#sticky wicket

6 incidents tagged

Underwood's 7 for 50 on a Sticky Wicket — The Oval Saves the Ashes, August 1968

England vs Australia

1968-08-22

A thunderstorm drenched The Oval on the final afternoon of the last Ashes Test of 1968, leaving England needing 352 to win — or, in practice, to survive to a draw on an unplayable wet surface. Groundstaff worked desperately to mop up the outfield, and England supporters helped dry the covers. When play resumed with 75 minutes left, Derek Underwood bowled Australia out for 125 to win the match by 226 runs and level the series 1-1.

#derek-underwood#deadly-derek#the-oval

⭐Serious

Brisbane Sticky Wicket — England Bowled Out for 141 and 172, Dec 1946

Australia v England

1946-12-04

Australia's first Test match after the war, at the Gabba in late November 1946, ended in an innings-and-332-run hammering of England — the largest defeat in Ashes history. A pre-monsoon thunderstorm on the third evening turned the wicket into a glue-pot, and Keith Miller (7 for 60) and Ernie Toshack (6 for 82) made it unplayable for an England side already wrung out from chasing Bradman's 187 and Hassett's 128 in a total of 645. The match is also remembered for the bump-ball decision that kept Bradman in on 28 — itself filed under a separate iconic-moment entry — and for Miller's emergence as a Test cricketer of the highest class.

#ashes#1946#brisbane

⭐Serious

Bradman's 270 at the MCG — Sticky Wicket, 1 January 1937

Australia v England

1937-01-01

On a wet New Year's Day pitch at the MCG in 1937, with Australia 0-2 down in the series, Don Bradman batted himself at No. 7, sent his tail in first to absorb the sticky, and then made 270 over almost eight hours. It is the highest score made on a sticky wicket in Test cricket, the innings that turned the 1936-37 Ashes, and the one Wisden in 2001 voted the greatest Test innings of the 20th century.

#don-bradman#ashes#1936-37

⭐Mild

Hobbs and Sutcliffe Bat the Sticky — Oval, August 1926

England v Australia

1926-08-16

On the third morning of the fifth Test of 1926, after overnight thunderstorms had turned the Oval pitch into one of the most treacherous in Test history, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe added 172 for the first wicket — Hobbs 100, Sutcliffe 161 — in an innings widely regarded as the finest piece of opening batting in cricket.

#jack-hobbs#herbert-sutcliffe#ashes

⭐Mild

Hobbs and Sutcliffe — 283 on a Sticky at Melbourne, 1924-25

Australia v England

1925-01-01

On a rain-affected New Year's Day at the MCG in 1925, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe walked out to open and put on 283 — at the time the highest opening stand in Ashes Test history and an innings that announced one of the great opening partnerships of all cricket. England lost the match but the partnership had begun in earnest.

#jack-hobbs#herbert-sutcliffe#ashes

⭐Serious

Australia 42 — Lohmann and Peel on a Sticky, Sydney 1888

Australia v England

1888-02-10

On a Sydney pitch reduced to a glue-pot by rain, George Lohmann and Bobby Peel bowled Australia out for 42 in the second innings of the only Test of the 1887-88 tour — Lohmann 5 for 17, Peel 5 for 18, the pair unchanged through the innings. The match also produced Charlie Turner's 7/43 at the other end of the same wet stage and a 126-run England win.

#lohmann#bobby-peel#1888