A Decade At A Close - what has been the best innings of the last ten years?

[Skater]

Going by just what I have seen, the best innings of the decade for me have been Ricky Ponting's 156 to save the game for Australia at Old Trafford in 2005, Kevin Pietersen's last day 158 at The Oval to win England the Ashes, also in 2005, JP Duminy's 166 at Melbourne last December, and Sachin's unbeaten 103 at Chennai against England last December.

Post your thoughts.

 

[King Pietersen]

I'm biased. So I'm obviously going to go with KP's 158. He got some luck early on, but in terms of the pressure on him as far as the match situation and the fact he had failed in the last 2 Tests of the series were concerned it was just a superb knock. Sachin's innings against England in India definitely deserves a mention as well.

 

[afridi118]

sachins current innings

 

[Skater]

sachins current innings

Certainly a late contender. Incredible.

 

[nightprowler10]

Surely Laxman's 281 against Australia at Kolkata has to be up there. Also Akmal's 113 against India at Karachi.

 

[Skater]

Surely Laxman's 281 against Australia at Kolkata has to be up there. Also Akmal's 113 against India at Karachi.

The magazine I got the idea from (All Out Cricket) reckons that Laxman's innings is the best of the decade. I didn't see it though, it was before my time.

 

[King Pietersen]

Lara's 400* surely deserves a mention as well.

 

[Ollie_H]

Surely Duminy's is up there, chasing down the mammoth total and produced that. You could say the pressure was off because no expected it but you can fight it the other way and say he had immense pressure.

 

[Shhubham]

The Best Inning is Of Sachin Tendulkar in the Mtch which is currently going on...:sarcasm

 

[sohum]

Just a couple of Indian ones for now until I query my brains.

Laxman's 281 vs. Australia
Sehwag's 309 vs. Pakistan

 

[SciD]

This has been decade of Ponting. has to be some of his innings.

For me its Dravid in Adelaide. :hpraise

 

[Chetan0304]

This has been decade of Ponting. has to be some of his innings.

How suddenly you started praising Ponting at once?

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Sachin's Sharjah innings.

Gilly's WC 2007 final knock

KP's innings at Oval.


Symonds innings against Pakistan at WC 2003


Shewag's innings at Pakistan (Sultan Of Multan)


Ganguly's knock agasisnt Srilanka

Dhoni's hammering against Sri Lanka


Chanderpuals winning knock against India at India.


Ponting has many but i will rate 2 innings.

 

[Dare]

Kamran Akmals 113 against India, Laras 400* and Laxmans 281.

 

[SaiSrini]

Test or ODI's? If its ODI's, Sachin's innings today and his 163* against NZ are certainly right up there among the best ever ODI innings of all time. Today's was right up there (although Anwar's was still better).

In tests, the best I've watched was Laxman's 167 against Australia at Sydney. That was an unexpected knock and took a lot of people by surprise. Dravid's 233* was also a masterpiece.