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.
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6. Adrian Griffith – West Indies vs New Zealand, 1999
Adrian Griffith was a tall batsman from Barbados who showed immense potential in his maiden century but couldn’t convert it into a noteworthy international career. However, Griffith is the first and only West Indian– till date– to bat on all five days of a Test.
The left-handed batsman accomplished this feat in West Indies tour of New Zealand in 1999. In the first Test of the series in Hamilton, Brian Lara and elected to bat first. Griffith opened the innings with Sherwin Campbell. The two Barbados-born players put up a mighty opening stand of 276 runs, and both completed their respective centuries.
Griffith got out on 114 on the second day. Apart from the openers, no other batsman could cross 30, and West Indies collapsed for 365. The Kiwis scored 393 in their reply and West Indies had to bat again by the evening of day three.
Griffith came to open and survived in the final over of day three, batted on a rain-affected day four, and was dismissed on 18 on day five. West Indies were bowled out for a paltry 93 and the hosts chased down a meagre total of 70 in 15 overs to win the game by 9 wickets. After the Hamilton Test, Griffith’s career went downhill as he could only manage 638 runs in his 14 Test career.
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