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Top 5 series performance against your side

sunilz

International Regular
Batting


Martyn 2004
Cook 2012
Smith 2017
Amla 2010
Younis Khan 2005

Bowling

Broad 2011
Gillespie 2004
Swann/Panesar 2012
Steyn 2010/11
Jamieson 2020
 

OverratedSanity

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That I've seen:

Batting:
McCullum 2014
Smith 2017
Amla 2010
Hayden 2001
Cook 2012

Maybe having McCullum at the top is controversial but both innings were insanely clutch and without them India win the series 2-0.

Bowling:
Broad 2011 (Probably the best all round performance as well)
Steyn 2010/11
Saqlain 1999
Mendis 2008
Murali 2001
 

morgieb

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If we're doing individual series (keeping it to my lifetime) -

Batting:

Lara 1999
Pujara 2018/19
Vaughan 2002/03
Cook 2010/11
Kohli 2014/15

Bowling:

Harbhajan 2001
Herath 2016
Jones 2005
Bumrah 2018/19
Broad 2015

More confident regarding the batting than bowling.
 

Slifer

International Captain
Batting

Steve Waugh 1995
Allan Border 1984
Jacques Kallis 1998
Armanath 1983
Steve Waugh 1999

I only rate performances that I can remember and those when we actually had decent bowling.
 

Slifer

International Captain
How about Nathan Astle in 1996,Michael Atherton in 1994?
I'll give you Nathan Astle. Epic performance vs an atg attack. My bad, I tend to overlook shorter series.

Mike Atherton had a great series but we're only limited to 5 and Steve Waugh for example his performances were the differences between a series loss (and draw).
 

Bijed

International Regular
Not sure about top 5, but for the No. 1 in each category, I'd go:

Batting: Steve Smith 2019

Bowling: Mitchell Johnson 2013/14
 

Kirkut

International Regular
Do these performances have to be witnessed by us in person or in general?

In general:

Batting - Don Bradman's only series against us.

Bowling - Malcolm Marshall when Windies toured India after 1983 World Cup

What I have personally watched:

Batting - Steven Smith against us in 2017, considering how unplayable Jadeja was in that series, Umesh being a beast in India and Ashwin in his purple patch.

Bowling - Stuart Broad in 2011. Previously it was McGrath in 1999/2000, but Broad's bowling in that series made me avoid cricket for a considerable amount of time.
 

Slifer

International Captain
Top 5 performances by WI batsmen imo:

Lara vs Aus 1999
Viv vs Pak 1980
Viv vs Aus 1980
Lara vs SL 2001
Walcott vs Aus 1955

Honorable mentions:

Adams vs Ind 1994
Viv vs Pak 1988
Sobers vs Eng 1966
Headley vs Eng 1939
 

Immenso

International Vice-Captain
Vs NZ. Waqar Younis 1990.

Cant think of any others. Too many when we were crap, they all blend. Then recently, 2 matches aren't really serieses.
 

Flem274*

123/5
australian bowling attack 2019/20 easily. plenty of teams jumped us between the fleming and mccullum eras, but that was a proper batting side who just met a brick wall. you actually had to watch it to respect it properly. relentless corridor bowling at pace, backed up by nathan lyon's reliability.

beyond that, probably england's batsmen in 2004. fleming's side was a proper team, and our bowling especially just could not compete. nz would post a good score only for england to cruise past it and score a billion more.
 

TheJediBrah

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Vaughan 2002/03
Micheal Vaughan 02/03
Glad to see this get some recognition. Loved watching him bat around that time. He was just about best in the world for a year or 2.

Top 5 performances by WI batsmen imo:

Lara vs Aus 1999
Viv vs Pak 1980
Viv vs Aus 1980
Lara vs SL 2001
Walcott vs Aus 1955

Honorable mentions:

Adams vs Ind 1994
Viv vs Pak 1988
Sobers vs Eng 1966
Headley vs Eng 1939
I think you misunderstood the thread
 

Slifer

International Captain
Glad to see this get some recognition. Loved watching him bat around that time. He was just about best in the world for a year or 2.


I think you misunderstood the thread
I didn't. Just felt like throwing that last piece out there. In case you didn't notice, I also posted the 5 top performances (imo) vs my team. ✌
 

wpdavid

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
A few series performances against England that spring immediately to mind;
Richards in 1976
Hogg in 1978/79
Alderman in 1981 and/or 1989
Dravid in 2011
Johnson in 2013/14
 
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