Best performance in a losing team?

[micz]

Stoinis' 3 wickets and 146 made me think about 'What is the best performance in a losing cause?'

Performances that come to mind: Ricky Ponting 164 vs South Africa, Kumar Sangakara 192 vs Australia, Nathan Astle 222 vs England and Mitchell Starc 6/28 against New Zealand.

 

[Shri]

Tendulkar 175 vs Aus '09
Tendulkar 143 vs Aus '98
Dilshan 160 vs Ind '09
Ponting 164 vs SA '06

 

[vcs]

Warner recently in one of the ODIs in SA when Australia got whitewashed. Singlehandedly kept them in the hunt.

 

[Daemon]

India 5-29 against Pakistan in Chennai 2012. Dhoni walks in and smashes a hundred. WAFG.

 

[Days of Grace]

Top 10 rated test knocks in a losing cause according to my ratings:

Stanley Jackson 128vs Australia in 1902 in the famous "Fred Tate test"
Michael Clarke 151 vs South Africa in 2011
Brian Lara 226 vs Australia in 2005 (Adelaide)
Kumar Sangakkara 203 vs New Zealand in 2015 (Wellington)
Asif Iqbal 146 vs England in 1967
Brian Lara 196 vs South Africa in 2005
Nathan Astle 222 vs England in 2002
Sachin Tendulkar 136 vs Pakistan in 1999 (Chennai)
Brian Lara 221 vs Sri Lanka in 2001
Graham Yallop 121 vs England in 1979

Some more mentions

VVS Laxman 167 vs Australia in 1999
Stan McCabe 187* vs England in 1932 (my personal favorite)

 

[J_C]

Lara in SL 2001.
Dravid in England 2011.
Gavaskar in Bangalore 87'/Tendulkar in Chennai 99'

 

[OverratedSanity]

Warne in the 05 Ashes

 

[Compton]

In ODIs I honestly don't think there's a performance in a losing side to match Stoinis.

 

[Howe_zat]

Dilshan's 160 vs India chasing 400 odd

 

[AndrewB]

For FC cricket: Mycroft wonders why he bothered (17-103 in a 1-wicket loss).

 

[Furball]

Shane Warne 2005 Ashes
Rahul Dravid 2011 Pataudi Trophy

 

[SteveNZ]

Knocks like Astle's in 2002 shouldn't be considered, no hope situation and whilst we did revive hopes of winning for a brief time, we still lost by 100 runs and were never in it.

Better to mention the ones like Stoinis where his team mates were all spuds and they'd have got wiped if not for him, but instead ended up in a situation where they almost won.

 

[Starfighter]

For ODIs Charles Coventry's 194* comes to mind. To equal a world record and lose.

 

[_Ed_]

IMO the best by a NZer in an ODI is this one: 5th Super: Australia v New Zealand at Port Elizabeth, Mar 11, 2003 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Meridio]

IMO the best by a NZer in an ODI is this one: 5th Super: Australia v New Zealand at Port Elizabeth, Mar 11, 2003 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

That's exactly what came to my mind. As for tests, KW at Brisbane and Mark Richardson in this game (1st Test: England v New Zealand at Lord's, May 20-24, 2004 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo) are up there.

 

[Zinzan]

Styris's 141 3rd Match: New Zealand v Sri Lanka at Bloemfontein, Feb 10, 2003 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[quincywagstaff]

Ricky Ponting v Sri Lanka at Kandy 1999. Scored 96 & 51 in a match where no other Oz bat reached 50 and only one SL bat did.

Allan Border's undefeated 152 at Brisbane v NZ 1985/86 against Richard Hadlee taking 15/123 probably the best batting performance in a side that lost a Test by an innings.

 

[CricAddict]

Knocks like Astle's in 2002 shouldn't be considered, no hope situation and whilst we did revive hopes of winning for a brief time, we still lost by 100 runs and were never in it.

Better to mention the ones like Stoinis where his team mates were all spuds and they'd have got wiped if not for him, but instead ended up in a situation where they almost won.

The margin says 100 runs but when that match was happening, it looked like Astle will win the game for the team if he played 10 more overs. Crazy knock and certainly deserves to be consired as it brought the team from a no hope situation to a winning hope situation as you have put it up in the post.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Steve Waugh 122* & 30* plus 2/8 against England 1998/99.

 

[GirtBySea]

Stoinis' 3 wickets and 146 made me think about 'What is the best performance in a losing cause?'

Performances that come to mind: Ricky Ponting 164 vs South Africa, Kumar Sangakara 192 vs Australia, Nathan Astle 222 vs England and Mitchell Starc 6/28 against New Zealand.

Was going to mention that. Geez we know how to produce ATG performances in a losing team at Eden Park don't we?
Ponting scored 242 against India in a Test match...and they lost that match quite easily too.
And Sangakarra's knock was only stopped by an AT horrible umpiring decision as well. Ruined a great chase and a most unlikely first win for Sri Lanka in Australia too, and world record run chase.