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Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960–61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
The first Test, against a Combined Australia XI, was billed as the "Grand Combination Match", and was scheduled to be held at the East Melbourne Cricket Ground, because the Melbourne Cricket Ground had been booked by Grace. With Grace having pulled out, however, Lillywhite moved his matches to the larger, and more profitable, MCG, to the ...
Australia's Charles Bannerman was the first cricketer to score a century on Test debut, in the first Test match.. For a cricketer to score a century (100 runs or more) on his Test match debut is considered a notable achievement, [1] and as of 30 January 2025 it has been accomplished 118 times by 116 players with Australian batter Josh Inglis the most recent player to make the list with a ...
Test Cricket is a format ... international teams that do not have Test status can play first-class cricket in the ICC ... The team batting fourth score the required ...
Len Hutton's score of 364 runs against Australia during the final Test of the 1938 Ashes series at The Oval is the sixth highest individual score in Test cricket and the highest by an England player. Wally Hammond's 336, scored against New Zealand in 1933, is the third highest not out Test innings and the ninth highest overall. [84]
A double century is regarded as a landmark score for batsmen and a player's number of double centuries are generally recorded in their career statistics. [3] First-class cricket, the longest version of the game after Test cricket, involves two innings per side in a match and scheduled to last for up to three or more days. [4]
Centenary Test refers to two matches of Test cricket played between the English cricket team and the Australian cricket team, the first in 1977 and the second in 1980.These matches were played to mark the 100th anniversaries of the first Test cricket matches played in Australia (1877) and in England (1880) respectively.
In Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, 36 bowlers have taken a wicket with their first ball, including 4 women cricketers. The first to achieve this feat was Australian Michael Kasprowicz who took wickets with his first and second delivery in this format on 17 May 2005, dismissing New Zealand's Stephen Fleming and Mathew Sinclair. [18]