18 Guinness World Records In Cricket

18 Guinness World Records In Cricket; Having a record to your name is certainly a proud feeling as a person. What if that record is placed in Guinness world records book? Surely, it is something, which you would cherish for the rest of your life. Amidst all those scintillating records, cricketers also found a page for themselves with their brilliant works for their team and sometimes, for their respective countries.

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Meanwhile, we figured out 18 such Guinness records in the world cricket. The chart includes quite a few stalwart names to the budding cricketers as well. Have a look:

Here are 18 Guinness World Records In Cricket:

1. MS Dhoni’s Expensive Willow:

The former Indian captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is one of the record-holders in this list because of the Reebok willow, with which he hit the winning six in the finals of the 2011 Cricket World Cup.

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Later at an event named “East meets West”, organised by Dhoni at London (UK), the bat was bought by R.K. global shares at a mouth-watering amount of £100,000 ($161,295). The fund was used for the development of Dhoni’s wife’s charitable organisation – Sakshi Foundation – that works for underprivileged children in India.

2. Most Wins On A Trot In Test Matches:

Most consecutive wins in test matches record belong to Australia. The former no. 1 ranked Test team in the world might have various sides overstepping but back in 2000, no team was parallel to them.

The mighty Aussies held the record of a longest winning streak in tests not once but twice. First from 14 October 1999 to 27 February 2001 and most recently from 26 December 2005 to 2 January 2008. Both times they remained unbeaten for 16 consecutive matches making the feat into one of the cricket-based Guinness world records.

3. Graeme Smith 109 Test Matches As Skipper:

Graeme Smith held the position of test captain until his retirement in 2014. He is regarded as one of the greatest South African players of all time. A tall, left-handed opening batsman, Smith is regarded as one of the best test match openers and skippers of all time as well.

He led South Africa in 109 Test matches, which is a massive feat in the game of cricket. Mostly, an untouchable record as well.

4. Virag More – Longest Net Session:

The young batsman from India played for almost three days in the nets to create a world record to his name. Earlier, it was after a couple of foreigners, who batted for 48 hours.

He batted for 3 days and two nights to break the previous record. Playing at the Mahalaxmi Lawns in Karve Nagar, Mare started his net session on December 22 and faced 2,447 overs, 14,682 balls in exactly 50 hours, five minutes and 51 seconds. He broke the previous record of Dave Newman and Richard Wells who batted for 48 hours.

5. Sachin Tendulkar – Most Runs in World Cup

No player has scored more runs at the Cricket World Cup than Sachin Tendulkar, or even come close for that matter. He scored 2,278 runs at the tournament – more than 500 more than his nearest rival – at an average of 56.95.

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His highest score at the World Cup came against Namibia in 2003, when he hit 18 fours on his way to 152 from 151 balls. It was the 2003 World Cup in South Africa, Kenya and Zimbabwe that Tendulkar further enhanced his reputation as one of the leading ODI batsmen of all time, as he hit 673 runs in 11 games – a record for a single edition of the tournament. Rohit Sharma and David Warner came close but failed to achieve.

6. Largest Cricket tournament:

Eenadu Cricket tournament in India has entered the record books by registering the largest cricket tournament in the world. The tournament consists of 16,215 participants and was achieved by Eenadu Cricket Champion Cup- 2013 (India) in different venues across India from 30 December 2013 to 20 February 2014.

7. Sir Donald Bradman’s 1948 cap – The most expensive

The most valuable piece of cricket history is Australian cricketer, Sir Donald Bradman’s 1948 cap. In June 2003 Tim Serisier, a Who Wants to Be a Millionaire winner bought the cap in a pre-auction deal with Ludgrove’s auctioneers from Bradman’s Godson for A$425,000 (US$283,000 or £170,000).

Bradman wore the cap on the 1948 tour of England when he scored the last of his 29 test centuries and then when he made the most famous duck in cricketing history in his final Test appearance. Sir Donald Bradman died in 2001 aged 92.

8. Youngest to hit Six Sixes in an over:

The youngest cricketer to hit six consecutive sixes in the same over is Anthony McMahon (UK). He achieved the feat when was aged 13 years 261 days. It was on 24 May 2003, playing for Chester-le-Street against Eppleton at Eppleton Cricket Club, Durham, UK.

9. Debut at 72 Years in First Class Cricket:

The governor of Bombay, Raja Maharaj Singh realised his passion for cricket quite late but was eventually able to fulfil his dream. Hailing from a Kathpura Royal Family, he made his First-Class debut at the age of 72 Years and 192 Days to claim a record and write his name with golden letters in the history of cricket.

However, after batting, he never entered the field, as he left the captaincy to his team partner. Despite that, the record is placed firmly on the book.

10. Most Runs in a single innings by a blind cricketer:

It was during the first cricket World Cup for the blind, which was held in New Delhi, India on November 1998. The highest individual score during the competition was 262 not out by Masood Jan (Pakistan) against South Africa at Roshanara Club on 19 Nov 1998. The winners of the inaugural competition were South Africa beating Pakistan in the final.

11. Most ODI matches as a captain in women cricket:

Belinda Clark, former Australia captain, who was the first player, male or female, to strike a double-century in one-day internationals holds a massive record to her name. She is the owner of the record, which says the most number of ODI matches as a captain. The most One Day International cricket matches played as captain by an individual female cricketer is 101.

12. Most ODI ICC World Cups won by a captain:

Well, there are two cricketers, who are sharing the feat. It is Clive Lloyd and Ricky Ponting, who enjoyed great success as skippers in the world cup events. Clive Lloyd (Barbados) for the West Indies in 1975 and 1979, and Ricky Ponting (Australia) for Australia in 2003 and 2007.

13. Highest team total in ODI format:

The highest team score in a One-Day International (ODI) by a men’s team is 481 for 6, achieved by England against Australia at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, UK, on 19 June 2018. Jonny Bairstow, Alex Hales scored centuries for England. Jos Buttler and Eoin Morgan also had some fun in whacking the balls out of the park alongside Jason Roy.

14. Oldest Debut In ODI format:

During the 1996 cricket world cup, Nolan Clarke made his ODI debut for the Netherlands at the age of 47 years 240 days. The group match played against New Zealand was the debut game for the player who now holds the record of a most aged player to make an entry into ODI cricket.

15. Longest Test game:

The longest recorded test match was played out between England and South Africa on 3-14 March 1939. The timeless cricket match continued for a total of 11 days though 8 of them were washed away by rain.

The match could have gone to many more day but the ship taking the England team home was due to leave so the game was ended in a draw on 14^th day. The total playing time though was 43 hr 16 min and a record Test match aggregate of 1,981 runs were scored.

16. Fastest ball in Cricket:

Shoaib Akhtar holds this special record. He used to constantly bowled over 150 km/h in his career albeit short one and reached a world record speed during World Cup 2003 against England when he produced a 161.3 km/h speed of a bowl to English d knick Knight. He becomes the first bowler to reach a speed of 100 miles an hour in official ICC match.

17. Fastest Century In World Cup Final:

The flamboyant opening batsman Adam Gilchrist holds the special record. One of the best wicketkeepers in the world showed his class in the final showdown of world cup 2007. He took just 72 balls to complete his three-digit knock against Sri Lanka at the Oval. Since then, none of them came close to his knock.

18. Don Bradman’s 99.94 Average in Tests:

Did you ever imagine a cricketer scoring runs for fun in Internationa cricket? This man Don Bradman has treated the game of cricket like a video game. In those days, where the helmet is a distant dream and the fast bowlers getting the best out of the pitch, he used to knock them with ease.

The closest person to Sir Don Bradman’s 99.94 is Steve Smith and he averages 63.75 per innings in test cricket.