Greatest Tour Match of All Time?

[Daemon]

We'll probably never see a full strength FC side play tour games anymore which is a shame because there have been some great ones, especially in the distant past.

What are some of the best ones? My personal favourite is this - Tour Match: Cricket Australia XI v New Zealanders at Sydney, Oct 29-31, 2015 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

 

[Mike5181]

You monster.

 

[91Jmay]

When Australia A chased a big score against England at about 12 runs an over to win will take some beating.

 

[NZTailender]

We'll probably never see a full strength FC side play tour games anymore which is a shame because there have been some great ones, especially in the distant past.

What are some of the best ones? My personal favourite is this - Tour Match: Cricket Australia XI v New Zealanders at Sydney, Oct 29-31, 2015 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Before I even opened the thread I knew...

 

[Gnske]

We'll probably never see a full strength FC side play tour games anymore which is a shame because there have been some great ones, especially in the distant past.

What are some of the best ones? My personal favourite is this - Tour Match: Cricket Australia XI v New Zealanders at Sydney, Oct 29-31, 2015 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

Happy times that game.

 

[Mike5181]

 

[Howe_zat]

Most interesting tour game I remember was when England toured the UAE in 2012 and played a warmup against an Associate XI like we've been picking in random fantasy threads for years

Tour Match: ICC Combined Associate and Affiliate XI v England XI at ICCA Dubai, Jan 7-9, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

They actually conceded a big lead after random hack Christie Viljoen randomly hacked 98 from down the order.

 

[Flem274*]

When England came here last time round NZ were generous and gave them roughly a second XI to face.

NZ second XI won the game thanks to Latham, Brownlie and Watling. Rutherford scored runs too iirc and debuted the next week.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Bound to be a cracker from the days of sides touring England when they played about 10-12 of the counties on tour.

 

[fredfertang]

Bound to be a cracker from the days of sides touring England when they played about 10-12 of the counties on tour.

FST's finest hour? The Home of CricketArchive

 

[harsh.ag]

Weird low scoring game on the 1948 Invincibles tour between Yorkshire and a Bradman-less Australian side.

The Home of CricketArchive

 

[Daemon]

Most interesting tour game I remember was when England toured the UAE in 2012 and played a warmup against an Associate XI like we've been picking in random fantasy threads for years

Tour Match: ICC Combined Associate and Affiliate XI v England XI at ICCA Dubai, Jan 7-9, 2012 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo

They actually conceded a big lead after random hack Christie Viljoen randomly hacked 98 from down the order.

FST's finest hour? The Home of CricketArchive

Weird low scoring game on the 1948 Invincibles tour between Yorkshire and a Bradman-less Australian side.

The Home of CricketArchive

I didn't actually mean for there to be serious discussion of course, but keep going, these are fascinating

 

[Howe_zat]

FST's finest hour? The Home of CricketArchive

Ilingworth with 68* and 4-for in both innings - think you might have taken his finest hour away from him with that description.

What a champion Yorkshire side in any case

 

[TheJediBrah]

Yeah that Cricket Australia was nowhere near strong enough to challenge the New Zealanders

 

[fredfertang]

Ilingworth with 68* and 4-for in both innings - think you might have taken his finest hour away from him with that description.

What a champion Yorkshire side in any case

All down to Fiery Fred though - bear in mind it was one of the few times he was skipper

 

[mr_mister]

When Australia A chased a big score against England at about 12 runs an over to win will take some beating.

link?

 

[Spikey]

god you didn't even post the scoreboard

 

[Spikey]

an unrelated feature is that they shared an 120 over partnership and faced the basically the same amount of deliveries.

it's this type of mateship the kiwis dont have and it's why we beat them at football nearly half the time

 

[Spikey]

another one great one is The Home of CricketArchive

and who can forget The Home of CricketArchive

 

[Daemon]

This is another personal favourite of mine whenever I hear about Krejza and his 12 wickets - Tour Match: Indian Board President's XI v Australians at Hyderabad (Deccan), Oct 2-5, 2008 | Cricket Scorecard | ESPN Cricinfo