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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 ...
Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
1938. On 24 June, the BBC broadcasts cricket - England vs Australia at Lord’s - on television for the first time.; 1956. 28 April - ITV, at that point only available in the London area and in the Midlands, shows cricket for the first time, when it broadcasts the Australian touring team's match against the Duke of Norfolk's XI at Arundel Castle.
George Garrett hit a career-best score of 48 in Kent's first innings, whilst in their second, Matt Parkinson's score of 39 was his highest in first-class cricket. Two other Kent players, Arafat Bhuiyan and Jaskaran Singh, also hit career-best scores during the match. [50] Points: Kent 2, Surrey 24.
A half-century is a score of between 50 and 99 runs. Statistically, once a batsman's score reaches 100, it is no longer considered a half-century but a century. [78] Sachin Tendulkar of India has scored the most half-centuries at the Cricket World Cup with 15.
A triple century (an individual score of 300 runs or more) in Test cricket has been scored on 32 occasions by 28 batsmen from eight of the twelve Test-cricket playing nations. [1] No player from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ireland or Zimbabwe has scored 300. [1]
The programme is available on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra and on BBC Sounds to the United Kingdom and (where broadcasting rights permit) the rest of the world. TMS provides ball-by-ball coverage of most Test cricket , One Day International , and Twenty20 matches and tournaments involving the England cricket team .
Len Hutton's score of 364 runs against Australia during the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval is the sixth highest individual score in Test cricket and the highest by an England player. Wally Hammond's 336, scored against New Zealand in 1933, is the third highest not out Test innings and the ninth highest overall. [84]