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

[Slowcoach]

Sehwag has scored a big ton in England, in 2002, so he has the talent to score runs in all countries.

He also scored a ton on debut in RSA, so to say he scores all his runs on the sub continent is a bit silly.

I rate those runs more than those he scored in Aus because pitches here are very flat, and the stats support this.

Oh, you meant he doesn't destroy attacks away from the SC, well, that's true, but he is just adapting to the conditions, you need to score faster there to give yourself time to bowl a team out twice.

 

[drainpipe32]

and triggered a victory from THAT situation.

*groans* please don't remind me

The innings of this year would probably be Clarke's hundred at Lords. Second might be his one at Edgbaston?

 

[AkshayS]

innings of the decade.

Many legendary innings were played in the decade.
But I recognise the following as best.
ODI:
175-Tendulkar-vs Aus
163-Tendulkar-vs NZ
194-C.Coventry- vs Ban
189-Jayasuriya- vs IND
181*-Hayden-vs NZ
175- H Gibbs-vs Aus
156-B Lara- vs Pak

Tests:
B Lara 400* vs Eng
Jayawardene 374 vs SA
V Sehwag 319 vs SA
V Sehwag 293 vs Sri
VVS Laxman 281 vs Aus
GC Smith 259 vs Eng
SR Tendulkar 241* vs Aus
BC Lara 226 vs Aus

 

[Chetan0304]

Yeah perfect there

/closethread

 

[ahmed shah]

where is saeed anwar,s 194 and younis,s 313

 

[JD10]

Lara's 400 was boring:laugh:laugh

 

[rahuldravidfan]

Comprehensive

 

[rocky_g]

For ODI's Gibbs 175 becoz he ended on the winning side. Otherwise Sachin' 175 was a very good inning.

For tests VVS Laxman's 281 against Aus. Becoz that was the match which changed everything b/w india and Aus.

 

[StinkyBoHoon]

tim ambrose's hundred against NZ.

mitchell johnson v SA

StinkyBoHoon added 6 Minutes and 48 Seconds later...

mathew sinclair's 204* against pakistan

warnapura 120 v the west indies.

 

[Dare]

aint there a thread like this already, about 10 pages long?

 

[Robelinda]

Do we really need to do this AGAIN???

 

[pcfan123]

Sehwags 300 against South Africa is no where near the innings of the decade.

 

[TumTum]

Hughes 115 & 160 against SA.

Youngest player to achieve it, even Sachin has never done this :hpraise

 

[Dare]

Hughes 115 & 160 against SA.

Youngest player to achieve it, even Sachin has never done this :hpraise

yea but then again Sachin never failed so spectacularly.

 

[Cricketman]

Sachin did score 241* against Australia without playing a single coverdrive though

It wasn't the Sachin's best innings, let alone the decades, but his true genius was seen in that Sydney match as it takes mighty amounts of discipline to stop yourself from playing the game's highest scoring shot. He manipulated the bowlers into bowling where he wanted them to bowl, played the waiting game but launched onto anything on his pads, short, or wide.

Good knock. Laxman had a sparkling 140 odd too.