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Best match saving innings you have seen

Mr Mxyzptlk

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Daren Powell batting more than an hour and Fidel Edwards batting more than half an hour to save WI v England at St. John's last year.
 

Goughy

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You say match saving innings to an Englishman of my age then only 1 thing springs to mind. Athers.
 

GIMH

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Jimmeh & Monty's heroic stand in Cardiff >>>>> anything anyone has or will mention
 

Uppercut

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Daren Powell batting more than an hour and Fidel Edwards batting more than half an hour to save WI v England at St. John's last year.
Haha, Powell's biggest achievement in that innings was being bad enough that none of his horrid attempts at a pull shot actually connected.

Immediately thought of Athers too.
 

fredfertang

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Lancashire obviously saw something in that innings - after all he can't have been signed for his bowling
 

zaremba

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Gary Kirsten's double hundred v England

Mark Greatbatch 146no (nearly 11 hours) v Australia at Perth in 89/90 (didn't see it but it sounded pretty impressive)

Above all, Atherton 185no
 

Richard

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Gary Kirsten's double hundred v England
Yup, extraordinary innings.
Mark Greatbatch 146no (nearly 11 hours) v Australia at Perth in 89/90 (didn't see it but it sounded pretty impressive)
That one's a bit cheapened for me by the fact that it was in a rain-disrupted game and Australia would've won anyway had lost time been made-up.
Above all, Atherton 185no
The ultimate one really.

Another one that I always think of is Alec Stewart's 164 at Old Trafford in 1998.

Is it coincidence that so many of these came in England-vs.-South Africa games?
 

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