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Laxman's Kolkata epic voted best Test performance

The famous 2001 Test innings leads the list of 50 greatest performances in the last half-century

 

 

 

 

VVS Laxman's batting feat against Australia in Kolkata in 2001 has been voted the greatest Test performance of the last 50 years by a 25-member panel of cricketers, writers, broadcasters, historians and statisticians assembled by the Cricket Monthly.

Laxman scored 59 and 281 in a match where India trailed by 274 runs, in a series they trailed 0-1, against a team on a record winning streak and widely acknowledged as one of the best to have ever played the game. India went on to win the match and the series.

In his tribute to Laxman's performance, Shane Warne recalls: "I was bowling in the foot marks and Laxman was hitting the same ball through cover or whipping it through midwicket. It was so hard to bowl then."

Ricky Ponting remembers that Laxman's "work through the leg side in particular was a source of wonderment to many of us... Ultimately we bowled for near enough to two days at him without even looking like getting him out."

Zaheer Khan, his room-mate during the series, recalls how Laxman slept on the floor through the match because of a bad back. "Everyone could see that he could not stand straight."

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Cricket Monthly top 50

 

 

Player
The big thing about Brian Lara's entries in the list is not just that he has four of them but how high up they are. All four are in the top 30, two are around the 15 mark, and one is in the top five (Barbados '99). His only real competitor is Ian Botham, whose three entries include two in the top 10 (Headingley '81, Bombay '80).

 

Honourable mention to Viv Richards, and the incomparable Gary Sobers, who has two entries (Headingley '66, Lord's '66) though less than half his 20-year career falls in the period under consideration.

 

Team
No surprises with the leader: West Indies were kings or contenders for a good part of these 50 years, and between them the mighty players claim over a quarter of the pie. The surprise is the next highest: India, with 11. Chandra, Gavaskar, Amarnath, Kapil, Hirwani, Kumble, Dravid, Laxman, Harbhajan, Sehwag, but no Guess Who? Third are Australia, yet their golden era is represented entirely by Steve Waugh and Shane Warne, with two entries each. Another surprise, given their procession of game-turners: Pakistan, with a mere three, but a reassuringly bowling-heavy three (Imran '83, Sarfraz '79, Qadir '86). Zimbabwe and Bangladesh are the only Test nations without representation.

 

Type
On first glance 27 batting entries to 15 bowling appears to reinforce the enduring partiality towards batsmen. On closer look, it's not so bad: a team usually has six batsmen to four bowlers and correspondingly a greater pool of batting performances. Three of the top 10 performances are pure bowling, and a fourth (Hadlee '85) is close to one. In terms of type within type, seven of the 15 bowling entries are to spinners, and nine of the 27 batting entries are to openers. Genuine all-round performances are rare: and so they comprise four of the top ten.

 

Decade
What accounts for the 1980s domination? It could be that it coincides with West Indian pomp: close to half the '80s entries feature West Indies as perpetrators or opposition. It could be the serendipity of the great allrounders: six entries between them over the decade. Could it also be the fact that the '80s are the perfect midpoint between nostalgia and accessibility? The least represented period is the last 10 years: only one from the current decade (Pietersen '12), and one (Smith '08) from the second half of the 2000s. More on that topic here.

 

Venue
London leads with its two venues, and The Oval pips Lord's by five to four. A fine variety in The Oval handful too: sheer pace (Holding '76), two very different spin exhibitions (Chandrasekhar '71, Muralitharan '98) and two very different batting feats (Richards '76, Gavaskar '79). Headingley comes in alongside Lord's with four, and three of those are in the first 10: Botham '81, Sobers '66, Gooch '91. The Antigua Recreation Ground proves its batting reputation by supplying three entries that range from the super-fast (Richards '86) to the super-vast (Lara '94, Lara '04).

 

Opposition
Seventeen against England! Since England were rarely a top opposition in this period, it must have to do with the symbolism and glee of beating the former colonisers. And also perhaps to do with the power of the British press: the great performance against England is the one more likely turn into lore. Next are Australia, another team that everyone loves to beat, and another with a traditionally strong press: four of the top six (Laxman '01, Botham '81, Lara '99 and Hadlee '85) are against them. Fittingly, five of the seven entries versus West Indies are of batsmen coping with the feared fast bowlers.

 

Results
The overwhelming majority of the entries are, as expected, in victories. Of the four losses, three are by Indians in the 1980s: Kapil '82, Amarnath '83, Gavaskar '87. Gavaskar's other entry (The Oval '79) was not in a win either, which about sums up his situation. The lone non-Indian in a losing performance? Who else but Lara (Colombo '01)? Indeed, only one of Lara's four entries was in a victory (Barbados '99). All eight entries in drawn matches are batting performances. A little on that here.

 

 

http://www.thecricketmonthly.com/story/949999

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More numbers from 2015

2692 Runs scored by Williamson in all international matches in 2015, the third-highest by any batsman in a calendar year. Only Kumar Sangakkara (2868 in 2014) and Ricky Ponting (2833 in 2005) have scored more international runs in a calendar year.

58 Sixes in ODIs for de Villiers in 2015, the first instance of any batsman hitting 50-plus sixes in ODIs in a calendar year. The previous highest was 48, by Shahid Afridi in 2002.

39.08 The batting average for captains in Tests in 2015, down from 49.40 in 2014. Though Smith, Alastair Cook and Misbah-ul-Haq all put up fine numbers, the overall numbers suffered due to the poor form of Michael Clarke and Amla, who averaged less than 23 from 12 innings, and Brendon McCullum (30.35 in 15 innings).

3 Pakistan batsmen who scored double-centuries in Tests in 2015 - Shoaib Malik, Azhar Ali and Mohammad Hafeez. This is the first time Pakistan have had three double-centurions in Tests in a calendar year.

1999 The last time, before 2015, that a spinner didn't top the wicket-takers' list in Tests in a calendar year for Sri Lanka. In 2015 Dhammika Prasad led the way with 41 wickets, followed by Rangana Herath (37); in 1999, Chaminda Vaas topped the list with 25, followed by Muttiah Muralitharan (24). Since then and before 2015, Muralitharan topped the charts for nine years in a row (from 2000 to 2008), Ajantha Mendis in 2010, and Herath in the remaining five years.

35 Years and 242 days - Adam Voges' age when he scored an unbeaten 130 on Test debut against West Indies, thus making him the oldest to score a century on Test debut. Voges also became only the third batsman to score 1000-plus Test runs in his debut year, after Mark Taylor and Cook.

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