Harry Dear

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

#Cricket #IndiaCricket

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.

#TestCricket #Cricket

Rishabh Pant is the first wicketkeeper to score 5 Test hundreds against a single opposition (England)

(Adam Gilchrist scored 4 vs New Zealand)

#ENGvsIND #Cricket #Testcricket

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.

#ENGvsIND

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

#ENGvsZIM

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)

#SLvsAUS #SLCricket

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)

#Cricket #WestIndies

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.

#Cricket #CricketStats

In 2024, there were only 4 century opening partnerships across all Test cricket. The last time there were fewer than 4 was 1985 (3)

#Cricket

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)

#Cricket

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)

#Cricket

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

#Cricket #AUSvsIND

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)

#Cricket

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

#AUSvIND #Cricket

Happy Birthday Usman Khawaja - No Australian has scored more Test runs after turning 35 (2,619)

#AUSvIND #Cricket

Ollie Pope (994 runs in 2024) has become the first batsman to bat 30 or more times in a calendar year and not reach 1,000 Test runs.

#NZvsENG #Cricket

Shoaib Bashir's 49 Test wickets (at 40.16) in 2024 is the most ever taken in a calendar year at a bowling average of more than 40.

Second on the list is Harbhajan Singh, who took 43 wickets at 40.69 in 2010

#NZvsENG

Happy 72nd Birthday to West Indian legend Joel Garner. Interestingly, Garner had the same career bowling average (20.97) whether West Indies batted or fielded first.
#Cricketstats #WestIndies

Kane Williamson has the highest home test average of batsmen with 5,000 home Test runs:

Top 5:

Kane Williamson: 5,098 runs @ 67.07
Kumar Sangakkara: 6,830 runs @ 60.44
Mahela Jayawardene: 7,167 runs @ 59.72
Brian Lara: 6,217 runs @ 58.65
Shivnarine Chanderpaul: 6,187 runs @ 58.36

#NZvsENG