Cricket is abat-and-ball game that is played between twoteams of eleven players on afield, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre; 66-foot)pitch with awicket at each end, each comprising twobails (small sticks) balanced on threestumps. Two players from thebatting team, the striker and nonstriker, stand in front of either wicket holdingbats, while one player from thefielding team, the bowler,bowls theball toward the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball with the bat and then switch places with thenonstriker, with the batting team scoring onerun for each of these swaps. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches theboundary of the field or when the ball is bowledillegally.
Arthur Edward Jeune Collins (18 August 1885 – 11 November 1914) was an Englishcricketer andsoldier. He held, for 116 years, the record of highest score in cricket: as a 13-year-old schoolboy, he scored 628not out over four afternoons in June 1899. Collins's record-makinginnings drew a large crowd and increasing media interest; spectators at theOld Cliftonian match being played nearby were drawn away to watch the junior schoolhouse cricket match in which Collins was playing. Despite this achievement, Collins never playedfirst-class cricket. Collins's 628 not out stood as the record score until January 2016 when an Indian boy,Pranav Dhanawade, scored 1009 in a single innings.
Mohammed Shami has the most five-wicket hauls (four) across all World Cup tournaments.
Incricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to abowler taking five or morewickets in a singleinnings. This is regarded by the critics as a notable achievement, and there have been only 71 instances of a bowler taking a five-wicket haul inWorld Cup tournaments. The Cricket World Cup is the international championship ofOne Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, theInternational Cricket Council (ICC), and is held once in every four years. In addition, players from four associate members of the ICC have taken five-wicket hauls in World Cups.
Starting with theinaugural edition in 1975, a total of 59 players have taken five-wicket haul in the championship as of2023.Australia'sDennis Lillee became the first player take a five-wicket haul when he took five wickets for 34runs againstPakistan in the third match of the world cup. His compatriotGary Gilmour picked up two consecutive five-wicket hauls—in the semi-final againstEngland and thefinal againstWest Indies—in the edition. The first of the two, six wickets for 14 runs, was named the "Best Bowling Performance" in ODIs in an all-time list released by theWisden in 2002.Joel Garner is the only other player to take a five-wicket haul in a World Cup final. He took five wickets for 38 runs against England in the1979 tournament final; the performance ensured West Indies' victory and helped them retain the title. (Full article...)
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Jacques Kallis has scored more international centuries than any other South African player. Jacques Kallis is a South Africancricketer who plays as anall-rounder. He has been described as "the greatest cricketer ever", and is considered one of the best all-rounders of all time, along with SirGarfield Sobers. He has scored 45centuries (100 or moreruns in a single innings) inTest cricket, the most by any South African, and 17 centuries inOne Day International (ODI) matches. He leads all South African batsmen in runs in both Test and ODI cricket.
Kallis made his Test debut againstEngland in December 1995. He scored his maiden Test century just over two years later, in his seventh Test match, making 101 againstAustralia. In the2003–04 series against theWest Indies, Kallis scored a century in each of the four Test matches, becoming the first cricketer to pass 100 in every match of a series lasting more than three Tests. His feat also marked the first time a South African player scored centuries in four consecutive Test matches, a run he extended in his next match, scoring 150not out againstNew Zealand, to become the second player, after SirDonald Bradman, to pass 100 in five consecutive Tests. Kallis passedGary Kirsten as South Africa's leading run-scorer in Test cricket when he reached his 22nd century during the2004–05 tour of the West Indies. His achievements during the 2004–05 and 2005 cricket seasons, during which time he scored six Test centuries, resulted in him being named as Test Player of the Year by theInternational Cricket Council (ICC). In October 2007 he became the fourth South African to reach 100 in both innings of a Test match when he did so againstPakistan. He scored a century in each of the following three Tests, tallying five centuries in four Test matches. In doing so, he joined Bradman,Matthew Hayden andKen Barrington as one of just four players to have scored centuries in four consecutive Test matches on two occasions. Kallis scored his first double century in Test cricketin December 2010, scoring anunbeaten 201 in the first Test againstIndia. Prior to his double century, Kallis had been the only player in the top 15 Test run-scorers not to have reached 200. Later during the same series, Kallis struck centuries in both innings of a match for the second time in his career, becoming the first South African to achieve the feat on two occasions. He reached his second double century, and his highest score, in 2012 againstSri Lanka, making 224. (Full article...)
Trescothick's first Test century was scored against Sri Lanka atGalle International Stadium in 2001, when he made 122. He then continued to score at least one century every year until his retirement from international cricket in 2006. His highest score of 219 was made againstSouth Africa in 2003 atThe Oval, London—his only double century. He has made a century in both innings of a Test match on only one occasion, against theWest Indies in 2004 atEdgbaston. Despite being the first batsman to achieve this feat at Edgbaston, Trescothick was not named Man of the Match, asAndrew Flintoff's first-innings of 167 earned him the accolade instead. During the2005 series against Bangladesh, Trescothick scored centuries in both Test matches against the touring side, helping earn him a Man of the Series award. His 14 Test centuries have been scored at 11 grounds; nine were scored in England and the remaining five were scored at different venues. Trescothick has been dismissed twice between 90 and 99, against India in 2001 and Australia in 2005. (Full article...)
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Aravinda de Silva scored seven of his thirty-one international cricket centuries at theSinhalese Sports Club Ground.
De Silva debuted in 1984 and scored his first Test century in October 1985 againstPakistan. In aman-of-the-match performance, he scored 122 in an eight-and-a-half-hours innings. He made centuries in both innings of a match when he scored 138 and 103 –not out in both innings – in the second Test of the1997 series against Pakistan, and as of March 2022[update], he is the only player to score unbeaten centuries in both innings of a Test. He repeated the feat of scoring centuries in both innings in the same year, when he scored 146 and 120 againstIndia in another man-of-the-match performance. De Silva's highest Test score of 267, achieved in January 1991 inWellington, was reached in 380 balls againstNew Zealand. The performance is the sixth-highest score by a Sri Lankan batsman in Test cricket. De Silva scored his twenty Test centuries against seven different opponents, and was most successful against Pakistan, making eight. As of April 2013[update], he is thirty-fourth in the international Test century-makers list, and third in the Sri Lankan list. (Full article...)
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Vernon Philander has conceded the fewest runs while taking a five-wicket haul. Incricket, afive-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to abowler taking five or morewickets in a singleinnings. A five-wicket haul on debut is regarded by the critics as a notable achievement. As of September 2024,174 cricketers have taken a five-wicket haul on Test match debut, out of which twenty-five were from theSouth Africa national cricket team. The five-wicket hauls have come against six different opponents, and the South Africans have performed this feat fifteen times against England. Of the twenty-two matches where a South African debutant has taken a five-wicket haul, twelve have ended in defeat, six in victory and the other four in a draw. The five-wicket hauls were taken at eleven different venues, six of them being taken at theNewlands Cricket Ground,Cape Town.
Albert Rose-Innes was the first South African to take a five-wicket haul onTest cricket debut. He took 5 wickets for 43 runsagainst England in 1889. In the second Test of the series,Gobo Ashley took 7 wickets for 95 runs, in what turned out to be hisonly appearance in Test cricket. When the country was re-admitted to play competitive cricket in 1991,Lance Klusener became the first debutant to take a five-wicket haul. His 8 wickets for 64 runsagainst India in November 1996 remain the bestbowling figures in an innings by a South African on debut.Sydney Burke andAlf Hall are the only South African debutants to collect 10 or more wickets in a match as of February 2015. Klusener's figures, along withGeorge Bissett's 5 for 37 runs, were included among the "Top 100 Bowling performances of all time" by theWisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002.Neil Brand is the latest cricketer to achieve this feat; he took 6/119 against New Zealand in February 2024. (Full article...)
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Sourav Ganguly was the first player to score three centuries in the tournament's history. Incricket, a player is said to have scored acentury when he scores 100 or moreruns in a singleinnings. TheICC Champions Trophy is aOne Day International (ODI) tournament organised by theInternational Cricket Council (ICC), and is considered the second most significant after theWorld Cup. Originally inaugurated as the "ICC KnockOut Trophy"in 1998, the tournament is organised every four years, though it had been organised every two or three years before, and was not held in 2021. A total of 64 centuries have been scored by players from 11 different teams. Players from all teams that have permanent ODI status have scored centuries.India leads the list, with 12 centuries, followed byNew Zealand andSouth Africa with eight each.
The only bowler to have taken three ODI hat-tricks isSri Lanka'sLasith Malinga. Five other bowlers— Pakistan'sWasim Akram andSaqlain Mushtaq, Sri Lanka'sChaminda Vaas, New Zealand'sTrent Boult and India'sKuldeep Yadav—have taken two hat-tricks in the format. Vaas is the first and only bowler to claim a hat-trick on the first three balls of any form of international cricket; he achieved the feat against Bangladesh during the2003 World Cup. Malinga is the only player to claim four wickets in consecutive balls; he achieved the feat against South Africa in the2007 World Cup. Four players have taken a hat-trick on their ODI debuts: Bangladesh'sTaijul Islam against Zimbabwe in 2014, South Africa'sKagiso Rabada against Bangladesh in 2015, Sri Lanka'sWanindu Hasaranga against Zimbabwe in 2017, and Sri Lanka'sShehan Madushanka against Bangladesh in 2018. India's Chetan Sharma was the first cricketer to take a hat-trick in aWorld Cup match. Eleven hat-tricks have been taken in World Cup matches. (Full article...)
Hong Kong gained ODI status in its own right following the2014 World Cup Qualifier, but had previously been accorded ODI status twice on a temporary basis, when it participated in theAsia Cup. The team's first ODI came againstBangladesh in the2004 Asia Cup, with the team then playing one further match in that competition, againstPakistan, losing both matches by big margins. At the2008 Asia Cup, Hong Kong again played two matches, against Pakistan andIndia, and lost both matches heavily. After gaining full ODI status in 2014, the team's first matches in that format came in the2014 ACC Premier League tournament, againstAfghanistan and theUnited Arab Emirates (UAE). Hong Kong did not win an ODI until its tenth match, in November 2015, when it defeated the UAE by 89 runs as part of theWorld Cricket League Championship. (Full article...)
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Australian bowlerGlenn McGrath, one of the players on Australia's winning team.
These were the 10squads picked to take part in the2006 ICC Champions Trophy, the fourth instalment of theChampions Trophycricket tournament. The tournament was held in India from 7 October to 5 November 2006. Teams could name a preliminary squad of 30, but only 14-man squads were permitted for the actual tournament, and these had to be submitted by 7 September, one month before the start of the tournament.
Several of the squads were changed during or before the tournament due to injuries or suspensions; Pakistan changed their captains three times before the tournament had begun, and also sent home two players due todoping allegations. Both India and Zimbabwe had to replace a player during the tournament, which required the permission of theInternational Cricket Council's Technical Committee. (Full article...)
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TheICC Cricket Hall of Fame recognizes "the achievements of the legends of the game fromcricket's long and illustrious history". It was launched by theInternational Cricket Council (ICC) inDubai on 2 January 2009, in association with theFederation of International Cricketers' Associations (FICA), as part of the ICC's centenary celebrations. The initial inductees were the 55 players included in the FICA Hall of Fame which ran from 1999 to 2003, but further members are added each year during theICC Awards ceremony. The inaugural inductees ranged fromW. G. Grace, who retired fromTest cricket in 1899, toGraham Gooch, who played his last Test match in 1995. Living inductees receive a commemorativecap; AustralianRod Marsh was the first member of the initial inductees to receive his. Members of the Hall of Fame assist in the selection of future inductees.
Don Bradman was retrospectively named as the notional winner ten times between 1930 and 1948. TheWisden Men's Leading Cricketer in the World is an annualcricket award selected byWisden Cricketers' Almanack. It was established in 2004, to select the best cricketer based upon their performances anywhere in the world in the previous calendar year. A notional list of previous winners, spanning from 1900 to 2002, was published in the 2007 edition ofWisden.
Since 1889,Wisden has published a list ofCricketers of the Year, typically selecting five cricketers that had the greatest impact during the previous English cricket season. However, in the 2000 edition, the editorMatthew Engel recognised that the best players in the world were typically no longer playing English domestic cricket, and opted to select the Cricketers of the Year based on their performances anywhere in the world. This criterion was applied for the following three years, but in 2004 it reverted to being based on the English season, and a Leading Cricketer in the World was also selected. The recipient of the award is selected by the editor ofWisden, with advice from cricket experts. An Australian,Ricky Ponting was chosen as the first winner of the award, for scoring 1,503 runs in international cricket, including elevencenturies during 2003. (Full article...)
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South Africa women atTaunton, 2009 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Awomen's Test match is an international four-innings cricket match held over a maximum of four days between two of the leading cricketing nations.Women's cricket was played inSouth Africa fairly regularly throughout the beginning of the 20th century, but died out during the Second World War. It was revived in 1949 by a group of enthusiasts, and in 1951Netta Rheinberg, on behalf of theWomen's Cricket Association, suggested that a South Africa Women's Cricket Association be formed, and encouraged the possibility that a series of matches could be played between the two associations. The South Africa & Rhodesian Women's Cricket Association (SA&RWCA) was officially formed in 1952. At theirannual general meeting in January 1955, the SA&RWCA accepted an invitation from the Women's Cricket Association to join anInternational Women's Cricket Council that, in addition toSouth Africa, includedEngland,Australia andNew Zealand. They also agreed that international matches would be played between the four nations. In 1959, arrangements were made for the first international women's cricket tour of South Africa, as they would play host to theEnglish team in 1960.
The first Test involving South Africa women was held atSt George's Park,Port Elizabeth, the same venue as the one for first men's Test match in the country in 1889, and ended in a draw. South Africa then played a subsequent series againstNew Zealand in 1971–72. As part of the international campaign againstapartheid, theCommonwealth of Nations signed theGleneagles Agreement in 1977, excluding South Africa from competing in international sporting events. Because of this exclusion, they did not play another Test until hostingIndia in 2001–02, before facing England again in 2003,the Netherlands in 2007, India in 2014 and most recently England in 2022. (Full article...)
Abdul Qadir was aPakistanicricketer who took 17 five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to abowler taking five or morewickets in a singleinnings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of October 2024[update], only 54 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-armleg spin bowler who represented his country between 1977 and 1994,Yahoo! Cricket wrote that Abdul Qadir "was a master of theleg-spin" and "mastered thegooglies, theflippers, theleg-breaks and thetopspins."
Abdul Qadir made hisTest debut in 1977 againstEngland at theGaddafi Stadium,Lahore. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against the same team in a match at theNiaz Stadium,Hyderabad. In March 1984 against the English at the Gaddafi Stadium, he took a five-wicket haul in both innings of a Test match for the first time. He repeated this feat only once more in his career, at theNational Stadium, Karachi, against the same team, in December 1987. His career-best figures for an innings were 9 wickets for 56 runs against England at the Gaddafi Stadium, in November 1987. In Tests, Qadir was most successful against the English taking eight of his five-wicket hauls against them. He took ten or more wickets in a match on five occasions. Qadir claimed 15 five-wicket hauls in his Test career, and Pakistan never lost any of the games on such instances. (Full article...)
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Wasim Akram, a formerPakistanicricketer, took 31five-wicket hauls during his career in international cricket. In cricket, a five-wicket haul (also known as a "five–for" or "fifer") refers to abowler taking five or morewickets in a singleinnings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and as of October 2024[update], only 54 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A left-armfast bowler who represented his country between 1984 and 2003, the BBC described Akram as "one of the greatest left-arm bowlers in the history of world cricket", whileWest Indian batsmanBrian Lara said that Akram was "definitely the most outstanding bowler [I] ever faced".
Akram made hisTest debut in January 1985, in an innings defeat byNew Zealand in Auckland. The following Test, in a man-of-the-match performance, he took ten wickets over the two innings, securing his first two five-wicket hauls but still ended on the losing side. He took another pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match five years later, againstAustralia at theMelbourne Cricket Ground (MCG). His career-best figures for an innings were 7 wickets for 119 runs against New Zealand in Wellington, in February 1994. (Full article...)
Sangakkara made his Test debut againstSouth Africa in July 2000. He scored his maiden Test century in 2001, againstIndia, and his first double-century during the2002 Asian Test Championship final againstPakistan. Sangakkara's highest score in Test cricket is 319, which he scored against Bangladesh in 2014. During his innings of 287 against South Africa in 2006, he andMahela Jayawardene set a new world record of 624 runs for the highestpartnership for any wicket in Test orfirst-class cricket. In the following year, he scored back-to-back double-centuries againstBangladesh, the fifth instance of successive double-centuries in Test cricket. He has scored 200 or more runs in a Test match on eleven occasions, surpassingBrian Lara, who has scored 200 or more runs in a Test match on nine occasions; onlyDonald Bradman (12 double-centuries) has done so more often. He became the ninth batsman and second Sri Lankan to score centuries against all Test-playing nations in December 2007, when he scored 152 againstEngland. He was appointed captain of the Sri Lanka team in March 2009, following the resignation of Mahela Jayawardene, and the first of his seven Test centuries as captain came against Pakistan in July of the same year. Sangakkara has the second-highestbatting average—69.60 per innings—for a captain who scored a minimum of 1,500 runs. (Full article...)
The following are images from various cricket-related articles on Wikipedia.
Image 1A Game of Cricket at The Royal Academy Club in Marylebone Fields, now Regent's Park, depiction by unknown artist, c. 1790–1799 (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 2Broadhalfpenny Down, the location of the first First Class match in 1772, is still played on today. (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 4 First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836 (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 5Photograph of Miss Lily Poulett-Harris, founding mother of women's cricket in Australia. (fromHistory of women's cricket)
Image 6Afghan soldiers playing cricket. Afghan refugees in Pakistan brought the sport back to Afghanistan, and it is now one of the most popular sports in the country. (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 7Awicket consists of threestumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as thebails. (fromLaws of Cricket)
Image 8New articles of the game of cricket, 25 February 1774 (fromLaws of Cricket)
Image 9Plaquita, a Dominican street version of cricket. The Dominican Republic was first introduced to cricket through mid-18th century British contact, but switched to baseball after the1916 American occupation. (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 10A 1793 American depiction of"wicket" being played in front ofDartmouth College. Wicket likely came to North America in the late 17th century. (fromHistory of cricket)
Image 14A wicket can be put down by throwing the ball at it and thereby dislodging the bails. (fromLaws of Cricket)
Image 15The boundary can be marked in several ways, such as with a rope. (fromLaws of Cricket)
Image 16In men's cricket the ball must weigh between 5.5 and 5.75 ounces (155.9 and 163 g) and measure between 8.81 and 9 in (22.4 and 22.9 cm) in circumference. (fromLaws of Cricket)
TheInternational Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket, and produces team rankings for the various forms of cricket played internationally.
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