Coolest Cricket Stats

1. The record for longest time a batsman has been at crease without scoring a single run belongs to Geoff Allot of New Zealand. He stood at crease for 101 minutes against S. Africa at Auckland test, in March 1999.
2. Indian batsman Gundappa Vishwanath is the only batsman to score a century and a duck in test debut.
3. George Lohmann of England has the best bowling average (an astonishing 10.75 per wicket) and the best strike rate (a wicket every 34.1 balls). He also has the third best bowling analysis of 9/28, after Laker's and Kumble's ten-fors.
4. In March 2005 India made 407 and 407/9 declared in a test against Pakistan. This is the highest "duplicate" score by a team in a test match.
5. Australia has been at the receiving end on all three occasions in the history of test cricket when a team has come back from following on to win a test match. At the SCG in 1894-95 Australia lost by 10 runs, having scored 586 in the first innings (the highest score by a losing team) and asking England to follow-on. The second time it happened was at Headingley in 1981 when England again won by 18 runs. The last occasion was in 2000-01 at Calcutta when India won by an amazing 171 runs after following on.
6. Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire (via a TV replay).
7. The record for the most consecutive scores of 0 is jointly held by R. Holland of Australia and Ajit Agarkar of India with 5 in a row.
8. Rahul Dravid, Virender Sehwag & Sunil Gavaskar  have carried his bat thorughout an innings. Gavaskar did it against Pakistan at Faisalabad in 1983 while Sehwag's innings came against Sri Lanka at Galle in 2008. R Dravid achieved it against England in 2011.
9. M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match. Only two others have achieved this, Englishmen Geoff Boycott and Alan Lamb, and Australia's Kim Hughes.
10. Virender Sehwag, Don Bradman and Brian Lara are the only ones to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket.
11. The Lord's test match between England and West Indies in 2000, 2002 Hamilton test between India and NZ, 2011 Capetown test between Australia and SA are three tests when a part of all four innings have been played on a single day.
12. Narendra Hirwani of India holds the record for the best bowling figures on test debut. He took 16 for 136 versus the West Indies. He broke Bob Massie's record of 16 for 137.
13. Martin Crowe of New Zealand is the only person to have been out for 299. Don Bradman once scored 299*.
14. A.E Fagg’s scores of 244 and 202* for Kent against Essex in 1938 is the only instance when a batsman has scored double centuries in both the innings.
15. In 1950, at the Brisbane test between England and Australia, 20 wickets fell in a post lunch session.
16. Jack Russel of England has to his credit of assisting most numbers of dismissals in a test. In a test against South Africa he caught 11 catches.
17. England’s W.Gunn first played and then substituted umpire J.S. Swift in the test against Australia at Sydney in 1986-87.
18. Indian cricketer C.K. Nayadu played cricket for 6 decades (1916-1962).
19. Leeds test between Australia and England (1956) is called Laker’s match as Jim Laker took 19 wickets. The only other wicket was taken by Tony Lock.
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21. Australia’s Greg Chapel hit a century of his debut as well his last match.
22. India’s famed Spin quartet of Bedi, Prasanna, Chandrashekhar and Venkataraghavan have played only one test together.
23. Ian and Greg Chappel are the brothers who scored centuries in same test thrice.
24. Bapu Nandkarni once had bowling figures 26 overs, 25 maidens, 1 run and no wicket, has to his credit the record of bowling most consecutive maidens.
25. Kapil’s spectacular innings of 175* at the Turnbridge Wells wasn’t recorded as B.B.C was on strike on that particular day.
26. Shahid Afridi scored the fastest century at Nairobi against Kenya in 1996 of just 37 balls.
27. The only captain not to have lost a world cup match is Ricky Ponting of Australia. He led his team in 2 world cups- 2003 and 2007. Australian team won both the tournaments throughout. Clive Lloyd has lost only 2 matches out of 17 spread across 3 world cups. He lost both matches to India including 1983 WC final at Lords.
28. Sachin Tendulkar of India has scored the highest runs in a single edition of world cup twice. He scored 673 runs in 2003 edition hosted together by South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe. He also scored 523 runs in 1996 world cup hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
29. Chetan Sharma of India had taken the first hat-trick in world cups. He achieved the feat against New Zealand in 1987 world cup, hosted by India.
30. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more test wickets in their career than the test runs scored. In 71 tests Martin has scored 123 runs , while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name to go along with 242 wickets.
31. On December 3, 1986, in the fifth match of the Champions Trophy at  Sharjah against Sri Lanka, Courtney Walsh was used as a fifth bowler, but that  did not stop him from creating havoc and registering the cheapest  five-wicket haul in international history. He wiped out the Sri Lankan  tail by conceding just one run in 4.3 overs and finished with an economy  rate of 0.22. His figures: 4.3-3-1-5
32. Sourav Ganguly of India has the record of 4 consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODI's. 
33. Aravinda De Silva of Sri Lanka has bagged a hat-trick of Man of the Match awards twice. 
34. Sachin Tendulkar has the most man of the match awards in ODI's. In 463 ODI's he has got 62 awards.
35. Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka, the fourth-highest wicket-taker in ODIs, played the most matches before his maiden Man-of-the-Match award. Vaas made his debut in 1994 but it wasn't until his 164th ODI in 2001 that he won his first award by taking 3 for 20 against New Zealand in Colombo.
36. The longest gap between awards belongs to Javagal Srinath, who was the Man of the Match five times in his 229-ODI career. His fourth award came in January 1998, when he took 5 for 23 against Bangladesh in Dhaka. Ninety-three matches, spanning five years, went by before Srinath was Man of the Match again, this time in the 2003 World Cup.
37. The only test player to have won four consecutive Man-of-the-match awards is Muttiah Muralitharan. He achieved this feat against India, Bangladesh and two times consecutively against West Indies in 2001. In all he took 42 wickets in four matches. 
38. The S. Africa India test at Wanderers in 2013 is the first test in history of test cricket when both the wicket keepers bowled. It took 2108 tests before such a thing happened.
39. In 1989, with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debut. The last one to retire before Sachin, who retired on 16th November 2013, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004.
40. Mahboob Alam of Nepal took all 10 wickets during the Div -5 Qualifiers against Mozambique. This is the only case in any limited over version of the game. He made this during their ICC World Cricket League Division-V tournament in Jersey in 2008.
41. Lala Amarnath is the only cricketer in the history of Test cricket to start and end his career on same date.
42. Lance Klusner (SA), Abdul Razzaq (Pakistan), Shoaib Malik (Pakistan)   and Harshan Tilakratne (SL) are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODI's.
43. However in Test cricket, Wilfred Rhodes of England, Australia's Syd Gregory, and Vinoo Mankad of India have batted in all different batting positions.
44. Of all the batsmen who have scored more than 10000 runs in test, Dravid is the only batsman who has never been dismissed for a first ball duck ever.
45. Shaminda Eranga of Sri Lanka has grabbed his 1st wicket in 1st over of his debut in all three formats - TEST,ODI and T20I.
46. Elias Sunny of Bangladesh is the only cricketer to win Man-of-the-Match awards on debut in two formats - Test and T20.
47. For Sir Don Bradman...
    In the 52 Tests he played, Bradman scored more than 25% of his team's runs (6996 out of 27,624 bat runs), more than 41% of the hundreds (29 out of 70) and averaged more than three times the combined average of the other batsmen. It can safely be said there won't be another like him again.
48. There have been only 2 300 + partnerships in ODI's. Rahul Dravid of India has participated in both. One involved Sourav Ganguly and other Sachin Tendulkar.
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50. This happened to  Australia against Pakistan at ICC T20 World cup at West Indies in 2010. The bowler was Mohammad Aamer.
51. On July 19, 1952, India became the first international test team to be dismissed twice in one day. England restricted the visitors  to paltry scores of 58 and 82 at Old Trafford.
52. Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches
53. Steve Waugh is the only player to hit over 150 runs in an innings vs all test countries (playing at the time).
54. Adam Gilchrist of Australia has hit most 6s in test cricket - 100 in 137 innings.