Andrew Hudson 146 off 244 Balls 317 Mins 24 Fours vs India 2nd Test, Kolkata 1996-97

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Relive one of the finest batting performances in South African cricket history! 🏏  In the 2nd Test against India at Kolkata in 1996, Andrew Hudson produced a brilliant 146 runs off 244 balls in 317 minutes, striking 24 elegant fours. Facing the fiery pace of Javagal Srinath and a charged-up Indian crowd of nearly 50,000 at Eden Gardens, Hudson displayed composure, patience, and pure class. 🌟  Alongside Gary Kirsten, Hudson built a monumental 236-run opening partnership, the second-highest in South Africa’s history at that time. While Kirsten began fluently, Hudson grew in confidence, finding rhythm and timing that left the crowd in awe. His innings helped South Africa’s batsmen find form, with the Proteas creating history by scoring four centuries in a single Test for the first time ever.  The result? A crushing victory for South Africa by a massive 329 runs, leveling the series and stamping their mark on world cricket. 🏆  👉 Watch this unforgettable innings and relive the golden days of Test cricket at Eden Gardens! 💬 Share your thoughts in the comments: Was this Hudson’s greatest knock?  🔖 Hashtags  #AndrewHudson #CricketClassics #TestCricket #SAvsIND #CricketHistory #Hudson146 #EdenGardens #SouthAfricaCricket #IndiaCricket #CricketHighlights #ClassicInnings

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00:00In the dust and din of Eden Gardens, 1996, Andrew Hudson carved his name into the annals

00:06of South African batting within innings of uncommon grace and grit.

00:10Engaged India in the second test at Kolkata, Andrew Hudson compiled a magnificent 146 runs,

00:17crafted from 244 deliveries over 317 patient minutes, punctuated by 24 exquisite boundaries.

00:25The early exchanges were fraught with Peral, Javagal, Sirenath, sharp and propping, twice

00:30found the edge only for Fortunet to smile upon Hudson.

00:34From those narrow escapades, bloomed an innings of substance.

00:38Partnering with Garrick Histon, he forged a monumental stand of 236 runs, the second highest

00:44opening partnership in South Africa's history.

00:47While Garrick Histon began with fluent strokes, Andrew Hudson measured at first, blossomed into

00:52sublime timing, each boundary kissed with authority.

00:56For the connoisseurs of the game, such moments are more than statistics.

00:59They are cherished echoes of test cricket at its finest.

01:02For Ganguly, first ball coming up, let's join Deva Dukes and Robbie South Street.

01:08Thank you very much, Hase, yes, and a welcome to a noisy Eden Gardens.

01:12Not a full...

01:13And two first ones.

01:18Well, the first genuine excitement for the day, and drawing to the left, and Ganguly unable

01:25to have a pretty difficult and quick chance.

01:28And this is beautifully balled by Sreenath.

01:30Andrew Hudson just playing inside the lane here.

01:32The ball not quite coming to first lift.

01:34In fact, Mike, just have got his fingertips to it.

01:37Difficult chance.

01:43Just about getting his fingers to it.

01:45You just watch here that a bit of stumble by Hudson's.

01:51His back foot becomes his front foot, if you like, and that shows that it's a very good delivery

01:57from the opening bowler.

02:00So, it's something to think about for the South Africans on the first morning of this test match.

02:04And another good delivery to any other.

02:08So, India doing it well.

02:10It is six for none.

02:11And the catch.

02:19So, Monggyu just wandering across in front of first slip, and it was more just a lack of

02:27off by Monggyu, I think.

02:29It was a regulation glide to the week, even not a sneak.

02:33Well, the Indian fielder seemed to be a little bit on the back foot.

02:37This is a regulation catch for the keeper.

02:40This is the delivery we were talking about, just straightening.

02:43Hudson again playing inside the line, and that should have been taken.

02:47I'm not sure what Nari Monggyu was doing.

02:50You see the hand come off the back for Hudson, and he just fell, instead of moving his feet.

02:57Good comeback by Serenath.

02:58He's a very, very good bowler.

03:02And I just felt, Ravi, that there was a lack of foot moving by Monggyu.

03:06He just sort of fell at the ball.

03:08I think he expected it to come into his gloves, and suddenly it was just drifting a marginally

03:11away from him.

03:12That's right.

03:12I think he was a little too casual.

03:14He took it a little bit too easy.

03:17And the end result, the ball wasn't in his gloves.

03:22Take a look at it again.

03:24Very casual attempt.

03:39That's well played.

03:39It's played in front of Square, too.

03:42There's always going to be four runs.

03:44It's a fairly long boundary here at the Eden Gardens.

03:47That is stunned very, very, very well.

03:50It's not the easiest shot to play.

03:53The back foot drive in front of Square.

03:57The weight goes back, but it must be coming forward and through the ball on contact.

04:02Super shot from Hudson.

04:03Good shout from Srinath.

04:22I thought I heard two noises.

04:26Hudson out before LBW here.

04:34Seam up.

04:41Maybe just a little nick, but also I think missing leg stump.

04:44I think that was an excellent decision.

04:50So the left arm spinner, Samuel Josie, to bowl his second over.

04:55Hudson cuts and gets it away for four runs.

04:58Just a little bit short.

05:00Gave him some width and he was quickly on to it.

05:02The spin bowlers will soon realize that there is very little margin for error on a surface like this.

05:10A little bit of width here for Hudson.

05:13Josie just dropping it fractionally short.

05:16And Hudson having enough time to rock back on that back foot and find the gap on the offside.

05:21This is driven and it's through the poor fielding in the covers and as a result, four runs that might not have been.

05:37Well, that kind of effort shows you the kind of mourning the Indian fielders have had.

05:44Again, a very casual attempt.

05:46The driver, the guilty man here in the covers, really should have been stopped.

06:06That's four runs racing away to the boundary and certainly the falls are coming now.

06:16And lovely shot.

06:19Played one hand.

06:20He took the bottom hand off the back.

06:22Such is the timing though.

06:23Went straight to the fence.

06:26So Hudson just started starting to show the skill that he has shown in the past, but not perhaps to the Indians.

06:35That's one-handed stuff.

06:37Look how the face of the bat comes through.

06:39That might be how it might knock up in front of the pavilion before.

06:42It's a bit of practice.

06:43This is sort of truly spread off the Hudson.

06:48It won't, I don't think, go for thought.

06:51Really, nearly.

06:53It's nearly nearer than I thought when it went off the bat.

06:56I just feel rather apart.

06:58Anyone can drop a catch as Hudson goes to 50.

07:01So, both opening batsmen recording half-centuries.

07:09Which one will go on and turn it into three figures?

07:13As it's been a fine knock by Andrew Hudson.

07:18He had a share of luck early on, but he's concentrated.

07:21He's fucked through that period.

07:23And now has reached 51, and he'd like to carry on from here.

07:28He's done all the hard work.

07:29He won't want to give it away.

07:30Now, Gally's moved into Gary Kirsten.

07:41And now, is that bat or pad?

07:45Pad.

07:47That's to a four.

07:48It's straight back past the stumps at the bowler's end.

08:18Nicely timed shot.

08:20Kandilk was chasing hard, but he's down to lose up.

08:23Firm up.

08:26Very fast outfield.

08:27The grass is mown pretty short.

08:31Spectacular outfield.

08:33And it looks as though Hudson got it absolutely sweetly.

08:35See that?

08:36His hands move as the ball hits the bat.

08:39You watch his hands.

08:40They lose the bat momentarily, but he's such a wonderful striker of the ball

08:44and a timer of the ball, Hudson, when he's in good touch.

08:47But Session Tendulka had no chance.

08:50Rather badly executed at one stage earlier on, and this is another poor effort.

08:55And that is another gorgeous shot.

09:15He's always been a top driver of the ball, Andrew Hudson, but just look at the placement

09:19and the timing on that one.

09:23That's exactly the point.

09:25You don't get many bad balls at this level.

09:28And when you do, the last thing you want to do is hit it at a fielder.

09:32Over pitching.

09:34Four.

09:3482, not out, Andrew Hudson.

09:39The runs have been flooring since lunch.

09:4273 runs have come.

09:44Just about 70 minutes.

09:45Well, it certainly hit something on its way down to the boundary.

09:56Almost inevitably another four.

09:59It's got a four byes.

10:01Well, that would please the keeper if it did hit something.

10:06The keepers hate byes anyway, obviously.

10:10I think it just flicked that pad.

10:14Just flicked it.

10:16So, Stamongio will be a little grumpy about that.

10:27Over the line at the next boundary.

10:28Hudson decided it's going to be behind square.

10:31179 for most.

10:40We're looking for a couple here, definitely.

10:45So, 200 comes up for South Africa.

10:49Very, very well played by them.

10:54201 for no loss.

10:57When they were struggling in the first half an hour,

10:58one would have thought the score of round 280,

11:00300 would be a good one.

11:02But now 350, 360 definitely looks on the cards.

11:05And F for back foot, played beautifully through the covers.

11:14That's a lovely shot by Andrew Hudson.

11:19He's really seeing them big now

11:21and playing with tremendous confidence.

11:2723rd boundary for Hudson and probably his best.

11:30I thought that Kirsten's cover drive

11:33off Kumblo was exceptional,

11:36but I would think that that may well take

11:37the shot of the day.

11:40The opening goal hit through the covers

11:42off the back foot.

11:45And he's got to be in good touch.

11:47It brings up his 23rd of four.

11:50He goes to 140 himself, goes Hudson.

11:54And what a knock it has been.

11:56A difficult shot to play, isn't it, David, that shot?

11:59Robert Smith is the one batsman who plays it very well.

12:04And then, play it.

12:09And he plays it on the front foot.

12:11Results the same.

12:16I might have to change my opinion of the previous deliveries.

12:19This ball swung from Prasad

12:21and it just hits the middle of the bat.

12:24And Hudson has a lovely sounding bat.

12:30And in a stadium like this,

12:32which is full of people,

12:34and you actually hear the ball hit the bat in the middle,

12:37it is one of the great sounds of cricket.

12:40And Hudson has done that on two consecutive deliveries now

12:42for two boundaries.

12:43And those two boundaries have brought up

12:48a 50 partnership between these two.

12:51And it has come very quickly,

12:52this partnership of 50,

12:54between Hudson and Gibbs.

12:58Monggear has a habit of moving his left leg

13:00to the left.

13:03This changes his balance

13:05and his weight transfers,

13:06which makes it hard for him to come back

13:08to his right-hand side.

13:15And India will be very, very pleased

13:18to see the back of Andrew Hudson.

13:23And at last,

13:24they've got something more to cheer about.

13:27South Africa, 296 for two now.

13:30But what a splendid innings

13:31from Andrew Hudson.

13:33This Kolkata test became a historic chapter

13:57for South African cricket

13:58on a true surface and swift outfield.

14:01Their best man rediscovered rhythm,

14:03resisting four centuries

14:05in a single test

14:06for the very first time.

14:07Before a crowd of nearly 50,000 souls,

14:10fervently behind the home side,

14:12Andrew Hudson stood firm,

14:13his blade answering every question asked.

14:16His 146 was not merely a score,

14:18it was a statement,

14:20and innings forged under pressure,

14:22gilded with poise

14:23and remember with reverence.

14:25Andrew Hudson's knock in Kolkata

14:27symbolized more than personal triumph.

14:29It's embodied South African growing stature

14:31in the modern game.

14:33At a time when the Pratis

14:34was still shaping their identity

14:36on the test stage,

14:37his innings reflected the discipline,

14:39resilience,

14:40and quiet steel

14:41that would become their hallmark.

14:43It was an effort

14:44that not only silenced

14:46the roars of Eden Garden,

14:47but also whispered

14:48to the cricketing board

14:49that South Africa had found

14:51in Hudson

14:52a craftsman capable

14:53of anchoring their size.

14:55So cricket lovers,

14:56what are your thoughts

14:57on this memorable

14:58Andrew Hudson innings?

14:59Few knocks carry each weight

15:01and character

15:01etched forever

15:02in the story of test cricket.

15:04It was an exhibition of patience,

15:06timing,

15:07and sheer determination,

15:08the kind that still stirs

15:10nostalgia in those who witnessed it.

15:12In the end,

15:12South Africa not only found glory

15:14in Hudson's brilliance,

15:16but also stamped their authority

15:17with a resounding victory,

15:19winning the test match

15:20by a colossal margin

15:22of 329 runs.

15:24It was a triumph

15:24that echoed far beyond

15:26the boundaries of Kolkata,

15:28leaving behind memories

15:29to be the relived

15:30and cherished

15:31with every replay.

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