What is the greatest innings in a drawn game?

[Coronis]

Lindsay Kline’s 15* and Ken Mackay’s 62* (in that order) vs Windies Adelaide 1961

Same series as the tied test, these guys had a last wicket stand of 66 off 283 in the final hour and 50 minutes of the test.

Kline especially, averaged 8 in FC and Tests, this 15* was his highest test score.

AUS vs WI Cricket Scorecard, 4th Test at Adelaide, January 27 - February 01, 1961

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[honestbharani]

There was a 100 Lara made in the 2006 series in Windies against India on a 5th day turner. Was a class knock that ensured the draw.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Amla 25 (159) vs Sri Lanka
Steven Finn 56 (203) vs New Zealand.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Mark Greatbatch 146* off 485 balls in 655 mins (11 hours) when an understrength (no Hadlee, no Andrew Jones) and underprepared NZ followed on in a one-off test vs Australia on a fiery WACA pitch in 89/90.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Also, Prior's 100 against us was very good (if lucky for being bowled but bails staying on).

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Was that the match after which he never played again?

Yes

 

[the big bambino]

Dudley Nourse 231 at Jo'burg 1935. Scored in the 3rd innings of the game when the wicket was wearing and SA well behind after both sides completed modest first innings.

Actually put SA in a position to win as the wicket was quite poor for the last day. McCabe secured a draw for Aus by scoring an unbeaten 189. One of his 3 great career defining innings.

 

[Coronis]

Dudley Nourse 231 at Jo'burg 1935. Scored in the 3rd innings of the game when the wicket was wearing and SA well behind after both sides completed modest first innings.

Actually put SA in a position to win as the wicket was quite poor for the last day. McCabe secured a draw for Aus by scoring an unbeaten 189. One of his 3 great career defining innings.

Well Australia actually looked pretty set for a win before a thunderstorm cut the match short at 274/2.

 

[howitzer]

That thing looks extremely sad. I think Kapil should had promoted Azhar and himself and made Gavaskar bat at, idk 6 down.

The Bombay cabal probably would have banished him from Test cricket had he tried those shenanigans tbf. Remember they dropped him for playing an irresponsible shot once; the only Test Kapil missed his entire career.

 

[howitzer]

Ian Bell made a great 60-70 odd too in one of those iirc.

The 247 bunch would probably still refer to it as a 'pretty little fifty' btw.

 

[BazBall21]

Hanif 337 vs wi
Border 100 and 98 vs WI
Ponting 156 vs England
Tendulkar 146 vs SA
Gavaskar 221 vs England
Faf 110 vs Australia
Lara 277 vs Australia

Great picks!

 

[the big bambino]

Well Australia actually looked pretty set for a win before a thunderstorm cut the match short at 274/2.

124 runs adrift when the game was called. Hard to know. Mostly depends on McCabe staying until the end. Fingleton recalled the difficulty of the wicket and was in awe of McCabe attacking when he was pressed keeping the ball out. If McCabe went with the score around the 300 mark Australia would've had to rely on Darling, Chipperfield and Richardson bringing them home. On that pitch I'm not overly confident.

However it was an indication of how well McCabe was batting that the SA captain appealed against the light!