Wisden all time best ODI Innings.

[Rik]

I'm going to buy the DVD of Astle's innings since I only managed to see 4 balls of it...

 

[Langeveldt]

I'm going to buy the DVD of Astle's innings since I only managed to see 4 balls of it...

Oh if its fours and sixes you like, that is definitely worth the money. Luckily I was recording at the time, have watched it a number of times since..

I thought that test was the best I have seen..One of the best ever test matches?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Best Test I've seen:

West Indies v Australia 3rd Test in WI 1999

West Indies won by 1 wicket.
BC Lara 153* chasing over 300.

 

[Anil]

Another candidate for best test ever(although this thread isn't really about that) is the Calcutta test, Ind vs Aus, the VVSLaxman special.

 

[krkode]

Another candidate for best test ever(although this thread isn't really about that) is the Calcutta test, Ind vs Aus, the VVSLaxman special.

Yeah, IMO, that IS probably the best test knock ever...

Another would have to be Dravid's knock in that very same innings :P

And another would have to be Brian Lara's double hundred against Australia in the WI.

Unfortunately, I have never seen any Viv Richards, Zaheer Abbas, or any of the old greats' innings. My repoirtoir of great test innings starts at 1997 :P

 

[Rik]

Yeah, IMO, that IS probably the best test knock ever...

Another would have to be Dravid's knock in that very same innings :P

And another would have to be Brian Lara's double hundred against Australia in the WI.

Unfortunately, I have never seen any Viv Richards, Zaheer Abbas, or any of the old greats' innings. My repoirtoir of great test innings starts at 1997 :P

Best Test Innings Ever? You must be forgetting the 2 record Test Innings, Sobers' 365* and Lara's 375 :wow:

 

[Top_Cat]

Yeah, IMO, that IS probably the best test knock ever...

Gavaskar's double ton in chasing 400+ against England would have to rate pretty highly too. Steve Waugh's 200 against the WI in 1995? Derek Randall's 174 against Australia in 1977? To say Laxman's was a better innings than any of those is a big call.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Considering an innings under the catergories of pressure and class, here are my nominees for top innings:

BC Lara 153* v Australia
http://www-usa.cricket.org/link_to_..._IN_WI/SCORECARDS/AUS_WI_T3_26-30MAR1999.html
Consider the rest of the WI 2nd innings scorecard if you're having trouble understanding the greatness of this innings. 206 runs were scored after Hooper was 5th man out. Only 55 of those runs came of the bat of the other batsmen. If that's not greatness, what is?

VVS Laxman 281 v Australia
http://www-usa2.cricket.org/link_to...N_IND/SCORECARDS/AUS_IND_T2_11-15MAR2001.html
What can I say, except that he did the impossible. Simply wonderful display of resistance and irresistable strokeplay.

These are only innings which I have seen. I will list more as I remember them.

BTW, ironic that both are against the Aussies. I guess they just have to be involved in the best of everything. How selfish....

 

[royGilchrist]

My repoirtoir of great test innings starts at 1997

And I think mine ends in 1992

 

[Tim]

I've got Astle's DVD, its a good watch. lol.

Yeah it won't be one of the greatest, because it wasn't a test winning knock but it would have been interesting had Astle won it with Cairns at the other end batting with 1 leg .

 

[aussie_beater]

Gavaskar's double ton in chasing 400+ against England would have to rate pretty highly too. Steve Waugh's 200 against the WI in 1995? Derek Randall's 174 against Australia in 1977? To say Laxman's was a better innings than any of those is a big call.

I have not seen that Gavaskar double hundred against England, but I have seen two innings of tremedous character from Gavaskar.One was his 236* against WI at Madras in 1984 and that was scored after he came in with India at 0-4 and another was his 96 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 1987, although India lost that match.

 

[Gotchya]

Ive never seen it, but Shahid Afridi's 37 ball 100 sounds pretty special. Did anyone see it??

I have, in bad print. But yes it was a brutal innings he played. Murdered Jayasuriya and the other spin bowlers that Sri Lanka usually have on in the middle overs.It was good strong and solid hitting. Through the line ofcourse. I dont rate it highly though.

 

[marc71178]

I have not seen that Gavaskar double hundred against England, but I have seen two innings of tremedous character from Gavaskar.One was his 236* against WI at Madras in 1984 and that was scored after he came in with India at 0-4 and another was his 96 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 1987, although India lost that match.

0-4, when was this?

 

[aussie_beater]

0-4, when was this?

I am sorry it was 0-2....India went on to score some 450 odd runs and Gavaskar had 236 of them....it was in 1983-1984 when Lloyd's WI came on a revenge tour to India after the 1983 world cup and beat the crapola out of them....it's been so long ago and I was just a kid at that time, that I can't remember the stuff correctly.

 

[marc71178]

OK mate - there's only ever been one 0-4, and Trueman was at the start of his career then, so I guessed Gavaskar wasn't about!

 

[aussie_beater]

OK mate - there's only ever been one 0-4, and Trueman was at the start of his career then, so I guessed Gavaskar wasn't about!

Oh...I know what you are talking about...that was when Trueman demolished India sometime in the fifties...

 

[marc71178]

That's the one.

Actually, reading this month's WCM I remembered England's start to the SA series, 2-4.

Don't think anyone else has done that bad for the fall of the first 4 wickets.

(oh, and yes Rik, I've seen it, and no I don't agree)

 

[Rik]

(oh, and yes Rik, I've seen it, and no I don't agree)

My letter? You wouldn't...:rolleyes:

 

[Anil]

I have not seen that Gavaskar double hundred against England, but I have seen two innings of tremedous character from Gavaskar.One was his 236* against WI at Madras in 1984 and that was scored after he came in with India at 0-4 and another was his 96 against Pakistan at Bangalore in 1987, although India lost that match.

Talking about that 236*, IMO, there was an even better innings in the same series at Delhi. He hit 121 off 128(15 4s & 2 6s) deliveries and really flayed an attack containing Marshall, Holding, Davis and Daniel.

You are right, that 96 against Pakistan in Bangalore in his last test match was a classic, vintage Gavaskar innings. I watched that entire innings. The pitch was a minefield and he didn't miss a step during his innings, didn't get beaten once and was calm and collected as wickets tumbled around him. The innings finally ended tragically with an umpiring mistake(caught at slip off his arm guard). That was about the only way anyone could have got him out that day.

 

[royGilchrist]

The Gavaskar innings in Banglore was amazing. A perfect demonstration of how to play spinners on a turning wicket. Not exagerrated foot movement, but he knew exactly when to come forward when to play from the backfoot. And I dont think I have ever seen that much spin before. Wasim got two wickets on two consecutive balls, but next over I think he was removed from the attack, Imran did not want to waste even one over before he brought on the spinner.

Still, if I remember correctly he was lucky to have not been given out on an earlier bat and pad.