The Records and Milestones thread

[ataraxia]

Hobbs with ~61k runs vs Tendulkar. Gooch has 22k LA runs

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Percentage-wise

 

[ataraxia]

Percentage-wise

Yeah I know, just giving you the stats (didn't have enough time to do it myself).

 

[AndrewB]

Just read that Steve Smith is the only player in history (min 20 tests) to never go more than 2 Tests without a 50.

Note: Bradman went 3 tests without a 50 in 1934 but then followed up with 304 and 244 in next two innings

Quite impressive that he managed to lose that record (with min 30 Tests) in his next 3 matches... Geoff Pullar (28) regains his record.

 

[honestbharani]

Thank Marnus.

 

[ankitj]

Rohit Sharma has most scores of 150+ in ODIs (8)

 

[Beamer]

Shai Hope's record as an ODI opener is unreal. He has 1269 runs @ 115 with a strikerate of 83. It has not been talked about much, but those are insane numbers.

 

[Malcolm]

80% of those runs were against Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Ireland. Impressive nonetheless.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

80% of those runs were against Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Ireland. Impressive nonetheless.

Last I checked, Bangladesh were ranked higher than us in ODIs.

 

[Beamer]

Last I checked, Bangladesh were ranked higher than us in ODIs.

His most frequently faced opposition was actually India. As you said, scoring runs against Bangladesh in Bangladesh is a good feat.

 

[mr_mister]

Maybe he should open in tests.

 

[Beamer]

Maybe he should open in tests.

Tried that at the start of his career. It did not go well.....

 

[Beamer]

Shai Hope is the quickest West Indian to 3000 ODI runs. He beat Viv by 2 innings. Well played Shai

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Shai Hope is the quickest West Indian to 3000 ODI runs. He beat Viv by 2 innings. Well played Shai

The irony here.
Some of Hope's best knocks in ODIs were slow ones.

 

[Beamer]

The irony here.
Some of Hope's best knocks in ODIs were slow ones.

Indeed! He's on tract to be an ATG in ODI's, he just needs to reduce that dot ball percentage by around 10/15 %.

 

[h_hurricane]

Virat Kohli has scored the most international runs in a calendar year for 4 successive years now. He has scored 2595, 2818, 2735 and 2455 runs in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively.

That is a freaking 10603 runs over just 4 calendar years.

One heck of a peak. All the more impressive given he does not get to play any international cricket in April and May every year.

 

[ataraxia]

Virat Kohli has scored the most international runs in a calendar year for 4 successive years now. He has scored 2595, 2818, 2735 and 2455 runs in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019 respectively.

That is a freaking 10603 runs over just 4 calendar years.

One heck of a peak. All the more impressive given he does not get to play any international cricket in April and May every year.

Sheesh.

 

[AndrewB]

Not trying to knock Kohli’s amazing record, but the missing months aren’t making much difference - he’s played more international matches than anyone else in that time.

 

[ataraxia]

Not trying to knock Kohli’s amazing record, but the missing months aren’t making much difference - he’s played more international matches than anyone else in that time.

Yeah I don't really care about that part, just incredible run-scoring.

 

[stephen]

It's a bit like when Border broke the 10k runs mark- it's an impressive achievement even if it basically means he's just played a lot of cricket and done well during that time.