Greatest individual performance ever

[biased indian]

among the ones i have seen has to be VVS 281...

and laras 153 i think he scored lot of runs for the last wicket to win the test

 

[Uppercut]

among the ones i have seen has to be VVS 281...

and laras 153 i think he scored lot of runs for the last wicket to win the test

Harbhajan in that match is probably an even better example tbh.

 

[Shri]

Dean Jones' double hundred in that chennai test(1990?) was exceptional.

 

[Noble One]

Dean Jones' double hundred in that chennai test(1990?) was exceptional.

1986, tied test. A fine innings by Jones in just his 3rd Test match. Continued to battle on through the heat despite vomiting repeatedly on the side of the wicket, and ending up on a drip in hospital.

Great individual performance yes. But hardly a stand-out performance. Border and Boon both scored centuries in the same innings. Good pitch for batting, but kudo's to Jones for battling through the physical anguish.

 

[bagapath]

Botham v India, Bombay 1980

also bob taylor's 10 dismissals in the match is no joke.

speaking of individual performances, what vinoo mankad achieved in lords is still awe inspiring after all these years

Cricinfo - 2nd Test: England v India at Lord's, Jun 19-24, 1952

 

[oitoitoi]

regarding vinoo mankad that really is incredible, 97 overs to go with almost 7 hours of batting (for 257 runs!). a true hero effort there.

 

[Richard]

1986, tied test. A fine innings by Jones in just his 3rd Test match.

And the first of his proper Test career - the only previous games had come 2-and-a-half years ago and had seen such dismal failures that he was dropped for relative nobodies. Truly astonishing way to essentially start your Test career.

 

[Richard]

agree on the most part, but it's never one v one. The batsmen are taking on the entire opposition. It is one of the things that fascinates me about this game.

The batsman has to repel what the bowler sends down, the fielders can only play a part after what has been done by batsman and bowler, and mostly have no part to play. The bowler always does and the batsman almost always does (except when the ball's a wide).

I tend to view fielders as passive and delivering bowler and striking batsman as active.

 

[GIMH]

Where the fielders are standing obviously affects where the batsman wants to hit the ball though, so they are never really non-entities

 

[Richard]

But they only come into play if the batsman hits the ball somewhere near them (which is obviously mostly a consequence of where the ball's bowled), and not otherwise (unless they have to do a bit of backing-up - once in a blue-moon).

 

[GIMH]

Yeah but the point is the batsman might hit it somewhere else if there were no fielders, so of course they are involved

 

[aussie]

say what

Richard has the fixation based on "statistical analysis", that Gilchrist's peak was PAK 99/00 - IND 2003. When acutally it ended during the 05 Ashes as everyone knows.

 

[oitoitoi]

Can we get this thread back on track and stop contemplating life without fielders?

 

[andruid]

Steve Tikolo's 220 odd against the Dutch in the Intercontinental Cup in 2006.

 

[oitoitoi]

Steve Tikolo's 220 odd against the Dutch in the Intercontinental Cup in 2006.

Isolated to test cricket, otherwise surely it would be the time I took 7/14 and then hit 26* from 12 to win the match for my club (after having played 3 games in the the preceding 2 days!).

 

[Burgey]

Isolated to test cricket, otherwise surely it would be the time I took 7/14 and then hit 26* from 12 to win the match for my club (after having played 3 games in the the preceding 2 days!).

Nah, my 111* and 8/13 in the one match in under 10s wold surely take the cake

 

[gunner]

inzi vs bangladesh 2003

or saeed anwar 188 not out vs india

 

[Cruxdude]

Kumble's 10 should rank pretty high.

 

[Noble One]

Kumble's 10 should rank pretty high.

Fantastic performance yes, but hardly up with the greatest individual performances.

Bowling on a pitch tailor made for Kumble's style of leg-spinners. Then essentially once he was getting close to the 10 wicket mark, the partnering bowlers where forced to bowl unthreatening lines. Still a fine effort from Kumble to achieve the 10 wicket haul.

 

[Top_Cat]

ODI performances conspicuous by their absence.

Bevvo's 78* in Sydney and associated last-ball 4 was comfortably the best return-from-the-dead knock I've seen. The 170-odd he spanked against that Asian XI years ago was inspirational too.

Of the Test knocks I've seen, VVS's 281 is as good as any I've seen. His team were utterly dead and buried and in the 2nd dig, were in real trouble. He was clearly hitting them well but just needed someone to stick around with him. Enter R. Dravid.

Bowling-wise, Warne's 12-fer against SA in Sydney in 1993 is right up there with the ones I've seen. Stunning bowling.