Name what you think is the best performance on these venues

MCG
SCG
Adelaide Oval
Gabba
WACA - Ambrose's 7 wickets in 32 balls against Australia in 1993
Bellerive
The Oval
Old Trafford
Lord’s
Trent Bridge
Headingley
Edgbaston
Port Elizabeth
Capetown
Johannesburg
Durban
Auckland
Christchurch
Bridgetown - Lara's 153 vs Australia in 1999
Port of Spain
Georgetown
Kingston
St John’s
Mumbai
Eden Gardens
Chennai
Delhi
Hyderabad
Bangalore
Lahore
Peshawar
Karachi
Rawalpindi
Faisalabad
Colombo
Galle
Kandy
Harare
Bulawayo
Dhaka
Sharjah

bombay is easy. botham's test (the jubilee test)

Kolkata- VVS

Faisalabad- A Qadir's 6/16 vs WI

delhi - kumble

lords - murali

Oval- Fazal Mahmood

Port of Spain- Mushtaq Mohammad.

PlanetPakistan wrote:Port of Spain- Mushtaq Mohammad.

Nah, PoS would be Border

WACA, either MtFTB's world record, or Pidge's 8-24 v Paksters.

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

skully wrote:

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

If you remember cricket beyond 15 years ago . . .

tac wrote:

skully wrote:

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

If you remember cricket beyond 15 years ago . . .

As I do. Massie's 16 wickets on debut is at the very fringe of my cricket memory, sitting up as a youngster with my old man listening to John Arlott and Alan McGilvray's commentary on ABC radio.

tac wrote:

PlanetPakistan wrote:Port of Spain- Mushtaq Mohammad.

Nah, PoS would be Border

hmm...may be. TBH i wasn't aware of Border's performance until Nov 29,2008(1:45 am)

IIRC Mush scored a ton in the 1st innings followed it up with a 5 fer then scored a 50 and followed it up with 3 wickets in a huge win.

skully wrote:

tac wrote:

skully wrote:

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

If you remember cricket beyond 15 years ago . . .

As I do. Massie's 16 wickets on debut is at the very fringe of my cricket memory, sitting up as a youngster with my old man listening to John Arlott and Alan McGilvray's commentary on ABC radio.

I know you do, silly . . .

Another biased entry from my side

Barbados- Hanif Mohammed 337*

skully wrote:

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

could. murali's was on a more batting friendly wicket though

Wanderers - although I hated it at the time, Atherton.

And PK the grounds in SA are St Georges, Newlands, Kingsmead, Wanderers and the one that you missed, Centurion.

Basic cricket knowledge, really.

Old Trafford - Jim Laker's 19fer in 1956
The Oval: Len Huttons 364 in 1938

skully wrote:WACA, either MtFTB's world record...

Fark off.

The One wrote:

skully wrote:

The One wrote:lords - murali

Could argue Bob Massie.

could. murali's was on a more batting friendly wicket though

Nothing wrong with the Lords wicket in Massie's Test. It was the thick atmosphere that made Fergus deadly in that match. He swung the ball remarkably late. He did it again in another Test in that 72 series for another Michelle before disappearing off the face of the earth, post Ashes 72.

Old Trafford - Jim Laker's 19-90.

St John's - BCL's 400*

Basil wrote:Old Trafford - Jim Laker's 19fer in 1956

Skully wrote:Old Trafford - Jim Laker's 19-90.

Skully, Skully, Skully

MCG - either Sobers 254, Kim Hughes & DKL Dec 81, Gary Ablett 89 GF, Betty Cuthbert or Vladamir Kutz 56 Olympics, or the bloke that delivered the punch line in this story (supposedly true):

BILLY GRAHAM (in 1959 I think, addressing crowd of 130,000, the largest ever to assemble at the venue): Truly my friends, alcohol is the course of modern society. And man's dependance on it is completely conditioned, completely unnatural. And I will now demonstrate it to you! If you look to my left, ladies and gentlemen, you will see one of my assistants driving a van onto the arena with two barrels on the back, The red barrel is full of your finest Daylesford spring water. (Cheers) The white barrel is full of Fosters lager. (Raucous cheers). And to my right, you will soon see a donkey being led to the stage. This donkey has not drunk any liquid for two days. (WTF was Hugh Worth when you needed him? - FN) Now let this donkey make the choice, Will he drink the beer or the water? (The donkey approaches the barrels, makes a bee-line for the water barrel and practically empties it without raising its head).

BG: Well. people of Mel-born, there it is. I have just proven that alcohol really is an unnatural substance!

LOUD VOICE FROM FRONT ROW: No, rubbish, all you proved is that really is a donkey!

Fred Nerk wrote: alcohol is the course of modern society. !

And it is a course I have followed religiously.