Hayden on his way to break Lara's World record

[Arnab]

And he will do it before tea.

[oracle]

375?
BLARA 375 766 538 45 0

Hayden needs a little over 100. Yep, he can do it. If not he can challenge Taylor and get the Aussie record.

Passed Bradman 270.

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by oracle]

[Arnab]

I find it absolutely ludicrous that the 5th wicket partnership is between batters whose averages are 55.98(Hayden) and 59.06(Gillchrist).

They should just give the Australians honorary ODI and test worldcups for the next 20 years and let the rest of the teams play among themselves.



[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Arnab]

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Arnab : reason schmeason :P]

[Arnab]

"Along the way he surpassed his previous highest score of 203 in Chennai in 2000-01, took 50 balls to move from 150 to 200, and 29 balls from 200 to 250."


Destructive is an inadequate term.

[allrounder]

ML Hayden (LHB) runs 271 338, strike rate 80.18 . what was Lara's strike rate?

I wish I could watch this great innings.

Also why are they only showing India and NZ series on www.willow.tv. why dont they broadcast Pak-SA, Aus-Zim and BD-Eng.

[oracle]

Straight road up.
Test Career Highest Individ. scores.

375 BC Lara West Indies v England at St John's, 5th Test, 1993/94 [1259]
365* GS Sobers West Indies v Pakistan at Kingston, 3rd Test, 1957/58 [450]
364 L Hutton England v Australia at The Oval, 5th Test, 1938 [266]
340 ST Jayasuriya Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), 1st Test, 1997/98 [1374]
337 Hanif Mohammad Pakistan v West Indies at Bridgetown, 1st Test, 1957/58 [446]
336* WR Hammond England v New Zealand at Auckland, 2nd Test, 1932/33 [226]
334* MA Taylor Australia v Pakistan at Peshawar, 2nd Test, 1998/99 [1426]
334 DG Bradman Australia v England at Leeds, 3rd Test, 1930 [196]
333 GA Gooch England v India at Lord's, 1st Test, 1990 [1148]
329 Inzamam-ul-Haq Pakistan v New Zealand at Lahore, 1st Test, 2002 [1600]
325 A Sandham England v West Indies at Kingston, 4th Test, 1929/30 [193]
311 RB Simpson Australia v England at Manchester, 4th Test, 1964 [564]
310* JH Edrich England v New Zealand at Leeds, 3rd Test, 1965 [593]
307 RM Cowper Australia v England at Melbourne, 5th Test, 1965/66 [601]
304 DG Bradman Australia v England at Leeds, 4th Test, 1934 [236]
302 LG Rowe West Indies v England at Bridgetown, 3rd Test, 1973/74 [734]
299* DG Bradman Australia v South Africa at Adelaide, 4th Test, 1931/32 [215]

[Arnab]

Originally posted by allrounder
ML Hayden (LHB) runs 271 338, strike rate 80.18 . what was Lara's strike rate?

69.7

I am kinda interested to see what Lara himself will do when he plays Zimbabwe for the first time in a few weeks.

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Arnab]

[oracle]

Allrounder, this is from the match in question:

BC Lara: 50 in 121 balls, 154 minutes, 7 fours 100 in 180 balls, 232 minutes, 16 fours 150 in 240 balls, 327 minutes, 22 fours 200 in 311 balls, 440 minutes, 27 fours 250 in 377 balls, 515 minutes, 32 fours 300 in 432 balls, 610 minutes, 38 fours 350 in 511 balls, 721 minutes, 42 fours 375 in 538 balls, 766 minutes, 45 fours
The highest Test innings in history

[Sham]

So lets see what happens. I really hope Hayden doesnt break Lara's record. Doing it against this Zimbabwe team will have little legitimacy.

[Arnab]

at 307*, Breaks aussie record of number of sixes in an innings. Has 9 sixes so far.

[allrounder]

is Aus going for 1000 runs?

[Sham]

he has now gone past Bob Cowper!

[Sham]

which was the highest Test score in Australia!

[allrounder]

why is zimbabwe not having other players to come and bowl?

[Arnab]

Now Gillchrist is on a roll.

69 off 56 balls.

This is a massacre of unseen proportions.

Gilchrist becomes the first(?) modern day batsman(barring Smith), to have an average of 60+

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Arnab]

[Orpheus]

Not me! I want to see some records break here.

I am just glad it aint againt Bangladesh!

[Arnab]

Gilchrist takes three more balls to reach 80

[Arnab]

Haha cricketnext's server just crashed on me.

[Carte Blanche]

[00:26:12] <@^AUS_ZIM> Gilchrist 100 in 121 minutes from 84 balls with 12 fours and 3 sixes

I sooooooo wish I could watch this test match. If Zim keeps playing like this, I hope we can beat them next year.

[Sham]

This is actually quite sad come to think of it. Sir Len scored his 364 not out against a great Australian side in 1938 at the Oval. Hayden gets to do it at home against a weakened Zimbabwe. Oh well, such is the modern game!

[Arnab]

Well if aus dont declare, Hayden will probably score 500 against this side.

[Sham]

If Hayden scores 400, how sad will that be? No one is gonna break that for another 10-15 years!

[Arnab]

Looks like my prediction's going to come true.

10 minutes to tea. Hayden on 366*.

[Edited on 10-10-2003 by Arnab]

[Carte Blanche]

Hayden on 373*

[Carte Blanche]

HE BREAKS IT!!!!!!