After soccer/football, Cricket is one of the second most interesting sports for me. When I was in my high school, we used to talk about different records and facts on cricket among my friends(along with soccer). Going shortly into history, it was invented in England by Shepherds, and first ever cricket match was played in 1760. It is played in different formats, and most popular among them are T-20 International, One Day International Cricket, and Test matches. I might write about how different formats are played in future articles. For today you will be reading "Top 10 Interesting Records in Cricket That’ll Blow Your Mind".


  • You might have heard about different success in the player's birthday. Here is one although hattrick in cricket is very rare. Peter Siddle is the only cricketer to take a hat-trick on his birthday in International Cricket. He was successful to get a hat-trick in Brisbane Test against England on November 25, 2010.
  •  What is your biggest achievement when you were 14? Pakistani cricketer Hasan Raza holds the record for the youngest debutant in test cricket when he was just 14 years and 277 days old for Pakistan in a match against Zimbwawe. Some other young debutants in test cricket are Mushtaq Mohammad in 15 years and 124 days old, Mohammed Sharif in 15 years and 189 days.
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  • We talked about the youngest cricketer, but who is the oldest cricketer to play the cricket. The record goes to Wilfred Rhodes from England who played test cricket as the most aged player. Rhodes was 52 years and 165 days old when he played the last test match against West Indies. He played for England in 58 test matches in his career. He also holds a record for most appearance made in First Class Cricket, total of 110 games. He also has a record of most wicket in First Class Cricket which is 4204 wickets.
  • Rameshchandra Gangaram Nadkarni also known as Bapu Nadkarni in India holds the unique record for bowling 21 consecutive maiden overs. If you don’t know what maiden over is, it is when a bowler doesn’t concede any runs in his allocated bowling over (1 over has 6 balls). This cracking record came in a match against England during the test match in 1963-64. He managed 27 maiden overs He had played 41 test matches, and he has the economy of fewer than two runs per over in his whole career. 
  • “Master Blaster” Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for 100 centuries in International Cricket. He is considered as one of the greatest ever cricketers and even worshipped as a God in India. The player behind him is Ricky Pointing with 71 centuries. Sachin also holds the record for scoring maximum nineties with 28 90’s in international cricket. He is also the first cricketer to score double centuries in ODI.
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  • Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting is the only cricketer to hit a century in both innings of his century test match. Against South Africa in 2006, he achieved this feat scoring centuries in both his innings. He is one of the best players of the pull shot.
  • Test cricket is considered as a defensive form of cricket but not for Chris Gayle. He is the only player to hit the six off the first ball in the test match. Gayle got this record of six in the first ball in test cricket against Bangladesh.
  • Australian cricketer Sir Don Bradman who is considered as the greatest batsman in the history holds the record for scoring centuries in 6 consecutive test matches. He has hit all six centuries against England. He was successful to hit three centuries in 1937 in his home country and three centuries in England in 1938. He had an average of 99.9 runs in test cricket.
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  • Extra run is considered as undisciplined bowling, and the record for most undisciplined bowling goes to Pakistan against v West Indie on 2 Apr 1988. Pakistan conceded the total of 71 runs which included 38 no balls, 21 byes, 11 leg byes and 4 wide balls.
  • It is strange for any player to play continuously without suffering a long-term injury. But it is not the case for Australian cricketer Allan Border who holds the record for playing most consecutive test matches. Test matches are played for 5 long days. In his career, he played 153 test matches without missing any matches. Rahul Dravid of India has played 93 consecutive test matches, and Adam Gilchrist has played 90 consecutive test matches and is in second and third position respectively.

Aren't these record interesting? Which record blew your mind? If you want to add more interesting records that I missed, please feel free to add it.

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