Players and their Golden Tours

Just got me thinking from my last post.

Obviously Bradman had many "Golden" tours against England home and away, racking up reams of runs proving that he is one of the greats, if not the greatest batsmen of all time.

What are other International players golden tours...


Andrew Strauss' maiden tour of South Africa in 2004/05 was a memorable "Golden" Tour for him.


He averaged 72.88 with 3 centuries and 1 half-century.

Also scored 656 runs in that particular 5 test series (which was one of the best non-Ashes 5 test Series, I've seen).

The fact that he was against the likes of Pollock, Ntini, Nel, Steyn, Langeveldt, Kallis and others in the series, really proves that the tour was probably his most successful of his Career so far.

Hayden's series in India in 2001

Chris Broad 86/7

Harmi, Oz, 2006/7

Mark Taylor 1989 Ashes - 839 runs at 83.9.

Viv - 1976 England tour - 810 runs.

Alderman 1981 (42 wickets) and 1989 (41 wickets)

Dravid v Aust 2003/4 - 700+ runs in 4 tests

Hammond in Aust 1928/9 - 905 runs

Larwood in Bodyline - 33 wickets and putting the fear of God in the opposition

Grimmett (44 wickets in his final series in 35/6) and Barnes (49 wickets in 4 tests) in South AFrica.

More stats? Bowling aswell as Batting!

DJ_Smerk wrote:

Andrew Strauss' maiden tour of South Africa in 2004/05 was a memorable "Golden" Tour for him.

He averaged 72.88 with 3 centuries and 1 half-century.

126, 94*, 25, 136, 45, 39, 147, 0, 44, 0

Ended with a whimper, but he was mostly red hot.

The ODIs followed and Pietersen - in his debut series - went: 22*, 108*, 33, 75, 100*, 116

He too was quite warm.

Steve Waugh against the Windies in 1995.

Michael Vaughan v Australia 2002/03

Harmy last time in the Caribbean.

Viv Richards in England in 1976

Sehwag 2004 tour of Pakistan

he had only one big score on that trip. a really big one though

jimmy adams in india 1994. or jimmy padams as he was known by the end of the tour. one of the most boring displays of batting

gavaskar's debut series. 774 in the windies

Alderman taking 40+ wickets twice against Eng.

sutcliffe in aus 24/25 - 734 runs
falukner in aus 10/11 - 732 runs
lara in eng 95 - 765 runs
smith in eng 03 - 714 runs
lara in lanka 03 - 688 runs

Didn't Hammond have a big one against NZ as well.

However since it was against NZ it might not count.

taipan wrote:Didn't Hammond have a big one against NZ as well.

However since it was against NZ it might not count.

28/29 V Aus: 905 runs

32/33 V NZ 563 runs - 2 innings - highest 336* That might be what you were thinking of.