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The rankings system was called ICC Test Championship, until the inauguration of ICC World Test Championship in 2019. From 2003 to 2019, the top-ranked Test team was awarded with the ICC Test Championship Mace and the top team at each April 1 cut-off (until 2019) was also awarded a cash prize, the winners of which are listed below.
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.
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 ...
One of cricket's most famous statistics, [10] [11] it still stands almost 40 runs higher than any other batsman's career average. Don Bradman is the only player in the world to have scored 5000 runs against a single opposition: 5028 runs against England.
Australian cricketer Sir Don Bradman, often recognized as the greatest batsman of all time, [1] [2] [3] scored twenty-nine Test cricket centuries during his international career which lasted from 1928 to 1948. [N 1] However, his cricketing career was interrupted from 1940 to 1946 due to the outbreak of World War II, followed by poor health. [4]
A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by ...
Warner is one of three batsmen to score centuries in both innings of a Test match on three occasions. [c] In December 2022, he scored 200 in his hundredth Test match, becoming the second Australian [d] to score a century in his hundredth Test, [11] and the second overall to score a double century.
This is a list of South African Test cricketers.The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test Cap. International Test teams wear their cap number on their uniform under the national crest. For South African players, current cap numbers worn on their uniform start from their readmission to Test cricket in 1991 following their