Best oneday innings ever u see

I suppose it could have been but by scoring at over 2 runs per ball for 68 balls is excellent in my opinion.

Originally posted by NZ_Fast Originally posted by DRAVID FAN Thats shocking. My favorite bowler hit by Fleming. When I become a cricketer ( ) if Fleming is still there, I'm going to nail all his three stumps to the floor. Fleming will still have to be playing since hes the only batter New Zealand has of resonable quality.

I know you're from New Zealand, but I'm going to disagree with the fact that Fleming is New Zealand's batsman of reasonable quality, I think there are plenty of good New Zealand batsmen out there. There's Astle, who's still playing and did well for Lancashire this year. You have Styris who is good with the best. There is people like Vincent and Marshall who are good players, and the likes of Fulton, Papps and How are good prospects, plus going down your order, McCullum can bat well, so can Franklin and Vettori can be deadly with the bat on his day. Plus there are good prospects for New Zealand in the future, Jesse Ryder has an excellent future ahead of him and will represent his country fairly soon I'm fairly sure, and Nick Horsley is also a good player who could be picked in future.

Now, back to the point, I reckon that the best innings ever in ODI cricket came just a week ago, for South Africa against Zimbabwe with Mark Boucher hitting an incredible 147 from just 68 balls, now it may not be as high as some others, but to consistently score at that rate and reach such a high score is excellent, even against Zimbabwe, and it took score past the 400 mark for the second time, and in doing so South Africa became the first team in ODI history to pass the 400 mark twice. Plus another one that sticks in my memory is John Davison's 100 for Canada against the West Indies in the 2003 World Cup, it came up from just 67 balls, the fastest ever world cup century, and an incredible performance considering Canada were bowled out for just 36 by Sri Lanka the previous week, so mine go to Boucher and Davison. See below for the scorecards of these two games.

Boucher (147 from 68 balls):

http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/rsavzim/engine/match/257470. html

Davison (111 from 76 balls):

http://usa.cricinfo.com/link_to_database/ARCHIVE/WORLD_CUPS/ WC2003/SCORECARDS/POOL-B/CAN_WI_WC2003_ODI24_23FEB2003.html

Sri Lanka innings (target: 322 runs from 50 overs)			R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	WU Tharanga	c & b Dalrymple	109	144	102	14	1	106.86
	ST Jayasuriya	c Strauss b Solanki	152	148	99	20	4	153.53
	DPMD Jayawardene	not out	12	23	14	1	0	85.71
	KC Sangakkara	not out	23	20	19	4	0	121.05
	Extras	(lb 10, w 9, nb 9)	28
	Total	(2 wickets; 37.3 overs)	324

This was the best innings Ive ever seen. Sri Lanka Chasing 321, getting it in 37.3 overs     with Jayasuriya and Tharanga having a record partnership of 286, Jayasuriya smashing 152 off 99 balls !!!

England vs. Sri Lanka 5th ODI

Sehwag 309 againt pakistan , Dhoni 183* vs Sri Lank & Tendualkar 103* vs aussi

Andrew Symonds' maiden ODI century was quite an innings.

He was considered lucky by many (yours truly included) to have even made our '03 WC squad let alone get a chance in the opening game against pakisatn. Coming in at 3 down for 50 odd, symonds applied himself like never before, and at first built a sold platform, and then took off with an amazing display of power hitting and turned an australian innings that was headed for a 210 max total into 310.

Did they win though?