Cricket Records

61 articles tagged with "Cricket Records"

Oct 19, 2026

Chinmay Sutar fell one short of a hundred on debut, and his first one was 400 not out for Mizoram

The 29-year-old batted 517 balls against Nagaland in only his second first-class match, and only Bhausaheb Nimbalkar’s 443 in 1948-49 is higher in Ran...

Oct 4, 2026

No three-match ODI series has produced more than 2,109 runs, and India paid over 55 a wicket for theirs

Ten hundreds and two 400-plus totals made India vs West Indies the highest-scoring three-match bilateral ODI series ever. India’s bowling is the part...

Sep 19, 2026

Vadodara International Cricket Stadium: pitch report, records and the 20 women’s matches to one men’s

The Kotambi ground in Vadodara opened in December 2024 and has staged 21 matches above domestic level. Twenty of them were women’s cricket, which make...

Sep 17, 2026

IPL winners list: every champion from 2008 to 2026, and the five finals Chennai lost

Every IPL champion from 2008 to 2026 in one table, plus the numbers underneath it: who has played the most finals, who has lost the most of them, and...

Sep 11, 2026

Root’s 220th catch was an edge in the first over, and it took him past Steve Smith

No fielder in the history of Test cricket has taken more catches than Joe Root. The one that got him there came off Ollie Robinson in the opening over...

Sep 10, 2026

Imran Tahir took five for 17 at 47, and Saint Lucia lost seven wickets for 27 runs

No bowler as old as Imran Tahir had taken a five-wicket haul in men’s T20 cricket until overnight at Providence. The Kings collapsed from 54 for two t...

Sep 10, 2026

Jordan Hermann made 150 on ODI debut, and the record he equalled was set by another South African

Nobody has ever scored more in a first one-day international. Hermann needed 61 balls for his first fifty and 32 each for the next two, and Namibia we...

Sep 6, 2026

Eden Gardens pitch report: par scores, records and stats in Kolkata

Par at Eden Gardens has climbed 26 runs since 2023, the largest jump at any established IPL ground. What the ball-by-ball record of 107 matches says a...

Sep 4, 2026

Shanaka’s hundred took 39 balls, and Hetmyer’s share of the CPL record lasted three days

Dasun Shanaka came in at 89 for 2 in the 10th over at Warner Park and finished unbeaten on 121 from 43 balls. His hundred took 39 deliveries, one fewe...

Sep 3, 2026

Hridoy declared on himself at 350 not out, and no Bangladesh batter has made more

Towhid Hridoy’s unbeaten 350 at Potchefstroom is the highest first-class score by a Bangladesh batter, past Tamim Iqbal’s 334 from 2020. South Africa...

Aug 26, 2026

Dinusha has made 100, 84 and 103 against India, and Sri Lanka are following on anyway

Three innings against India, three scores of 80 or more, and a place on a list that already had Sobers and Weekes on it. Sri Lanka’s problem is what h...

Aug 16, 2026

Rahmat Shah’s unbeaten 143 turns 22 for 2 into Afghanistan’s biggest ODI chase

Rahmat Shah’s 143 not out was his highest score in the format, and it carried Afghanistan to a 4-0 series win over Ireland in Belfast.

Aug 4, 2026

Jadeja needs two wickets in Galle to join a three-man club, and he would get there fastest

Only Botham, Vettori and Kapil Dev have made 4,000 Test runs and taken 350 Test wickets. Jadeja is two wickets away, and he is 13 Tests quicker than t...

Jul 27, 2026

Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi: pitch report, records and stats

Delhi’s ground has produced a perfect ten, a 428 and the highest successful chase in IPL history. Here is the pitch report and the full record book at...

Jul 25, 2026

Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad: pitch report, records and stats

The world’s largest cricket ground has staged four IPL finals and two World Cup finals in five seasons. Here is what its pitch actually does, format b...

Jul 24, 2026

MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk: pitch report, records and stats

A full guide to the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai: capacity and history, what the Chepauk pitch does, whether to bat first or chase, and every Tes...

Jul 22, 2026

Raipur Cricket Stadium: pitch report, capacity and records at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh ground

India’s third-largest cricket ground has hosted twelve senior men’s matches and, since October 2026, three women’s T20Is. The chase has won 11 of the...

Jul 19, 2026

T20 cricket records: the biggest numbers in the shortest format

From Zimbabwe’s 344 to a nine-ball fifty, the shortest format keeps rewriting the record book. Here are the biggest T20 cricket records, and the playe...

Jul 18, 2026

ODI cricket records: the biggest numbers in the 50-over game

From Sachin Tendulkar’s mountain of runs to Rohit Sharma’s 264 and England’s 498, here are the batting, bowling and wicketkeeping records that define...

Jul 18, 2026

Joe Root’s golden ODI run could not have come at a better time for England

At 35, Joe Root is in the best one-day form of his career. His unbeaten 99 at Cardiff was only the latest reminder before England and India settle the...

Jul 14, 2026

Test cricket records: the biggest numbers in the sport’s oldest format

Test cricket has produced records that have stood for decades and a few that are shifting right now. Here are the biggest numbers the format has throw...

Jul 10, 2026

MS Dhoni’s cricket records: the milestones that define his career

He is the only captain to win all three major ICC white-ball trophies and the only keeper past 100 ODI stumpings. Here are the records that define MS...

Jul 7, 2026

Women’s cricket records: the biggest numbers across Test, ODI and T20I

From Smriti Mandhana’s record run tally and Deepti Sharma’s wickets to Australia’s grip on the World Cup, here are the biggest records in women’s cric...

Jul 4, 2026

Virat Kohli records: every major milestone, format by format

Virat Kohli holds the most centuries in one-day international history and is the fastest batter to nearly every big ODI run milestone. Here is every r...