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The first Test hat-trick was recorded on 2 January 1879, in only the third Test match to take place, by the Australia pace bowler Fred Spofforth, nicknamed "The Demon Bowler", [2] who dismissed three England batters with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The most recent Test hat-trick was taken by Gus Atkinson in December ...
Shane Warne was the first to take both 600 and 700 Test wickets, in 2005 and 2006 respectively. [16] [17] Warne's haul of 96 wickets in 2005 is the highest total in a calendar year, ahead of the 90 wickets taken the following year by Muralidaran, although he played fewer innings. [18]
The Australia national cricket team toured India in the 2004–05 season and played a four-match Test series, during October and November 2004, against India, Australia winning the series 2–1 with one match drawn, their first series win on Indian soil since their 1969–70 tour.
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).
Kumble has taken 619 wickets in Test cricket and 337 wickets in ODI cricket. [5] With 37 five-wicket hauls, Kumble has the highest number of Test and combined international five-wicket hauls among Indian cricketers and fourth highest among all players, after Muttiah Muralitharan, Richard Hadlee, and Shane Warne. [4]
Muttiah Muralitharan has the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Test and international cricket [1] Waqar Younis has the highest number of five-wicket hauls in ODI cricket [2] Anisa Mohammed has the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Women's cricket - 8 across ODI and T20I formats Shakib Al Hasan is one of twelve cricketers who have taken at least a five-wicket haul in all three ...
Sri Lankan cricketer Muttiah Muralitharan has the most five-wicket hauls in Test cricket, [3] and also the second-highest number of five-wicket hauls in One Day Internationals (ODI). [4] He did not take any five-wicket hauls in a Twenty20 International, [5] where his best bowling figures were 3 wickets for 29 runs. [6]
A wicket partnership describes the number of runs scored before each wicket falls. The first wicket partnership is between the opening batsmen and continues until the first wicket falls. The second wicket partnership then commences between the not out batsman and the number three batsman. This partnership continues until the second wicket falls.