THE GREATEST ONE -DAY CRICKET INNINGS OF ALL TIME, Australia were 91 for 7 while chasing a target of 292 and then Glenn Maxwell single handedly won the match for Australia by scoring astonishing unbeaten 201 runs
THE GREATEST ONE -DAY CRICKET INNINGS OF ALL TIME, Australia were 91 for 7 while chasing a target of 292 and then Glenn Maxwell single handedly won the match for Australia by scoring astonishing unbeaten 201 runs
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Unbelievable Innings..
I have no idea what I’m looking at but I’m down to cheer
[This win probability graph is the best match summary](https://i.imgur.com/spLMa11.jpg) for anyone who has no idea what cricket is.
Is there a good place to see how to play cricket? I have tried to learn it for eons but never did, would like to.
Bro scored his last 70 odd runs with only one leg
The fact he was cramping..down on the ground.. cant walk.. can run.. just finish the game with boundaries.. just unbelievable.. Best ODI innings ever.
This is one of those moments in history where you can immediately and very confidently say that nothing has ever even come close to what we just witnessed.
Down 91/7, Maxwell escaped getting out for a duck on a Hat-Trick ball, was given out again LBW and reversed it via review, was dropped, and then experienced full body cramps to the point he was just slogging boundaries because he was literally unable to walk for half the innings. And finally he tops it off by scoring the first ever double century by a non-opener off the last ball of the match.
There’s no doubt in my mind this is the greatest ODI innings of all time.
In soccer analogy, this is like Brazil being 0-4 down at 60 minute mark vs Saudi Arabia and one individual scoring 5 goals in the next 28 minutes to win the game 5-4.
They had just replayed previous boundary before this ball and I wasn’t even ready for this ball and then this mad lad hit a six off it.
Incredible. The greatest inning ever played.
0 chance of winning to winning
for context, usually even the best of batsmen batting in the second innings score around 30-40% of the total runs needed, maxwell, once he came to the strike, scored 82% of the runs.
Absolute carnage
Double Century plus winning the match for your team from impossible odds with injured leg is nothing but pure determination and never giving up attitude.🤌🫡🫡🫡🫡 Glenn Maxwell the BIG SHOW.
wow just wow
Idk how cricket works and would appreciate some insight.
Were all the runs scored on this one play? What makes it so spectacular that its worth so many points?
And you know what’s gonna happen…
Records made/broken by him today –
1. **Highest individual scores in an ODI run-chase**
Glenn Maxwell’s 201* is now the highest score in ODI cricket in a chase, surpassing Fakhar Zaman’s 193 against South Africa in Johannesburg in 2021
2. **Highest individual scores in ODIs at No.6**
Maxwell broke the record for the highest individual score for a batter at No.6 in ODIs. Incidentally, Maxwell bettered Kapil Dev’s 175* vs Zimbabwe which came in the 1983 World Cup.
3. **Highest individual scores for Australia in ODIs**
201* from Maxwell is now the highest score in ODIs for an Australian batter surpassing Shane Watson’s 185* vs Bangladesh in Mirpur in 2011
4. **Highest score for a non-opener in ODIs**
Maxwell’s effort now is also the highest score in ODI cricket for a non-opener. He surpasses Zimbabwean Charles Coventry’s effort of 194* that came against Bangladesh at Bulawayo in 2009. The top score from a non-opener in a World Cup was held by Viv Richards, who scored 181 vs Pakistan in Karachi during the 1987 edition.
5. **Highest partnerships for 7th wicket or below in ODIs**
Coming with Pat Cummins (11* off 60) for the 8th wicket for 202* runs is now the highest partnership for, not only the 8th wicket in ODIs, but for the 7th wicket or below in ODIs.
6. **3rd Highest individual scores in World Cups**
Maxwell’s 201* is now the third highest individual score in World Cups after Martin Guptill’s 237* against West Indies in 2015 and Chris Gayle’s 215 vs Zimbabwe at Canberra also in 2015.
7. **2nd Fastest double hundreds in ODIs (by balls)**
Maxwell’s knock is now the 2nd-fastest double-century effort in ODIs. Coming at in 128 balls. The fastest remains Ishan’s Kishan’s 126-ball double hundred against Bangladesh at Chattogram in 2022.
Gosh, I wish I understood this. Seems absolutely electric
This is probably one of the best cricket I have ever seen. This guy was a beast. He was not even moving when hitting those boundaries.
This is one of the greatest sporting feats of all time, maybe top 5. It’s the equivalent of getting 6 goals in second half of world Cup match while trailing. This has never ever been seen before in 100 years of cricket existence. This is so unbelievable that people who don’t know cricket will find it stupid to believe.
Greatest clutch in the history of sports (wish more people knew about cricket and could actually understand the significance of this knock by Maxwell)
This is going down in history. Maxwell you monster!
If you take the Australian probability of winning at their lowest ebb, and increase it by 50%, you get the Patriots’ chance of winning after they were down 28-3.
This is by far a greater comeback than that Super Bowl.
Run a golf cart into him every week if this is how he performs
This was superb, they simply should’ve lost this match. Maxwell was unreal.
Damn, got two centuries. Very nice.
How did Australia find themselves 7 for 91 against Afghanistan? Something went very wrong there.
Nice save Maxwell.
In football terms : Winning a match after being 5-0 down at HT with 3 red cards.
cricket noob here, is it hard to hit the ball or hit out of the park? In baseball guys hope to hit it every 3rd time up. Is it the same percentage?
Looking forward to Jomboy cover this in the coming weeks
What a mad lad!
1 day cricket is so much more fun to watch.
This was an absolute beast of a performance considering the cramps. Never mind the pain of the cramps, just think about knowing that they could happen again at any second with any wrong movement but yet he still continued.
I was watching this and after Marnus got out I turned it off as I felt like a bad luck charm. Typically if I watch something the team I support does badly.
Then Maxi does this. I’m conflicted…
Can someone link a video on how to understand cricket, from an American baseball perspective?? I think USA will get into it over the next 20 years. I want to learn basics
If ever there was a perfect advertisement for the old cricket adage “catches win matches”, it was this. Mujeeb basically lost Afghanistan the match when he dropped Maxwell
For a baseball comparison, imagine your team is down 15 runs and one guy hits 4 grand slams. Essentially that much of a “put the team on your back” moment!
I see a ton of analogies in here, but I don’t think they are really doing justice to the unlikeliness of this event. It truly is astounding, and the kind of thing that you probably could go another 70-80 years and never see anything like it.
Take some of the individual circumstances and context to get a sense for how likely this was to happen.
One day internationals (ODI) are a form of cricket that is condensed and faster-paced than traditional test matches. You have a defined number of overs (innings) and pitches (bowls) to achieve as high a score as you can, assuming you still have two batters not yet out when that time arrives. So where traditional international cricket allows for more defensive play, and some strategy that allows you a chance to recover from a big deficit, getting down big in an ODI match can be very difficult to recover from (as you can see in the win probability charts being shared). Basically, this was about as much pressure as this batsman could be under in these circumstances.
International matches feature the best players in the world. So you can compare to NBA, or MLB, but be sure to consider both teams to be concentrated with the best talent from each respective country. It’s not a straightforward as saying it’s the equivalent to the Timberwolves knocking off the Celtics.
Afghanistan is not a traditional power in cricket, nor would they be considered above average. They are actually right at the edge of the traditional cricket powers in number of ODI matches played, falling after teams like Bangladesh and South Africa. Considering that they have only been playing since 2009, that’s pretty impressive. When you consider their proximity to massive cricket powers Pakistan and India, it’s not that unusual to see them on this stage, but it’s similar to a country like Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic. For additional context, Afghanistan won a single match in the 2015 Cricket World Cup (by one wicket), none in the 2019 Cricket World Cup, and then randomly knocked off defending champion England in this year’s World Cup (although England have performed dismally throughout this tournament). It’s basically fair to say they are a bit of a David to Australia’s Goliath.
Australia is a powerhouse in cricket, of course. They are ranked #2 in the world in ODI rankings, and they typically don’t lack for depth on their teams. But it is important to note that the batsman here is slotted in at sixth in the “batting order.” Especially in ODI play, teams concentrate their batting talent toward the top end of their lineup… not unlike your 1-3 hitters in baseball. The hero in this scenario is Australia’s number 6 batter, Glenn Maxwell. He is an “all-rounder” meaning he isn’t one of the best batsmen, nor is he one of the top bowlers (pitchers) but he is fairly skilled at both.
In ODI, you play in one day. Sure, that’s obvious… right? But it sets up a situation where one team takes their chance at batting, and then they switch over and the other team “chases” the score established by the first team. Instead of alternating within each inning, Afghanistan had a chance to establish the high score, and then try to keep Australia from reaching it before they hit 50 overs (an over being equivalent to a baseball inning) or were left with only one batsman not out.
Which brings us to Afghanistan’s run total in the first half of this match. Against one of the top sides in the world, Afghanistan managed to generate 291 runs before all but one of their batters were ruled out. In all 303 total ODI’s they’ve played, **Australia** has scored an average of 252 runs. Rarely do teams at this level score below 200 when batting first, but the average has crept up in recent years to the point that between 2013-2017 the average first session total was at 288. But again, these totals are heavily influenced by the high totals achieved by the top teams in the world. Afghanistan really did well to establish this score, against a really tough opponent.
So when Australia were only sitting at 91 runs when their seventh batsman was ruled out, they were in dire straits. They were facing their final 3 wickets with a real possibility of either running out of wickets (batsman left not out) or not managing to keep the pace needed to exceed Afghanistan’s total. They were completely screwed.
Enter Maxwell and his 201 runs, not out. He put on an absolute show that will probably be highly unlikely to be matched, and history can show how unlikely it is. The previous high run total from a number 6 batsman in ODI history was 175… back in 1983. The first ODI was played in 1971. Then the second highest total was 143, then about 10-15 guys who managed between 120-130 or so. To score 100 from that position is remarkable, and a real achievement, often because the position you are in just does not afford you the opportunity to run up a high total by the time you enter the match.
If I were to capture an analogy that comes closest, I think it needs to take into account the likelihood and the circumstances. So I’d probably go with something like this:
TL;DR:
The level of intensity is closer to postseason baseball than regular season. The talent differential would be like a *really* good NCAA division 1 team (let’s go with Tennessee) playing the Atlanta Braves. TN jumps to an 9 run lead (most appropriate, 8 is the largest deficit overcome in MLB postseason) over several innings of solid hitting and decent pitching. At about 7 innings in, the Braves’ 8 spot hitter, a guy who has never had a ton of pop and who is on the decline in his career, takes all the team’s remaining at bats and delivers hits in about 65% of his PA’s- with most of them being XBHs. A mixture of HR’s and doubles, but he agonizingly drags the Braves back from down 9-0 to go ahead 10-9 with about two outs left, and then win. Oh, and he starts every AB with an 0-2 count against him.
Maxwell just won the game, and added another zero to his IPL contract.
It was truly spectacular. Absolutely legendary stuff.
It was practically French cricket by the end. He couldn’t move his legs.
Greatest odi innings ever. One of the greatest cricket innings ever. Australia had no business winning this match. Absolutely insane from maxwell.
Btw, EVERY sport has its own jargon and seems confusing to people not familiar with it. This is one of the greatest performances in sport ever and 90 percent of the comments are the usual herr herr is this a foreign language? What even is this sport? Americans say wtf at cricket headlines then act like “a walk off home run balk with bases loaded in the ninth after a fly ball stolen base strike out” is normal.
Questions: how does an American get in to following some form of a Cricket league? I have no concept of which league is the predominant league in the world or if its moreso a nation vs nation kind of thing. Any suggestions on where to start?
What a great call at the end from Ian Smith, such a great commentator who does it with such passion showing how much he really loves the game of cricket no matter who’s playing
Trying to explain cricket via analogy or comparison to other sports is a doomed concept.
1. Probably no such easy comparison exists. Even in another bat and ball sport baseball it is hard. Because runs are rare in Baseball and outs are common, in cricket it is the reverse. You could probably contrive an analogy to a pitcher (“6th or 7th choice relief pitcher has to enter the game early do to a comedy of errors, has to pitch with his weak arm due to injury. Also the outfielders have packed up and gone home. Throws a no-hitter anyway.”) But that is flawed, for obvious reasons.
2. All the people posting “I will never understand cricket” are not saying that they are unable to or have never been taught. It’s a statement of faith. They intend to remain ignorant and will in fact make adjustments to their lives to avoid accidentally understanding cricket at all.
No idea what any of this means, but that’s great (I think)!