Cricket is a
bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a
field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre)
pitch with a
wicket at each end, each comprising two
bails balanced on three
stumps. Two players from the
batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket, with one player from the
fielding team (the bowler)
bowling the
ball towards the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one
run for each exchange. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches or crosses the
boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled
illegally.
Kapil Dev is India's third highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. Kapil Dev is a former
Test and
One Day International (ODI) cricketer who represented
India between 1978 and 1994. He took 24
five-wicket hauls during his international career. In cricket, a five-wicket haul—also known as a five-for or fifer—refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and fewer than 40 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
fast bowler, Kapil Dev took 434 wickets in Test cricket and 253 in ODIs. With 23 five-wicket hauls in Tests, he has the third highest number of international five-wicket hauls among Indian cricketers as of 2012, after
Anil Kumble and
Harbhajan Singh. Kapil Dev was named by the Wisden as
one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1983 and Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Eight years later, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) inducted him into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. As of 2012, Kapil Dev also holds the record for being the only player to have taken more than 400 wickets and scored over 5,000 runs in Tests.
Kapil Dev made his Test and ODI debuts against
Pakistan, both in 1978. His first five-wicket haul came a year later against
England during the first Test of
India's tour. His career-best
bowling figures in an innings of nine for 83 was achieved in 1983 against the
West Indies in
Ahmedabad. In Tests, Kapil Dev was most successful against Pakistan and
Australia, with seven five-wicket hauls against each of them. He took his only five-wicket haul in ODIs against Australia during the
1983 Cricket World Cup. (Full article...)
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Former Pakistan captain, Waqar Younis Waqar Younis, a retired
Pakistanicricketer, took 35
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 a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and only 41 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
fast bowler who represented his country between 1989 and 2003, the
BBC described Waqar as "one of the most feared fast bowlers in recent cricketing history", while former
Pakistan captain
Imran Khan said that Waqar was "a thinking cricketer and, at his peak, he was the most destructive bowler the game had seen". The cricket almanack Wisden noted his "pace and swing", and named him one of their
Cricketers of the Year in 1992. Waqar was inducted into the
ICC Hall of Fame on 9 December 2013.
Waqar made his
Test debut in 1989 against
India in
Karachi, where he took four wickets in the first innings. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against
New Zealand in a match which Pakistan won at
Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore. He took a pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against
Zimbabwe at the
Defence Stadium,
Karachi in December 1993. His career-best figures for an innings were 7 wickets for 76 runs against New Zealand at
Iqbal Stadium,
Faisalabad, in October 1990. He went on to take ten or more wickets per match on five occasions. (Full article...)
Hildreth is Somerset's leading run-scorer in Twenty20 cricket, aggregating 3,906 runs. He is also one of only nine batsmen to have scored a
century for Somerset in the format, along with
Tom Abell,
Babar Azam,
Tom Banton,
Chris Gayle,
Johann Myburgh,
Graeme Smith,
Marcus Trescothick and
Cameron White. Gayle's score of 151
not out, scored in 2015 against
Kent is the highest score by a Somerset batsman, and Gayle also has the county's best
batting average: 84.16. Among the bowlers,
Max Waller has taken more
wickets than any other bowler, claiming 139, two more than
Alfonso Thomas. The best
bowling average is
Jack Leach's 12.00.
Arul Suppiah has the best bowling figures in an innings: he claimed six wickets against
Glamorgan in a 2011 match, while only conceding five runs. Suppiah's figures in that match were the best by any bowler in Twenty20 cricket at the time.
Tom Banton and
Craig Kieswetter have taken the most catches as
wicket-keeper for Somerset, with 40, and Kieswetter has made the highest number of stumpings: 14. Max Waller has claimed the highest number of catches among fielders, taking 86. (Full article...)
Muttiah Muralitharan has captured the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Test cricket. In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul—also known as a five–for or fifer—refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement; only five bowlers have taken more than 30 five-wicket hauls in their Test cricketing careers.
Sri Lankan cricketer
Muttiah Muralitharan has the most five-wicket hauls in
Test cricket, and also the second-highest number of five-wicket hauls in
One Day Internationals (ODI). He did not take any five-wicket hauls in a
Twenty20 International, where his best bowling figures were 3 wickets for 29 runs. One of the most experienced bowlers in international cricket, Muralitharan is the leading wicket taker in both Tests and ODIs. He was declared as the "best bowler ever" in Test cricket by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002, and the
Sri Lankan team depended heavily on the
off spinner for wickets.
Muralitharan is well ahead of other bowlers by number of five-wicket hauls in Tests with 67 to his name; Australian cricketer
Shane Warne ranks in second place with 37. Making his Test debut in 1992, Muralitharan took his first five-wicket haul a year later against
South Africa. He performed this feat against every other
Test playing nation. He went on to take ten or more wickets per match on 22 occasions—also a world record—while Shane Warne ranks second, having achieved this on 10 occasions. His career best is 9 wickets for 51 runs against
Zimbabwe, which ranks as the world's fifth-best figures in an innings. He was most successful against
Bangladesh and
South Africa, with 11 five-wicket hauls against each team. Fourteen of Muralitharan's five-wicket hauls were taken at the
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC) in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka. He retired from Test cricket in July 2010, capturing his 67th and final five-wicket haul during his last match. (Full article...)
Kenya gained ODI status in its own right following a strong performance in the
1996 World Cup, a competition they qualified for by gaining a second-placed finish in the
1994 ICC Trophy. The team's first ODI came against
India in the 1996 World Cup, a competition for which Kenya was given temporary ODI status, with the team then playing four further matches in the competition. Kenya's first ODI win came in their fourth World Cup match against the
West Indies. The Kenyans won the game by 73
runs but ultimately finished last in
group A. Kenya have since qualified for four more
Cricket World Cups. They reached the group stage in
the 1999 competition,
the 2007 competition and
the 2011 competition. At the
2003 Cricket World Cup, partly hosted in Kenya, the Kenyan team finished second in
their group and in doing so qualified for the
Super Sixes stage. Kenya finished third in the Super Sixes stage and qualified for the
semi-finals where they lost to India by 91 runs. The Kenyan team have played 154 ODI games with the most recent coming in 2014.
Thomas Odoyo and
Steve Tikolo have played the most ODIs for Kenya with 131 each. Tikolo has scored the most runs with 3369 for the team while Odoyo has taken the most wickets with 141. (Full article...)
Gloucestershire's first ever match was played at
Durdham Down in 1870, but it was the only time the county club played there. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, representing the
historic county of
Gloucestershire, is one of the 18 member clubs of the English
County Championship. The club was established in 1846 following the merger of the Mangotsfield Cricket Club and West Gloucestershire Cricket Club and played under the latter name until 1867, after which it became the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. It has played
first-class cricket since 1870,
List A cricket since 1963 and
Twenty20 cricket since 2003.[A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s. Gloucestershire have played home matches at eighteen different grounds.
The club's first home match in first-class cricket was played at
Durdham Down in the
Clifton district of
Bristol. This was the only time the county used this venue for a match. The following year Gloucestershire began to play matches at the
Clifton College Close Ground in the grounds of
Clifton College in the same part of the city, and this remained a regular venue for the county until the 1930s, hosting nearly 100 first-class matches. In 1872 the county used a venue outside Bristol for the first time when they played at the
College Ground in the grounds of
Cheltenham College. This venue has continued to be used regularly for the county's annual "Cheltenham festival" event, which in the modern era incorporates additional charity events and off-field entertainment. In 1889 Gloucestershire began to play matches at the
County Ground in Bristol, which has subsequently served as the club's main headquarters and hosted the majority of the county's matches. It was here that the club played its first List A match in 1963 against
Middlesex, and its first Twenty20 match forty years later against
Worcestershire. Bristol is not officially part of Gloucestershire and has been considered an independent county since 1373, though it was officially part of the county of
Avon from 1974 until 1996.
Somerset have played first-class matches at other venues in the city. (Full article...)
Cook made his Test debut against
India at the
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground,
Nagpur in 2006. He became the sixteenth English cricketer to
score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. His score of 294, against the same team at the
Edgbaston Cricket Ground,
Birmingham, in 2011, is the sixth highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. Cook has scored Test centuries at 24
cricket grounds, including 17 outside England. He has scored centuries against all eight Test opponents the team has played and scored the most centuries (seven) against India. In May 2015, Cook became England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, when he went past
Graham Gooch's tally of 8900 runs. , he ranks equal tenth among players with most Test centuries, and top of the equivalent list for England. His 38 centuries across
all formats is the highest by an English cricketer. (Full article...)
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Ashwin has taken a pair of five-wicket hauls in a match on four occasions. In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul (also known as a "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and only 51 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers.
Ravichandran Ashwin – a right-arm
off break bowler – is a
Test,
One Day International (ODI) and
Twenty20 International (T20I) cricketer who represents the
India national cricket team. In a 2016 interview, former Sri Lankan cricketer
Muttiah Muralitharan described Ashwin as the "best current Test spinner". , Ashwin has taken 36 five-wicket hauls in international cricket; he ranks joint-fifth in the
all-time list, and second among his countrymen.
Ashwin made his Test debut in
November 2011 against the West Indies. He took nine wickets in the match, including a five-wicket haul in the second innings. India won the match and his performance earned him the
man of the match honour. His career-best
figures of seven wickets for 59
runs came against
New Zealand in October 2016; in the process he also became the fifth bowler to take six five-wicket hauls against them. He has picked up ten or more wickets in a match on seven occasions. Ashwin made his ODI and T20I debuts in June 2010 against Sri Lanka and
Zimbabwe, respectively, and is yet to take a five-wicket haul in both formats. His four wickets for 25 runs against the
United Arab Emirates in the
2015 World Cup remain his best in ODIs, while his figures of four wickets for 8 runs against Sri Lanka are the fourth-best by an Indian in T20Is. (Full article...)
Since the team was formed, 62 women have represented South Africa in Twenty20 International cricket. This list includes all players who have played at least one Twenty20 International match and is initially arranged in the order of debut appearance. Where more than one player won their first cap in the same match, those players are initially listed alphabetically by last name at the time of debut. (Full article...)
Pietersen made his Test debut against
Australia in July 2005, when he was called into the team to replace
Graham Thorpe for the first Test of the 2005 Ashes series. He made his first century during the fifth Test of the series at
The Oval; his 158 in the third innings enabled England to draw the match and win the series 2–1. His career best score of 227 also came against Australia in the second Test of the
2010–11 Ashes series at the
Adelaide Oval. Pietersen has scored centuries against all Test cricket playing nations, with the exception of
Bangladesh and
Zimbabwe. He is most successful against
India, against whom he has scored six centuries. He is joint twenty-third among all-time Test century makers,[A] and second in the equivalent list for England. (Full article...)
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Rohit Sharma and
MS Dhoni both hold the record of most titles as captain in
Indian Premier League with 5 titles. In
cricket, a
captain is a player who leads the team and has additional roles and responsibilities. The
Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for
Twenty20 cricket in India, which has been held annually since its
first edition in 2008. In the 15 seasons played, 60 players have captained their team in at least one match. Mumbai Indians's
Rohit Sharma has won 6 titles as a player and 5 as captain making him the most successful player and captain in IPL history.
Chennai Super Kings's
Mahendra Singh Dhoni also has 5 title wins. and also the most Successful T20 captain with 8 T20 Titles. With the highest win–loss percentage among successful captains who have captained over 51 matches, MS Dhoni is the only captain who has played most no of finals and qualified for most times in the playoffs, He is renowned around the world by the moniker Captain Cool. Dhoni has played 210 matches and won the most matches playing as a captain with 123, and has also lost the most matches playing as a captain with 86, where as Rohit Sharma has a second place with 5 titles.
Mahela Jayawardene and
Kumar Sangakkara and
Steven Smith are the only players to captain three teams: the former has captained
Delhi Daredevils,
Kings XI Punjab and
Kochi Tuskers Kerala, whereas the latter has captained
Kings XI Punjab,
Deccan Chargers and
Sunrisers Hyderabad and the other has captained
Pune Warriors India,
Rajasthan Royals,
Rising Pune Supergiants. (Full article...)
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Gooch has scored 28 international centuries for England. Graham Gooch is a former
cricketer who
captainedEssex and
England. He has scored
centuries (100 or more
runs in a single
innings) in
Test and
One Day International (ODI) matches on twenty and eight occasions respectively, in an international career spanning nearly two decades. He is one of the most successful international
batsmen of his generation; through a
first-class career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057. With 8,900 runs, Gooch was the leading Test run-scorer for England until overtaken by Alastair Cook in 2015. Gooch is one of 25 players in history to have
scored over 100 first-class centuries. Having coached at Essex, he was full-time test batting coach for the England cricket team 2012–2014.
Five years after Gooch's Test debut where he
made a pair of
ducks against
Australia at
Edgbaston in July 1975, he scored his first Test century with 123 against the
West Indies at
Lord's in June 1980. Gooch's highest Test score is 333, which he made in the first innings against
India in 1990. As of August 2022, this is the third-highest Test score by an Englishman (after
Len Hutton's 364 and
Wally Hammond's 336
not out), and is the equal thirteenth-highest score in Test history. He went on to score 123 in the second innings of the same Test match, becoming the sixth Englishman at that time to have scored a century in both innings of a Test match, and the first for over 40 years. Gooch is one of fewer than 60 batsmen to
carry his bat in a Test innings when, in 1991 against the West Indies, he remained
not out at the end of the England innings with a score of 154. He is also one of only seven cricketers in Test history, and the only on a score of 100 or greater, to have been
dismissed by
handling the ball, when he flicked the ball away from the
stumps against Australia in 1993. (Full article...)
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England playing Sri Lanka in a day-night Twenty20 International at the
Rose Bowl, Hampshire on 15 June 2006
This list is of all members of the England cricket team who have played at least one T20I match. The order is by each player name as they achieved a
first Twenty20 cap; achievement by several players during the same match is arranged by surname alphabetically. (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 (from History of cricket)
Image 2 First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836 (from History of cricket)
Image 3Broadhalfpenny Down, the location of the first First Class match in 1772 is still played on today (from History of cricket)
Image 6In 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. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 8A
wicket consists of three
stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the
bails. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 9Photograph of Miss Lily Poulett-Harris, founding mother of women's cricket in Australia. (from History of women's cricket)
Image 10New articles of the game of cricket, 25 February 1774 (from Laws of Cricket)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket, and produces team rankings for the various forms of cricket played internationally.
Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two
innings per side.
Matches is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that. See
points calculations for more details.
Cricket is a
bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a
field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre)
pitch with a
wicket at each end, each comprising two
bails balanced on three
stumps. Two players from the
batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket, with one player from the
fielding team (the bowler)
bowling the
ball towards the striker's wicket from the opposite end of the pitch. The striker's goal is to hit the bowled ball and then switch places with the nonstriker, with the batting team scoring one
run for each exchange. Runs are also scored when the ball reaches or crosses the
boundary of the field or when the ball is bowled
illegally.
Kapil Dev is India's third highest wicket-taker in Test cricket. Kapil Dev is a former
Test and
One Day International (ODI) cricketer who represented
India between 1978 and 1994. He took 24
five-wicket hauls during his international career. In cricket, a five-wicket haul—also known as a five-for or fifer—refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and fewer than 40 bowlers have taken more than 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
fast bowler, Kapil Dev took 434 wickets in Test cricket and 253 in ODIs. With 23 five-wicket hauls in Tests, he has the third highest number of international five-wicket hauls among Indian cricketers as of 2012, after
Anil Kumble and
Harbhajan Singh. Kapil Dev was named by the Wisden as
one of their Cricketers of the Year in 1983 and Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002. Eight years later, the
International Cricket Council (ICC) inducted him into the
ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. As of 2012, Kapil Dev also holds the record for being the only player to have taken more than 400 wickets and scored over 5,000 runs in Tests.
Kapil Dev made his Test and ODI debuts against
Pakistan, both in 1978. His first five-wicket haul came a year later against
England during the first Test of
India's tour. His career-best
bowling figures in an innings of nine for 83 was achieved in 1983 against the
West Indies in
Ahmedabad. In Tests, Kapil Dev was most successful against Pakistan and
Australia, with seven five-wicket hauls against each of them. He took his only five-wicket haul in ODIs against Australia during the
1983 Cricket World Cup. (Full article...)
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Former Pakistan captain, Waqar Younis Waqar Younis, a retired
Pakistanicricketer, took 35
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 a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and only 41 bowlers have taken at least 15 five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers. A right-arm
fast bowler who represented his country between 1989 and 2003, the
BBC described Waqar as "one of the most feared fast bowlers in recent cricketing history", while former
Pakistan captain
Imran Khan said that Waqar was "a thinking cricketer and, at his peak, he was the most destructive bowler the game had seen". The cricket almanack Wisden noted his "pace and swing", and named him one of their
Cricketers of the Year in 1992. Waqar was inducted into the
ICC Hall of Fame on 9 December 2013.
Waqar made his
Test debut in 1989 against
India in
Karachi, where he took four wickets in the first innings. His first Test five-wicket haul came the following year against
New Zealand in a match which Pakistan won at
Gaddafi Stadium,
Lahore. He took a pair of five-wicket hauls in a single match against
Zimbabwe at the
Defence Stadium,
Karachi in December 1993. His career-best figures for an innings were 7 wickets for 76 runs against New Zealand at
Iqbal Stadium,
Faisalabad, in October 1990. He went on to take ten or more wickets per match on five occasions. (Full article...)
Hildreth is Somerset's leading run-scorer in Twenty20 cricket, aggregating 3,906 runs. He is also one of only nine batsmen to have scored a
century for Somerset in the format, along with
Tom Abell,
Babar Azam,
Tom Banton,
Chris Gayle,
Johann Myburgh,
Graeme Smith,
Marcus Trescothick and
Cameron White. Gayle's score of 151
not out, scored in 2015 against
Kent is the highest score by a Somerset batsman, and Gayle also has the county's best
batting average: 84.16. Among the bowlers,
Max Waller has taken more
wickets than any other bowler, claiming 139, two more than
Alfonso Thomas. The best
bowling average is
Jack Leach's 12.00.
Arul Suppiah has the best bowling figures in an innings: he claimed six wickets against
Glamorgan in a 2011 match, while only conceding five runs. Suppiah's figures in that match were the best by any bowler in Twenty20 cricket at the time.
Tom Banton and
Craig Kieswetter have taken the most catches as
wicket-keeper for Somerset, with 40, and Kieswetter has made the highest number of stumpings: 14. Max Waller has claimed the highest number of catches among fielders, taking 86. (Full article...)
Muttiah Muralitharan has captured the highest number of five-wicket hauls in Test cricket. In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul—also known as a five–for or fifer—refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement; only five bowlers have taken more than 30 five-wicket hauls in their Test cricketing careers.
Sri Lankan cricketer
Muttiah Muralitharan has the most five-wicket hauls in
Test cricket, and also the second-highest number of five-wicket hauls in
One Day Internationals (ODI). He did not take any five-wicket hauls in a
Twenty20 International, where his best bowling figures were 3 wickets for 29 runs. One of the most experienced bowlers in international cricket, Muralitharan is the leading wicket taker in both Tests and ODIs. He was declared as the "best bowler ever" in Test cricket by the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002, and the
Sri Lankan team depended heavily on the
off spinner for wickets.
Muralitharan is well ahead of other bowlers by number of five-wicket hauls in Tests with 67 to his name; Australian cricketer
Shane Warne ranks in second place with 37. Making his Test debut in 1992, Muralitharan took his first five-wicket haul a year later against
South Africa. He performed this feat against every other
Test playing nation. He went on to take ten or more wickets per match on 22 occasions—also a world record—while Shane Warne ranks second, having achieved this on 10 occasions. His career best is 9 wickets for 51 runs against
Zimbabwe, which ranks as the world's fifth-best figures in an innings. He was most successful against
Bangladesh and
South Africa, with 11 five-wicket hauls against each team. Fourteen of Muralitharan's five-wicket hauls were taken at the
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground (SSC) in
Colombo,
Sri Lanka. He retired from Test cricket in July 2010, capturing his 67th and final five-wicket haul during his last match. (Full article...)
Kenya gained ODI status in its own right following a strong performance in the
1996 World Cup, a competition they qualified for by gaining a second-placed finish in the
1994 ICC Trophy. The team's first ODI came against
India in the 1996 World Cup, a competition for which Kenya was given temporary ODI status, with the team then playing four further matches in the competition. Kenya's first ODI win came in their fourth World Cup match against the
West Indies. The Kenyans won the game by 73
runs but ultimately finished last in
group A. Kenya have since qualified for four more
Cricket World Cups. They reached the group stage in
the 1999 competition,
the 2007 competition and
the 2011 competition. At the
2003 Cricket World Cup, partly hosted in Kenya, the Kenyan team finished second in
their group and in doing so qualified for the
Super Sixes stage. Kenya finished third in the Super Sixes stage and qualified for the
semi-finals where they lost to India by 91 runs. The Kenyan team have played 154 ODI games with the most recent coming in 2014.
Thomas Odoyo and
Steve Tikolo have played the most ODIs for Kenya with 131 each. Tikolo has scored the most runs with 3369 for the team while Odoyo has taken the most wickets with 141. (Full article...)
Gloucestershire's first ever match was played at
Durdham Down in 1870, but it was the only time the county club played there. Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, representing the
historic county of
Gloucestershire, is one of the 18 member clubs of the English
County Championship. The club was established in 1846 following the merger of the Mangotsfield Cricket Club and West Gloucestershire Cricket Club and played under the latter name until 1867, after which it became the Gloucestershire County Cricket Club. It has played
first-class cricket since 1870,
List A cricket since 1963 and
Twenty20 cricket since 2003.[A] Unlike most professional sports, in which a team usually has a single fixed home ground, county cricket clubs have traditionally used different grounds in various towns and cities within the county for home matches, although the use of minor "out grounds" away from the club's main headquarters has diminished since the 1980s. Gloucestershire have played home matches at eighteen different grounds.
The club's first home match in first-class cricket was played at
Durdham Down in the
Clifton district of
Bristol. This was the only time the county used this venue for a match. The following year Gloucestershire began to play matches at the
Clifton College Close Ground in the grounds of
Clifton College in the same part of the city, and this remained a regular venue for the county until the 1930s, hosting nearly 100 first-class matches. In 1872 the county used a venue outside Bristol for the first time when they played at the
College Ground in the grounds of
Cheltenham College. This venue has continued to be used regularly for the county's annual "Cheltenham festival" event, which in the modern era incorporates additional charity events and off-field entertainment. In 1889 Gloucestershire began to play matches at the
County Ground in Bristol, which has subsequently served as the club's main headquarters and hosted the majority of the county's matches. It was here that the club played its first List A match in 1963 against
Middlesex, and its first Twenty20 match forty years later against
Worcestershire. Bristol is not officially part of Gloucestershire and has been considered an independent county since 1373, though it was officially part of the county of
Avon from 1974 until 1996.
Somerset have played first-class matches at other venues in the city. (Full article...)
Cook made his Test debut against
India at the
Vidarbha Cricket Association Ground,
Nagpur in 2006. He became the sixteenth English cricketer to
score a century on Test debut when he scored 104 in the second innings. His score of 294, against the same team at the
Edgbaston Cricket Ground,
Birmingham, in 2011, is the sixth highest total by an English batsman in Test cricket. Cook has scored Test centuries at 24
cricket grounds, including 17 outside England. He has scored centuries against all eight Test opponents the team has played and scored the most centuries (seven) against India. In May 2015, Cook became England's all-time leading run scorer in Tests, when he went past
Graham Gooch's tally of 8900 runs. , he ranks equal tenth among players with most Test centuries, and top of the equivalent list for England. His 38 centuries across
all formats is the highest by an English cricketer. (Full article...)
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Ashwin has taken a pair of five-wicket hauls in a match on four occasions. In
cricket, a
five-wicket haul (also known as a "fifer") refers to a
bowler taking five or more
wickets in a single
innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement, and only 51 bowlers have taken 15 or more five-wicket hauls at international level in their cricketing careers.
Ravichandran Ashwin – a right-arm
off break bowler – is a
Test,
One Day International (ODI) and
Twenty20 International (T20I) cricketer who represents the
India national cricket team. In a 2016 interview, former Sri Lankan cricketer
Muttiah Muralitharan described Ashwin as the "best current Test spinner". , Ashwin has taken 36 five-wicket hauls in international cricket; he ranks joint-fifth in the
all-time list, and second among his countrymen.
Ashwin made his Test debut in
November 2011 against the West Indies. He took nine wickets in the match, including a five-wicket haul in the second innings. India won the match and his performance earned him the
man of the match honour. His career-best
figures of seven wickets for 59
runs came against
New Zealand in October 2016; in the process he also became the fifth bowler to take six five-wicket hauls against them. He has picked up ten or more wickets in a match on seven occasions. Ashwin made his ODI and T20I debuts in June 2010 against Sri Lanka and
Zimbabwe, respectively, and is yet to take a five-wicket haul in both formats. His four wickets for 25 runs against the
United Arab Emirates in the
2015 World Cup remain his best in ODIs, while his figures of four wickets for 8 runs against Sri Lanka are the fourth-best by an Indian in T20Is. (Full article...)
Since the team was formed, 62 women have represented South Africa in Twenty20 International cricket. This list includes all players who have played at least one Twenty20 International match and is initially arranged in the order of debut appearance. Where more than one player won their first cap in the same match, those players are initially listed alphabetically by last name at the time of debut. (Full article...)
Pietersen made his Test debut against
Australia in July 2005, when he was called into the team to replace
Graham Thorpe for the first Test of the 2005 Ashes series. He made his first century during the fifth Test of the series at
The Oval; his 158 in the third innings enabled England to draw the match and win the series 2–1. His career best score of 227 also came against Australia in the second Test of the
2010–11 Ashes series at the
Adelaide Oval. Pietersen has scored centuries against all Test cricket playing nations, with the exception of
Bangladesh and
Zimbabwe. He is most successful against
India, against whom he has scored six centuries. He is joint twenty-third among all-time Test century makers,[A] and second in the equivalent list for England. (Full article...)
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Rohit Sharma and
MS Dhoni both hold the record of most titles as captain in
Indian Premier League with 5 titles. In
cricket, a
captain is a player who leads the team and has additional roles and responsibilities. The
Indian Premier League (IPL) is a professional league for
Twenty20 cricket in India, which has been held annually since its
first edition in 2008. In the 15 seasons played, 60 players have captained their team in at least one match. Mumbai Indians's
Rohit Sharma has won 6 titles as a player and 5 as captain making him the most successful player and captain in IPL history.
Chennai Super Kings's
Mahendra Singh Dhoni also has 5 title wins. and also the most Successful T20 captain with 8 T20 Titles. With the highest win–loss percentage among successful captains who have captained over 51 matches, MS Dhoni is the only captain who has played most no of finals and qualified for most times in the playoffs, He is renowned around the world by the moniker Captain Cool. Dhoni has played 210 matches and won the most matches playing as a captain with 123, and has also lost the most matches playing as a captain with 86, where as Rohit Sharma has a second place with 5 titles.
Mahela Jayawardene and
Kumar Sangakkara and
Steven Smith are the only players to captain three teams: the former has captained
Delhi Daredevils,
Kings XI Punjab and
Kochi Tuskers Kerala, whereas the latter has captained
Kings XI Punjab,
Deccan Chargers and
Sunrisers Hyderabad and the other has captained
Pune Warriors India,
Rajasthan Royals,
Rising Pune Supergiants. (Full article...)
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Gooch has scored 28 international centuries for England. Graham Gooch is a former
cricketer who
captainedEssex and
England. He has scored
centuries (100 or more
runs in a single
innings) in
Test and
One Day International (ODI) matches on twenty and eight occasions respectively, in an international career spanning nearly two decades. He is one of the most successful international
batsmen of his generation; through a
first-class career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057. With 8,900 runs, Gooch was the leading Test run-scorer for England until overtaken by Alastair Cook in 2015. Gooch is one of 25 players in history to have
scored over 100 first-class centuries. Having coached at Essex, he was full-time test batting coach for the England cricket team 2012–2014.
Five years after Gooch's Test debut where he
made a pair of
ducks against
Australia at
Edgbaston in July 1975, he scored his first Test century with 123 against the
West Indies at
Lord's in June 1980. Gooch's highest Test score is 333, which he made in the first innings against
India in 1990. As of August 2022, this is the third-highest Test score by an Englishman (after
Len Hutton's 364 and
Wally Hammond's 336
not out), and is the equal thirteenth-highest score in Test history. He went on to score 123 in the second innings of the same Test match, becoming the sixth Englishman at that time to have scored a century in both innings of a Test match, and the first for over 40 years. Gooch is one of fewer than 60 batsmen to
carry his bat in a Test innings when, in 1991 against the West Indies, he remained
not out at the end of the England innings with a score of 154. He is also one of only seven cricketers in Test history, and the only on a score of 100 or greater, to have been
dismissed by
handling the ball, when he flicked the ball away from the
stumps against Australia in 1993. (Full article...)
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England playing Sri Lanka in a day-night Twenty20 International at the
Rose Bowl, Hampshire on 15 June 2006
This list is of all members of the England cricket team who have played at least one T20I match. The order is by each player name as they achieved a
first Twenty20 cap; achievement by several players during the same match is arranged by surname alphabetically. (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 (from History of cricket)
Image 2 First Grand Match of Cricket Played by Members of the Royal Amateur Society on Hampton Court Green, August 3rd, 1836 (from History of cricket)
Image 3Broadhalfpenny Down, the location of the first First Class match in 1772 is still played on today (from History of cricket)
Image 6In 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. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 8A
wicket consists of three
stumps, upright wooden poles that are hammered into the ground, topped with two wooden crosspieces, known as the
bails. (from Laws of Cricket)
Image 9Photograph of Miss Lily Poulett-Harris, founding mother of women's cricket in Australia. (from History of women's cricket)
Image 10New articles of the game of cricket, 25 February 1774 (from Laws of Cricket)
The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket, and produces team rankings for the various forms of cricket played internationally.
Test cricket is the longest form of cricket, played up to a maximum of five days with two
innings per side.
Matches is the number of matches played in the 12–24 months since the May before last, plus half the number in the 24 months before that. See
points calculations for more details.
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