Do Great Innings in Defeats Get Rated Unfairly?

[BazBall21]

Kohli's 149 is like Smith's hundred in Pune. Great resilient hundred in tough conditions against a very good attack well-suited. But there was a lot of luck. Inclined to prefer 153 at Centurion.

 

[The Sean]

As far as Indian performances go, we have given Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Kohli their dues so far, but I reckon Azharuddin's 121 in Gooch's match at Lord's in 1990 holds its own as well. A gem of an innings.

 

[subshakerz]

Yeah


Nah. It was an easier batting surface plus given the demons of the previous tour and significantly harder conditions for Kohli, this one is better.

Adelaide was two tons though, plus first test as captain.

 

[HouHsiaoHsien]

No ****ing way are these better than Kohli's 149 & 51 at Birmingham.

Stokes 155 wasn't even all that great. A mixture of bad bowling and some brave slogging.

Sachin’s 136 is better. It came in the most horrible weather and conditions against a near ATG attack.

 

[Adorable Asshole]

Sachin’s 136 is better. It came in the most horrible weather and conditions against a near ATG attack.

Both Ws were past their prime by then meanwhile Kohlo had to go against prime Anderson and Broad.

Kohli's 149 is like Smith's hundred in Pune. Great resilient hundred in tough conditions against a very good attack well-suited. But there was a lot of luck. Inclined to prefer 153 at Centurion.

Forgot about it. Another great innings.

 

[subshakerz]

No ****ing way are these better than Kohli's 149 & 51 at Birmingham.

Stokes 155 wasn't even all that great. A mixture of bad bowling and some brave slogging.

The Sachin 136 was. India was 80 odd for 5 against Wasim and Saqlain on a last day pitch with back spasms.

Waugh's knock was against Ambrose Walsh on an unplayable pitch. It's up there.

 

[Migara]

As far as Indian performances go, we have given Gavaskar, Tendulkar and Kohli their dues so far, but I reckon Azharuddin's 121 in Gooch's match at Lord's in 1990 holds its own as well. A gem of an innings.

Azhar's assault on Donald, De Villiers and Klusener is one. Then Kapil's 129. Once again taking Donald to the cleaners.

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[subshakerz]

Both Ws were past their prime by then meanwhile Kohlo had to go against prime Anderson and Broad.

Waqar was poor but Wasim was bowling very well yet Tendulkar was a wall.

 

[BazBall21]

Both Ws were past their prime by then meanwhile Kohlo had to go against prime Anderson and Broad.


Forgot about it. Another great innings.

Kohli and his SENA classics

 

[BazBall21]

Gooch in Jamaica is in the shadow of Headingley but it was nearly as good. Holding Garner Roberts Croft. Fit and hungry in their prime, their conditions too. Scored over 50% of the England innings runs.

 

[subshakerz]

Amarnath in the WI.
Tendulkar in Perth.
Clarke in SA in 2011

 

[The Sean]

It was overshadowed by subsequent shenanigans, but Michael Clarke's 151 at Cape Town in 2011 was a classic example of a player seemingly batting on a different pitch to everyone else.

 

[BazBall21]

It was overshadowed by subsequent shenanigans, but Michael Clarke's 151 at Cape Town in 2011 was a classic example of a player seemingly batting on a different pitch to everyone else.

Good shout.

 

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VVS Laxman's maiden ton at Sydney in 2000

 

[subshakerz]

VVS Laxman's maiden ton at Sydney in 2000

Definitely. Sachin ton in that series also.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Martin Crowe produced some amazing innings leading a very weak NZ team (Hadlee and J Bracewell retired, Wright and Jones unavailable etc.) v peak Waqar and Wasim swinging it around corners in Pakistan in 1990 in a 0-3 thrashing.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The 2 best visiting knocks in NZ in the last 10 years have been double hundreds by Sanga and Shakib in matches in which we fought back and ultimately won.

 

[Ali TT]

It was overshadowed by subsequent shenanigans, but Michael Clarke's 151 at Cape Town in 2011 was a classic example of a player seemingly batting on a different pitch to everyone else.

Yes, remember watching that one. It was an absolutely brilliant innings - he scored more runs than in South Africa's first and Australia second innings combined, and the next highest score over those 3 innings was 44.

In ODI cricket, this was the innings that announced Buttler on the international stage. Given what had become the miserable normality of English one day cricket, it was as if he'd emerged from another planet.

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[thierry henry]

No ****ing way are these better than Kohli's 149 & 51 at Birmingham.

Stokes 155 wasn't even all that great. A mixture of bad bowling and some brave slogging.

Ironically, this thread was started in order to praise innings which get underrated, but just ended up a vehicle to talk up a different category of overrated innings - nothing-to-lose slogging in a seemingly hopeless cause. And yeah, even Astle's beloved 222 fits in this category. I'd say the really underrated innings are most likely to be those that aren't part of a dramatic finish and so less likely to be easily recalled.

 

[The Hutt Rec]

McCullum's 145 off 79 in his final test was memorable ... it was slogging, but not nothing to lose since it was in the first innings. It was like pre-emptively nothing to lose.

Williamson 140 in Brisbane in 2015 was a pretty classy knock.