Tino Best
Tino Best created history after hitting the highest score by a Test number 11 at Edgbaston.
Best smashed 95 in a thrilling last-wicket partnership of 143 with Denesh Ramdin, who scored 107 not out as the Windies took their first-innings total from an overnight 280-8 to 426.
With only one day's play remaining, and rain forecast, a draw seems inevitable, but thanks to the heroics of Best an otherwise forgettable Test will live long in the memory.
When the Windies lost their ninth wicket in the first over of the day, it appeared England would soon be setting about overhauling a total of less than 300.
Despite the odds Best launched a thrilling counter-attack.
He threw the bat at anything wide from the seamers and cut successive balls from Graeme Swann for four to go past his previous highest Test score of 27.
He became the first number 11 to score a fifty against England since 1906.
Top scores by a number 11 in Test cricket
- 95 - T Best, West Indies v England, 2012
- 75 - Z Khan, India v Bangladesh, 2004
- 68* - R Collinge, New Zealand v Pakistan, 1973
- 62* - A Vogler, South Africa v England, 1906
- 61 - G McGrath, Australia v New Zealand, 2004
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