SELECTING the top match-winning performances of 2011 is no mean feat given the feast of high-quality international cricket on show over the past 12 months.
England alone have served up a summer of thrilling cricket by claiming the ICC world No1 Test crown, along with the Ashes-winning Sydney Test at
the start of January.Just one glance at the show-stealing exploits which did not make the list tells you of the levels hit by the global game.
Alastair Cook's 189 at the SCG, the only knock of his 766-run series scored in 2011, misses out, along with Chris Tremlett's 6-48 against Sri Lanka at the Rose Bowl and Indian spinner Ravichandran Ashwin's 6-47 on his debut against West Indies.
And perhaps the toughest omission was South African seamer Vernon Philander's first Test against Australia, which saw the old enemy reduced to a mind-boggling 21-9 at one stage.
SunSport has decided to give precedence to the World Cup — one-day cricket's showpiece tournament — and Test cricket — the pinnacle of the game — above arbitrary limited overs tour games.
But that's not to say that heroics in other one-dayers and Twenty20s do not get a look-in altogether.
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