The Other Guy
Who was at the non-striker's end.
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1974
Top score
Eknath Solkar was the last man standing when India made 42 at Lord’s. He top-scored with 18 and nobody has ever mentioned him.
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1983
The ninth wicket
Kapil Dev made 175 not out at Tunbridge Wells. Syed Kirmani made 24 not out, and without him the innings ends at 140.
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2003
One not out, twice
Lance Klusener was at the other end when Mark Boucher blocked the last ball at Kingsmead. Four years earlier he had been at the other end for the run-out at Edgbaston.
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2007
Two of the fifty
Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni added fifty in fourteen balls at Durban. Dhoni’s share of it was two runs.
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2019
The man who faced nothing
Adil Rashid faced no deliveries in the 2019 World Cup final. Where he was standing for one of them decided the tournament.
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1981
Eight for 43, after nought for 72
Bob Willis bowled thirty overs without a wicket in Australia’s first innings at Headingley. In the second he took eight for 43, and the match is remembered for somebody else.
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2004
Three hundred and nine, the day before
Virender Sehwag made the first Test triple century by an Indian at Multan. Six hours after he was out, the same innings produced a declaration argument, and that is what the match is filed under.
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2007
A hundred and forty-nine, before the dark
Adam Gilchrist made the highest score anybody has made in a World Cup final, at Bridgetown in 2007. The match is remembered for three overs bowled in the dark after it, and the innings has been filed underneath them.
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1939
Two hundred and nineteen, in the fourth innings
Bill Edrich made 1 in the first innings of the timeless Test at Durban and 219 in the second. His Test career to that point had produced almost nothing, and the match is remembered for its length rather than for him.
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1992
Sixty-two, with a runner
Neil Fairbrother was the non-striker for both of Wasim Akram’s deliveries in the 1992 World Cup final. He was also the man whose innings had made the chase a chase, and the card holds the whole of it.
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2019
One not out, from seventeen balls
Jack Leach faced seventeen balls in the last-wicket stand at Headingley in 2019 and scored one run. Ben Stokes scored 74 of the other 75, and the one run was the one that levelled the scores.
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2013
Ninety-eight, at number eleven
Ashton Agar made 98 on debut at number eleven at Trent Bridge in 2013, in a stand of 163 for the last wicket. Phillip Hughes was at the other end for all of it and made 81 not out, and the card holds both.
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1948
Nought, second ball
Don Bradman needed four runs in his last Test innings to finish with an average of a hundred. Eric Hollies bowled him second ball for nought, and the card records the innings with balls and minutes it gives to nobody else in the side.
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1982
Cowans’s six for 77
The Melbourne Test of 1982 is remembered for the last wicket: Border and Thomson’s 70, the 29 singles they declined, the catch that went in off a slip fielder’s hands. The card says a 21-year-old fast bowler took six of the other nine.
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1987
Nine each
Bangalore 1987 is Maninder Singh’s seven for 27 and Sunil Gavaskar’s 96 in his last Test innings. The card also shows two Pakistani spinners taking nine wickets apiece, which is the reason Pakistan won by 16 and the series.
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1999
Twelve in eighty-two minutes
Brian Lara’s 153 not out at Bridgetown in 1999 won a Test by one wicket. The card also records Curtly Ambrose batting 82 minutes for 12 at the other end, and Courtney Walsh facing five balls for nought, without which the 153 is a losing score.
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1999
Four hundred and twenty-five minutes
Hobart 1999 is Adam Gilchrist’s 149 not out, in his second Test, chasing 369. The card gives the player of the match to Justin Langer, for 127 in 425 minutes, and records the slowest hundred an Australian has made.
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2001
Thirteen for 196
Kolkata 2001 is Laxman’s 281 and the follow-on that was enforced and lost. The card also has a hat-trick on the first evening, a 180 at the other end, and a bowler who took thirteen of the twenty wickets, seven of them in the last session.
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2009
Sixty-nine balls
The Cardiff Test of 2009 had four Australian hundreds and a Collingwood 74 that took 344 minutes. The card’s last two lines are James Anderson, not out 21 from 53 balls, and Monty Panesar, not out 7 from 35, and the draw belongs to them.
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2013
Six off seventy-seven balls
Matt Prior’s 110 not out saved the Auckland Test of 2013 and the series with it. The card also records Stuart Broad, 6 from 77 balls in 137 minutes, in an eighth-wicket stand of fifty to which he contributed nothing, and Monty Panesar, 2 not out from five balls, at the very end.
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1994
One hundred and eleven, chasing 117
Shane Warne took twelve wickets at Sydney in January 1994 and Australia lost. They needed 117 and made 111, and the card gives the match award to Fanie de Villiers, six for 43 in the last innings, who bowled the tenth wicket out at three minutes to one on the fifth day.
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2010
Thirty-one, and five not out
India were 124 for eight at Mohali in October 2010, chasing 216. VVS Laxman made 73 not out and is remembered for it. The card gives the ninth wicket 81 runs, Ishant Sharma 31 of them from 92 balls, and the last five to Pragyan Ojha, and the match award to a bowler.
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2019
Six not out, and eight wickets
Sri Lanka were 226 for nine at Durban in February 2019, chasing 304. Kusal Perera made 153 not out and won the match by one wicket. The card gives the last wicket 78 runs, Vishwa Fernando 6 of them from 27 balls in 73 minutes, and gives Fernando eight wickets in the match as well.
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1998
Fraser’s ten, and the gloves
Trent Bridge 1998 is Michael Atherton against Allan Donald on the fourth evening, and an appeal that was turned down. The card gives Angus Fraser five for 60 and five for 62 and the match award, Atherton 98 not out, and a coverage headline, the gloves are off, for the part it cannot show.