DrWolverine
State 12th Man
Better test knock
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Better 153 : Perera or Lara
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subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Perera. Overseas, tough conditions, chanceless.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Lara's easily.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Lara’s got the tension with batting with Ambrose and later, Walsh…
Pure entertainment factor and the old school West Indian crowd made that so memorable and special.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
In far tougher conditions against a far better attack and far less jammy.
Things people who actually watch cricket would know.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
Digressing a bit from the topic, but I was reading the Cricket monthly from CI last night where the central point was Angelo Mathews’s save at the boundary line in 2009. At that time it was deemed spectacular because it was so rare and that it basically pioneered the circus and acrobatics that we see today in the modern game.In far tougher conditions against a far better attack and far less jammy.
Things people who actually watch cricket would know.
Going back to Lara’s knock, I remember that he was under pressure with the captaincy and the critique and whatnot. Anyways, in pure Lara fashion, he let his bat do the talking.
It’s a classic
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Conditions weren't tougher and Perera wasn't dropped like Lara.In far tougher conditions against a far better attack and far less jammy.
Things people who actually watch cricket would know.
Plus it was away from home.
Red_Ink_Squid
Global Moderator
What was jammy about Perera's knock? (I didn't see it but the match reports suggested it was chanceless.)
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
Top edges over the keepers' head. Edges wide of slip and gully at catchable heights. He played a lot of great shots, but he kept playing a lot of shots like most of the T20 age batsmen do with the #11 for company and everything just went his way.
Obviously, folks like Salty have no idea coz they dont actually watch cricket.
OverratedSanity
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Describing Perera's innings as jammy is doing it a massive disservice.
HouHsiaoHsien
International Debutant
Close, you can be fine either ways, but Perera marginally ahead for me given he was playing overseas. What stuns me is the fact that Lara had an innings in the 99 series that is among the 5 best of so ever, another top 20 innings and one more masterful destructive world class hundred
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
I never said his innings was jammy. I said Lara's was better because it was less jammy, among other reasons. There is a difference.
honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
All with a chipped bone on his right wrist which made it very difficult for him to play like any of the top hand dominated shots. He missed a LOT of cricket after this series and was never really completely healed till the 2003 WC, I think. Shows how remarkable his strength of will was. Funnily enough, Sachin had a similar situation with the tennis elbow which made batting tougher than normal for him for about 18 months or so before he was fully healed.
DrWolverine
State 12th Man
Lara at his peak was simply unbelievable both in terms of greatness and also from an aesthetic point of view
Sliferxxxx
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Don't forget that his first test half century likely would have been another 100 had he not wrongfully been given out. Healey did not have the ball in hand during that run out.
Sliferxxxx
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Lara. Tough conditions vs an atg great and mixed attack (great pace and spin) on a Kensington wicket with spineless batsmen as support. Perrera close behind.
SillyCowCorner1
Moooo
This is Walsh batting here in that chase, , oozing confidence on his way to a match winning 0* (5)
Far from spineless
Sliferxxxx
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Ok.fine less than stellar. Lol lol. How he survived that Yorker from Gillespie I would never know....
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
There were those in Lara's innings too. He got dropped by Healy and then an edge flew wide of Warne in slip, from what I recall. McGrath smacked him on the head, which led to that epic pull for four next ball.
Stop looking with rose-tinted glasses. However, I will agree in terms of strokeplay this was ahead.
subshakerz
Hall of Fame Member
Another couple of points for Perera:
- His was a lowscoring match where he was the only one to ton up. Makes it more special. In Lara's game, Waugh nearly scored a double as Australia had a big first innings scores.
- Pererra scored 78 runs for the last wicket to win. That's incredible and they could have so easily lost. Lara did a bit similar with Ambrose in the 9th wicket.
- His was a lowscoring match where he was the only one to ton up. Makes it more special. In Lara's game, Waugh nearly scored a double as Australia had a big first innings scores.
- Pererra scored 78 runs for the last wicket to win. That's incredible and they could have so easily lost. Lara did a bit similar with Ambrose in the 9th wicket.