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Tezzbuzz|31-01-2025
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The journey of cricket's longest and historical format Test cricket so far has been quite spectacular and golden. This format is considered one of the most interesting formats of cricket. In Test cricket, the batsmen have played a marathon innings. By the way, when a big and long innings is played in Test cricket, the team wins on most occasions or ends on the match draw. But there have been some such great innings of batsmen in Test cricket history. Where his team had to face defeat.
Keeping this in mind, let us tell you about such innings, then know the 3 batsmen in Test cricket history who played the biggest Test in the match for their team.
Former New Zealand cricket team batsman Nathan Estal was a very tremendous batsman of his era. Astal contributed to the Kiwi team for years. The best and attractive innings of Astal's career came out in the year 2002. In the Test match played against England at Christchurch, New Zealand had a target of 550 runs to win from England. In response, Astal scored 222 runs in just 168 balls for New Zealand to chase the target with the help of 28 fours and 11 sixes. But his team lost by 98 runs.
Brian Lara, the greatest batsman of the West Indies cricket team, was considered the best batsman of his era. This batsman has established his name in the list of world cricket's Sarvakarin Great Batsmen. Lara has played one to one big innings in her Test career, in which the biggest personal score of this format is also her name. At the same time, Lara scored 226 runs in the first innings of the Adelaide Test against Australia in 2005 with the help of 22 fours. But here his team lost by 7 wickets.
Former Australian great batsman Ricky Ponting is not unknown. This Kangaroo batsman has done very big acts in his career. Ponting has won Australia several times on its own. In this, there was a Test match where he played a marathon innings of 242 runs but his team lost. In the Test match played between Australia and India in Adelaide in 2003, Ponting scored 242 runs with the help of 31 fours. But here India defeated Australia by 4 wickets.