Battle of the post-1980 Test Hundreds

[Riggins]

Second any Marto innings.

 

[GotSpin]

Jason Gillespie 201 v Bangladesh

 

[weldone]

Lara 226, the innings which he broke Border's record.

3rd Test: Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Nov 25-29, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

perhaps it's the lead up to the innings doing it. He'd done nothing at all in the 2 tests before and I think people were even saying he was done..? and then bam

seconded

 

[honestbharani]

Lara 226, the innings which he broke Border's record.

3rd Test: Australia v West Indies at Adelaide, Nov 25-29, 2005 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

perhaps it's the lead up to the innings doing it. He'd done nothing at all in the 2 tests before and I think people were even saying he was done..? and then bam

Remember being sawn off a couple of times by some howlers by the umpires in that series.. And a couple of amazing catches..

 

[ankitj]

Azhar Mahmood 132 vs South Africa, Durban 1998

2nd Test: South Africa v Pakistan at Durban, Feb 26-Mar 2, 1998 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[morgieb]

Anyone mentioned Steve Waugh's ton at the SCG in 2003?

Or half of Laxman's centuries?

 

[ImpatientLime]

Michael Vaughan 105 vs Sri Lanka, Kandy 2003.

2nd Test: Sri Lanka v England at Kandy, Dec 10-14, 2003 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[miscer]

hello anwar's 188* in the 3rd innings out of 316?
1st Match: India v Pakistan at Kolkata, Feb 16-20, 1999 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo
^^ can be top 10 on an all time list actually.

azhar mahmood and anwar's 100s in this match
2nd Test: South Africa v Pakistan at Durban, Feb 26-Mar 2, 1998 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

i loved smiths 154* in the 4th innings too
3rd Test: England v South Africa at Birmingham, Jul 30-Aug 2, 2008 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[grecian]

Gooch's for me. Funny thing I never really liked him, scored quickly, but was so brutish, most of the time I felt he was a ftb, before the term was invented, killed Gower's career, whom I loved. Yet that 154, was just frighteningly good, the best I've seen by a margin.

 

[zaremba]

OK let me begin with some admissions.
1. This isn't a Test innings.
2. It's not a century.
3. I don't even like the **** whose achievement it was.

But nonetheless a sublime innings that cannot be left out of account in any discussion of this sort:

From a Cricinfo article:

"Robin Marlar had few pretensions as a batsman, and those consisted of trying to hit every ball as far as possible. An oft-repeated story tells of the time Doug Insole, his captain, sent him in as a nightwatchman much to Marlar's disgust as, according to a version of the tale told by Stephen Chalke, he had already changed into evening dress. Despite protestations, Marlar was sent to the middle, heaved his first ball for six and was stumped by some distance off the second. "As I was saying," he remarked to Insole. "I am not a nightwatchman." His actions were not unusual for a man who a contemporary recalled was followed onto the field by his side while captain of Sussex "only out of curiosity"

 

[Spark]

 

[ankitj]

Nomination : Kapil Dev's hundred in SA. Can someone help me with the scorecard link? I am on mobile.

 

[Blaze 18]

3rd Test: South Africa v India at Port Elizabeth, Dec 26-29, 1992 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[ankitj]

3rd Test: South Africa v India at Port Elizabeth, Dec 26-29, 1992 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Thanks

 

[BoyBrumby]

Graham Thorpe's unbeaten 113 versus SL, scored in an England total of 249 in which no-one else passed 26, in the deciding 3rd test at the SSC in Colombo in 2001.

Alistair Cook's unbeaten 235 at The Gabba after England had conceded a first innings deficit of 221 in the first test of the 2010/11 Ashes.

 

[wpdavid]

Graham Thorpe's unbeaten 113 versus SL, scored in an England total of 249 in which no-one else passed 26, in the deciding 3rd test at the SSC in Colombo in 2001.

His unbeaten 32 in the 2nd innings deserves a mention - without it, we may well have failed to reach the 70odd needed for victory.

 

[DingDong]

are we sure we have enough aussie, indian and english centurions on this list :rollseyes:

 

[Spark]

Nominate someone then.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Alistair Cook's unbeaten 235 at The Gabba after England had conceded a first innings deficit of 221 in the first test of the 2010/11 Ashes.

I see f_o_s beat me to this one; consider it a second.

are we sure we have enough aussie, indian and english centurions on this list :rollseyes:

Quite right. In order to redress the balance I'll nominate Mark Butcher's 173* at Headingley in the 4th test of the 2001 Ashes.

 

[Spark]

I see f_o_s beat me to this one; consider it a second.



Quite right. In order to redress the balance I'll nominate Mark Butcher's 173* at Headingley in the 4th test of the 2001 Ashes.