Top 5 Boxing Day Tests of all time

4. South Africa vs England (2004 at Durban)

Trescothick and Strauss put on 273 runs for the first wicket in the 2nd innings

Graeme Smith won the toss and inserted England into bat on a lively Kingsmead surface. The England batting line up kept on losing wickets at regular intervals as Shaun Pollock and Makhaya Ntini wreaked havoc with the ball.

The visitors could only manage to put up 139 runs on the board. In reply, everyone apart from Jacques Kallis struggled for the Proteas. Kallis put on an exhibition of batting and scored a sublime century, contributing 162 runs out of a total of 332.

The English batting order were facing a huge deficit of 193 runs but responded brilliantly with the openers Marcus Trescothick and Andrew Strauss putting on 273 runs for the first wicket. England declared at a mammoth score of 570, setting up a target of 378 runs for South Africa with 99 overs still left to play.

England looked all set to win the match but some fighting knocks from the likes of Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Rudolph and AB De Villiers helped them survive. South Africa were 290/8 when the play was called off and both the teams shared the honours.