Battle of the Test Matches

[Bouncer]

Calcutta 2001, heck of a game where sheer talent of VVS was at its brightest.

 

[Sanz]

Kolkata 2001. Test Cricket at its best.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Ffs, this is a final.

Kolkata 01.

 

[Bouncer]

GeraintIsMyHero, Can u do battle of my matches sometime

 

[nightprowler10]

Tough round. Hard to go past Kolkatta.

 

[Burgey]

Calcutta 01 - both it and Headingly were pretty painful tbh, but the Aussie side in 01 was an infinitely better outfit than the one which lost in 81.

 

[GIMH]

Haven't time to update this today or tomorrow...so we can either wait until Friday, or if someone else wants to run the battle from here onwards I can send them the spreadsheet and info.

Let me know.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Haven't time to update this today or tomorrow...so we can either wait until Friday, or if someone else wants to run the battle from here onwards I can send them the spreadsheet and info.

Let me know.

Interested. Pop stuff over to haakon dot moerk at gmail dot com if you can.

 

[The Sean]

This is like when we had Miller vs Hammond in the first round of Battle of the Legends!

It says something when Athers rearguard is barely getting a mention, and Botham's heroics were extraordinary in '81, but I'll go with Eden Gardens for the same reason as Burgey did. That Aussie team of ours then was one of the best ever, at the top of their game, in supreme form and confidence, and had put themselves in an unbeatable position.

And India still pulled it off.

 

[GIMH]

Interested. Pop stuff over to haakon dot moerk at gmail dot com if you can.

Hakon, I will send the stuff to you tomorrow. Being the complete dumbass I am I never sent it to myself at work. You should get it around 6:50 BST

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Despite moans of a tough battle, Kolkata 2001 prevails by 14 of the sixteen votes cast.

Round 1, Battle Eight

Australia v West Indies, Brisbane, First Test, 1960-61
http://www.cricketweb.net/statsspider/test/498.php

Australia v World XI, Perth, Second Test, 1971-72
http://cricketarchive.co.uk/Archive/Scorecards/32/32080.html

India v Australia, Madras, First Test, 1986-87
http://www.cricketweb.net/statsspider/test/1052.php

Hehe. Some poetry in this draw...

 

[Perm]

India v Australia, Madras, First Test, 1986-87

 

[The Sean]

You did NOT just put the two Tied Tests up against each other in Round 1 immediately after also having Kolkata vs Headingley!!

 

[Xuhaib]

Tied 1> Tied 2

 

[silentstriker]

Dunno, Dean Jones knock was epic.

India v Australia, Madras, First Test, 1986-87

 

[oz_fan]

India v Australia, Madras, First Test, 1986-87

 

[nightprowler10]

The first tied test was caused by sloppy running and the second one by good bowling. Oversimplifying, I know, but I just hate run outs, so India vs Australia it is.

 

[JBMAC]

Nightprowler you were not there at the Brisbane one I was for the whole five days of what I would regard as the greatest Test Match I have ever seen...and believe me there has been a few Mvote is Brisbane

 

[Pratters]

Australia v West Indies, Brisbane, First Test, 1960-61 and share Sean's shock.

 

[LongHopCassidy]

Australia v West Indies at the Gabbatoir. Arguably the first Test in history that had absolutely everything. Davidson's 100 runs/10 wickets double, Sobers' first day ton (an alltime top 50 knock in itself), and a match situation that seesawed hither and thither.

Classic.