'Perfection Personified'

[PhoenixFire]

"For 12 1/2 hours, Mahela Jayawardene was perfection personified"

I read this quote in TWC and thought it was a great one. Who do you think in the history has been perfect in their batting/bowling or keeping, and why?

 

[Tomm NCCC]

Don Bradman - end of

 

[silentstriker]

Don Bradman - end of

You're only as good as your last innings.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I forgot to say that please don't keep saying Bradman, Bradman, Bradman, becuase it is fairly obvious, and deems the thread pretty much pointless.

 

[aussie tragic]

Ian Botham, 3rd test vs Australia at Headingly (need I say more).

He scored a pair in the 2nd test, gave up the captaincy, then went on to take 6-95, then 50, then 149* following on when the test was all but lost (Eng were 5-105 when he came in, still 122 runs behind Aus) and finally 1-14 to help Willis win the test from an impossible position.

http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1980S/1981/AUS_IN_ENG/AUS_ENG_T3_16-21JUL1981.html

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I forgot to say that please don't keep saying Bradman, Bradman, Bradman, becuase it is fairly obvious, and deems the thread pretty much pointless.

Bradman, Bradman, Bradman.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Bradman, Bradman, Bradman.

I never saw that one coming

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I never saw that one coming

The sad thing is that you actually didn't.

Anyway, if we're talking about a particular period of play I would go for the 169 made by Roy Fredericks at Perth on the Windies 75/76 tour.
I enjoyed the Botham innings mentioned above but that was really more of slog that came off in what he thought was a lost cause.

 

[open365]

Tendulkar and McGrath at their best are close to perfect imo. More so than anybody i've seen on a cricket field.

 

[PhoenixFire]

I really did. In fact I said 'I bet some little **** is gonna say 'Bradman, Bradman, Bradman', and think they're funny", and low and behold they did. You can ask my duvet for evidence.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

I really did. In fact I said 'I bet some little **** is gonna say 'Bradman, Bradman, Bradman', and think they're funny", and low and behold they did. You can ask my duvet for evidence.

Ha, wrong again. I didn't think it was funny. I just did it to annoy you, and your duvet has just told me that it worked.

 

[PhoenixFire]

You thought you were funny by annoying me

 

[open365]

I really did. In fact I said 'I bet some little **** is gonna say 'Bradman, Bradman, Bradman', and think they're funny", and low and behold they did. You can ask my duvet for evidence.

You call her your duvet?

 

[PhoenixFire]

I do. Is it tin foil in Liverpool?

 

[Lillian Thomson]

You thought you were funny by annoying me

I knew you were going to say that.

 

[open365]

I do. Is it tin foil in Liverpool?

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

 

[Lillian Thomson]

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...

That's not true, my uncle broke a pain of glass in his greenhouse and had his best rhubarb for years.

 

[PhoenixFire]

Leeds, isn't specific. I live in Ilkley which if you know the area is pretty posh. I was born in Keighley however......

 

[steds]