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Before I name my top ten Test innings of all time, here are some crucial caveats. I’m not interested in Tests played between India…
That’s not pedantic. That’s crucial. I shouldn’t have got that wrong. Cheers.
The ten greatest Test innings ever played
That 200 was a beauty, for sure. In any other list…
The ten greatest Test innings ever played
That’s cool. No worries. We are an almost-extinct breed, you and I: those who still get irony and satire. Of course there is no definitive list, which is really very liberating. And besides, what do we know? We’re just blokes who love the game. All these dudes offering their alternate innings, some of which really are top recommendations… it’ll all be lost in the sands of time soon enough anyway, itself another very liberating thing…
The ten greatest Test innings ever played
It was Stokes’ genius that was the cause of the captaincy brain fade. I’m no meta-physician but it was like Stokes had cast an evil spell over the man from Hobart, making him forget, for about 45 minutes, everything he knew about basic leadership. The capitulation (botched challenges, failure to get Leach on strike, Cummins’ slo-mo throw to Nate, Nate’s U/10 fumble) was sublime. It was as bewitching as Thurston hitting the post in the 2015 GF. Pure theatre, just for us.
The ten greatest Test innings ever played