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TESTS THROUGH TIME

Twice in 2000
) As Test cricket fans we are used to seeing three types of results - a win, a loss, or a draw.
But there is a fourth kind of result, one so rare that it has happened only twice in Test Cricket's near 1 2000-edition history-the tie.
The first time it happened - in the Australian I summer of 1960-61 — cricket badly needed such a , result. A spate of dull draws around the world led to a I dwindling of interest when the West Indian team led I by the legendary Frank Worrell arrived in the Western A cityofPerth.
L In the first Test in Brisbane the West Indies, after
| winning the toss, posted the sizeable total of 453, I thanks mainly to 132 from the great Sir Garfield1^ I Sobers and half-centuries from Worrell, Joe Solo- , I mon, Gerry Alexander and an unexpected one from j t Wes Hall.
L The Australians fared even better to post 505 on 1 the back of a patient 181 from Norman O' Neill, and by the end of day 3 were slightly ahead in the contest.
B In the second innings the Windies were bundled I out for 284 largely through the efforts of one of the V greatest bowlers of all time, left-arm paceman Alan , wDavidson, who took six wickets to take his match f ■ tally to 11.
K At the start of the fifth day, Australia required 233 K runs to win and were foiled by Hall, who tore through » K the top and middle order to leave the home team ■ teetering at 6 for 92; 141 runs adrift. Then captain I Richie Benaud and Davidson strung together a 134-I' run partnership, which was broken only at the end of I the daywhen Davidson was run out.
With only one over left and the score reading 227-5 7, all three conventional results were possible when | t Wes Hall started his run. Those were the days of “ eight-ball overs, and the first ball was a leg bye through which Benaud regained strike, only to be . , caught trying for the hook off the next delivery. Two runs came from the next two balls, and with three,;. Suns to win Grout was run out from the sixth ball
trying to go for the winning run. Off the seventh ball, last man Lindsay Kline pushed the ball to square leg f and set off for a single. Solomon scooped up the ball and, with one stump to aim at, hit the stumps, run-' ning Meckiff out by a few inches. Test cricket had its
first tie after 84 years of competition.
The next instance, 26 years later, also involved Australia. India were the other team, and the site was
i] Chennai's draining heat in September 1986.
if The Aussies scored a mammoth 574 thanks to an
amazingly attritional 210 from Dean Jones, and the
.. Indians just managed to avoid the follow-on with ' 'Captain Kapil Dev scoring a quickfire century. In a
' match where bat dominated ball, Allan Border made^, an extremely courageous declaration with the set
J on 170 and the lead 347.
With 348 needed in the last day, the Indians? I showed rare initiative in going for the win, but inci-, sive bowling from spinners ray Bright and Greg
; Matthews (who shared all ten wickets betweei
1 them) saw India fall to 344 for 9 with allrounder Ra'
I Shastri and tailender Maninder Singh at the creas when the last over began, bowled by Matthet
। Shastri took two runs off the second ball and a sin; I off the third to leave Singh on strike with 1 requii
L off three balls. After playing out a dot ball, Singh ws R trapped in front by a quicker one to give Test crick* Ng , its second tie at the 1,052nd time of asking. Singh stii j maintains that he got an inside edge to that fatef - delivery. t.
rSakeb Subhan