The Records and Milestones thread

[SeamUp]

Lone rangers at times.

Most solitary centuries in Tests (where a player scored the sole hundred in the innings)

25 Brian Lara
23 Sachin Tendulkar
21 Sunil Gavaskar
18 Geoffrey Boycott, Allan Border
17 Jacques Kallis, Mike Cowdrey, Vivian Richards

 

[Bolo]

Viv is the most interesting entry there. Everyone else played with weak outfits for a sizable amount of time.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Carried bat 3 times in test cricket (the most)

Desmond Haynes and now Dean Elgar

 

[Bijed]

Rashid Khan just took his 100th ODI wicket in his 44th game, 8 games faster than previous fastest-to-100-wickets record holder Mitchell Starc

 

[NUFAN]

Lone rangers at times.

I would be interested in seeing a similar list which showed who scored the only 100 in the match the most number of times.

 

[Bolo]

300 wickets each for Lyon and Morkel in the same match.

 

[AndrewB]

Scoring 100 in a Test where no-one else reached 50 is rarer than I'd have guessed:

Henry Wood (134*): E beat SA, Cape Town 1892
Arthur Hill (124): E beat SA, Cape Town 1896
Hanif Mohammad (103): P drew with NZ, Dhaka 1955
Denis Lindsay (131): SA drew with A, Johannesburg 1967
Graeme Wood (100): A beat E, Melbourne 1978
Ian Botham (114): E beat I, Mumbai 1980
Andy Flower (113*): Z lost to WI, Port of Spain 2000
Matthew Hayden (119): A beat P, Sharjah 2002
Kumar Sangakkara (157*): SL beat WI, Kandy 2005

Botham also took 13 wickets in the Mumbai 1980 match.

 

[SeamUp]

Off to sleep

By the time I wake up Jimmy would have bowled the most balls in test cricket by a seamer.

Records | Test matches | Bowling records | Most balls bowled in career | ESPNcricinfo

 

[stephen]

That Sharjah test was probably Hayden's finest test match innings given the intense heat.

 

[Starfighter]

South Africa claim victory over Australia by 492 runs. The largest runs victory since 1934, second largest against Australia and fourth largest of all time.

 

[ankitj]

Scoring 100 in a Test where no-one else reached 50 is rarer than I'd have guessed:

Henry Wood (134*): E beat SA, Cape Town 1892
Arthur Hill (124): E beat SA, Cape Town 1896
Hanif Mohammad (103): P drew with NZ, Dhaka 1955
Denis Lindsay (131): SA drew with A, Johannesburg 1967
Graeme Wood (100): A beat E, Melbourne 1978
Ian Botham (114): E beat I, Mumbai 1980
Andy Flower (113*): Z lost to WI, Port of Spain 2000
Matthew Hayden (119): A beat P, Sharjah 2002
Kumar Sangakkara (157*): SL beat WI, Kandy 2005

Botham also took 13 wickets in the Mumbai 1980 match.

Is there a statsguru query to get something like this?

 

[AndrewB]

One method is
- View format: Overall figures
- Group figures by: each match
- Result qualifications: scores of fifty or more from 1 to 1; hundreds scored from 1

 

[SeamUp]

Most first-class runs before Test debut:
EH Bowley (Eng) 21005
WG Grace (Eng) 20748
RGA Headley (WI) 20173
AR Lewis (Eng) 19318
SJ Cook (SA) 19309
PN Kirsten (SA) 18799
J Vine (Eng) 17926
Ed Joyce has scored 18414 first-class runs

Most first-class wickets before Test debut:
J Southerton (Eng) 1527
WE Astill (Eng) 1504
NI Thomson (Eng) 1497
WG Grace (Eng) 1445
RD Jackman (Eng) 1252
Tim Murtagh has 712 first-class wickets which will be the most before Test debut since N Mallender in 1992 (817).

Most first-class wickets before Test debut for a team other than England:
585 Imran Tahir (SA).
Tim Murtagh has 712 first-class wickets.

 

[AndrewB]

Charles Davis gave a similar list to the first one (http://www.sportstats.com.au/BlogArchiveApr15toDec15.htm), but in his list Jimmy Cook had 19233 runs.

 

[Bijed]

Alastair Cook now holds the record for most consecutive tests played, at 154.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Sandeep Lamichhane makes his debut in Shahid Afridi's 99th T20I and final international game.

 

[Adders]

Alastair Cook now holds the record for most consecutive tests played, at 154.

Very happy to see this record go to a worthy holder........I mean who the **** was the last bloke?

 

[Mr Miyagi]

Very happy to see this record go to a worthy holder........I mean who the **** was the last bloke?

Just another one of Toe Tag's record in a bodybag now.

 

[Borges]

Just another one of Toe Tag's record in a bodybag now.

Now, why is the lesser AB being called Toe Tag?

 

[Bijed]

Courtesy of Zimbabwe, Fakhar Zaman has become the fastest player to 1,000 ODI runs: it took him 18 innings, the record previously being 21.