By their very nature, huge individual scores tend to come in one-sided matches or tedious draws on flat pitches
When David Warner made his unbeaten 335 in Adelaide, a fair few people felt inclined to present some caveats. The pitch was flat, the bowlers were no good, the ball didn’t swing, Mercury was in retrograde. Those opinions would hardly have been muffled when the Pakistan tail-ender Yasir Shah made his first Test ton in reply, having never previously passed 50.
In a deeply surprising result, though, it turns out that all triple centuries tend to get made in conditions favourable to batting. This is a bit like the 100m sprint record not tending to be set uphill. Almost by definition, if one batsman can make 300 runs on his own, the bowling and the fielding can’t have been all that good.
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