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Initially the rankings were for Test cricket only, but separate One Day International rankings were introduced in 1998. Both sets of rankings have now been calculated back to the start of those forms of the game. The rankings include the top 10 Test, ODI and T20I batsmen, bowlers and all-rounders based on the rating of each player.
Jacques Kallis is the only All-rounder in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. Shakib Al Hasan is considered one of the best all-rounders of all time. He is the only all-rounder in history of the game to score more than 14000 runs and take over 700 wickets.
In December 2011, he became the world's top-ranked Test all-rounder. [216] In December 2014, Shakib became the world's top-ranked Twenty 20 all-rounder. [217] He is currently the only all-rounder to be ranked in the top 3 of ICC Player Rankings across every format of international cricket. Shakib was appointed Bangladesh's vice-captain in June ...
By late 2001 he was the world's number one ranked Test all-rounder, having held the same ranking in ODIs for the best part of 3 years. During this time, "Kallis blossomed into arguably the world's leading batsman, with a defensive technique second to none, and the adhesive qualities of a Cape Point limpet.
Don Bradman is the only player in the world to have scored 5000 runs against a single opposition: 5028 runs against England. [12] In the Manchester Test of 1956, England spin bowler Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs (19–90) which set not only the Test record for best match figures but also the first-class one. [13]
The top ranked Test team was previously awarded the ICC Test Championship mace, until the inauguration of ICC World Test Championship. From 2003 to 2019, the mace was transferred whenever a new team moved to the top of the rating list. [1] The team that was top of the ratings table on 1 April each year also won a cash prize. [2]
Following the success of the list for Test cricket, the Wisden 100 list for ODI cricket was released on 1 February 2002. The top-rated batting performance was Viv Richards ' 189* for West Indies against England at Manchester in 1984. 7 of Richards' innings appeared in the top 100, more than any other batsman.
Brian Mervin McMillan (born 22 December 1963) played 38 Test matches and 78 One Day Internationals for South Africa from 1991 to 1998. He was rated by many as the best all-rounder in the world in the mid-1990s, and won South African Cricket Annual Cricketer of the Year awards in 1991 and 1996.