Battle of the Test Innings

[andyc]

Botham

 

[blinkatesh]

Botham

 

[Tony Blade]

Lara

 

[_Ed_]

Botham.

 

[Nate]

Botham, easily. Huge innings.

Dissapointed not to see Gayle`s 300 in here.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Since I won't be around tomorrow (and that there's 32 battles in the first round to get through), I'm closing voting at 12am AEST (in approx an hour and a half's time). However, you'll have a day and a half to vote on the next one.

 

[PY]

Reading that article on Sobers' innings makes it sound all the more remarkable.

Beefy for me, what a legend which is built upon that innings even if it wasn't his greatest. It was definitely his most character-showing (as in his persona rather than grit etc) innings.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Voting closed.

Beefy wins 11-4.

Next up:

Rahul Dravid 233 v Australia, Adelaide, 2003
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2003-04/IND_IN_AUS/SCORECARDS/IND_AUS_T2_12-16DEC2003.html

vs.

Steve Waugh 63* v West Indies, Port-of-Spain, 1995
http://aus.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1994-95/AUS_IN_WI/AUS_WI_T3_21-23APR1995.html

 

[_Ed_]

Steve Waugh for me...just.

 

[andyc]

Gotta be Steve Waugh

 

[Burpey]

Steve Waugh

 

[Nate]

Waugh, easily. Insane innings, he really stood up. And Dravid`s knock although good wasn`t against the best attack.

 

[howardj]

Steve Waugh. The only two players to get near his 63 scored only two-thirds of it - and they were both dismissed. Waugh, however, was unconquered against Walsh and a rampaging (and high-fiveing) Ambrose! That pitch was more fit for a game of tennis than cricket. By contrast, Dravid's innings (as great as his endurance in that match was) was played on an absolute road, where Ricky Ponting actually outscored him by making 242. While being outscored does not, of itself, detract from Dravid's feat, it does give you some basis for comparison to the wicket that Waugh played on in 1995.

 

[honestbharani]

Tugga.

 

[shankar]

Waugh

 

[TT Boy]

Steve Waugh, minefield for a pitch and against a quality bowling line up.

 

[BlackCap_Fan]

Waugh.

 

[open365]

Dravid

 

[sirjeremy11]

I'm going to have to go with Dravid. Yes - a road of a pitch that India were 85/4 on when he and Laxman came together. Aus then reply with 196 and India with 233/6, suggesting that maybe things were getting harder. And the context of the series (no one challenging Aus at home for years), India would have been whipped had it not been for Dravid and they won.

I suspect that I am fighting for a losing cause though...

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Waugh