Battle of the Test Innings

[BoyBrumby]

Taylor for me. Wonderfully unselfish declaration too.

 

[oz_fan]

Both great innings but Azhar

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Voting closed. Azhar runs away with it 12-3.

Next up:

Charles Bannerman 165 v England, MCG, 1877
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1870S/1876-77/ENG_IN_AUS/ENG_AUS_T1_15-19MAR1877.html

vs.

Damien Martyn 104 v India, Chennai, 2004
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2004-05/AUS_IN_IND/SCORECARDS/AUS_IND_T2_14-18OCT2004.html

 

[Burpey]

Bannerman for sure.

 

[andyc]

Bannerman

Does it still hold the record for highest percentage of an innings total scored by one batsman?

 

[Burpey]

I believe so.

 

[Xuhaib]

Martyn

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Bannerman does indeed still hold that record, amazingly, and for that reason it definately gets my vote. Martyn's innings was a very good one under the circumstances, certainly the best of those he made in his great 2005 run of form, but Bannerman's innings is of great significance to test cricket itself, being the first ever century, and the scorecard makes it look like a pretty good one too.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Have to go with Bannerman too. I don't think we should be too chauvenisitc about the early days of test cricket. Clearly the game has come a long way (it would have certainly withered on the vine long ago had it not), but Bannerman's was a borderline superhuman effort. He scored 69.6% of Australia's runs (still a record) & nearly ten times as many as the second highest run-maker in the Oz XI, TW Garrett, who scored 18!

Shame he retired hurt tho. Very un-Australian....

 

[honestbharani]

Bannerman. That Chennai wicket was FLAT.

 

[cameeel]

DR Martyn

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Voting closed. Bannerman wins a low scoring encounter 5-2.

Next battle:

Gary Sobers 168 v Australia, SCG, 1960
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1960S/1960-61/WI_IN_AUS/WI_AUS_T3_13-18JAN1961.html

vs.

Mike Hussey 122 v South Africa, MCG, 2005
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/RSA_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/RSA_AUS_T2_26-30DEC2005.html

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Bannerman. That Chennai wicket was FLAT.

It actually turned a fair amount, particularly on the fourth day when Martyn made his runs. Either way Bannerman's innings is better, but conditions were quite difficult when Martyn and Gillespie had that partnership.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Tricky one, but I'll have to go with Hussey. The hundred runs he added with MacGill for the 10th wicket were simply amazing, and there's no doubt at all it was the match-winning innings.

 

[Burpey]

Hussssssssssssssssssey

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Tricky one, but I'll have to go with Hussey. The hundred runs he added with MacGill for the 10th wicket were simply amazing, and there's no doubt at all it was the match-winning innings.

(It was McGrath)

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Huss.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

(It was McGrath)

Yeah, my mistake.

 

[Dasa]

Sobers.

 

[cameeel]

M Hussey