australia - 386 runs at 96
Scores of 140, 96, 76 and 74 against various combinations of Lillee, Hogg, Thomson, Pascoe & Dymock

EDIT
I've just spotted the bit where I was suppsoed to have watched the contribution, which wasn't actually the case for the series in Aus. I'll leave it there unless guys like Social & Burgey who I think would've seen it reckon it wasn't all I've cracked it up to be.

 

[Uppercut]

How about Chanders v Aus 2008 just recently?

118, 11, 107*, 77*, 79*, 50 (also 25% of his teams runs)

Awesome performances, but the pitches suited batting a lot better than the ones in England the previous year.

 

[Migara]

Short series batting:

A/ Brian Lara vs Sri Lanka 2001 (he scored 42% of West Indies runs in the series)
Scores: 178, 40, 74, 45, 221, 130. And IIRC he got a couple of bad decisions in that series too..

He got ridiculously lucky. Vaas took 26 wickets in that series, and plumb lbw's against Lara off Vaas was turned down more than ten times during the series. If all those were given, Lara would have averaged below 30. He did master Murali in that series, but was Vaas' bitch throughout the series. (**** off those SL umpires!)

 

[silentstriker]

Don't avoid the filter Miagra.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

He got ridiculously lucky. Vaas took 26 wickets in that series, and plumb lbw's against Lara off Vaas was turned down more than ten times during the series. If all those were given, Lara would have averaged below 30. He did master Murali in that series, but was Vaas' bitch throughout the series. (**** off those SL umpires!)

Haha. Likely story.

 

[Jono]

Don't avoid the filter Miagra.

Lol, sorry but I'm too curious so I I have to ask. Did you edit his post and actually type the f-word, or did you just write four stars (****)?

 

[silentstriker]

Lol, sorry but I'm too curious so I I have to ask. Did you edit his post and actually type the f-word, or did you just write four stars (****)?

Same thing isn't it? For the record, I typed in the word.

 

[Jono]

Its the same thing as a result, but I wanted to see if you actually corrected the purposely avoided filter word and wrote the actual swear word properly spelt out. I find it quite humoruous that you did

 

[aussie tragic]

Best series performance ever seen....unfortunately it was from an Englishman that should have been born an Aussie

Sir Ian Botham, 1981, 6 tests, 391 runs @ 36.41 and 34 wkts @ 24.65, however the real brilliance was after the first 2 tests when he shed the captaincy… Results after:

4 Tests, 365 runs @ 52.14 and 28 wkts @ 19.67

Probably the best allround performance ever

 

[Migara]

Don't avoid the filter Miagra.

You mean that accidently I pressed on the wrong keys? You can assure that it will be a very rare thing to happen.

 

[zaremba]

Best series performance ever seen....unfortunately it was from an Englishman that should have been born an Aussie

Sir Ian Botham, 1981, 6 tests, 391 runs @ 36.41 and 34 wkts @ 24.65, however the real brilliance was after the first 2 tests when he shed the captaincy… Results after:

4 Tests, 365 runs @ 52.14 and 28 wkts @ 19.67

Probably the best allround performance ever

Agreed.

Short series batting: Gooch v India 1990: 333, 123, 116, 7, 85, 88. Not the strongest bowling attack ever fielded by India but in terms of a pure demolition job it's pretty much unrivalled.

 

[GIMH]

Average of 124, not too shabby