Yahoo India Web Search

Search results

      • Aiden Markram’s magnificent hundred in the Newlands Test match between South Africa and India was among the toughest Test centuries of all time.
      wisden.com/series-stories/south-africa-v-india-2023-24/why-aiden-markrams-classic-newlands-hundred-ranks-among-the-toughest-in-test-history-sa-vs-ind
  1. People also ask

  2. Jan 4, 2024 · Aiden Markrams magnificent hundred in the Newlands Test match between South Africa and India was among the toughest Test centuries of all time. The writing was on the wall well inside the first session, when Mohammed Siraj (6-15) reduced South Africa to 45-7.

  3. This innings also made Markram the batsman with highest percentage of runs in a completed Test innings for South Africa: 60.22 - Aiden Markram vs India, Cape Town, 2024 59.89 - Herbie Taylor vs England, Durban (Lord’s), 1913 59.88 - Jimmy Sinclair vs England, Cape Town, 1899 59.2 - Graeme Pollock vs Australia, Cape Town, 1966

  4. In January 2021, Markram was named in South Africa's Test squad for their series against Pakistan. In the first test, Markram scored a patient 74 in a losing effort. In the second test, Markram made his first century in more than two and a half years, and his first in Asia.

    • Right-handed
    • 7 September 2023 v Australia
  5. Oct 7, 2023 · Watch: Aiden Markram hit the fastest-ever World Cup century against Sri Lanka today (October 7), bringing up the record with a six over square leg to reach three figures off 49 balls. South Africa launched a blistering attack on Sri Lanka in their tournament opener in Delhi.

  6. Oct 4, 1994 · Aged 23 years and 123 days, Markram became the second youngest to captain South Africa after Graeme Smith. In March, he struck a career-best 152 on the first day of the 4th Test against Australia ...

  7. Jan 4, 2024 · Elgar was the loudest cheerleader of Markram from the dressing-room balcony on a day when Markram shed the self-doubter identity and presented a free-flowing attacking persona to the world. In the end, on the toughest pitch of his career against his toughest Test opponents, there was just one version of Markram: a happy smiling one.

  8. Jan 4, 2024 · In the pandemonium of the Cape Town Test, Aiden Markram scored an outrageous century that stole the narrative of a tumultuous two weeks, writes Katya Witney. In the context of the match, Aiden Markrams innings is extraordinary enough.