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The prominent Antiguan cricketer, Sir Sydney Walling, who died aged 102 years, 88 days in October 2009, never appeared in matches accorded first-class status. The oldest person, and only septuagenarian, to play first-class cricket was Raja Maharaj Singh , aged 72, his sole appearance being for the Bombay Governor's XI against a Commonwealth XI ...
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time, [5] and is the holder of several world records, including being the all-time highest run-scorer in both ODI and Test cricket, [6] receiving the most player of the match awards in international cricket, [7] and being the only batsman to score 100 international centuries. [8]
Order Player Period Team First Test Century First ODI Century First T20I Century Test Total ODI Total T20I Total 1 Chris Gayle [7]: 1999–2021 West Indies 175 vs Zimbabwe, Jul 2001
A qualification of 15 overall centuries is used for entry onto the men's list. To date, 127 cricketers have scored 15 or more international centuries, 83 of whom went on to score 20 or more centuries, 44 have scored 30 or more centuries, and 21 have a total of 40 or more centuries.
He made his debut for the Indian cricket team on 23 December 2004 in an ODI against Bangladesh and played his first test a year later against Sri Lanka. In 2007, he became the captain of the ODI side before taking over in all formats by 2008. Dhoni retired from test cricket in 2014 but continued playing in limited overs cricket till 2019.
Jacques Henry Kallis OIS (born 16 October 1975) is a South African cricket coach and former professional cricketer. Widely regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and as one of the greatest all-rounders ever to play the game, he was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler. [2]
He also equaled the record for the fastest 50 in T20 cricket while playing for Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League. [6] Playing Tests, Gayle scored over 7,000 runs at an average of over 42 and captained the West Indian Test side from 2007 to 2010. He last played in a Test match in September 2014, against Bangladesh.
Yuvraj Singh (born 12 December 1981) is a former Indian international cricketer who played in all formats of the game. An all-rounder who batted left-handed in the middle order and bowled slow left-arm orthodox, he has won 7 Player of the Series awards in One Day International (ODI) cricket, which is the joint third-highest by an Indian cricketer, shared with former Indian captain Sourav Ganguly.