Test Match Statistics - The Three Largest Innings Victories in the 2000s

In Test matches, the most ignominious form ofunbeaten double hundred (204 off 213 balls). In reply,
defeat is defeat by an innings. Between January 1the dispirited home team could only muster 159 and
2000 and December 31 2009, there were several133 in two innings off 86.3 overs in all. Warne and
huge innings victories, with many registered againstMcGrath were the chief destroyers, sharing fourteen
perennial strugglers Bangladesh and Zimbabwe. In thewickets between themselves.
top five were resounding victories by Australia,2. Pakistan - innings and 324-run victory in May 2002
Pakistan, West Indies, New Zealand and England.New Zealand had a torrid time in Pakistan, both on
1. Australia - innings and 360-run victory in Februaryand off the field. In the first innings of the first Test
2002of the two-match series, New Zealand conceded 643
It is no surprise that Australia - by far the strongestruns. In their turn at the crease, the Silver Ferns
team of the 2000s - is at the top of this heap. Whatperformed abysmally in their first reply, scoring a
is surprising is the margin of victory against a strongmere 73 off 30.2 overs - not even a good one day
Test opponent (South Africa). Even morescore. Shoaib Akhtar's 6/11 dismantled the New
noteworthy is that the Aussies romped over theZealand batting. In the second innings, New Zealand
South Africans in Johannesburg, South Africa. Thefared much better, scoring 246 off 76.3 overs.
match began with South Africa toiling in the field forHowever, spin was their downfall, as Danish Kaneria
146 overs, before Australian captain, Steve Waugh,took a five-wicket haul, while Saqlain Mushtaq chipped
mercifully declared at 652/7.in with two wickets.
By that time, Matthew Hayden and Damien Martyn3.
scored centuries, while Adam Gilchrist notched a fast,