Mark Waugh's highest test score was pretty damn low (153*), I always found this weird

[Jono]

Geoff Lawson's was the best. Such a unique bloke. His views of the spot fixing saga are completely different to what you'll hear from anyone really (obv cos he coached them previously).

Plus the way he spoke of the Lillee vs. Kim Hughes rivalry. Border spoke about it too I think.

 

[Howe_zat]

tbh it wasn't exactly a team that needed guys to go big on a regular basis. I'm speaking completely anecdotally here, but there weren't many big scores by Australian batsmen in that era -- especially not considering how ****ing good they all were. And when they did go big, it was only ever the top 3 who did it.

Mark Waugh, Steve Waugh, Clarke, Martyn, Gilchrist never had that many chances to get above 150 before the team was in position to declare, simply because Langer-Hayden-Ponting were so consistently brilliant up top.

Think you are conflating your Aussie teams there, Hayden-Langer-Ponting was mostly a force around 2002-06, after Mark Waugh retired.

 

[Dan]

Think you are conflating your Aussie teams there, Hayden-Langer-Ponting was mostly a force around 2002-06, after Mark Waugh retired.

Hm, yes, right you are. For some strange reason I thought Waugh hung on for an extra year than he did in reality.

 

[CaptainGrumpy]

Think you are conflating your Aussie teams there, Hayden-Langer-Ponting was mostly a force around 2002-06, after Mark Waugh retired.

Heh, Thats only one inaccuracy of many with that post.

 

[Red]

Either way the point stands. Slater, Taylor and Boon were usually doing the job prior to that anyway. For a period of time Boon was easily the best batsman around.

 

[Spikey]

Geoff Lawson's was the best. Such a unique bloke. His views of the spot fixing saga are completely different to what you'll hear from anyone really (obv cos he coached them previously).

Plus the way he spoke of the Lillee vs. Kim Hughes rivalry. Border spoke about it too I think.

yeah saw some of it last night. was really interesting. loved the bit about how, of course, it wasn't really that much better for the players post WSC

 

[GirtBySea]

153 NOT OUT.
And yes, stuck there because of a declaration too. Could/would/should have scored more
???

 

[Top_Cat]

Nope.

That and even if it was a declaration, doubt he'd have scored too much more considering he was sick/running from both ends.

 

[mr_mister]

holy crap harbhajan was playing test cricket in '98?

 

[Jono]

Haha Yep, I remember being able to choose Harbhajan in Shane Warne Cricket 99 on Playstation. I didn't know who he was but my cousin who lived in India did and said he was going to be good.

3 years later he was right.

1 year after that he was possibly half-right.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Haha Yep, I remember being able to choose Harbhajan in Shane Warne Cricket 99 on Playstation. I didn't know who he was but my cousin who lived in India did and said he was going to be good.

3 years later he was right.

1 year after that he was possibly half-right.

Nah come on Bhajji remained damn good for a long while after that.Gets trotted out too often that Bhajji was crap for the majority of his career apart from 2001.