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Is this the most impressive test victory ever?

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subshakerz

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In terms of beating annihilating a strong team, is there an victory that tops this?

SA under Cronje are playing at home with a strong batting lineup batting up to no.8, and peak Donald/Pollock.

Yet they get annihilated in an innings loss, Waugh and Blewett batting an entire day without a wicket loss, and then SA quickly fold in the 2nd innings without a whimper.

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Is there any other comparable victory where a quality team has been decimated, that too at home?
 
OverratedSanity

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subshakerz said:
In terms of beating annihilating a strong team, is there an victory that tops this?

SA under Cronje are playing at home with a strong batting lineup batting up to no.8, and peak Donald/Pollock.

Yet they get annihilated in an innings loss, Waugh and Blewett batting an entire day without a wicket loss, and then SA quickly fold in the 2nd innings without a whimper.
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But did Australia play their net bowlers?
 
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Socerer 01

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Daemon said:
Not the best ever but this really came outta nowhere

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this was such a toss dependent test with how the pitch behaved but im not sure if it was completely unexpected as they were coming in on the back of a SL whitewash where they looked really good with Root in great form
 
Aidan11

Aidan11

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subshakerz said:
In terms of beating annihilating a strong team, is there an victory that tops this?

SA under Cronje are playing at home with a strong batting lineup batting up to no.8, and peak Donald/Pollock.

Yet they get annihilated in an innings loss, Waugh and Blewett batting an entire day without a wicket loss, and then SA quickly fold in the 2nd innings without a whimper.

www.espncricinfo.com

SA vs AUS Cricket Scorecard, 1st Test at Johannesburg, February 28 - March 04, 1997

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Is there any other comparable victory where a quality team has been decimated, that too at home?
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Did Cronje get a leather jacket for that game as well?
 
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Ali TT

International Vice-Captain
Coronis said:
Mohammad Rafique got robbed.
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Poor old EH Jr, his test career was all but over before his voice broke.

During the late 90s/00s the Aussies seemed to brutalise the South Africans even more than they did us, which was surprising given that those South African teams were, on paper at least, pretty strong.
 
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