What was the best one-wicket win in Test cricket history?

Apart from Croft barging into the umpire which was awful, youtube has the famous incident of Holding kicking the stumps down. What it also shows is an appeal for caught behind where you can not only see the ball hitting the batsman on the glove but he so obviously is in pain and is trying desperately not to show it!

I played for the Aussies in the annual Ashes battle in San Francisco. I only played one year in 2011 and went in at number 11 with 38 to win off 7 overs. Ended up 7 not out as we won in the last over…the British team were devastated! Never got picked again.

cant remember any I wicket win or loss in my school or college days. But we always used to lose to our juniors at school and then would start a brawl regarding a LBW or a catch. Would come 2nd best in the fighting as well.

The Windies still believe that it was allover long before the home side reached their target.

It's a good point re: flipping the script after being bowled out for 60.... Perera to do what he did, away, and to win the series as a result probably still edges it to him in my mind.

Batting without a helmet against Akram?! :shocked:

I think the Headingley win had to be the most remarkable for mine. Australia bowled them out for 60 odd in the first innings, meaning it has to be one of the greatest turnarounds by one team in their second innings to win a match. Not to mention a missed runout chance, DRS drama, a tough dropped catch (Harris I think?), sixes barely clearing outreached arms of tall fielders, like Hazelwood. Just unbelievable drama to win a match, and basically down to one guy: Stokes! Special shout out for the Sri Lankans in South Africa though. Facing a strong South African side after the Sri Lankans were belted in Australia a few months previously, and in a place where Asians never had much success was just astounding! :thumbup:

Yes, always good giving it to your arrogant rivals. Like our opponents declaring with no wickets down.

I'm willing to bet that the no of times he's run 3 can be counted on one hand...

And if one thinks Ponting should have prolly retired in January 2010, then taking out his final two test tons (in a period of 20 tests) and his final one day ton, that leaves 33 tons across both forms in the other 9 years of his career, a year or so of which he was out of the side dropped in any case.

Yep. Funnily enough, it was only after this period ended that he righted the lopsided Indian ledger: his subsequent and final 6 tests there, in late 2008 and late 2010, saw a ton and 4 half tons.

That was his Bradman period. Every time he went out to bat (other than in India) you expected him to score runs.

It’s also imperative to mention that from the start of those two golden patches in March 2002 that ended in December 2006, with a run of ten tonless tests in the middle, he none the less make 21 tons in 44 tests in that period. If we extend the end of it by three or four months to the 2007 world cup, he also scored 15 of his 30 one day centuries in this same five year period. That is 36 out of 71 international tons within a five year period.

It certainly was: 11 tons in 21 tests until and including Melbourne 2003-04. His other purple patch was 10 tons in 13 tests (three times ton in each innings) from November 2005 until December 2006.

Just checked and you're right (on both counts). What a couple of weeks that 2002 series was for Gilly. That 138* (off a lazy 108 balls) came the Test after his world record double ton. For what it's worth - that Ponting ton against South Africa was, in my mind, the start of Ponting's golden run.

I think his 138 not out in 2nd test in saffieland 2002 was the only one of the innings. The 2006 one in Bangladesh was definitely his slowest (by quite a bit), 144 off 212 which would be motoring for most batsmen in test history. If those two occasions are the only two times it was the only ton in Australia’s innings, then quite coincidentally Ponting scored an unbeaten ton in successful 2nd innings run chase of over 300 on both occasions.

Australia's first innings 324 is the highest for a team that lost. The next highest first innings to lose is 269. That's 3-day cricket.

Also worth adding that 3 or 4 of Jessop's boundaries only counted as 4 but would have been 6 under modern laws. And the match came a couple of weeks after the 4th Test where England lost 7 for 28 to lose by 3 runs at Old Trafford and keep the series alive (the match where Trumper scored his 100 before lunch on Day 1).

Would have to be no.14.The last wicket partnership putting on 73 runs with one of the contributors only making 1!Must have been wonderful rotation of the strike by Stokes,even if I hate the Poms beating us.