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Cataloguing the best innings of X runs in test history
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52 runs:
Richie Benaud vs WI, Tied Test: A partnership with Davidson in one of the most famous tests ever which almost took Aus to victory from a hopeless position. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-1st-test-62888/full-scorecard)
Honourable mention: Bhuvneshwar Kumar vs Eng, Lords' 2014: Like Benaud, joined his ATG southpaw allrounder at the crease and lifts his team out of trouble on a treacherous pitch. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...india-2nd-investec-test-667713/full-scorecard)
53 runs:
MAK Pataudi vs Aus: Followed up his gutsy 86 in the first innings with an innings that dragged India from 122-6 to a 2 wicket win. Obviously like every other great Pataudi knock, it was made with one good eye. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...ia-vs-australia-2nd-test-62953/full-scorecard)
Honourable mention: Shaun Marsh vs India, Ranchi 2017: After the cheat failed when it mattered most and left the team in a hole, it was left to ever dependable Shaun Marsh and Peter handscomb to use their bats to block and not comb and they just about managed it (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-australia-3rd-test-1062575/full-scorecard)
Richie Benaud vs WI, Tied Test: A partnership with Davidson in one of the most famous tests ever which almost took Aus to victory from a hopeless position. https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-1st-test-62888/full-scorecard)
Honourable mention: Bhuvneshwar Kumar vs Eng, Lords' 2014: Like Benaud, joined his ATG southpaw allrounder at the crease and lifts his team out of trouble on a treacherous pitch. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...india-2nd-investec-test-667713/full-scorecard)
53 runs:
MAK Pataudi vs Aus: Followed up his gutsy 86 in the first innings with an innings that dragged India from 122-6 to a 2 wicket win. Obviously like every other great Pataudi knock, it was made with one good eye. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...ia-vs-australia-2nd-test-62953/full-scorecard)
Honourable mention: Shaun Marsh vs India, Ranchi 2017: After the cheat failed when it mattered most and left the team in a hole, it was left to ever dependable Shaun Marsh and Peter handscomb to use their bats to block and not comb and they just about managed it (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-australia-3rd-test-1062575/full-scorecard)
Shady Slim
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reminds me of mitch starc bowling offies in the uae
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Honourable mentions:
CB Fry vs SA, 1907: The only fifty in a game where barely 400 runs were scored in total.
Junior Murray vs India 1994: India might have sealed the series here and taken over as the best team in the world (well not really) by becoming the first team to beat WI in 14 years if Murray hadnt added a 100 runs with padams. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-2nd-test-63661/full-scorecard)
But really cant go past Jason Gillespie violating NZ's already dead corpse on live TV. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-new-zealand-1st-test-64107/full-scorecard). If pure humiliation porn had to be embodied in one image it'd be this
CB Fry vs SA, 1907: The only fifty in a game where barely 400 runs were scored in total.
Junior Murray vs India 1994: India might have sealed the series here and taken over as the best team in the world (well not really) by becoming the first team to beat WI in 14 years if Murray hadnt added a 100 runs with padams. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-2nd-test-63661/full-scorecard)
But really cant go past Jason Gillespie violating NZ's already dead corpse on live TV. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-new-zealand-1st-test-64107/full-scorecard). If pure humiliation porn had to be embodied in one image it'd be this
ankitj
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Wicketkeeper Prince Inderjeetsinhji - related to the great Ranji. Interesting.
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55 runs:
Some excellent 55s include:
-This Larry Gomes innings in the Kim hughes game, where he took WI from 10-4 to a small first innings lead (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-1st-test-63304/full-scorecard)
-Two 55s from the same game by Martyn and Sachin on a pitch where getting to double digits was a good effort (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...ia-vs-australia-4th-test-64102/full-scorecard)
- Brad Haddin atoning for the worst shot of all time in the previous game (well second worst after the Hussey coverdrive according to @Spark) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...a-vs-australia-2nd-test-514030/full-scorecard
Winner: Hugh Massie murdering English cricket in 1882. Apart from the obvious historical significance of the game, an almost run a ball 55 in a game where only one other batsman crossed 30 looks pretty remarkable on the scorecard. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...d-vs-australia-only-test-62404/full-scorecard)
Some excellent 55s include:
-This Larry Gomes innings in the Kim hughes game, where he took WI from 10-4 to a small first innings lead (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-vs-west-indies-1st-test-63304/full-scorecard)
-Two 55s from the same game by Martyn and Sachin on a pitch where getting to double digits was a good effort (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...ia-vs-australia-4th-test-64102/full-scorecard)
- Brad Haddin atoning for the worst shot of all time in the previous game (well second worst after the Hussey coverdrive according to @Spark) https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...a-vs-australia-2nd-test-514030/full-scorecard
Winner: Hugh Massie murdering English cricket in 1882. Apart from the obvious historical significance of the game, an almost run a ball 55 in a game where only one other batsman crossed 30 looks pretty remarkable on the scorecard. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...d-vs-australia-only-test-62404/full-scorecard)
srbhkshk
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How the hell do they have the exact runs / balls / boundaries for a match in 1880s but don't have the same records for matches in 1980s.
Doesn't answer your question, but this article by Charles Davis relates to the subject.
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56 runs:
Pujara's display of pure grit at the Gabba which Ponting still cant comprehend might have actually been not match losing for the team (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...alia-vs-india-4th-test-1223872/full-scorecard), Mohammad Shami's hilarious troll job in partnership with bumrah (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...land-vs-india-2nd-test-1239544/full-scorecard), and Steve Finn with one of the great nightwatchman innings to deny NZ a win (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...and-vs-england-1st-test-569243/full-scorecard) all good contenders.
But as much as I want to give it to one of the two epic indian innings above, Graham Dilley having a bit of fun at Headingley has to be the best one here. Wasnt just a defensive stonewall in contrast to Botham either, as he pretty much scored as quickly as Botham did in that famous partnership. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...nd-vs-australia-3rd-test-63291/full-scorecard)
Pujara's display of pure grit at the Gabba which Ponting still cant comprehend might have actually been not match losing for the team (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...alia-vs-india-4th-test-1223872/full-scorecard), Mohammad Shami's hilarious troll job in partnership with bumrah (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...land-vs-india-2nd-test-1239544/full-scorecard), and Steve Finn with one of the great nightwatchman innings to deny NZ a win (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...and-vs-england-1st-test-569243/full-scorecard) all good contenders.
But as much as I want to give it to one of the two epic indian innings above, Graham Dilley having a bit of fun at Headingley has to be the best one here. Wasnt just a defensive stonewall in contrast to Botham either, as he pretty much scored as quickly as Botham did in that famous partnership. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...nd-vs-australia-3rd-test-63291/full-scorecard)
Yes in that he scored 56 while Botham scored 57; no in that he faced 75 balls while Botham faced 36.
The forgotten man of that innings is of course Chris Old, who (after Dilley was out) scored 29 off 32, while Botham was scoring 34 off 42 - so forgotten he wasn't even listed in the "great innings of 29" earlier in this thread :-(
Lillian Thomson
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Chris Old is pretty much forgotten when Australia batted as well. Willis took 8, but it when Old dismissed Border that the win really seemed on.
If there is no Shardul Thakur in this thread then you've failed the purpose of the thread @OverratedSanity.
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Spoiler : All shardul thakur test fifties will make the list
Victor Ian
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No rush. Thakur has time to appear in the higher scores after his next series.
sunilz
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Are you in anyway related to Xi Jinping?
No
, the name comes from a translation of a Korean manhwa (comic) character. Search up Xix/Jyi from Cavalier of the Abyss.@OverratedSanity speaking of the list, I think you didn't specify the category for Dizzy's 54 earlier.
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57 runs:
- Ian Botham vs Pakistan. One of the great all rounder duels in a test as Imran's 8 wickets and two heroic innings with the bat are outdone by Botham's 9fer, a counterattacking 57 in the first innings and a clutch acceptance of a bad light offer when england were collapsing in the 4th innings. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...and-vs-pakistan-3rd-test-63319/full-scorecard)
The others here are all Indian innings because **** yea India.
- Tendulkar vs Pakistan The first great Sachin knock. Comes in with India 38/4, plays a match saving innings with a broken nose, at an age where he should've been sat at home reading tinkle. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...kistan-vs-india-4th-test-63516/full-scorecard)
- Ravindra Jadeja vs Australia, MCG. Ravindra Jadeja owns Australia as hard as any player has ever owned a cricketing nation. He's played 12 tests against them and taken atleast 5 wickets in 8 of them. The other 4 are: Dharamshala 2017 where he contributed a crucial fifty to win the series for India, Sydney 2019 where his partnership with Pant stomped Cummins into the dirt, Sydney 2021 where he took 4fer on #SCGSoSpinny and the Australians got scared and broke his hand, and Melbourne in the same series where his 57 in that partnership with Rahane brought India back from the depths of 36/9 and set them on their way to the greatest series win ever. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...alia-vs-india-2nd-test-1223870/full-scorecard)
Winner: Shardul Thakur vs England Oval 2021:
Botham smotham, this is how its done. Two clutch fifties and key wickets in both innings in an ATG all round display. The first innings knock is his sloggiest one ever but still has those trademark straight drives and no joke, probably the most brutal pull shot I've ever seen to get to his fifty. NSFW warning:
- Ian Botham vs Pakistan. One of the great all rounder duels in a test as Imran's 8 wickets and two heroic innings with the bat are outdone by Botham's 9fer, a counterattacking 57 in the first innings and a clutch acceptance of a bad light offer when england were collapsing in the 4th innings. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...and-vs-pakistan-3rd-test-63319/full-scorecard)
The others here are all Indian innings because **** yea India.
- Tendulkar vs Pakistan The first great Sachin knock. Comes in with India 38/4, plays a match saving innings with a broken nose, at an age where he should've been sat at home reading tinkle. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...kistan-vs-india-4th-test-63516/full-scorecard)
- Ravindra Jadeja vs Australia, MCG. Ravindra Jadeja owns Australia as hard as any player has ever owned a cricketing nation. He's played 12 tests against them and taken atleast 5 wickets in 8 of them. The other 4 are: Dharamshala 2017 where he contributed a crucial fifty to win the series for India, Sydney 2019 where his partnership with Pant stomped Cummins into the dirt, Sydney 2021 where he took 4fer on #SCGSoSpinny and the Australians got scared and broke his hand, and Melbourne in the same series where his 57 in that partnership with Rahane brought India back from the depths of 36/9 and set them on their way to the greatest series win ever. (https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...alia-vs-india-2nd-test-1223870/full-scorecard)
Winner: Shardul Thakur vs England Oval 2021:
Botham smotham, this is how its done. Two clutch fifties and key wickets in both innings in an ATG all round display. The first innings knock is his sloggiest one ever but still has those trademark straight drives and no joke, probably the most brutal pull shot I've ever seen to get to his fifty. NSFW warning: