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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]
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 period between 1890 and immediately before the First World War is known as the Golden Age of cricket. It saw great amateur players such as CB Fry (95), the Indian Prince Ranjitsinhji (105) and captains Stanley Jackson (82), Archie MacLaren (92) and Plum Warner (118) as the leading lights in an era eulogised by Neville Cardus and others.
He is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have played for South Africa, and one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time. He is a right-handed batsman and holds the record for the highest individual Test score of any South African batsman of 311 not out , scored against England at The Oval , London in July 2012.
He played as an opening batsman and he began his Test career in 1974 against India at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, scoring 93 and 107 on debut. Greenidge made his ODI debut against Pakistan in the 1975 World Cup. This was a quiet tournament for Greenidge, with his only innings of note being 55 in the semi-final against New Zealand. [16]
Since the 2019 Ashes series, there has been an introduction of names and numbers on all Test players' shirts in an effort to engage new fans and help identify the players. [6] This forms part of the inaugural ICC World Test Championship , a league competition between the top nine Test nations spread over a two-year period, culminating in a ...
Anil Kumble is the leading wicket taker with 337 wickets to his name, [8] and Sachin Tendulkar is the leading run scorer with 18,426 runs to his name from 452 innings at an average of 44.83. [9] Tendulkar holds the record for playing the most ODI matches played (463). [10] He also holds the world record number of Man of the Match awards. [11]
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]