Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...
Rank Centuries Innings Player Nationality Runs Span 1 60 538: Sachin Tendulkar India 21,999: 1989–2012 2 54 313: Virat Kohli†: 15,236: 2006–2023 3 44 601: Graham Gooch
Muttiah Muralitharan has taken the highest number of wickets in Test cricket. [ 1] Taking 300 or more wickets across a playing career is considered a significant achievement in Test cricket. [ 2][ 3][ 4] First accomplished in 1964 by Englishman Fred Trueman, [ 5] as of March 2024 the feat has been achieved by only 37 cricketers in the history ...
The international one-day game is a late-twentieth-century development. The first ODI was played on 5 January 1971 between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. [ 3 ] When the first three days of the third Test were washed out officials decided to abandon the match and, instead, play a one-off one day game consisting of 40 ...
15. Danish Kaneria. Pakistan. Life ban. Arrested in 2010 by police investigating "match irregularities" whilst playing for Essex, but was cleared of allegations. However, he was found guilty by an England and Wales Cricket Board disciplinary panel and banned for life, a decision which the Pakistan Cricket Board agree to abide to.
2017 →. The 2013 Women's Cricket World Cup was the tenth Women's Cricket World Cup, hosted by India for the third time, and held from 31 January to 17 February 2013. India previously hosted the World Cup in 1978 and 1997. [1] [2] Australia won the tournament for the sixth time, beating West Indies by 114 runs in the final.
Raut is a right-handed batter and known for her batting. On 15 May 2017, in an ODI verses Ireland, Raut set a world record opening partnership of 320 runs with Deepti Sharma, contributing 109. This beat both the standing women's record of 229 (by Sarah Taylor and Caroline Atkins of England) and the standing men's record in ODIs of 286 (by Upul ...
ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) [ 4] is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. [ 5] The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and StatsGuru, a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present.