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Worst Century/High Score

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Satyanash89

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Worst ive seen is BY FAR Ajay Ratra's hundred.. was against WI iirc. Virtually every boundary he got hit the bat a mile away from the middle. Dont think ive ever seen anyone edging the ball so consistently.

Honorable mention to Gary Kirsten's double at Durban.... dead boring
 

fredfertang

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Ian Botham was ridiculously fortunate during his 149 at Headingley in '81 - wonderful innings though
 

flibbertyjibber

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Wasn't a century but Pietersen's 80 v Pakistan in 2010 was as bad an innings by a top player I have seen.

The first 100 runs of the Strauss 177 at Napier on the last tour to NZ were pretty dire viewing too.
 
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Howe_zat

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Wasn't exactly lucky but Eoin Morgan's hundred against India was probably the easiest Test hundred I've ever seen
 

Furball

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Wasn't a century but Pietersen's 80 v Pakistan in 2010 was as bad an innings by a top player I have seen.

The first 100 runs of the Strauss 177 at Napier on the last tour to NZ were pretty dire viewing too.
Was going to post the Pietersen one. Dreadful innings.
 

wpdavid

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Wasn't exactly lucky but Eoin Morgan's hundred against India was probably the easiest Test hundred I've ever seen
Wasn't he dropped more than once during that innings, or was that another time during the series? I remember being hugely unimpressed with his that summer.
 

robelinda

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Gary Kirsten's 210 vs England in 1998 at Old Trafford. OUCH.

Would have to admit Mark Taylor's 129 ashes 1997 was awful to watch.
 

Burgey

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Fat Gatt's ton in Adelaide on his last tour here was bad. Credit to the bloke, who was a decade past it, but the papers described it as "Mary Mackillop's second miracle".
 

Xuhaib

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what about bowlers.

Fin's 6fer in Australia was one lucky haul also Starc recently had a very lucky 5 fer vs SA.
 

Howe_zat

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Wasn't he dropped more than once during that innings, or was that another time during the series? I remember being hugely unimpressed with his that summer.
Getting dropped isn't really lucky as much as it's just the opposition being ****.
 

Spark

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Defs the KP one for mine, even though it wasn't a hundred.

Wasn't exactly lucky but Eoin Morgan's hundred against India was probably the easiest Test hundred I've ever seen
Haha yeah remember making a comment like "Well, Test centuries are never strictly easy or without merit buuut...."
 

Pothas

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Yeah that Morgan century was ridiculous, had the easiest job ever that summer.

Alviro Petersen's 180 odd against England last summer was fairly horrid.
 

theegyptian

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the first 200 runs Ali Cook made in the Brisbane 2010 test. It was ugly stuff (especially the first innings 67) until he reached 130 in the second innings. important knock- ugly stuff
 

Howe_zat

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Andy Zaltzman on Gary Kirsten

Kirsten has haunted my every cricketing nightmare since I took a week’s holiday to go to the England v South Africa Old Trafford Test in 1998. Kirsten spent the first 11 accursed hours of this match grinding out 210 grindingly ground-out runs in a manner that rendered previously sane cricket watchers insensible with boredom. Even his team-mates and blood relatives must have been drinking fearsomely aggressive espresso coffees every half hour to endure the vigil. Not wishing to waste a moment of my precious holiday time, I dedicatedly sat through every single ball of that innings. I have suffered flashbacks ever since, the deep psychological scars have seriously affected my family relationships, and I have never quite been able to see the sunny side of life as I had before. I survived the ordeal, but have never truly been the same cricket fan again.
 

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