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Three Boxing Day Trials, three exciting finishes – six months ago who would have thought of this embarrassment of wealth to shut out the year? India went from the lowest ever score to a legendary win in place of one Test, Pakistan came close to beating New Zealand in their own backyard, and Sri Lanka made a heroic start to the South African front before he was sent off with a string of injuries. Catch up on everything that went down and take a look at the year in our fake page.
India’s Ajinkya Rahane puts up the famous Boxing Day effect
India blocked the ghosts of # 36allout to seal a clinical, accurate win over Australia in the second Test, despite the loss of key staff. The match belonged to undefeated captain Rahane, who anchored 112 first innings at India and led them to a confident silent victory. Australia, on the other hand, come into the third Test with a number of questions about their batting order – Joe Burns is out, but are they playing David Warner who is still getting over it? Should Marcus Harris come in?
Wiaan Mulder, Lutho Sipamla is famous when South African archers win
Sri Lanka came out with every gun crushed in their first innings, racing to 369, their highest score against South Africa, before losing almost half of their players to injuries during the game. South Africa then went almost 621 against a brutal attack, with Faf du Plessis scoring 199, its highest Test score, before the mattresses took it home. South Africa needed a win, and victory is getting a taste as one of their favorites say Firdose Moonda, even though it did not oppose the full – strength Sri Lankan side.
New Zealand won a stunning win despite Fawad Alam-Mohammad Rizwan’s big stand
The first interesting test went down to the string on the final day when New Zealand got the win with 4.3 overs left. Neil Wagner, bowling with two broken toes, and Kyle Jamieson broke through Pakistan’s heroic struggle. Despite the loss it was a testament to Fawad Alam who came to his probationary era more than 11 years after his last one, and who is often overlooked despite receiving more scratches anyone else on the first round of Pakistan.
Women’s 2020 T20 Challenge records ‘modern viewers’, 147% increase in sightings
The 2020 edition of the Women’s T20 Challenge (WT20C) recorded 5.34 billion minutes in viewership in India – an increase of 2.45 hours over the 2019 edition. As many as 105 million unique viewers played into the audience. tournament three teams compared to 71 million last season. But even as the numbers prove that women’s cricket is very popular, the BCCI has postponed India’s women’s tour of Australia for January-registered Australia, which effectively means no play has been played. they are cricket since March 2020.
The summer when apartheid knocked out England’s cricket
Alan Gardner reviews Barbed wire and cucumber sandwiches – a book looking back 50 years, and the protests against the South African tour of England in 1970.
Farewell, Jackers
As a reporter, Robin Jackman, who died last week, gave viewers a sense of friendship both with the man who was talking to them and with the game that was a meter. He will be missed, he said Marc Nicholas.
Year under review
As the curtains came down on one of the strangest years for sport, and life, ESPNcricinfo writers looked back to take stock of 2020.
Bal Sambit says 2020 that made us fall in love with cricket again. Marc Nicholas saying that it was a miracle that cricket happened at all, and visiting the events of the year through the cricket matches he played.
How did England, Ireland, Bangladesh, the West Indies, New Zealand and women’s cricket go this year? Find out in the first batch of team report cards for the year. Our staff chose the XIan of the year. How closely did you follow cricket in 2020? Take Steven Lynchend of year questionnaire and find out.
Deepti Unni is an assistant editor at ESPNcricinfo