4 Innings On A Single Day- AUS VS SA, 2011

 Often deemed as boring, Test cricket, too, has had its own share of excitement over the years. On one particular occasion, a Test match between Australia and South Africa saw all four innings of the game being played on a single day. During the 1st Test at Cape Town, incessant rains restricted Australia's first innings to just 55 overs on Day 1.

The second day saw the Aussies being bowled out for 284 runs, but unfolded later remains unreal even to this day.

Eager to cut down Australia's lead, the Proteas were bundled out for just 96 runs.

But, just when fans thought the fun was over, the hosts pegged the Aussies back after bowling them out for a mere 47 runs.

The two innings took just 42.3 overs to finish as Proteas eventually chased down the target of 236 runs with hundreds from captain Graeme Smith (101) and Hashim Amla (112).

All of this took place in a single day, it was for the first time in over 100 years that 23 wickets fell in a single day of a Test match. Only three times more batsmen have been dismissed in a day, and all of those incidents happened before 1903. It was also for only the third time in Test history that some part of all four innings of a match were witnessed in a single day. The two other moments were witnessed in 2000 at Lord's when England played West Indies, and in New Zealand's clash against India during the Hamilton Test in 2002.