Ben Stokes is the first captain in Test history to take 5 wickets on day 1 of a Test, having won the toss and batted.
Interestingly, the last Test played at the Perth stadium (2024), Jasprit Bumrah very nearly achieved this first. Taking his fifth wicket on the 7th ball of day 2.
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Mushfiqur Rahim became the first player from Bangladesh to play 100 Tests
He became the 11th man to hit a hundred in his hundredth Test
He became the third man to do the double of first from his nation to 100 caps & score a century.
Colin Cowdrey (Eng, 1968)
Javed Miandad (Pak, 1989)
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Ben Stokes becomes the first man in Test history to have taken a Test 5 wicket haul in Perth (Perth Stadium, 2025) and to have hit a Test century in Perth (W.A.C.A, 2013).
This includes Australians. (Nod to Steve Waugh who took a 5fer, and high scored with scored 99*)
#Ashes #AUSvsENG #Cricket
Vaibhav Suryavanshi has just hit his second T20 hundred off just 32 balls (eventually out for 144 off 42 balls), which is the joint 6th fastest in history.
He becomes the first player in history to hit two T20 hundreds in 35 balls or less.
He is still only 14 years old
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Shubman Gill now has the highest score by an Indian Test Captain in away Tests.
It overtakes Virat Kohli’s 200 against the West Indies at North Sound in 2016
#ENGvsIND #TestCricket
Lhuan-dre Pretorius has scored the highest Test score by a teenager (153) since Sachin Tendulkar scored 165 against England at Chennai in 1993
#TestCricket #ZIMvsSA
Sean Williams has now scored the most Test runs of all players to have never had a duck. (1,618 runs)
He overtook fellow Zimbabwean Dave Houghton against Bangladesh in April.
Williams is still active however, so Houghton's record may be atop the list again in the future.
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Rishabh Pant is the first wicketkeeper to score 5 Test hundreds against a single opposition (England)
(Adam Gilchrist scored 4 vs New Zealand)
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Smith- 200, 151, 277, 259
Jaiswal- 171, 209, 214*, 161
Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored his 5th Test century but it's the first time he hasn't gone on to score 150+
Had he done so, he would have been the first player in history to do so with their first 5 centuries.
Graeme Smith and him are the only two to do so in their first 4 centuries.
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This is Englands first double century opening partnership in England since Michael Atherton and Graham Gooch scored 225 at Old Trafford in August 1990. None of England’s lineup in this match had yet been born
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Since 1984, there have been just 17 instances of a player scoring a Test hundred and taking a Test 5fer in the same match. 5 of those have occurred since February 2024.
Ravi Jadeja (vs Eng)
Gus Atkinson (vs SL)
Ravi Ashwin (vs Ban)
Brian Bennett (vs Afg)
Mehidy Hasan Miraz (vs Zim)
#BANvsZIM
Yes- it is surprising- his average in India is his worst (53.66) and Sri Lanka is his best (16.31)!
Mitchell Starc has taken more wickets in Sri Lanka than any other away fast bowler in Test history
Mitchell Starc: 35 wickets at 16.31
Wasim Akram: 30 wickets at 20.43
Richard Hadlee: 27 wickets at 12.29
Ishant Sharma: 26 wickets at 36.42
Waqar Younis: 25 wickets at 19.00
#SLvsAUS #Cricket
Dimuth Karunaratne will be the fourth player and first non-English player to end his career having played exactly 100 Test matches
Graham Thorpe (1993-2005)
Andrew Strauss (2004-2012)
*Jonny Bairstow (2012-2024)
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Happy Birthday to West Indian legend Clyde Walcott who would have turned 99 today.
Walcott vs Australia in 1955 is the only time somebody has hit 5 test hundreds in a series...
...They didn't win a single match (3-0 Australia)
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Temba Bavuma had previously gone 88 Test innings since his last century, but has now scored 3 in his last 12 innings.
He also averages 57.40 since the beginning of 2023.
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In 2024, there were only 4 century opening partnerships across all Test cricket. The last time there were fewer than 4 was 1985 (3)
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Don't think there's a wrong answer, but currently Rabada for me on the basis of:
- Most wickets
- Most 5fers
- Best Strike Rate in history (minimum 150 wickets)
And he's the youngest of the 3
Bumrah is the best currently and if can maintain close to this level, then he will be on top
I'm just getting warmed up Pete!
Yashasvi Jaiswal scored 1,382 Test runs whilst he was 22, which breaks the record for most runs scored in Tests by a 22 year old.
Previously, it was held by Graeme Smith who scored 1,275 runs between his 22nd and 23rd birthdays (2003-04)
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Kusal Mendis scored the most international runs across all formats in 2024 (1,860)
This is the fewest to lead a calendar year since David Boon scored 1,833 runs in 1994 (excluding the Covid affected 2020)
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Jasprit Bumrah in 2024 had the third best bowling average for any post-war bowler in a calendar year (minimum 40 wickets)
Jim Laker 1956- 48 Wickets at 10.00
Imran Khan 1982- 62 Wickets at 13.29
Jasprit Bumrah 2024- 71 Wickets at 14.92
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Jasprit Bumrah (71 Wickets in 2024) was the first Asian fast bowler to take 60 or more wickets in a calendar year since Kapil Dev took 75 in 1983. #AUSvsIND #Cricket
Colin Cowdrey would have turned 92 today- one of only 2 batsmen to hit Test centuries at 6 separate batting positions in the order (2,3,4,5,6,8).
Garfield Sobers being the other (2,3,4,5,6,7)
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18 year old Kwena Maphaka has figures of 4/72 on ODI debut for South Africa.
He is the first 18 year old to take 4 or more wickets on ODI debut. (Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Aayan Afzal Khan both took 4 wickets on debut aged just 16)
#SAvsPAK #Cricket
Happy retirement to one of the greats, Ravi Ashwin:
- Took more Test 5fers (37) than catches (36)
- Best Strike Rate of all bowlers with 500+ Test wickets (50.7)
- Only man with 500+ Test wickets and a batting average of more than 20 (25.75)
#AUSvsIND #Cricket
Jasprit Bumrah becomes just the fourth fast bowler from Asia to take 60 wickets in a calendar year and the first since Kapil Dev took 75 in 1983
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