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Several individuals have consistently scored highly and/or earned medals on the IMO: Zhuo Qun Song (Canada) is the most highly decorated participant [87] with five gold medals (including one perfect score in 2015) and one bronze medal. [88] Reid Barton (United States) was the first participant to win a gold medal four times (1998–2001). [89]
The first one is held in each university district. There are two written tests, in which six or eight problems are to be solved, depending on the region. The first three participants in each district go to the national round. This one also consists of two written tests, three and half hours long each, with a total of six problems.
Until December 1997, no player had achieved a score of 200 in ODIs. The highest individual score up to that point was 194 by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, scored on 21 May 1997 against India at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. [14] On 16 December of the same year, the Australian woman cricketer Belinda Clark broke the 200-run mark.
Herschelle Gibbs, the Player of the Match of the first ever game where a team scored 400.. This is a list of scores of 400 or more runs made by a team in a One Day International (ODI), a form of one-day cricket played between international cricket teams who are Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) as well as the top six Associate and Affiliate members. [1]
In his Discworld series of novels, Terry Pratchett has a character called the Senior Wrangler, a faculty member at the Unseen University, whose first name is Horace. The compiler of crosswords for The Leader in the 1930s used 'Senior Wrangler' as a pseudonym. [15]
The next recorded highest score was that of John Small; batting in July 1775 for Hambledon (playing as Hampshire) against Surrey, he scored either 136 or 138 runs. Some online scorecards, such as CricketArchive have recorded the score as 136, [ 6 ] while others, along with a contemporary scorecard from the Reading Mercury list it as 138.
South Africa holds the record for the highest successful run chase which they achieved when they scored 438/9 in response to Australia's 434/9. [29] New Zealand's highest innings total while chasing is 348/6 in a successful run chase against India during the India tour of New Zealand in 2020. [30]
Desmond Haynes (left) has the highest score of any batsman on ODI debut. A cricketer scoring a century (100 runs or more) on their One Day International (ODIs) debut is regarded by critics as a significant achievement. [1] [2] As of December 2024, 18 players from 11 different international teams have accomplished this feat.