Lala Amarnath and Surinder Amarnath are the only father-son duo to have scored test centuries on debut. Strangely though, neither of them scored another test century
Sanath Jayasuriya from Sri Lanka leads the pack to score the highest percentage of runs in boundaries in T20 Internationals with 74 boundaries and 23 sixes
Among all the batsmen who’ve played T20 Internationals, the top two batsmen who’ve played the least number of dot balls are both in England: Kevin Pieterson and Paul Collingwood
Which batsman has made the highest score in each innings of a Test match the most times? It’s not Sir Don Bradman… Its Ken Barrington and Brian Lara, top scoring for England and West Indies in each innings nine times in their careers; followed by the Indian greats Sunil Gavaskar and Rahul Dravid at 8 occasions…
The highest aggregate of career bests for a national cricket team in Test cricket to take the field belongs to India when they played against Australia at Perth on 16th Jan 2008. The team and corresponding highest scores then were - V Sehwag (309), VVS Laxman (281), R Dravid (270), SR Tendulkar (248*), SC Ganguly (239), W Jaffer (212), MS Dhoni (148), A Kumble (110*), IK Pathan (102), RP Singh (30), I Sharma (23)
The highest Test average against a team at any point in career belongs to Ian Bell from England against Bangladesh. He relishes the Bangladeshi bowling attack as he scores at a staggering average of 488.00 with scores of 65*, 162*, 84, 39* and 138
Kevin Pieterson from England holds the distinction of reaching 5000 runs landmark in Test cricket in the shortest span of time - four years 242 days.
The lowest score on which a team has been dismissed when there were two centurions in that innings belongs to New Zealand when they were dismissed at 279 by India. Daniel Vettori and Jesse Ryder had scored centuries
Interestingly, the most number of international matches by a team in a year belongs to Australia and not India when in 2009 Australia played 61 international matches as against India’s 55 matches in 2007
Former Indian coach John Wright from New Zealand holds the distinction of having the most number of opening partners in ODI’s during his playing career. He had as many as 23 partners
Sachin Tendulkar's 175 against Australia in Hyderabad in 2009 was the highest individual score ever made in an unsuccessful run chase in ODI's. However, the highest individual score in a losing chase is by Charles Coventry (194* in an ODI against Bangladesh in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in 2009).
The highest team total in an ODI that did not include an individual half century is England's 285 against Sri Lanka at Old Trafford in 2006. The highest individual scorer from England was Andrew Strauss's who accomplished 45 runs.
There have been only two partnerships of more than 300 in one-day internationals and interestingly Rahul Dravid (fondly known as 'The Wall') was part of both of them.
Lawrence Rowe of West Indies holds the record to become the only player to score a hundred and a double century in his Test debut. He scored 214 and 100* against New Zealand in Kingston in 1971-72
MS Dhoni averages 124.08 from 34 innings (22 not-outs) in 45 matches that India won after fielding first; this is the highest by anyone who has featured in 20 such matches. Thomas Odoyo from Kenya marginally goes past the Indian captain with an average of 126.50 in 17 matches which Kenya won after fielding first.
Hamilton Mazakadza from Zimbabwe holds the record for most runs in a bilateral ODI series when he went ahead of Chris Gayle's total of 455 runs during the Zimbabwe vs. Kenya ODI series in 2009/10. Hamilton Mazakadza scored 467 runs in the 5 match series with a highest of 178* at a staggering series average of 116.75 and a series strike rate of 97.29
Sachin Tendulkar has always enjoyed playing in ICC World Cups, with his best effort during a World Cup being 673 runs with a highest series individual score of 152 during the 2002/03 ICC World Cup in South Africa. However, the most runs in a multi team ODI Tournament belongs to ex-India Coach, Greg Chappel from Australia when he amassed 686 runs with a highest score of 138* during the World Series Cup in 1980/81
The record for most wickets by a bowler in a bilateral ODI series doesn't belong to the Murali and Warne. It belongs to our very own Javagal Srinath who bagged 18 kiwi wickets in 7 matches against the New Zealanders in 2002/03. Close on his heels are Patrick Patterson of West Indies and Craig Mathews of South Africa who bagged 17 wickets each against India and Australia respectively.
Apart from his bowling records, Harbhajan Singh owns the record for slowest 1000 ODI runs. He went past the 1000 run mark in his 196th ODI against Australia in Vadodara in 2009/10, beating another Australian Shane Warne's mark of 191 matches.
Another Indian holds the record for maximum number of ODI's to score his first run; S Sreesanth scored his first run in only his 16th ODI beating Patrick Patterson's mark of 14 matches.
Pakistan was unbeaten at home for six long years from December 1980 to October 1986, winning 14 and drawing 12 Tests. Their tally of 26 Tests is a record for most consecutive matches without a loss in a country in Tests bettering West Indians' record of 25 matches from April 1978 to April 1986
Anthony Stuart from Australia returned home with spectacular figures of 5/26 in 10 overs in his 3rd ODI, playing against Pakistan; however he was never picked for his country ever after.
Sachin Tendulkar might be holding the record for most number of Man-of-the-Match awards in his career, but his long time opening partner Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won 4 consecutive Man of the Match Awards in ODI's.
The longest test match ever played lasted for 9 DAYS! It was played between England and South Africa at Durban in 1938-39.
In March 2005, India made 407 and 407/9 in a Test match against Pakistan. This is the highest identical score in both innings of a test match made by a team.
Hemulal Yadav of Tripura holds the strange distinction of being the only cricketer to have been given out 'Timed Out' in a first class cricket.
When on his debut for England in Test cricket against Bangladesh in 2005, Chris Tremlett took 2 wickets in consecutive balls and on his hat trick ball to Mohammad Ashraful the ball actually landed on the stumps after hitting the bat but failed to dislodge the bails thus denying Tremlett a hat trick.
Bruce Taylor of New Zealand holds the record for being the only player to score a century and bag 5 wickets in an innings in his Test debut. He scored 105 and took 5/86 against India at Eden Gardens, Kolkata in 1965.
