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[Logan]

Why Perera’s innings is slightly better?

1. Played for a weaker team

2. Played in away conditions

3. Played against a stronger bowling lineup

4. It was SL’s first win ever in SA

5. Perera’s innings was flawless and had no chances

6. Perera scored 50% of the runs. Stokes scored 37% of the runs

7. In Perera’s case, the second highest score was 48. In Stokes’s case, two others scored fifties.

 

[vcs]

DoG please

Don't think Rahane's innings was that good TBF

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

DoG please

This is a variant of "Bitch please"

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

3. Played against a stronger bowling lineup

Nah

 

[stephen]

I reckon Stokes’ today almost stems from the amount of one day cricket he’s played. When Broad got out he basically thought “**** it” for a few overs and backed himself to hit any bowler for 6. Then when it got closer he improvised a bit (ramp then switch hit) because that’s where the gaps were.

Just waiting for stephen to assess it as downhill skiing now.

Unlike his last hundred which had a healthy dose of luck involved, only a fool would argue that this hundred was anything other than very special.

The commonality in both cases is that he gritted it out until batting got a lot easier and then cashed in, instead of shrugging his shoulders and saying it's all too hard like most batsmen.

 

[ankitj]

This is a variant of "Bitch please"

lol no. Not how I intended it

 

[NUFAN]

Hey DoG, how easy would it be to compile a list of the highest rated innings for each score ever made of 100 and above? Unlucky for Laras 153, but I think it would be an interesting read.

 

[ankitj]

Can we also downgrade all innings that the batsmen would have traded for the blinder that Stokes played. Because it has been established that that's how we rate players' performances.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Unlike his last hundred which had a healthy dose of luck involved, only a fool would argue that this hundred was anything other than very special.

The commonality in both cases is that he gritted it out until batting got a lot easier and then cashed in, instead of shrugging his shoulders and saying it's all too hard like most batsmen.

M8 this hundred had just as much, if not more, luck than the previous one. Doesn't mean it wasn't special though.

 

[stephen]

M8 this hundred had just as much, if not more, luck than the previous one. Doesn't mean it wasn't special though.

Not really. The luck in the previous one was genuine luck - getting dropped at the start of the innings, plays and misses and what not. The "luck" in this one was misshits not going to hand and half chances not being taken late in the innings. In the first case a competent fielding team ends his account early. In the second case only a genuine act of pure awesome gets him.

You could say that he was lucky he didn't run out of partners but that's a different thing entirely. If he got out to the Lyon lbw it would have taken nothing away from his ridiculous innings.

 

[Days of Grace]

1 VVS Laxman 281 Australia Kolkata 2001 22.46
2 MDKJ Perera 153* South Africa Durban 2019 22.25
3 IT Botham 149* Australia Leeds 1981 21.56
4 ST Jayasuriya 253 Pakistan Faisalabad 2004 21.49
5 BC Lara 153* Australia Bridgetown 1999 21.28
6 BKG Mendis 176 Australia Pallekele 2016 21.25
7 V Sehwag 201* Sri Lanka Galle 2008 21.05
8 GA Gooch 154* West Indies Leeds 1991 21.04
9 DG Bradman 270 England Melbourne 1937 20.96
10 Saeed Anwar 188* India Kolkata 1999 20.90
11 LD Chandimal 162* India Galle 2015 20.77
12 C Hill 188 England Melbourne 1898 20.40
13 BA Stokes 135* Australia Leeds 2019 20.16
14 DPMD Jayawardene 180 England Galle 2012 20.04
15 CG Greenidge 214* England Lord's 1984 19.91
16 BB McCullum 302 India Wellington 2014 19.86
17 AC Gilchrist 149* Pakistan Hobart 1999 19.85
18 FDM Karunaratne 158* South Africa Galle 2018 19.73
19 R Dravid 233 Australia Adelaide 2003 19.67
20 KS Williamson 242* Sri Lanka Wellington 2015 19.65
21 GL Jessop 104 Australia TIe Oval 1902 19.61
22 MA Butcher 173* Australia Leeds 2001 19.47
23 DL Amiss 262* West Indies Kingston 1974 19.47
24 SM Gavaskar 221 England The Oval 1979 19.47
25 C Bannerman 165* England Melbourne 1877 19.45
26 DG Bradman 299* South Africa Adelaide 1932 19.42
27 Azhar Mahmood 132 SoutI AIrica Durban 1998 19.35
28 J Darling 160 England Sydney 1898 19.24
29 CL Walcott 220 England Bridgetown 1954 19.23
30 RE Foster 287 Australia Sydney 1903 19.13
31 BC Lara 213 Australia Kingston 1999 19.00
32 DG Bradman 334 England Leeds 1930 19.00
33 DG Bradman 212 England Adelaide 1937 18.99
34 RN Harvey 167 England Melbourne 1959 18.95
35 Hanif Mohammad 337 West Indies Bridgetown 1958 18.90
36 BC Lara 226 Australia Adelaide 2005 18.86
37 Younis Khan 267 India Bengaluru 2005 18.84
38 GC Smith 154* England Birmingham 2008 18.77
39 ME Trescothick 180 South Africa Johannesburg 2005 18.73
40 Younis Khan 171* Sri Lanka Pallekele 2015 18.73
41 KC Sangakkara 232 South Africa Colombo (SSC) 2004 18.72
42 JL Langer 191 Pakistan Perth 2004 18.62
43 R Dravid 180 Australia Kolkata 2001 18.58
44 BB McCullum 224 India Auckland 2014 18.57
45 B Mitchell 164* England Lord's 1935 18.52
46 GS Sobers 168 Australia Sydney 1961 18.48
47 JE Root 190 South Africa Lord's 2017 18.47
48 L Klusener 118 Sri Lanka Kandy 2000 18.45
49 BF Butcher 133 England Lord's 1963 18.44
50 ME Waugh 116 South Africa Port Elizabeth 1997 18.43
51 KC Sangakkara 156* New Zealand Wellington 2006 18.43
52 KJ Hughes 100* West Indies Melbourne 1981 18.41
53 RT Simpson 156* Australia Melbourne 1951 18.39
54 JT Brown 140 Australia Melbourne 1895 18.38
55 Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 New Zealand Lahore 2002 18.37
56 WR Endean 162 Australia Melbourne 1952 18.37
57 GA Headley 270* England Kingston 1935 18.35
58 Azhar Ali 157 England Dubai (DSC) 2012 18.35
59 S Chanderpaul 137* India Bridgetown 1997 18.26
60 JV Coney 111* Pakistan Dunedin 1985 18.25
61 DW Randall 150 Australia Sydney 1979 18.25
62 CG Greenidge 134 England Manchester 1976 18.22
63 SR Tendulkar 214 Australia Bengaluru 2010 18.22
64 SPD Smith 144 England Birmingham 2019 18.13
65 SM Gavaskar 236* West Indies Chennai 1983 18.12
66 HP Tillakaratne 115 Pakistan Faisalabad 1995 18.10
67 DPMD Jayawardene 237 South Africa Galle 2004 18.10
68 PS McDonnell 147 England Sydney 1882 18.09
69 MN Samuels 123 New Zealand Kingston 2012 18.04
70 DG Bradman 304 England Leeds 1934 18.03
71 JO Holder 202* England Bridgetown 2019 18.03
72 VT Trumper 159 South Africa Melbourne 1911 18.03
73 V Sehwag 319 South Africa Chennai 2008 18.01
74 BB McCullum 225 India Hyderabad (Deccan) 2010 17.98
75 DM Jones 184* England Sydney 1987 17.97
76 R Dravid 270 Pakistan Rawalpindi 2004 17.97
77 R Cowper 307 England Melbourne 1966 17.97
78 AD Nourse 231 Australia Johannesburg 1935 17.95
79 J Ryder 201* England Adelaide 1925 17.95
80 GR Viswanath 124 West Indies Chennai 1979 17.93
81 DI Gower 173* Pakistan Lahore 1984 17.90
82 GS Chappell 182* West Indies Sydney 1976 17.89
83 CH Gayle 333 Sri Lanka Galle 2010 17.89
84 DG Bradman 226 South Africa Brisbane 1931 17.89
85 LPRL Taylor 290 Australia Perth 2015 17.89
86 DR Martyn 161 Sri Lanka Kandy 2004 17.87
87 DG Bradman 103* England Melbourne 1933 17.87
88 MC Cowdrey 102 Australia Melbourne 1954 17.84
89 Hon.FS Jackson 128 Australia Manchester 1902 17.84
90 WR Hammond 177 Australia Adelaide 1929 17.83
91 WR Hammond 240 Australia Lord's 1938 17.82
92 CG Greenidge 226 Australia Bridgetown 1991 17.82
93 Hanif Mohammad 187* England Lord's 1967 17.82
94 PF Warner 132* South Africa Johannesburg 1899 17.81
95 KC Sangakkara 230 Pakistan Lahore 2002 17.81
96 RG Pollock 125 England Nottingham 1965 17.79
97 PHB May 285* West Indies Birmingham 1957 17.79
98 Mohammad Wasim 192 Zimbabwe Harare 1998 17.78
99 CA Pujara 123 Australia Adelaide 2018 17.78
100 MJ Clarke 151 South Africa Cape Town 2011 17.78


Not as far up as I thought it would be. Here are some points that limited the points the innings gained.

1. He came in when England were a relatively comfortable 141/3 (all other context aside).
2. He "only" scored 37% of his team's runs. The maximum allowed for this system is 65%.
3. This was a good Australian side but not a particularly great one.
4. The batting conditions were obviously the easiest in the match.

 

[Days of Grace]

Hey DoG, how easy would it be to compile a list of the highest rated innings for each score ever made of 100 and above? Unlucky for Laras 153, but I think it would be an interesting read.

I do them individually or I do all innings for each batsmen rated in the top 100 or near enough to the top 100. So, my database is limited.

 

[Teja.]

DoG, out of curiousity, how much does this 93 (95) by Pandya score?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...th-africa-vs-india-1st-test-ind-in-sa-2017-18

 

[AndrewB]

I don't know if the innings are supposed to be ordered according to the numbers in the right-hand column, but if they are there are quite a few minor discrepancies.

 

[ankitj]

I don't know if the innings are supposed to be ordered according to the numbers in the right-hand column, but if they are there are quite a few minor discrepancies.

Yes, and the discrepancies didn't exist in post #322

 

[Days of Grace]

Apologies. It has been corrected.

 

[Days of Grace]

DoG, out of curiousity, how much does this 93 (95) by Pandya score?

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...th-africa-vs-india-1st-test-ind-in-sa-2017-18

14.92

 

[ankitj]

Was this 4th innings knock by Jayawardene rated?: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series...-2nd-test-south-africa-tour-of-sri-lanka-2006

If so please let us know where did it rank. Thanks.

 

[Teja.]

40 innings of the above 100 are from post-2000. 6 of the top 10 there are from little Sri Lankans. Sanga who doesn’t even feature in the 6 also has the most number of innings in the list (4) from this period. At first I wondered if the period is over represented in the list, then I realised that Sri Lankan batsman of the last two decades have just churned out more innings than any other team in a similar period which fattens the share of the post 2000 period fairly. Something in the water there.

There’s a number error between 30 and 32 I cbf correcting.

1. VVS Laxman 281 Australia Kolkata 2001 22.46
2. MDKJ Perera 153* South Africa Durban 2019 22.25
3. ST Jayasuriya 253 Pakistan Faisalabad 2004 21.49
4 BKG Mendis 176 Australia Pallekele 2016 21.25
5. V Sehwag 201* Sri Lanka Galle 2008 21.05
6. LD Chandimal 162* India Galle 2015 20.77
7. BA Stokes 135* Australia Leeds 2019 20.16
8. DPMD Jayawardene 180 England Galle 2012 20.04
9. BB McCullum 302 India Wellington 2014 19.86
10. FDM Karunaratne 158* South Africa Galle 2018 19.73
11. R Dravid 233 Australia Adelaide 2003 19.67
12. KS Williamson 242* Sri Lanka Wellington 2015 19.65
13. BC Lara 226 Australia Adelaide 2005 18.86
14. Younis Khan 267 India Bengaluru 2005 18.84
15. GC Smith 154* England Birmingham 2008 18.77
16. ME Trescothick 180 South Africa Johannesburg 2005 18.73
17. Younis Khan 171* Sri Lanka Pallekele 2015 18.73
18. KC Sangakkara 232 South Africa Colombo (SSC) 2004 18.72
19. JL Langer 191 Pakistan Perth 2004 18.62
20. R Dravid 180 Australia Kolkata 2001 18.58
21. BB McCullum 224 India Auckland 2014 18.57
22. JE Root 190 South Africa Lord's 2017 18.47
23. L Klusener 118 Sri Lanka Kandy 2000 18.45
24. KC Sangakkara 156* New Zealand Wellington 2006 18.43
25. Inzamam-ul-Haq 329 New Zealand Lahore 2002 18.37
26. Azhar Ali 157 England Dubai (DSC) 2012 18.35
27. SR Tendulkar 214 Australia Bengaluru 2010 18.22
28. SPD Smith 144 England Birmingham 2019 18.13
29. DPMD Jayawardene 237 South Africa Galle 2004 18.10
30. MN Samuels 123 New Zealand Kingston 2012 18.04
32. JO Holder 202* England Bridgetown 2019 18.03
33. V Sehwag 319 South Africa Chennai 2008 18.01
34. BB McCullum 225 India Hyderabad (Deccan) 2010 17.98
35. R Dravid 270 Pakistan Rawalpindi 2004 17.45
36. CH Gayle 333 Sri Lanka Galle 2010 17.89
37. LPRL Taylor 290 Australia Perth 2015 17.89
38. DR Martyn 161 Sri Lanka Kandy 2004 17.87
39. KC Sangakkara230 Pakistan Lahore 2002 17.81
40. CA Pujara 123 Australia Adelaide 2018 17.78
41. MJ Clarke 151 South Africa Cape Town 2011 17.78

 

[ankitj]

Will be good to see where Watling's effort ranks in the list. Thanks in advance DoG