When we talk bilateral cricket series, we generally discuss best of 3 or 5 at maximum. A 7 ODI series between two country is a rare. so rare than almost 35 years of oneday cricket and over 500 series, only 18 till date have been best of 7.
The first ever 7 ODI bilateral cricket series was played between West Indies and India back in December of 1987. West Indies were world's best team in those days, and punished Indians by a huge margin of 6-1 (Indians won only the 3rd ODI at Kolkata, thanks to spin twin of Ravi Shastri and Maninder Singh).
Another series to mention here in his longest ODI cricket series is ... .. Read complete article
A cricket match is tied when both teams finish with same number of runs = a VERY rare instance.
So rare, that from 1932 tests + 2882 ODIs + 121 T20s till today (5 Sept 2009) as I write this, only 29 have finished as tied. 23 in one dayers, 4 in Twenty20 and yes, we've had 2 tied test matches as well..
1st Tied Test : West Indies vs Australia : 14 Dec 1960, Brisbane : also the first ever tied cricket match. West Indies 453/10, Australia 505/10. Then, West Indies 284/10 to which Australia replied with 232/10. Total scores equal, match tied. Alan Davidson, the Aussie new ball bowler grabbed 11 wickets while Wes ... .. Read complete article
Who's best number 3 batsman to have played the game? true Don Bradman batted at the same position too, but he didn't display his skills against TV replays and other footages available today to help device your dismissal.
And neither Sir Don played one day cricket..
The greatest one day batsman at position one down is Ricky Ponting. undisputed champion batsmen has so far scored 28 century in his 323 one day career as of today = 2 October 2009.. 27 of those hundreds have come at no.3.
164 = Highest ODI Score :- for Ricky Ponting. he made it against South Africans at their permier ground ~ Johannesburg. sadly, his team lost it. ... .. Read complete article
Sachin Tendulkar is easily the greatest cricketer to have played cricket, till today. Greater than Bradmans and Gawaskars cause he played in an era of video replays and other technologies that help bowlers find minus points in batsman's technique.
Sachin Tendulkar holds the record of most runs in both main form of cricket = tests and one day internationals and has scored most century in both version as well.
Fact : Sachin Tendulkar's first ever test match century came against England at Manchester.. it was his 9th test match and 16th innings.
Sachin Tendulkar's highest test score is 248 not out against Bangladesh at Dhaka and he also has exception of scoring a ... .. Read complete article
Sachin Tendulkar, easily the biggest cricketer/sportsperson India has ever produced and if we consider statistics, this Mumbai born is above any batsman who has ever played the game at highest level.
Sachin Tendulkar, as of today = 24 February 2010, has 46 century in one day international cricket and following is the list of all hundreds made by him in his career of 50 over cricket.
Highest ODI score = 200* : versus South Africa at captain Roop Singh stadium in Gwalior.. Sachin's previous best was 186 against New Zealand and leads the list of highest ODI score by a batsman.
Century against each country : Sachin Tendulkar has scored a one ... .. Read complete article
Two of the greatest modern cricketers, Sachin Tendulkar of India and Ricky Ponting of Australia, now have come to a stage in their career that they are miles ahead of remaining players of various countries, but mighty close to each other.
With not much cricket left in both of them, the thing to watch out for is which one of these two cricketers quit with record of most century and runs in both test and one day international form of cricket.
Note that Sachin Tendulkar made his test debut back in November 1989 against Pakistan at Karachi while Ricky Ponting came onto world stage first in one day internationals, on 15 February 1995, against South Africa ... .. Read complete article
Centuries don't win you test matches. In fact, centuries may make you lose a test match on rare occasions but what individual centuries actually do, most often, is keep you in the game.
Not merely statsticians delight, a test match ton is the moment young batsmen dream of. to raise their bats and let the world applaud.
For a budding batsman in Australia and England, a hundred in Ashes test match is doubly delightful. the oldest rivalry in cricket, Aussies and English play a 5 test match series every second year which tends to bring out the best from their players and their fans. naturally, you score a ton in Ashes and people will recognize you. Read complete article
26 July 1956, Old Trafford, Manchester :- Coin roll rested to England's favour and captain Peter May elected to bat. Then, no one knew what was to come..
England looked good for over 600 first innings score but Ian Johnson's late 4 wickets folded them up for 459. Australians took a deep breath. it was time for them to bat well.
But they didn't. At the exception of Jim Burke who was dismissed by Tony Lock, Jim Laker, an off spinner, sent remaining all 9 Aussie batters back to pavilion, giving away only 37 runs in his 16.4 overs. Asked to follow on, team from downunder lost star batsman Neil Harvey by the end of second ... .. Read complete article
When we talk Australia vs England 'Ashes' tests, one name we don't miss is Sir Donald Bradman. specially when we talk runs.
Sir don Bradman is the runaway highest run scorer in over all Ashes test match played thus far, and no current batsmen from either country seems to be getting close to him. From just 37 Ashes test matches, Bradman made 5028 runs from his 63 innings with 7 times remaining not out. He averaged 89.78 against England which, surprisingly, is less than his career average of 99.96 versus all countries. Don Bradman also has the distinction of scoring more century against England than half centuries, with highest score of 334 which he made at Leeds in ... .. Read complete article
316 Australia vs England test matches = over 1200 innings. Naturally, some of them were very short ones.
36 all out by Australia against England at Birmingham is the lowest total in an Ashes test match, which happened back in 1902. Wilfred Rhodes terrorised Aussie batting with his 7 wicket haul in his 11 overs. interestingly, Australia didn't lose that match. it was a three day test match, which ended as draw.
Australia hold next two ugly spots as well, with all out scores of 42 and 44 while the smallest team score by England vs Australia is 45, which they made at Sydney back in 1887. Note that in those days, an over contained only ... .. Read complete article
It takes two to tango. no cricketer can win a game for his team unless someone partners him.
Sometimes, partners click so well that they break records. Test cricket is the toughest test and Australia vs England, the Ashes test series, the oldest. Hence, the elite pair of batsmen who have collaborated together to register their name in following list of highest partnerships in Ashes test match, need an applaude.
Geoff Marsh, the wicket keeper and Mark Taylor, only in his 3rd test match, put together an unbeliveable 329 runs for the opening wicket at Trent Bridge ground in Nottingham which still stands the biggest opening partnership in Australia vs England test cricket.
Test match = 5 days cricket = 450 overs = 2700 balls.
Indeed, test matches are not only won by bowlers alone, as you have to take 20 wickets to win a test.. but also by scoring huge totals. When your opponent batsmen see tall target overhead, their motivation fails and intead of just bat out the remaining days, they throw away their wickets.
In following, we've listed the biggest scores ever made in Australia vs England test matches, aka the Ashes test series which is the oldest in world of cricket.. you would note that although England own the largest total record, Australians have posted more big team scores than their rivals over the years. Read complete article
Sometimes, a match can be a big mis-match. On those days, one side plays the bully while other team finds no where to hide..
Following is a list containing the biggest victories in Twenty20 Internationals. but it ain't no easy table to understand cause a team wins a cricket match in two different ways = by runs and by wickets. another important list we've included is biggest T20 victories with number of balls remaining, meaning the overs which were left unplayed in second innings.
172 runs : was the margin between Sri Lanka and Kenya on 14 September, a league game of first ever T20 world cup in 2007. riding on Sanath Jayasuriya's two run ... .. Read complete article
Upto today, 96 hours before second Twenty20 World cup kicks off in England from 5th June 2009, 4860 International cricket matches have been played (Tests + ODI + T20). Thousands of players have represented 25 countries since year 1877, but only two batsmen have hit six sixes off one over!
Herschelle Gibbs did it in an one day international against Daan van Bunge of Netherlands while hero of this article, Yuvraj Singh, lofted Stuart Broad for 6 big ones in a World T20 match.
Fact : No cricketer has hit sixes sixes in an over in test cricket. Brain Lara's holds the record with his 28 runs off Robin Peterson (466444) as the most runs ... .. Read complete article
Experience is indispensable in every aspect of life, let alone sport. but no one can deny the part rookies play.. young, enthusiastic and fearless. eager to prove themselves at any cost at world stage.
Today when video replays have made it easy for team think tanks to device plans against seasoned players, debutantes start with an advantage of being unknown. Element of surprise, specially in 20 over cricket, can fast change the game before opposition calculates plans on run time.
Ricky Ponting, Australian captain, made his T20 debut along with all his other 10 mates and also all of 11 New Zealand in that first ever twenty20 International at Auckland on 17 February 2005. not exactly ... .. Read complete article
The biggest partnership in International cricket is 624 runs, between Kumar Sangakkara and Mahela Jayawardene of Sri Lanka who batted for 157 overs non stop.
Well, T20 cricket is, as name suggests, just 20 over per side game and hence, we can safely assume above record isn't gonna break in this shortest format of cricket. in this version, anything over 100 runs between two batsman is half victory for their team.
Intrestingly, list below with biggest partnerships in twenty20 cricket has 7 opening pairs, equal to all other big partnerships for different wickets put together!
170 = Graeme Smith + Loots Bosman : at Centurion against England.. both batters had the opportunity ... .. Read complete article
In twenty20 cricket, there's more chance of seeing six sixes in an over than in one day internationals or test cricket cause batsmen play more freely in this shortest version of cricket than they do otherwise. Yuvraj Singh of India has already done it against Stuart Broad of England and more batters will touch it soon.
Naturally, teams getting out for low scores in T20 cricket is equally more probable than in other two formats. why? don't we know free-ness leads of failures.
4 August 2008, 1st Semi-final of World T20 cup qualifiers, Belfast in Ireland where home team elected to field first and cleaned up visitors for just 67 runs. Only two batsmen {Steve Tikolo ... .. Read complete article
Bats are getting broader and bigger but never a ball made which swings or spins more. There has been power play (field restrictions) introduced, bouncers disallowed, flat pitches made but never came in a rule to extend boundary lengths which is getting smaller by the day.
Being a bowler in cricket is getting no easier. On bad days, bowlers look like stupid and on even worse days, they enter following list, consisting most expensive spells bowled in Twenty20 International cricket.
Sanath Jayasuriya : is known more for his explosive batting and marathon career (432 ODIs = the most, till date), is also a mean bowler. a left arm spinner not very many can hit, went for ... .. Read complete article
Nearly 150 Twenty20 Internationals, only 1 century made. come down to Indian Premier League (a breakthrough TV success non International tournament) which has had over 100 games in two installments yet only 5 batsmen have gone on to touch three figure score.
Fact : 4 of above mentioned centurions batted as openers that day.
Reason is simple := T20, 20 over per side cricket match, is little too less for batsman to construct a century brick by brick.. he has to get lucky!
Lets come down a level to make competition tougher = the half centuries (50s or fifty). another land mark we see batters raising their bat to and fans applauding. On an ... .. Read complete article
17 February 2005 was when first Twenty20 International cricket match was played, at Auckland where Australia beat the home team New Zealand by 44 runs. over years since that day, today, 28 May 2009, when we cricket fans have recently started to realize Twenty20 cricket is more than just "hit out" or "get out" game, big hits still receive the most applause.
Mind you, no more than a six you can hit off a single ball (unless it's a no-ball which will make it 7 runs off 1 ball). For Twenty20 matches, teams tend to select players with ability to the send ball out of the ground..
When we talk Australia vs England test cricket, we rarely miss one name = Don Bradman, specially when our topic is related to batting. Over 60 years since this great right hander quit the game, with an average of 99.96 from 52 tests, his achievements continue to challenge modern day batters.
But highest individual score by a batsman in Ashes test match is one important list of record Sir Donald Bradman comes second in.. behind Len Hutton who scored 364 from 847 balls at the Oval back in 1938, beating Bradman's 334 which was made 8 years and a month earlier. Bradman continued to play for over a decade since Len Hutton's record breaking innings, but got past ... .. Read complete article
Grounds are getting smaller and bats are going broader. More over, only 20 overs per innings of 10 wickets means batsman can take chances knowing their team won't be bowled out without playing full quota of overs.
This makes following list a very interesting one : the record of most number of sixes hit in a Twenty20 cricket match.
India vs New Zealand : 25th February 2009 : AMI Stadium in Christchurch :- India batted first and hit 13 sixes in their innings. lack of middle order consolidation meant Indians finished with moderate 162/8 which Kiwis chased down.. with 7 wickets standing, and 7 balls remaining.. hitting 11 sixes.
Most of largest team totals you'll find come in world cups. cause that's when major teams get to play minnows and impose their superiority.
For big team scores, openers have to give a bristling start to their innings, utilizing power plays, backed up with strong middle overs and a murderous finish. No wonder, few teams have managed to cross magical mark of double century aka 200 in T20 cricket which, as the name suggests, is just 20 over per innings cricket match!
Present Leader = Sri Lanka. made 260 against minnows Kenya at Johannesburg on 14th September 2007. Sanath Jayasuriya cracked 88 off just 44 balls (11x4, 4x6), Mahela Jayawardene lead strong middle overs, scoring ... .. Read complete article
You get only 4 overs to spell your magic.. quick and conditional cause fast bowlers can't bowl bouncers or too wide outside stumps. no overstepping the popping crease and field restricted!
No surprises, few bowler have taken more than a wicket an over in Twenty20 cricket.
Umar Gul of Pakistan, the man with most wickets in T20 cricket, continues to haunt batters around the world as he own the record of best bowling figures = 5 wkts for just 6 runs in his 3 overs against New Zealand at the Oval back on 13 June 2009, the second World T20 tournament which Pakistan won. Other bowlers to take 5 wickets in T20 matches are Nehemiah ... .. Read complete article
Each and every batsman starts with a duck, a zero. Going off the mark, into double figures, half century and then the magical triple figure individual score.. and in between, you run your partner's runs as non-striker as well as resuming your innings the next day which is very very tiring but less highlighted aspect of cricket. indeed making a test match ton isn't a joke!
Recently, Sachin Tendulkar scored his 42nd test match century against New Zealand at Hamilton which was his second ton in kiwiland..
An array of queries poured into itsonlycricket.com asking how many centuries Sachin's nearest competitor, Ricky Ponting has. Today, the answer stands at 5 but both champion run machines ... .. Read complete article
Test cricket is where batsmen first defend, calculate and then score runs.
One day Internationals is where batsmen look to attack, but there's a danger of being bowled out before playing full quota of 50 overs.
Twenty20 cricket is were batter don't think one bit, and smash everything from ball one. Selectors even keep those batsman away from this shortest version of international cricket who can't play innovative strokes.
If you like to hit sixes, T20 is for you.
But few batsmen have the ability to clear field at will. In fact, only Chris Gayle of West Indies has managed to reach three figure individual score in 20 over cricket, and ... .. Read complete article
Sachin Tendulkar may own the record of the batsman with most runs in test cricket (and in onedayers), Brain Lara, former West Indian artist with bat, will take heart from his highest score by a batsman in an innings which he owned for 9 years before Mathew Hayden broke it.
6 months since Hayden's hurricane against Zimbabweans, at same Venue (Recreation ground in Antigua) and against same opposition (England), Brain Lara snatched back his phenomenal record, scoring the first and only 400 in test match cricket till today.
Drawback : Not that Brain Lara's record can't be broken today, but modern day batters have lost the patience with loads of ODI & T20 cricket played around ... .. Read complete article
3 years since I analyzed batsmen capable of scoring one day double century, Sachin Tendulkar today (24 Feb 2010) made the first ever one day double century, off 147 balls and now holds the record of highest individual score in one day cricket matches..
Debate : who holds record for second highest ODI score? Coventry was notout on 194 but Saeed Anwar took 10 balls fewer to make equal number of runs!
Even today, I agree, making 200 runs in a single 50 over match innings is a difficult ask, but like Tendulkar, modern day batsmen/bats has shown glimpses of this miracle happening, someday again soon. Today when over 400 runs can be made ... .. Read complete article
Cricket's a collection of stats.. every ball bowled, every run scored, every wicket fell - some record is made or broken.
Can't itsonlycricket.com publish a million list of records? sure we can, but that wouldn't be much browse-able. plus, you don't get the whole story with just numbers & lists.
We've answered over a thousand questions (since December 2005) at forum.itsonlycricket.com and even published articles on special records worth writing about.. If you too can't find a cricket record, spare 2 mins & post your question for us to answer.
Meanwhile, as I said some records are so special they deserve to be written and read all the time, following is a ... .. Read complete article
Recently at Rajkot, on 14 Nov 2008, Yuvraj Singh scored a 64 ball century against England.. This was the second fastest 100 by an Indian behind 62 ball thriller by Mohammad Azharuddin against New Zealand at Baroda in 17 December 1988.
Internationally - Yuvraj's hundred stood at 8th position.
Yuvraj was injured, and hence, had Gautam Gambhir as runner (trick?). Otherwise, I'm sure this Punjab Left hander could have scored the first double century in one day Internationals as well.
Emails & question at fourm.itsonlycricket.com poured in, asking for lists of exceptionally quick 100s ever made in one day international cricket.. I've done one better, and included the list fastest ... .. Read complete article
The pitch gets rough, the balls keep low. the bowlers are dominating & batsmen are tired of chasing leather all around the park..
In those situations, in test cricket, its very tough for a team to bat last (4th innings) of a test match and overhaul a huge total. over 1855 test matches so far, only three teams have went on to chase a total of over 400 to win the game. The record, of course, remains with West Indies who scored mammoth 418 for 7 wickets at St Johns in May 2003. Shivnarine Chanderpaul & Ramnaresh Sarwan scored centuries whereas Brain Lara made crucial fifty to lift his teams moral. I must also mention that the pitch ... .. Read complete article
1854 test matches in all (as I write this) have produced 1197 results, including 2 ties. Hence - 655 were drawn. in other words, every third test match played around the world yields a draw..
But sometimes, some cricket teams attain invincibility as they don't lose or draw any test match they play anywhere in the world BUT and win them all! in a row or in succession (however you like to understand it).
Test cricket record for winning most test matches without losing or drawing but winning, anywhere in the world goes to Australia with 16 games. That winning streak was achieved by Aussies between late 1999 to early 2001 (see list below) under the ... .. Read complete article
Like dancing, in cricket - it takes two to tango. tangos after tangos, I mean partnerships after partnerships - batsman take their team to victory. without a tango/partner - no batsman can't singly win a cricket match for his team!
If a cricket team's best tango pair is at the top - the opening batsmen, even better.
Following is a story of greatest opening tango pair International cricket has so far witnessed. and I assure you - their record won't in breaking in coming 5 years at least!
Cast Sachin Tendulkar - Right hand mumbai maestro. Sourav Ganguly - Left hand Bangal tiger.
If you truly are looking for funny, interesting or simply good read article on cricket records - following should entertain you then.
Cricketers to play for 2 countries = Amir Elahi, Gul Mohammad, AH Kardar first for India then Pakistan. JJ Ferris, WE Midwinter, WL Murdoch, AE Trott, SMJ Woods first for Australia then for England. SC Guillen (windies to Kiwis), F Hearne & F Mitchell (England to South Africa), Nawab Pataudi Senior (England to India), AJ Traicos (South Africa to Zimbabwe) and Kappler Wessels for Australia then South Africa. Wessels also features in out list of best debuts in test match cricket.
Most consecutive test matches = were played by Allan Border of Australia. 153 in ... .. Read complete article
They watch their heroes perform through television. Dreaming they could do the same. One fine day - some lucky young cricketers do embark onto International field (after selectors give the nod) and even special ones - make their debut test match even remarkable with unbelieveable performance.
I've added Michael Clarke's picture in this article before I consider his 154 against India was fantastic. That series was labeled as "Last frontier" by Steve Waugh, when Australia failed to win a series in India. Michael Clarke joined aussie team in place of captain Ricky Ponting & set the tone for that Ind v Aus series.
Another fine debut I personally like in following list is the first one - ... .. Read complete article
One of the best things with Cricket World Cups' is that we get to see our cricket teams against diverse kind of oppositions... but sometimes it gets really boring when your team is scheduled to play one of the minnows like Kenya or Zimbabwe.
2007 Cricket World Cup has a total of 16 teams participating, and matches against teams like Bermuda, Netherlands, Scotland, Ireland and Canada are not supposed to be watchable - unless an upset occurs or someone makes the first every double century in One day Internationals.
Another possibility is making one of the highest score in Cricket World Cups, which currently belongs to Sri Lanka. They made 398 in just 50 overs at Kandy in ... .. Read complete article
Hat-trick actually means to take three wickets with three consecutive deliveries. It can be in two different matches.. but a no or wide ball shouldn't be bowled in between.
Following is the list of bowlers who have got hattricks in ODI cricket, with Pakistani bowlers Wasim Akram and Saqlain Mushtaq taking two hat-tricks in their One day career.
It took 11 matches and 19 innings for sir Vivian Richards to make 1710 runs in one calender year. Way back in 1976.
30 years later, Mohammad Yousuf - who says change in relegion is the reason behind his great test match form in 2006, has come within 148 runs to breaking the record for most test match runs in one year.
It started with first test against India at Lahore from 13th January when Yousuf made 179 and then 65 and 126 in the 2nd test against indiat at Faisalabad.
Although Mohammad Yousuf was the batsmen Irfan Pathan bowled to take second hat-trick for India, he came back in the 2nd innings of that Karachi ... .. Read complete article
There has been three 2 test matches series', seven 3 test matches series', one 4 test match series and two 5 test series between Pakistan and West Indies over a period of 51 years..
But as I tell you about the records made between these two very distinct teams, one series will be common - and that's the first one ever played in 1957.
6 series have been played in Pakistan, 6 in West Indies and one in UAE (sharjah as you may know it). and the scoreline reads - 13 wins for Pakistan, 14 wins for West Indies in 41 test matches with 14 draws.
When incidences repeat after a fixed interval of time - their history becomes important.
Such an incidence is the occurrence of ICC Champions trophy, which was called as ICC Knock Out tournament for the first two times. From 7th October 2006, the fifth ICC Champions trophy will be played in India, so I just thought of crafting an article on which teams or players hold the most important records in previous four occasions.
So if you are generally attracted to some interesting numbers related to cricket, read on..
1. The highest team total's.
The record for highest team total for all Champions trophy so far goes ... .. Read complete article
This is the record of invincibility folks, the record of most one day matches in a row without a defeat..
And the uncrowned winners are Australia, who remained undefeated for 21 consecutive ODIs in year 2003 as you can see in following list, claiming world cup in process as well. In fact, Aussie cricket team features the most number of times which shows their work ethics and hunger for excellence.. something all other teams can take a lesson from.
In following list, we've also listed the teams that brought unbeaten run to a halt, like West Indies did to Aussies in their 2003 campaign.
Second final of the VB series - 2006 between Srilanka and Australia saw a record for MuttiahMuralitharan, which he will never be proud of. He conceded 99 runs in his 10 over, the second most expensive spell by any bowler in one day internationals. The only one who is above him, is Martin Snedden - who gave away 105 runs off his 12 overs, way back in 1983 against England at the Oval.
But Snedden's figures read - 12-01-105-02 which means that he took two wickets and also bowled a Maiden over. Also his economy was 8.75, as compared to 9.9 of Muralidharan ... .. Read complete article
