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Described as one of the greatest opening batsmen in cricket history, [3] [4] Gavaskar played 125 Test matches and scored 10,122 runs. [3] He was the first batsman to score 10,000 Test runs and held the record for most runs until Allan Border surpassed it. [5]
Australian opening batsman Bill Woodfull was the first cricketer to carry the bat two times in Test cricket.. In cricket, the phrase "carrying the bat" refers to a situation in which an opening batter remains not out at the end of an innings where all the 10 wickets have fallen; [1] the other 10 players in the team have all been dismissed. [2]
Following the success of the list for Test cricket, the Wisden 100 list for ODI cricket was released on 1 February 2002. The top-rated batting performance was Viv Richards ' 189* for West Indies against England at Manchester in 1984. 7 of Richards' innings appeared in the top 100, more than any other batsman.
Batsman scored century in country's inaugural Test * The player remained not out. Inn. The innings of the match in which the player scored his century. Test The number of the Test match played in that series (for example, 1/3 denotes the first Test in a three match series). Date The date on which the match began.
[3] [4] He is considered as one of the best batsmen of his generation and one of the greatest white-ball opening batters of all time. [ 5 ] He holds several batting records which famously include most runs in T20 Internationals , most sixes in international cricket, [ a ] most double centuries in ODI cricket (3), most centuries at Cricket World ...
This is a list of England Test cricketers. 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 ...
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]
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. [5] Hailed as the world's most prolific batsman of all time, he is the all-time highest run-scorer in both ODI and Test cricket with more than 18,000 runs and 15,000 runs, respectively. [6]