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Several individuals have consistently scored highly and/or earned medals on the IMO: Zhuo Qun Song (Canada) is the most highly decorated participant [87] with five gold medals (including one perfect score in 2015) and one bronze medal. [88] Reid Barton (United States) was the first participant to win a gold medal four times (1998–2001). [89]
In his Discworld series of novels, Terry Pratchett has a character called the Senior Wrangler, a faculty member at the Unseen University, whose first name is Horace. The compiler of crosswords for The Leader in the 1930s used 'Senior Wrangler' as a pseudonym. [15]
Until December 1997, no player had achieved a score of 200 in ODIs. The highest individual score up to that point was 194 by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, scored on 21 May 1997 against India at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium, Chennai. [14] On 16 December of the same year, the Australian woman cricketer Belinda Clark broke the 200-run mark.
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On August 7, 2010, Corey Fisher scored 105 points during a semi-professional summer league game. In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through field goals (two or three points) and free throws (one point). [1] It is a rare achievement for an individual player to score 100 points in a single game.
The highest team total before 400 runs was reached was the 398/5 scored by Sri Lanka against Kenya on 6 March 1996 at Asgiriya Stadium, Kandy. [ 6 ] The 400 marks were first broken during a notable match between South Africa and Australia , with both teams passing 400 runs in their respective innings.
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.
Desmond Haynes (left) has the highest score of any batsman on ODI debut. A cricketer scoring a century (100 runs or more) on their One Day International (ODIs) debut is regarded by critics as a significant achievement. [1] [2] As of December 2024, 18 players from 11 different international teams have accomplished this feat.