Name a test opener

[Majestic]

Name an opener to have hit a match winning century in tests in both England and South Africa?

 

Condition - England and South African players can't be counted.

Edited August 19, 2023 by Majestic

[vvvslaxman]

Specific filter. 2 countries, opener, Non South African/English guy. KL Rahul. But i have to say match was won by Indian pacers who bundled them out for 120 runs in 2 sessions. He made 129 & 5.   Also that 89 runs partnership between Shami and Bumrah was very vital. He is milking it much like Rahane is milking with his Lords 100 and MCG 100.

[Majestic]

2 hours ago, vvvslaxman said:

Specific filter. 2 countries, opener, Non South African/English guy. KL Rahul. But i have to say match was won by Indian pacers who bundled them out for 120 runs in 2 sessions. He made 129 & 5.   Also that 89 runs partnership between Shami and Bumrah was very vital. He is milking it much like Rahane is milking with his Lords 100 and MCG 100.

Reason for picking South Africa and England is that those two conditions are toughest for openers for batting.

[Number]

The same guy who has lowest average for an Indian batsman having played more than 40 tests. 

[vvvslaxman]

4 hours ago, Majestic said:

Reason for picking South Africa and England is that those two conditions are toughest for openers for batting.

Not always true.  There was a match where DK and Wasim Jaffer put on a amssive century partnership in SA. But first day conditions were easier to bat. Then it got more difficult.  In my memory there was one occasion at Headingley conditions were uber tough. Bangar and Dravid put on an epic partnership. On another tour  where conditions were very conducive to swing bowling Murali Vijay showed exceptional judgement.  He left like 400 balls or something out of 1000 balls he faced. KL Rahul played well in a couple of Tests. But he failed in a lot of tests too. INdia winning tests overseas was more due to exceptional pace quartet rather than batsmen. We had batsmen scoring runs before in these parts. But we didn't have the bowling unit. 

[Lord]

Name a player who's team never lost a Test when he scored 50+

 

Mohammad Shami

 

both in England too, tough for batting.

 

 

[Sooda]

Im thinking Saeed Anwar at the topof my head 

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Edited August 20, 2023 by Sgattick10

[Vijy]

On 8/19/2023 at 12:08 AM, Majestic said:

Name an opener to have hit a match winning century in tests in both England and South Africa?

 

Condition - England and South African players can't be counted.

Arthur Morris

[Majestic]

16 hours ago, Sooda said:

Im thinking Saeed Anwar at the topof my head 

 

13 minutes ago, Vijy said:

Arthur Morris

 

On 8/19/2023 at 10:50 AM, vvvslaxman said:

Specific filter. 2 countries, opener, Non South African/English guy. KL Rahul. But i have to say match was won by Indian pacers who bundled them out for 120 runs in 2 sessions. He made 129 & 5.   Also that 89 runs partnership between Shami and Bumrah was very vital. He is milking it much like Rahane is milking with his Lords 100 and MCG 100.

Right. The only 3 names to have achieved this legendary feat are :

 

Arthur Morris

Saeed Anwar

KL Rahul

[Vijy]

4 minutes ago, Majestic said:

 

 

Right. The only 3 names to have achieved this legendary feat are :

 

Arthur Morris

Saeed Anwar

KL Rahul

yay, I got the hardest one. I remember hearing about him from old timers. was considered aus's greatest test opener by them, even those who saw hayden

[putrevus]

Scoring 100 and stinking for years togther does not make Rahul into a great opener.

 

33 avg after 50 tests is puke worthy.Why is this guy still in any Indian team is beyond any logic.

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[wazza]

6 hours ago, putrevus said:

Scoring 100 and stinking for years togther does not make Rahul into a great opener.

 

33 avg after 50 tests is puke worthy.Why is this guy still in any Indian team is beyond any logic.

Bhai you could have just left it as Rahul sucks. Period. 

[Majestic]

6 hours ago, putrevus said:

Scoring 100 and stinking for years togther does not make Rahul into a great opener.

 

33 avg after 50 tests is puke worthy.Why is this guy still in any Indian team is beyond any logic.

Both Rahul and Pant are better than their career test average because they have played in alien conditions more than say, Mayank or Shreyas.

 

I would say, Rahul is a 36-37 averaging batsman while Pant is a 45 averaging keeper batsman. Now, 36-37 is crap as well not denying that. But it also tells us the current status of Indian test batting.

[putrevus]

8 hours ago, Majestic said:

Both Rahul and Pant are better than their career test average because they have played in alien conditions more than say, Mayank or Shreyas.

 

I would say, Rahul is a 36-37 averaging batsman while Pant is a 45 averaging keeper batsman. Now, 36-37 is crap as well not denying that. But it also tells us the current status of Indian test batting.

No Rahul is not better than his career average.Rahul is the most useless batsman to have played 50 tests.

 

Don't mention this bozo Rahul in the same sentence as Pant.

 

Guys like Rahul and Rahane are the reason why Indian batting has stunk. Both of them are useless.

 

 

Pant's avg as a WK is just fine.He will end up as ATG if he played 75 plus tests.

Edited August 22, 2023 by putrevus

[vvvslaxman]

9 minutes ago, putrevus said:

No Rahul is not better than his career average.Rahul is the most useless batsman to have played 50 tests.

 

Don't mention this bozo Rahul in the same sentence as Pant.

 

Guys like Rahul and Rahane are the reason why Indian batting has stunk. Both of them are useless.

 

 

Pant's avg as a WK is just fine.He will end up as ATG if he played 75 plus tests.

 

He made debut 9 years back.  In 2017 he scored 8 fifties in a row albeit at home. That is his high point. KL Rahul averaged 46 up to that point. From January 2018 KL Rahul's test average is 25. His current average is in 30s because of what he did 6 years back.  If you take out that half decent run his career is below average

 

 

 

[putrevus]

7 minutes ago, vvvslaxman said:

 

He made debut 9 years back.  In 2017 he scored 8 fifties in a row albeit at home. That is his high point. KL Rahul averaged 46 up to that point. From January 2018 KL Rahul's test average is 25. His current average is in 30s because of what he did 6 years back.  If you take out that half decent run his career is below average

 

 

 

Other than his Australian series, he was always one inning wonder per series on his good day. On his bad days which are more frequent, he is an automatic out.

 

How the heck does he walk into all three formats in beyond any logic.