Best match saving innings you have seen

[slippy]

Mine has to be Michael Vaughans 105 against Sri lanka in Kandy, 2003.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Daren Powell batting more than an hour and Fidel Edwards batting more than half an hour to save WI v England at St. John's last year.

 

[G.I.Joe]

GG's marathon effort in NZ.

 

[Goughy]

You say match saving innings to an Englishman of my age then only 1 thing springs to mind. Athers.

 

[Shri]

Laxman's 281 vs Australia.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Ponting's @ OT in 2005 must be up there.

 

[slippy]

Mark Waugh 115 not out against south Africa at the Adelaide oval in 1999.

 

[silentstriker]

Laxman's 281 vs Australia.

That's match winning not saving though.

 

[Shri]

That's match winning not saving though.

Both saving and winning. He saved it first and then stayed out there to make it a winning knock. He hit that when India were following on.

 

[GIMH]

Jimmeh & Monty's heroic stand in Cardiff >>>>> anything anyone has or will mention

 

[fredfertang]

You say match saving innings to an Englishman of my age then only 1 thing springs to mind. Athers.

Agreed - no contest

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Jimmeh & Monty's heroic stand in Cardiff >>>>> anything anyone has or will mention

Psssht. Not even the best of the year.

 

[GIMH]

Oh, you preferred Colly & Onions?

 

[four_or_six]

You say match saving innings to an Englishman of my age then only 1 thing springs to mind. Athers.

This, definitely.

 

[Uppercut]

Daren Powell batting more than an hour and Fidel Edwards batting more than half an hour to save WI v England at St. John's last year.

Haha, Powell's biggest achievement in that innings was being bad enough that none of his horrid attempts at a pull shot actually connected.

Immediately thought of Athers too.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Haha, Powell's biggest achievement in that innings was being bad enough that none of his horrid attempts at a pull shot actually connected.

And England still couldn't get him out?

 

[fredfertang]

Lancashire obviously saw something in that innings - after all he can't have been signed for his bowling

 

[zaremba]

Gary Kirsten's double hundred v England

Mark Greatbatch 146no (nearly 11 hours) v Australia at Perth in 89/90 (didn't see it but it sounded pretty impressive)

Above all, Atherton 185no

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Lancashire obviously saw something in that innings - after all he can't have been signed for his bowling

Standard of CC. Would never happen in Sheffield Shield.

 

[Richard]

Gary Kirsten's double hundred v England

Yup, extraordinary innings.

Mark Greatbatch 146no (nearly 11 hours) v Australia at Perth in 89/90 (didn't see it but it sounded pretty impressive)

That one's a bit cheapened for me by the fact that it was in a rain-disrupted game and Australia would've won anyway had lost time been made-up.

Above all, Atherton 185no

The ultimate one really.

Another one that I always think of is Alec Stewart's 164 at Old Trafford in 1998.

Is it coincidence that so many of these came in England-vs.-South Africa games?