In today’s weekend blog, I am on cricket.
Cricket is a game of uncertainties, one batsman who scores a century in one match can get out for zero in the next match. Since the beginning of the game in the third quarter of 19th century, many records have been created by the players, and majority of them over the years have been broken, but still there are many unbelievable records which may or may not be broken in future. Here are these records:
1 Shoaib Akhtar– Fastest Ball in International Cricket- 161.3 KM per hour.
2 Sachin Tendulkar– Most Centuries in International Cricket- 100 centuries.
3 Sachin Tendulkar– Most Runs Scored in International Cricket- 34,357 runs.
4 MS Dhoni– Fastest Stumping in Cricket History- 0.08 seconds.
5 Brain Lara– Highest Individual Score in a Test Innings- 400 not out.
6 Trevor Bailey– Slowest Fifty in Cricket- 68 runs in 427 balls.
7 Hasan Raja– Youngest debutant in Test Cricket- 14 years old.
8 Wilfred Rhodes– Longest Cricket career- 30 years.
9 Shahid Afridi– Longest Six in International Cricket-153 meters.
10 Team Australia– Most Consecutive ODI Wins-21.
11 AB de Villiers– Fastest ODI Century- 31 balls.
12 Rohit Sharma– Highest Individual ODI Score- 264 runs.
13 Ricky Ponting-Captain to Win Most ICC Trophies- 4 trophies.
14 Virat Kohli– Most Double Centuries in Test Cricket by a Captain -7 double centuries.
15 Dipendra S Airee– Fastest %0 in T20 International- 9 balls.
16 Mohd Sami– Longest Over in Cricket History-17 balls.
17 Chaminda Vaas-Best Bowling Figures in ODI Match- 8/19.
18 Chris Gayle– Fastest Century in T20 Cricket- 30 balls
19 MS Dhoni– Only Captain to Win All 3 ICC Limited over tournaments.
20 M. Muralitharan– Most International Wickets 1347 wickets.
21 Virat Kohli– International Wicket Without Bowling a Single Ball- 1 wicket in 0 ball.
22 India vs Pakistan– Most Watched Game in Cricket (T20 WC 2021)-1 Billion Viewers
23 Lasith Malinga– Most Hat-Tricks in International Cricket- 5 Hat-tricks.
24 Sachin Tendulkar– Most Player of the Match Awards- 76
25 Chris Gayle– Highest Individual score in T20 Match- 175 not out in 66 balls.
26 Team Australia– Most Consecutive Test Wins- 16 Tests.
27 Shahid Afridi– Fastest Ball Bowled by a Spinner- 134 KM per hour.
28 Jim Laker– Most Wickets taken by Bowler in a Test Match-19 wickets.
29 Lasith Malinga– Four wickets in Four Balls- 2 times.
30 Virat Kohli– Most Runs Scored in a Single IPL Season- 973 runs.
31 MS Dhoni– Most Matches Played as a Captain- 332 matches.
32 Phil Simmons– Least Runs Conceded by a Bowler in ODI with 4 Wickets-3 runs.
33 England vs South Africa– Longest Cricket Match- 12 days in 1939.
34 Jack Hobbs– Most centuries in First Class Cricket-199 centuries.
35 Yashasvi Jaiswal– Most Runs scored in a Single Ball- 13 in one ball.
36 Rohit Sharma– Most Double Centuries in ODI Cricket- 3 times.
37 James Southerton– Oldest Player to make a Test Debut- 49 years.
38 Jason Gillespie-Highest Score by a Night watchman- 201 runs.
39 India-Sri Lanka– Greatest Win Margin in ODI- 317 runs win margin.
40 Wilfred Rhodes– Most Wickets in First Class Cricket- 4204 wickets
41 Aaron Finch-Highest Individual Score in T20 Innings- 172 runs.
42 Brendon McCullum– Fastest Test Century- 54 Balls
43 Don Bradman– Highest Batting in Tests- 99.94.
44 Bapu Nadkarni– Most Consecutive Overs in Test Match-21 maidens.
45 Rahul Dravid– Most Balls Faced in Test Cricket- 31,258 balls.
46 Sunil Naraine– Maiden in T20 Super-Over- zero runs conceded.
47 Irfaan Pathan– Hat-Trick in the First Over of a Test Match-vs Pakistan
48 Virat Kohli– Most ODI Centuries- 50 centuries.
49 Sachin Tendulkar– Most Test centuries- 51 Test centuries.
Waiting for your feedback on this blog.
Anil Malik
Mumbai, India
15th November 2024.