Best Nightwatchman in the history of test cricket

[sribabu]

Who is the best night watchman in the history test cricket?

i want to know and who ever comes with good suggestions are welcomed

 

[Collingwood50]

Who is the best night watchman in the history test cricket?

i want to know and who ever comes with good suggestions are welcomed

Haha Great thread

Stats would tell you dizzy (Gillespie) probably

Anderson is great for England apart from that I dont really know...

 

[WORLD CHAMPIONS]

Jason Gillespie for me

 

[rahuldravidfan]

^^^ I partially agree with Chunku. The man's got a Double hundred vs Bangladesh.

Bhajji & now Mishra are two Indian players who come to mind.

For Australia, maybe Mitch. For other teams, I don't know.

 

[Owzat]

Nightwatchman top scoring in an innings

Score (Team Total) Batsman Match Location Year

38 (169) TEFS Tylecote England v Australia Melbourne 1882-83
48 (126) GE Palmer Australia v England Lord's 1886
38 (173) H Carter Australia v England Melbourne 1911-12
67 (225) DT Ring Australia v West Indies Adelaide 1951-52
47 (188) EW Dempster New Zealand v South Africa Johannesburg 1953-54
101 (355) Nasim-ul-Ghani (Javed Burki also scored 101) Pakistan v England Lord's 1962
96 (237) APE Knott England v New Zealand Auckland 1970-71
105 (165) AL Mann Australia v India Perth 1977-78
95 (195) EE Hemmings England v Australia Sydney 1982-83
94 (429) RC Russell England v Sri Lanka Lord's 1988
55 (191) RC Russell England v West Indies Bridgetown 1989-90
87 (269) PL Taylor Australia v New Zealand Wellington 1989-90
69 (205) IA Healy Australia v England Sydney 1990-91
51 (213) WKM Benjamin West Indies v Australia Kingston 1994-95
55 (214) PL Symcox South Africa v Pakistan Faisalabad 1997-98
42 (147) DL Vettori New Zealand v England Christchurch 2001-02
49 (226) AJ Bichel Australia v England Sydney 2002-03

Completed Test innings only

JN Gillespie (201*) top-scored in Australia's innings of 581-4 declared against
Bangladesh at Chittagong in 2005-06

Records | Test matches | Batting records | Nightwatchman top scoring in an innings | Cricinfo.com

If not definitive answer, certainly offers a few suggestions. As maybe does this article

Cricinfo - Blogs - It Figures - The best night-watchman in Tests - Part I

MOST USED

Player Inns Runs Balls BpI

Saqlain (Pak) 11 98 384 34.9
Hoggard (Eng) 11 39 249 22.6
Gillespie (Aus) 9 327 1040 116.0
Warne (Aus) 7 34 92 12.9
Headley (Ind) 7 30 177 25.3
Prasanna (Ind) 7 61
Morrison (Nzl) 7 7
Venkat (Ind) 7 4

Jimmy Anderson (ENG) has now batted 11 innings batting at 3-11, 149 runs @ 14.9

 

[rahuldravidfan]

^ Strange that Ajit Agarkar, despite getting a 100 at Lords, doesn't figure on the list while even Andy Bichel does. Good work with the stats though.

 

[King Pietersen]

Probably because Agarkar's hundred didn't come as a night-watchman.

 

[SciD]

Gillespie was ideal night watchman because he had very good defense and of course that 200 as well.

Matthew Hoggard was not a bad one also. Probably he did not had the shots Dizzy had in his repertoire so he looked slow compared to him.

scion_sid added 0 Minutes and 57 Seconds later...

For India Kumble did decent job in his young days but became better batsman in his older days.

 

[Dutch]

Mathew Hoggard and James Anderson are always pretty decent for England.

 

[chapmanp]

Mark Boucher was a night watchman early on in his career and scored 2 centuries as a night watchman

 

[KBC]

Gason Jillespie? Is he?

!!

 

[Kiko_97]

Anderson ftw.

 

[irottev]

Since Gillespie is one of my favorite players of all time i'll be biased and say him haha.

 

[Robelinda]

Gillespie was used as NW almost from debut, he had a great defence and added more strokes as the years went by. Even his first test he looked great in 96.

 

[Dare]

Fidel Edwards could make a good nightwatchman. He saved a few tests for the West Indies in recent years and actually has solid defence. Too bad he is injured allot.