Wednesday, November 30, 2011

287.

This incident has occurred only three times in Cricketing History.

This occurred for the first time during 1894-95 Ashes Series when England visited Australia at SCG Stadium, Sydney, in the first test. The captain of Australia was Jack Blackham who was also their wicket-keeper. The English captain was Andrew Stoddart. The English Team scored 762 runs totally in both their innings, while the Australians scored 752 succumbing to a defeat by 10 runs. Bobby Peal and Johnny Briggs, the English pace duo, were literally unplayable on the last day of the game and got the Australians out quickly.

The second time this incident was repeated was during the 1981 Ashes Series in the third test at Edgbaston when the Australian team captained by Kim Hughes visited England. Ian Botham who had just been replaced by Mike Brearley as the English Captain was the star for England in this match. He scored 149 runs in the second innings helping England reach 356 in the second innings. The Australians were all out for 111 with Bob Willis picking up 8 wickets. England won this match beating Australia comprehensively by 18 runs.

Now tell me what is this incident I am describing and when did this happen for the third time??

3 comments:

karthik said...

the incident is the side which was forced to follow on went on to winning it and the third instance is 2001 series (ind vs aus)test match at kolkata (VVS - very very spl)

Anonymous said...

March 2001, Kolkata Test, India beat Australia after being imposed a follow-on..!!

raghav said...

winning a test match after following on.
of course the third incident is the 2nd test of border-gavaskar trophy where laxman scored 281 to bring india a historic victory over australia.