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The 50-over World Cup is far older and has been competed for since back in 1975. Australia are the record winners having run out victorious on five occasions (1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015).
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).
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 ...
The ICC World Test Championship, also referred to as the Test World Cup, is a league competition for Test cricket run by the International Cricket Council (ICC), which started on 1 August 2019. [1] [2] It is the premier championship for Test cricket. It is in line with the ICC's goal of having one pinnacle tournament for each of the three ...
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]
The ICC World Test Championship (WTC), is the biennial cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC). It is played for 2 years. It is the premier championship for Test cricket. [1] Australia are the current champions, having defeated India in the 2023 final. India have played in each WTC final, finishing runners-up in ...
The match is generally considered to be of first-class standard, and is the last time that the overall record was scored in first-class cricket. [12] Ward's record was broken in 1837 in a match between two village teams. Playing in a single-innings one-day match, Alfred Adams opened the innings for Saffron Walden against Bishop's Stortford ...
The highest score at the ground, 329 not out, was achieved by the Australian Michael Clarke on 5 January 2012 when he declared the Australian innings at 659/4. R. E. Foster 287 and Brian Lara 277 hold the 2nd and 3rd highest scores, respectively. Ricky Ponting has scored the most Test centuries at the ground with 6. [3]