Cricket Records

• In 1868, when Australia first toured England under Charles Lawrence to play cricket, each player was wearing a different coloured cap so that the spectators could identify them.
  
  
• The only man to score two test triple centuries is Brian Lara. He scored 375 runs playing against England in 1994. In 2004, Mathew Hayden of Australia broke Lara's world record with 380 against Zimbabwe in Perth 2003. Lara reclaimed the record with a massive 400 not out against England in Antigua 2004.
  
  
• The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.
  
  
• England’s Alfred Shaw was the bowler to bowl the first delivery in a Test match. He took 3 wickets in the first innings and 5 in the second.
  
  
• England’s Allen Hill had both the first Test wicket and the first catch. He dismissed Nat Thomson for 1.
  
  
• Australia’s Charles Bannerman faced the first delivery in a Test match and he also went on to be the first Test centurion.
  
  
• Charles Bannerman scored 165 in his first Test innings and was retired hurt. Incidentally, he did not take field. W.Newing fielded for him, thus becoming the first substitute fielder in Test cricket.
  
  
• Australia’s W E Midwinter became the first bowler to get a 5 wicket haul in a Test innings. He dismissed 5 English batsmen in his 54 over spell in the first Test ever played.
  
  
• C A Reid and R B Terry were the two on-field officials or umpires for the first ever Test match in the history of cricket.
  
  
• Noone has completed an innings at the score of 228!
  
  
• South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs!
  
  
• Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!
  
  
• Wasim Akram is the first (an only?) man to perform a hat-trick in both one days and tests!
  
  
• England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!
  
  
• Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire in a Test match.
  
  
• Hollywood actor Russell Crowe is Martin Crowe's cousin!
  
  
• Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.
  
  
• The first Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005.
  
  
• The Test match between England and South Africa at Durban in 1939 was finally abandoned as a draw on the tenth day because England players had to catch their ship home.
  
  
• The First Test between Young Sri Lanka and Young England at Columbo in 1987 was held up when a large iguana crept across the wicket.
  
  
• Pakistan Railways beat Dera Ismail Khan by an innings and 851 runs in 1964. In reply to the railwaymens 910 for 6 declared, Dera Ismail Khan were bowled out for 32 and 27.
  
  
• Mohammed Azharruddin is the only player in the history of Test cricket to score a century in each of his first three tests.
  
  
• India is the only international team to be dismissed twice in a single day of test match cricket. They were dismissed for 58 and 82 against England in 1952.
  
  
• M.L.Jaisimha of India was the first batsman to bat on all five days of a Test.
  
  
• India had to wait for a period of 19 years & 230 days before registering its first victory.
  
  
• The legendary captain of the West Indies, Clive Lloyd was the first captain to win 25 Test Matches.
  
  
• Narendra Hirwani took 16 wickets on his debut versus West Indies.
  
  
• Allen Hill was the first player to hold a catch in Test cricket.
  
  
• Sunil Gavaskar has featured in a record 52 century partnerships.
  
  
• Greg Chappell hit a century both on his debut and his final match.