10 cricketers to bat on all five days of a Test
The stars need to align in a perfect way for a batter to enter his name into this catalogue.
10. Rory Burns – England vs Australia, 2019
The Ashes 2019 will be remembered for the heroics of Steve Smith and Ben Stokes. However, Rory Burns made some encouraging scores in order to fix England’s long time conundrum of opening. In the first Ashes 2019 Test – where the headlines fixated on Steve Smith’s exceptional return to Test cricket– Rory Burns became the latest entrant to the list of batsmen who have batted on all the days of a Test match.
On the back of Smith’s splendid 144, Australia posted a total of 284 runs. Burns and Jason Roy safely negotiated the final two overs on day one. Burns batted for the entire day two and notched up a century and got out on the morning of day three at the score of 133.
England’s innings ended on 374. Australia replied with a massive third innings score of 487/7, with Smith scoring another hundred accompanied by Matthew Wade’s ton. Burns and Roy have to negotiate the final few overs of the fourth day and they did it cautiously. The left-hander got out on the score of 11 on the morning of day five. Nathan Lyon took a six-wicket haul to dismiss England for 146, and the Aussies won the match by a big margin of 251 runs.
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