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- Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut : He played 96 Test matches between 5th November 1999 and 24th January 2008 without dropping out from any of them.
- After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times : In 4 of these 5 matches, Virat Kohli scored a century.
- Charles Bannerman of Australia set a number of records in that match. He faced the first ball in test cricket, scored the first run, the first four and the first century. He scored 165 not out in Australia's 245 all out. Of all the records he set in that match one record still holds - his 165 constituted 67.34% of Australia's total (245) - the highest percentage by a batsman in a completed test innings.
- Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored : In 71 Tests, Martin has scored 123 runs, while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name along with 242 wickets.
- Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket.
- Geoff Boycott faced the first ball in one-day cricket - not exactly the most dashing of batsmen! Graham McKenzie was the bowler.
- Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches.
- Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket.
- Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.
- Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.
- Makhaya Ntini is the first black man to play test cricket for South Africa. Henry Olonga was the first black Zimbabwean test cricketer.
- MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.
- No one has ever scored 4 successive one-day centuries. Herschelle Gibbs scored 3 successive centuries, and was on 97* when South Africa needed 4 to win. Alok Kapali bowled a wide which went for 4, and Gibbs was denied the record by the tiniest of margins!
- On 12th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai : His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled.
- Only thrice in the history of test cricket has a team come back from following on to win a test match. Strangely enough Australia has been at the receiving end on all three occasions. At the SCG in 1894-95 Australia lost by 10 runs, having scored 586 in the first innings (the highest score by a losing team) and asking England to follow-on. The second time it happened was at Headingley in 1981 when an inspired Ian Botham and a devastating Bob Willis helped England win by 18 runs. The last occasion was in 2000-01 at Calcutta when a VVS Laxman master-class helped by Rahul Dravid and Harbhajan Singh helped India win by an amazing 171 runs after following on.
- Sachin Tendulkar Made first double century(200) in ODI Cricket
- Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne.
- Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup.
- Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs.
- Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career.
- Sir Len Hutton is the only man to be given out Obstructing the Field in test cricket.
- The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.
- The first laws of cricket were written in 1774. Since then they have been changed on numerous occasions. Pretty much everything has changed since then. The early cricket bats were long curved pieces of wood resembling a thick hockey stick. The stumps consisted of two wickets and one bail in between. The only law of the game that has remained constant is the length of the pitch at 22 yards.
- The first one-day international was held between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971. Actually the first four days of a test match had been rained out, so on the final day the first ever one-day international was organized. Australia won the match.
- The longest test match of all was played between England and South Africa at Durban in 1938-39. This was a timeless test which lasted for 9 days
- The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh : He’s been unbeaten a total of 61 times in 185 innings
- The second day of the Lord's test match between England and West Indies in 2000 is the only time in the history of test cricket that a part of all 4 innings have been played on the same day.
- There are 10 ways in which a batsman can get out in cricket: Caught, Bowled, Leg Before Wicket, Run Out, Stumped, Handling the ball, Obstructing the field, Hit the ball twice, Hit Wicket, Timed out.
- Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.
- Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket : He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs.