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Greatest individual performance ever
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Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
If you wanted a team to play for 4 years and could pick any 4-year period of a player, I'd have Botham (not as captain) and Waqar before Bradman or even Sobers.
Bowlers win matches, and (even regardless of Botham's power with the bat) his bowling during his lengthy peak was precious little behind Waqar's in his own equal-length one. If you had him of '77-'81 (not as captain) with new ball and Waqar of '90/91-'94/95 with old you'd have the best two bowlers over a four-year period the game has ever seen.
Then I'd have Bradman, Headley, Sobers and the rest of the batting. And of course my wicketkeeper-batsman would be Gilchrist of '99/00-'03, who averaged 59 (though whether he'd do that against The Martian All-Time XI is another matter).
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Really doubt that he would, you can see his round the wicket problem from space.
(Sorry)
I dunno, didn't stop him when he blasted that 100 at Perth.
Langeveldt
Soutie
A bit left field, but from what I've seen, Makhaya Ntini's 6 for 60 against New Zealand on a bathroom floor of a wicket in Bloemfontein was one of the best spells of bowling I have had the pleasure of seeing
Manee
Cricketer Of The Year
Sorry about that, it was a lame attempt at a joke, I'm not legitimately criticising his technique.
Ponting's 100s in both innings against SA. The egg in the face of Smith chase.
Hayden's 200 in India 2001 when others were falling like nine pins.
Tendulkar's 169 vs SA.
Gooch's 300 against India.
Sehwag's recent 200 against SL.
AB Devillier's double hundred in India last year
Jerome Taylor's destruction of England a few months back.
Could go on and on.
Hayden's 200 in India 2001 when others were falling like nine pins.
Tendulkar's 169 vs SA.
Gooch's 300 against India.
Sehwag's recent 200 against SL.
AB Devillier's double hundred in India last year
Jerome Taylor's destruction of England a few months back.
Could go on and on.
Dissector
International Debutant
Never heard of this but yes a terrific performance when you consider the opposition. One of the greatest examples of a captain leading from the front.
aussie
Hall of Fame Member
Oh the ideologies...
cover drive man
International Captain
Every performance he does is an individual performance, cricket is a TEAM sport, no one man can make a team great and it doesnt matter how great the individual is.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
say what
One man can be the difference between a poor team and an average team, an average team and a good team, or a good team and a great team. yes, this is a team sport but the individuals make up the team, in other team sports a team of well in-tune good playrs can be a very good team, in cricket without that someone special you will not reach the top level. You need a bowler who is going to turn in devastating spells, batsmen who score centuries to change a game, etc
Richard
Cricket Web Staff Member
At any point in a game of cricket, it's one vs one. Cricket may be a team sport but it's played by individuals.
This means two things: one, that no one individual batsman, once out, or bowler, once not bowling the current over, has the power to influence anything; two, that one bowler, with ball in hand, and batsman, when at the crease, has control of everything and if they do stupendously the rest of the team can be taken, not out of the equation, but to a minimum.
Obviously we don't yet have any real evidence that Pietersen is so good that he can haul a moderate-to-poor team up by its bootstraps, but I've always thought he might, conceivably, have it in him.
Indeed that performance really slipped under the radar, phenomenal effort, especially as the opposition don't get much stronger than that, he was in their back yard too.
In my personal experience:
- Ricky Ponting's twin centuries in his 100th Test, to win a Test which South Africa were mostly in control of
- Shane Warne's 2005 Ashes campaign
- Andrew Flintoff's 2005 Ashes campaign
- Dale Steyn at the MCG: 76 and 10/154
- Mitchell Johnson at Johannesburg: 96* and 8/137
...just off the top of my head
- Ricky Ponting's twin centuries in his 100th Test, to win a Test which South Africa were mostly in control of
- Shane Warne's 2005 Ashes campaign
- Andrew Flintoff's 2005 Ashes campaign
- Dale Steyn at the MCG: 76 and 10/154
- Mitchell Johnson at Johannesburg: 96* and 8/137
...just off the top of my head
wfdu_ben91
International 12th Man
VVS Laxman's 281
Michaelf7777777
International Debutant
Although not an official test series Keith Miller's performance's in the Victory Tests of 1945 deserve a mention.