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Greatest ever innings played at Headingley

Better innings

  • Botham 1981

    Votes: 1 4.0%
  • Stokes 2019

    Votes: 24 96.0%

  • Total voters
    25

GIMH

Norwood's on Fire
Pietersen's best innings was Arguably at Headingley too V South Africa 2012

Stokes' innings today was a better innings than Botham's though
 

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Might just be because it feels so fresh but I’m not sure there’s ever been a better innings than Stokes’s anywhere. Facing a genuinely excellent attack on a very tough pitch in the 4th innings with the Ashes on the line already puts it up there. Having to get the last 70 runs by clearing boundary riders while farming the strike, I don’t know how you even get close to that.
 

MW1304

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It just had basically every facet of a great innings really, apart from not being chanceless.
 

Shaggy Alfresco

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Might just be because it feels so fresh but I’m not sure there’s ever been a better innings than Stokes’s anywhere. Facing a genuinely excellent attack on a very tough pitch in the 4th innings with the Ashes on the line already puts it up there. Having to get the last 70 runs by clearing boundary riders while farming the strike, I don’t know how you even get close to that.
Greatest at Headingley sure, but behave. Lara 153* in a similar situation was an almost faultless knock against Warne and McGrath on a worse pitch with Courtney Walsh at the other end.
 

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Fair shout. That one looked much better too, being by Lara.

Can’t be too many others though.
 

Howe_zat

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I said when Perera played that it's got to be the most shocked I've ever been by the result of a test match. The same might have been true here except I had already been fantasising about England winning.
 

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Leach comically cleaning his fogged-up glasses after every delivery tips this in Stokes' favor.

At times it looked like Stokes was batting with Woody Allen.
 
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