Greatest Test Match

[Burgey]

Other great tests that belong in the conversation:
- India vs Australia Chennai 2001. Kolkata is the more epic game but this was a real thriller and had the most nerve-shredding ending to a series I can remember. If India had lost it would've made the Kolkata win a bit of a footnote in terms of it's historical significance.

Was that the game where Mark Waugh took an insane catch at short midwicket to get Laxman out? FMD that was a screamer. The look on Laxman's face was complete disbelief. Was a cracking test match that one

 

[honestbharani]

Was that the game where Mark Waugh took an insane catch at short midwicket to get Laxman out? FMD that was a screamer. The look on Laxman's face was complete disbelief. Was a cracking test match that one

I saw him fly straight opposite as our stand was diagonal to where he would stand at short midwicket. Just complete disbelief across the entire stadium for a few seconds. Cant blame poor VVS for that, though he usually does do the "I cant believe the ball did that" every time he got out.

 

[subshakerz]

I saw him fly straight opposite as our stand was diagonal to where he would stand at short midwicket. Just complete disbelief across the entire stadium for a few seconds. Cant blame poor VVS for that, though he usually does do the "I cant believe the ball did that" every time he got out.

I'll always remember Tony Greigs commentary for that.

'He's stunned! He's stunned!'

 

[Line and Length]

I would have preferred this to have been posted in general Cricket Chat rather than here in Player Comparisons where it might get lost among countless, sometimes ridiculous, player v player posts.

 

[subshakerz]

I would have preferred this to have been posted in general Cricket Chat rather than here in Player Comparisons where it might get lost among countless, sometimes ridiculous, player v player posts.

Sorry about that.

 

[Jumno]

Chennai 2001 was also a nail biting finish. India only chasing 150 odd, India were 8 wickets down with 20 runs to go.

 

[Betterpolo]

Wonder what impact Kolkata had on follow-on decisions. It feels like something that has declined markedly in the past couple of decades but I've yet to see any stats on this. Obviously the pace of the game would have an impact too.

 

[Coronis]

Was that the game where Mark Waugh took an insane catch at short midwicket to get Laxman out? FMD that was a screamer. The look on Laxman's face was complete disbelief. Was a cracking test match that one

Might have been a worse batsman and bowler than Steve, but definitely a better fielder.

(sidenote: hilariously, Mark is listed as an allrounder on cricinfo, Steve is listed as a middle order bat)

 

[Burgey]

I saw him fly straight opposite as our stand was diagonal to where he would stand at short midwicket. Just complete disbelief across the entire stadium for a few seconds. Cant blame poor VVS for that, though he usually does do the "I cant believe the ball did that" every time he got out.

I have probably mentioned this before, but I saw Mark Waugh do something so outwardly simple but insanely difficult and talented on the day at the SCG when Warne bowled Basit Ali around his legs off the last ball.

He was fielding at silly point with Warne bowling from the Randwick End and as Warne let the ball go a gust of wind came up which blew Waugh’s white floppy hat off his head high to his left, just as the batsmen played the ball low to his right.

So he simultaneously sticks out his left hand at 45 degrees above his head to catch his hat as he lunges low right and picks up the ball cleanly on the bounce in his other hand and flicked it back at the stumps.

I don’t think more than 500 people at the ground noticed him do it and afaik it wasn’t even replayed, but it was the most ridiculously intuitive and brilliant thing I think I’ve ever seen anyone do on a cricket field. You can’t, as they say, coach that.

 

[Burgey]

Might have been a worse batsman and bowler than Steve, but definitely a better fielder.

(sidenote: hilariously, Mark is listed as an allrounder on cricinfo, Steve is listed as a middle order bat)

I think Mark was a better bowler than Steve tbh, but that May mostly be cos Steve basically gave it away in the back half of his career

 

[Wanna_Be_AB]

AUS is common in all 4, the other nations need to step up and produce more classics!

Australia needs to step up and win the classics.

 

[Coronis]

Australia needs to step up and win the classics.

They’re classics because teams are beating the team everyone wants to beat. Its not a classic when Australia win usually. Its just expected. We’re that good.