Best losing performance you have seen?

[sunilz]

After seeing Lara many times in the above link, I checked how many times did Lara score 200 and above in a test match ( both innings combined)
So here is the list
Sangakkara 17( 5 against BAN + ZIM)
Lara (15)
Kohli 13 (1 against BAN )
Smith (8)

 

[tony p]

v.v.s. laxman's 167 at the s.c.g in1999/00. his first test hundred opening the batting out of 258 in the second innings.

india were thrashed but we got to see how great laxman was against australia.( the first of many). one of my favourite alltime players to watch.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Nathan Astle at Christchurch on our 2002 tour.

Never seen a batsman more in "the zone". England had set NZ well over 500 to win and his 222 got them to within double digits of it.

Still the fastest double hundred ever.

Didn't MCullum broke this record? Or was it the fastest century?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Didn't MCullum broke this record? Or was it the fastest century?

McCullum has the fastest century. In another test he (Mccullum) was set for the fastest 200 but was dismissed for 195.

 

[mr_mister]

Asif Karim's spell against Australia in the '03 WC

 

[NZTailender]

Paul Collingwood in Adelaide. 206 in the first dig then not out 22 off 119 as his team fell about him in the second dig to somehow lose that test.

 

[mr_mister]

Paul Collingwood in Adelaide. 206 in the first dig then not out 22 off 119 as his team fell about him in the second dig to somehow lose that test.

That's the innings where I realised Warne was the GOAT

 

[AndrewB]

William Mycroft took 17-103 for Derbyshire v Hampshire in 1876 - then the best first-class bowling figures in an 11-a-side match - and held a catch; but Hampshire still won by 1 wicket.

Two players in that match had odd claims to fame: Mycroft was Conan Doyle's inspiration for the name of Sherlock Holmes's brother, and Reginald Hargreaves (who hit the winning runs for Hampshire) later married Alice Liddell, the inspiration for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

 

[AndrewB]

After seeing Lara many times in the above link, I checked how many times did Lara score 200 and above in a test match ( both innings combined)
So here is the list
Sangakkara 17( 5 against BAN + ZIM)
Lara (15)
Kohli 13 (1 against BAN )
Smith (8)

Other batsmen with 10 or more:
Bradman 14
Ponting 13
Younis Khan 11
Cook, Dravid, Kallis, Tendulkar 10 each

 

[Cruxdude]

It was always another inferior batsman who screwed up the winning chance in all those 3 losses. Jadeja during 175, Laxman during 143 and Mongia and co. during 136.

Kind of hard to blame Mongia despite his daft shot to get out. His partnership with Sachin was the only reason we were still in the game.

 

[CricAddict]

Records | Test matches | Batting records | Most runs in a match on the losing side | ESPNcricinfo.com

Possible to do it over the career including average? Just interested to see who was more unlucky between Sachin and Lara?

 

[OverratedSanity]

Possible to do it over the career including average? Just interested to see who was more unlucky between Sachin and Lara?

lara's teammates were far worse so I dont think itd be close

 

[honestbharani]

Kind of hard to blame Mongia despite his daft shot to get out. His partnership with Sachin was the only reason we were still in the game.

Come on, they were fighting hard on a difficult wicket and Mongia decided to suddenly charge at Wasim, of all people and got himself out. I became sure that he was part of the fixing gang off that game.

 

[Slifer]

Possible to do it over the career including average? Just interested to see who was more unlucky between Sachin and Lara?

Not close, has to be Lara without even looking. Yes I know up until the early 00s lara had Ambrose and Walsh but thereafter he had zero decent bowlers and only Shiv as a world class batsman.

 

[Hicheal Michael]

I certainly didn't see it - though i believe Franklyn Stephenson scored twin tons and took a 10-fer in a losing cause for Notts.

 

[vcs]

Shiv probably had it even harder than Lara. Dude was a one man army between 2006 or so till 2013. So many series where he'd average 60-70 and the next best WI batsman would hardly be in double figures.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wouldve averaged 45 if he prioritized what the team needed instead of needing to stay not out. Lara couldve averaged 90 if he wanted to.

And there was my customary chanders was selfish post. Its been a while, its good to be back.

 

[Slifer]

Yeah, amazingly lara averages 53 with just a handful of not out innings. Imagine what it'd be if he had even half as many not outs as sir shiv ....

 

[GoodAreasShane]

This whole "Shiv didn't do what was best for the team" argument is spurious at best when you considered the quality of the teams he played with.

Extremely underrated cricketer

 

[vcs]

"Playing for the team" and hitting out when he was batting with the lower order wouldn't have made much difference anyway, such was the state of the WI teams he played in post-Lara.

Might as well protect your stats.