Best test matches of all time !!

[Deja moo]

My pick..


Australia vs West Indies ( tied test )
India vs Australia ( tied test )
India vs South Africa ( 1996 in Saf, Purely for the batting display by sachin and azza in that magical session )
India vs West Indies ( 406 to win )
West Indies vs Australia ( 418 to win )
Laxman's test 2001

 

[krkode]

I haven't seen too much test cricket in my lifetime, but of what I've seen:

India v Australia (Laxman's 281)
India v Pakistan (Kumble's 10 for)
New Zealand v West Indies (forgot most of the match but I remember Cairns's 7/27)

As you'll notice, most of my test match memories are made up of me remembering individual performances. Don't know why, but it happens.:P

 

[Tim]

Well thats right...that match back in 1999 at Hamilton between NZ & W.I

I wouldn't say it was the greatest of all time, but for entertainment it was probably a 10.

Brian Lara I think & several of the West Indian batsmen put NZ to the sword on Day One and got to 320 odd for 2 wickets then the next day NZ came back & rolled them for 360 & then proceeded to annihilate the W.I over the next 3 days.

 

[krkode]

Well thats right...that match back in 1999 at Hamilton between NZ & W.I

I wouldn't say it was the greatest of all time, but for entertainment it was probably a 10.

Being as young as I am, I have missed many of the best Test Matches. Historically, I'm sure there are countless better ones, but this is the best I can do

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Brian Lara I think & several of the West Indian batsmen put NZ to the sword on Day One and got to 320 odd for 2 wickets then the next day NZ came back & rolled them for 360 & then proceeded to annihilate the W.I over the next 3 days.

I think you're mistaken. Campbell and Griffith put New Zealand to the sword on Day 1. Lara didn't bat until Day 2 I believe. We played some horrid shots on Day 2 and never recovered for the series.

 

[Langeveldt]

NZ v Eng (christchurch) - 2002 (Astle, Thorpe, Flintoff) etc...

 

[V Reddy]

AUS Vs Pak 2nd test at Hobart in 1999

 

[Mr. P]

Shane Warnes 99 test. i still hate richardson.

 

[PY]

Result: England won by 9 wickets
England leads the 6-Test series 1-0

Toss: Australia
Umpires: SA Bucknor (WI) and P Willey
TV Umpire: JW Holder
Match Referee: RS Madugalle (SL)
Test Debuts: MA Butcher (Eng).
Man of the Match: N Hussain

Close of Play:

Day 1: Australia 118, England 200/3 (Hussain 80*, Thorpe 83*)
Day 2: England 449/6 (Ealham 32*, Croft 18*)
Day 3: England 478/9d, Australia 256/1 (Taylor 108*, Blewett 61*)
Australia 1st innings R M B 4 6
*MA Taylor c Butcher b Malcolm 7 23 16 1 0
MTG Elliott b Gough 6 18 13 1 0
GS Blewett c Hussain b Gough 7 35 15 0 0
ME Waugh b Gough 5 23 25 1 0
SR Waugh c Stewart b Caddick 12 31 20 3 0
MG Bevan c Ealham b Malcolm 8 31 21 1 0
+IA Healy c Stewart b Caddick 0 2 1 0 0
JN Gillespie lbw b Caddick 4 13 8 1 0
SK Warne c Malcolm b Caddick 47 62 46 8 0
MS Kasprowicz c Butcher b Caddick 17 42 28 3 0
GD McGrath not out 1 9 3 0 0
Extras (w 2, nb 2) 4
Total (all out, 31.5 overs) 118

FoW: 1-11 (Elliott), 2-15 (Taylor), 3-26 (ME Waugh),
4-28 (Blewett), 5-48 (SR Waugh), 6-48 (Healy),
7-48 (Bevan), 8-54 (Gillespie), 9-110 (Kasprowicz),
10-118 (Warne).

Bowling O M R W
Gough 10 1 43 3 (3nb, 2w)
Malcolm 10 2 25 2
Caddick 11.5 1 50 5 (2nb)

England 1st innings R M B 4 6
MA Butcher c Healy b Kasprowicz 8 16 13 2 0
*MA Atherton c Healy b McGrath 2 10 4 0 0
+AJ Stewart c Elliott b Gillespie 18 52 33 3 0
N Hussain c Healy b Warne 207 437 337 38 0
GP Thorpe c Bevan b McGrath 138 290 245 19 0
JP Crawley c Healy b Kasprowicz 1 19 14 0 0
MA Ealham not out 53 171 131 7 0
RDB Croft c Healy b Kasprowicz 24 70 56 4 0
D Gough c Healy b Kasprowicz 0 8 9 0 0
AR Caddick lbw b Bevan 0 11 7 0 0
Extras (b 4, lb 7, w 1, nb 15) 27
Total (9 wickets declared, 138.4 overs) 478

DNB: DE Malcolm.

FoW: 1-8 (Atherton), 2-16 (Butcher), 3-50 (Stewart),
4-338 (Thorpe), 5-345 (Crawley), 6-416 (Hussain),
7-460 (Croft), 8-463 (Gough), 9-478 (Caddick).

Bowling O M R W
McGrath 32 8 107 2 (7nb)
Kasprowicz 39 8 113 4 (6nb, 1w)
Gillespie 10 1 48 1 (1nb)
Warne 35 8 110 1 (1nb)
Bevan 10.4 0 44 1
SR Waugh 12 2 45 0 (2nb)

Australia 2nd innings R M B 4 6
MTG Elliott b Croft 66 145 113 12 0
*MA Taylor c & b Croft 129 396 296 11 1
GS Blewett c Butcher b Croft 125 300 228 19 1
SR Waugh lbw b Gough 33 135 100 3 0
MG Bevan c Hussain b Gough 24 45 41 4 0
ME Waugh c Stewart b Gough 1 8 7 0 0
+IA Healy c Atherton b Ealham 30 66 48 5 0
SK Warne c & b Ealham 32 51 34 5 0
MS Kasprowicz c Butcher b Ealham 0 1 2 0 0
JN Gillespie run out (Crawley/Gough) 0 11 6 0 0
GD McGrath not out 0 1 0 0 0
Extras (b 18, lb 12, w 2, nb 5) 37
Total (all out, 144.4 overs) 477

FoW: 1-133 (Elliott), 2-327 (Taylor), 3-354 (Blewett),
4-393 (Bevan), 5-399 (ME Waugh), 6-431 (SR Waugh),
7-465 (Healy), 8-465 (Kasprowicz), 9-477 (Gillespie),
10-477 (Warne).

Bowling O M R W
Gough 35 7 123 3 (4nb)
Malcolm 21 6 52 0
Croft 43 10 125 3 (2w)
Caddick 30 6 87 0 (3nb)
Ealham 15.4 3 60 3

England 2nd innings (target: 118 runs) R M B 4 6
MA Butcher lbw b Kasprowicz 14 15 10 2 0
*MA Atherton not out 57 87 65 9 0
+AJ Stewart not out 40 71 54 7 0
Extras (b 4, lb 4) 8
Total (1 wicket, 21.3 overs) 119

DNB: N Hussain, GP Thorpe, JP Crawley, MA Ealham, RDB Croft,
D Gough, AR Caddick, DE Malcolm.

FoW: 1-29 (Butcher).

Bowling O M R W
McGrath 7 1 42 0
Kasprowicz 7 0 42 1
Warne 7.3 0 27 0

 

[Mr. P]

whats so great bout that?

 

[PY]

An Essex player, Nasser Hussain, gets a double century

My favourite England player, Graham Thorpe, gets a large century

Australia are bowled out for 118

My 2nd favourite England player, Michael Atherton, gets a fifty off just 65 balls

And we won by 9 wickets to take a 1-0 lead in an Ashes series.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Headingley, 1981.

Botham's Match.

'Nuff said.

 

[marc71178]

whats so great bout that?

54-8 at lunch.

 

[Anil]

Botham's Headingley test of 1981
Laxman's test
The two tied tests
Record chase by WI in the recent series....

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

A couple more...

West Indies v Australia 3rd Test 1999
Lara's 153* for a 1-wicket win.

West Indies v Zimbabwe 1st Test 2000
Walsh, Ambrose, Rose and King bowled superbly to defend just over 100 against Zimbabwe at the Queen's Park Oval.

West Indies v Zimbabwe 2nd Test 2000
Adams scored a century and Rose scored 69 as they put together that big partnership.

West Indies v Pakistan 3rd (?) Test 2000
Adams scored 49* I believe to win by 1-wicket.

 

[Tim]

West Indies v Zimbabwe = great test matches???

They may have been good entertainment but im sure the West Indies were having nervous celebrations afterwards.

 

[Deja moo]

Bangladesh's first ever test vs India.............Bangladesh put the Indian attack(for want of a better word) to the sword and score a mammoth 400 in their first ever innings in test cricket ( who could have imagined what was to follow over their next 18 tests! ).

India produces a splendid fightback to reduce the mighty Bongs to 90 all out in the 2nd inns and win the test..!!!
.........A splendid test match between 2 evenly matched teams

 

[Mr. P]

good point. how can that be good quality? sure zimbabwe may have had a fluke or 2, (most likely from the flower bros) but it wouldn't have been great.

 

[Bazza]

Butcher's 173* at Headingley 2001,
Eng v WI at Lord's 2000,
Eng v SL last year was pretty good - chasing 50 in 6 overs or whatever it was.....
The 1997 Ashes Test mentioned above
Eng winning in Karachi by torchlight

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

good point. how can that be good quality? sure zimbabwe may have had a fluke or 2, (most likely from the flower bros) but it wouldn't have been great.

Clearly you did not see the Test match. Regardless of the teams competing, a Test match can still be great because of effort and just quality of cricket played over 5 days. The Zimbabweans played with heart and Streak bowled supebly for 10. Andy Flower also got a magnificient century when his team was in trouble. The last day of that match was thrilling with Zimbabwe poised to complete a major upset in the first Test match between the two teams. Ambrose, Rose and King in particular bowled superbly.

I suggest you don't comment until you've seen it.

In the case of the second Test match, Zimbabwe had the Windies in serious trouble. Zimbabwe batted well on Day 1 with Goodwin getting a century and Andy Flower getting 60odd. Rose and King came back with the new ball and both batsmen were dismissed off consecutive deliveries after a big partnership. The next morning there was another fine exhibition of pace bowling from King and Rose but Zimbabwe made 300+ in the end. We were behind by 120odd runs with 7 down I believe. Rose and Adams came together and Adams played a superb captain's knock as the two put on 120+ runs for the 8th wicket. West Indies got a lead and Zimbabwe came back to bat with Walsh needing 3 (?) more wickets for the World Record. With 9 Zimbabwean wickets down, he steamed in to Olonga and he fended it to Hinds at short leg - a magical moment. The reason why it was so critical for him to take that wicket then was because it was his only chance to get it in Jamaica - his home country.

Once again, don't comment unless you've seen it.