Top 6 impactful unbeaten 90s in Tests and ODIs

#1 Andrew Hall: 99* – Leeds, 2003

Hall’s match-turning blows to England’s bowling attack snatched the advantage from the hosts

A first ball duck in the first innings and a magical knock in the second defined this Test match for number eight Andrew Hall. With South Africa only 35 ahead after the first innings and the series tied 1-1 after three Tests, Hall’s match-turning blows to England’s bowling attack snatched the advantage from the hosts.

South Africa dragged their score to 365, adding 146 after Hall’s advent. A partnership of forty-nine with debutant Monde Zondeki after seven down and fifty-four with Dewald Pretorius for the last wicket changed the course of the match, courtesy of Hall. Seventy-two runs – in the form of 15 fours and 2 maximums – came from boundaries in a knock off 82 balls.

Hall took a single off the fourth ball of the hundredth over to not expose Pretorius to Andrew Flintoff’s pace from the beginning of the next over, but saw his stumps rattled from the non-striker’s end in the very next delivery. Pretorius was bowled and Hall left stranded on 99 before SA won by 121 runs.