97 or whatever it already is won't be broken. Heck, Ponting's 68 won't be broken. I don't see too many ODI's being played 5 years or so down the line. Tendulkar played an absolute ****load of ODIs in the 90s when the BCCI was making huge money out of them.
Possible. But extremely unlikely.
Yeah, definitely. It's when you add the ODI hundreds in that it starts to look insurmountable. For someone to be good enough to open so prolifically for a decade and a half in ODIs, allowing him to rack up a huge amount of 100s, as well as make 50+ Test hundreds is very rare.
1. Won't be broken. Least likely as conditions are like to differ more and more in the future and there is a way wide variety of bowlers and attacks.We all know that Cricket is one of that beautifull games where there's more records than any other games. Want to start a thread of all Test match records that you think will never be broken.
Will start with these 5:
1. Don Bradman's career average of 99.94
2. Don Bradman's Most runs in a 5 Match series: 974 runs in 7 inn. @ 139.14
3. Most runs in a Test match: G Gooch: 456 (333+123)
4. Most wickets in a match: JC Laker: 19 (68-27-90-19)
5. Best strike-rate for bowlers with more than 200 wickets: Dale Steyn: 39.98***
***Know Steyn is still currently playing, but is infront 2nd. place Waqar Younis with 3 balls per wicket lesser bowled. For Steyn to go to 2nd. place, his form must take a very big dip, something like bowling 840 balls without taken a wicket ... Steyn will also be the 1st. player taking 500 wicket with less than 20000 balls bowled
in runs in a 3 test series in Srilanka. Would have probably broken the record had it been 5 tests.
I don't think either of these will be broken. I foresee a cricketing future with a few less Tests, no ODIs and a ****load more T20s (a lot of which will be in domestic competitions with windows created). T20 hundreds are rare so I don't see anyone breaking the overall international record. Tendulkar's Test record could be broken but I think it'll be exceedingly difficult.
You'd know.
Sehwag has 6 and one 182 and one 195.
Yep.They say a test fifer is bowler's equivalent of a century. Murali's 67 fifers is mindboggling in that respect. A fifer every two tests is just unbelievable. I am pretty sure that record is going to stand the test of time.
It becomes a Bradmanly number when you consider the next on that list is Shane Warne with 37 fifers.
Well maybe if we have another world war...
Bradman's won't be broken.2.Could be broken ,if there are more 5 test series.
Lara had 688
Oh I wouldn't rule those out - who knows, another 10,000 years of evolution and 50 might be the school leaving age
Yep.
Tendulkar has the second one covered, IMO. Spectators all over the world are going to be sick and tired of attending farewell Sachin tours over the next decade and half. He's going to be the boy who cried wolf, and consequently won't get a proper farewell when he finally does retire. He's going to be "Guys, I think I'll retire now", and the spectators are going to be, "Yeah right, Sachin, whatever. ;rolleyes;".
