DoG's Test Innings and Bowling Performances. Updates thread.

[Days of Grace]

Do it drunk

0.02 and 0.01 cuz he's a ****.

 

[Days of Grace]

1 VVS Laxman 281 Australia Kolkata 2001 22.46
2 MDKJ Perera 153* South Africa Durban 2019 22.25
3 IT Botham 149* Australia Leeds 1981 21.56
4 ST Jayasuriya 253 Pakistan Faisalabad 2004 21.49
5 BC Lara 153* Australia Bridgetown 1999 21.28
6 BKG Mendis 176 Australia Pallekele 2016 21.25
7 V Sehwag 201* Sri Lanka Galle 2008 21.05
8 GA Gooch 154* West Indies Leeds 1991 21.04
9 DG Bradman 270 England Melbourne 1937 20.96
10 Saeed Anwar 188* India Kolkata 1999 20.90
11 LD Chandimal 162* India Galle 2015 20.77
12 C Hill 188 England Melbourne 1898 20.40
13 DPMD Jayawardene 180 England Galle 2012 20.04
14 CG Greenidge 214* England Lord's 1984 19.91
15 BB McCullum 302 India Wellington 2014 19.86
16 AC Gilchrist 149* Pakistan Hobart 1999 19.85
17 FDM Karunaratne 158* South Africa Galle 2018 19.73
18 R Dravid 233 Australia Adelaide 2003 19.67
19 KS Williamson 242* Sri Lanka Wellington 2015 19.65
20 GL Jessop 104 Australia TIe Oval 1902 19.61
21 MA Butcher 173* Australia Leeds 2001 19.47
22 DL Amiss 262* West Indies Kingston 1974 19.47
23 SM Gavaskar 221 England The Oval 1979 19.47
24 C Bannerman 165* England Melbourne 1877 19.45
25 DG Bradman 299* South Africa Adelaide 1932 19.42
26 Azhar Mahmood 132 SoutI AIrica Durban 1998 19.35
27 J Darling 160 England Sydney 1898 19.24
28 CL Walcott 220 England Bridgetown 1954 19.23
29 RE Foster 287 Australia Sydney 1903 19.13
30 BC Lara 213 Australia Kingston 1999 19.00
31 DG Bradman 334 England Leeds 1930 19.00
32 DG Bradman 212 England Adelaide 1937 18.99
33 RN Harvey 167 England Melbourne 1959 18.95
34 Hanif Mohammad 337 West Indies Bridgetown 1958 18.90
35 BC Lara 226 Australia Adelaide 2005 18.86
36 Younis Khan 267 India Bengaluru 2005 18.84
37 GC Smith 154* England Birmingham 2008 18.77
38 ME Trescothick 180 South Africa Johannesburg 2005 18.73
39 Younis Khan 171* Sri Lanka Pallekele 2015 18.73
40 KC Sangakkara 232 South Africa Colombo (SSC) 2004 18.72
41 JL Langer 191 Pakistan Perth 2004 18.62
42 R Dravid 180 Australia Kolkata 2001 18.58
43 BB McCullum 224 India Auckland 2014 18.57
44 B Mitchell 164* England Lord's 1935 18.52
45 GS Sobers 168 Australia Sydney 1961 18.48
46 JE Root 190 South Africa Lord's 2017 18.47
47 L Klusener 118 Sri Lanka Kandy 2000 18.45
48 BF Butcher 133 England Lord's 1963 18.44
49 ME Waugh 116 South Africa Port Elizabeth 1997 18.43
50 KC Sangakkara 156* New Zealand Wellington 2006 18.43
51 KJ Hughes 100* West Indies Melbourne 1981 18.41
52 RT Simpson 156* Australia Melbourne 1951 18.39
53 JT Brown 140 Australia Melbourne 1895 18.38
54 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 New Zealand Lahore 2002 18.37
55 WR Endean 162 Australia Melbourne 1952 18.37
56 GA Headley 270* England Kingston 1935 18.35
57 Azhar Ali 157 England Dubai (DSC) 2012 18.35
58 S Chanderpaul 137* India Bridgetown 1997 18.26
59 JV Coney 111* Pakistan Dunedin 1985 18.25
60 DW Randall 150 Australia Sydney 1979 18.25
61 CG Greenidge 134 England Manchester 1976 18.22
62 SR Tendulkar 214 Australia Bengaluru 2010 18.22
63 SPD Smith 144 England Birmingham 2019 18.13
64 SM Gavaskar 236* West Indies Chennai 1983 18.12
65 HP Tillakaratne 115 Pakistan Faisalabad 1995 18.10
66 DPMD Jayawardene 237 South Africa Galle 2004 18.10
67 PS McDonnell 147 England Sydney 1882 18.09
68 MN Samuels 123 New Zealand Kingston 2012 18.04
69 DG Bradman 304 England Leeds 1934 18.03
70 JO Holder 202* England Bridgetown 2019 18.03
71 VT Trumper 159 South Africa Melbourne 1911 18.03
72 V Sehwag 319 South Africa Chennai 2008 18.01
73 BB McCullum 225 India Hyderabad (Deccan) 2010 17.98
74 DM Jones 184* England Sydney 1987 17.97
75 R Dravid 270 Pakistan Rawalpindi 2004 17.97
76 R Cowper 307 England Melbourne 1966 17.97
77 AD Nourse 231 Australia Johannesburg 1935 17.95
78 J Ryder 201* England Adelaide 1925 17.95
79 GR Viswanath 124 West Indies Chennai 1979 17.93
80 DI Gower 173* Pakistan Lahore 1984 17.90
81 GS Chappell 182* West Indies Sydney 1976 17.89
82 CH Gayle 333 Sri Lanka Galle 2010 17.89
83 DG Bradman 226 South Africa Brisbane 1931 17.89
84 LPRL Taylor 290 Australia Perth 2015 17.89
85 DR Martyn 161 Sri Lanka Kandy 2004 17.87
86 DG Bradman 103* England Melbourne 1933 17.87
87 MC Cowdrey 102 Australia Melbourne 1954 17.84
88 Hon.FS Jackson 128 Australia Manchester 1902 17.84
89 WR Hammond 177 Australia Adelaide 1929 17.83
90 WR Hammond 240 Australia Lord's 1938 17.82
91 CG Greenidge 226 Australia Bridgetown 1991 17.82
92 Hanif Mohammad 187* England Lord's 1967 17.82
93 PF Warner 132* South Africa Johannesburg 1899 17.81
94 KC Sangakkara 230 Pakistan Lahore 2002 17.81
95 RG Pollock 125 England Nottingham 1965 17.79
96 PHB May 285* West Indies Birmingham 1957 17.79
97 Mohammad Wasim 192 Zimbabwe Harare 1998 17.78
98 CA Pujara 123 Australia Adelaide 2018 17.78
99 MJ Clarke 151 South Africa Cape Town 2011 17.78
100 Inzamam-ul-Haq 138* Bangladesh Multan 2003 17.77

 

[Coronis]

Not a bad measure of where it should rate, discounting all the extraneous factors. Certainly the best innings I’ve witnessed of his.

 

[Burner]

I think other batsmen scoring plenty of runs is also due to the innings Smith played in the 2nd innings. If he had got out before a good lead, I think there was a very good chance Aus could have been bundled out.

 

[steve132]

I'm a bit surprised that Stan McCabe's 232 at Trent Bridge in 1938 does not make this list. Many who saw that innings - including Bradman and Compton - rate it as the best they ever witnessed.

 

[mr_mister]

I think it loses points for coming in a draw, being on a road( I assume, it was one of 7 centuries scored that game), and possibly coz England had a crappy attack? Hammond was their most accomplished test paceman and took the new ball

 

[Logan]

I assumed Perera’s innings would be the best.

1. It was scored in the 4th innings

2. He was involved in a 10th wicket partnership of 78 runs

3. The next highest score was just 48


While Laxman’s 281 was a Top 5 innings, wouldn’t Dravid’s 180 in the same innings deduct a few points from Laxman’s innings?

 

[ankitj]

Noticed Dravid, Sanga and Lara have 3 entries each. That's awesome. As far as I notice those are the only 3 to get 3 or more entries. Bradman is fictitious cricketer.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Who's the best batsman without an entry there? Hobbs, Hutton, Viv, Kallis, Border all miss out.

 

[ankitj]

Who's the best batsman without an entry there? Hobbs, Hutton, Viv, Kallis, Border all miss out.

Ponting too.

 

[vcs]

Kohli.

Surprised his Edgbaston knock or the Adelaide ton from 2014 didn't make the list.

EDIT : Also, Kallis's 2nd innings knock against India at Cape Town 2011.

 

[Burgey]

Absence of Border’s 98* and 100* away to the WI in 1984 makes a mockery of what is otherwise an exceptional exercise in weighted analysis.

 

[mr_mister]

I think as a rule you need at least 100 runs so only one of those innings had a chance anyway

Interesting that Dean Jones fabled 210 didn't make it but his 184 in a dead rubber did.

I know you can't account for the heat in your formula but I'd still thought it might push it.

Is the state of the series taken into account at all? And is the fact that his 210 came in a tie and not a win quite damning? Are they nearly all innings scored in wins?

 

[Spikey]

I'm a bit surprised that Stan McCabe's 232 at Trent Bridge in 1938 does not make this list. Many who saw that innings - including Bradman and Compton - rate it as the best they ever witnessed.

I think he loses some points on a couple of things based on the criteria in the OP. For example, they were 6 other tons scored in the game. The highest partnership he was involved in was just 77, albeit with the 10th wicket. The S/R is only a minor part of the overall score, but it very much seems the S/R is why the innings was so beloved at the time, as laid out in Wisden

A record of these facts is a necessary preliminary to a description of the amazing batting which followed from McCabe and gave such an epic turn to the game. Six wickets were down for 194 and then McCabe, assisted in turn by three left-hand batsmen - Barnett, O'Reilly and McCormick - altered the whole aspect of affairs. In a little less than four hours, McCabe scored 232 out of 300 - his highest score in a Test match. His driving was tremendously hard, he hooked short balls with certainty and power, one off Farnes yielding a six, and he showed real genius in batting Hammond's efforts to keep him away from the bowling. While McCabe was running riot, the England captain delayed calling for the new ball and took other measures in the hope of keeping down runs, but the Australia, having completed his first hundred in two hours, twenty minutes, proceeded to score 4's much more readily. Wright was hit for 44 runs off three successive overs. Although he traveled so fast, McCabe did not offer a real chance, but once Edrich made a plucky effort to hold a ball hooked with terrific power. In the last ten overs bowled to him, McCabe took the strike in eight and hit 16 of his thirty-four 4's and in a last wickets stand of 77 with Fleetwood-Smith he scored 72 in 28 minutes. His glorious innings ended in a fitting way for in attempting a big hit off Verity he skied the ball to cover.

Wisden - England v Australia 1938

 

[ankitj]

DoG please

 

[OverratedSanity]

Anyone have any theories why these absurdly good innings have been rising in frequency in recent years.

 

[vcs]

Will be a travesty if it doesn't make the top 3.

 

[Cabinet96]

Anyone have any theories why these absurdly good innings have been rising in frequency in recent years.

More test batsman are capable of batting aggressively. Clobbering sixes with everyone on the fence on a 4th day pitch was considered almost impossible until the last decade or so.

 

[marc71178]

Anyone have any theories why these absurdly good innings have been rising in frequency in recent years.

I reckon Stokes’ today almost stems from the amount of one day cricket he’s played. When Broad got out he basically thought “**** it” for a few overs and backed himself to hit any bowler for 6. Then when it got closer he improvised a bit (ramp then switch hit) because that’s where the gaps were.

Just waiting for stephen to assess it as downhill skiing now.

 

[Logan]

Better than Lara 153* but slightly behind Perera’s 153*