Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor made 334 not out off 564 balls against Pakistan at Peshawar in October 1998, in the second Test, with Australia 1-0 up. He batted for about 12 hours across two days and Australia declared at 4 for 599 the next morning, which left him on the same score as Don Bradman's 334 in 1930. The match was drawn and Australia won the series 1-0.
Sources: Wikipedia: Australian cricket team in Pakistan in 1998-99 · Cricket Australia: On this day, Taylor equals Bradman with 334
Was it a ton of consequence?
Not enough match data yet to say. We can only judge hundreds where we have the match record, which is mostly from 2006 on. How it works
How the score is builtscore · points
Your weighting
- Match Impact30%Did it decide the course of the game?
- Clutchness22%The weight of pressure in the moment
- Narrative18%The story surrounding the innings
- Conditions & Opposition14%What and who they were up against
- Historical Weight10%How time and experts have judged it
- Perceived Greatness6%The consensus of those who watched
How divisive is it?
Broadly agreed, 27. Some variation, but most perspectives rate this similarly. Across five points of view it scores between 67.5 and 83.4.
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