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• He batted 80 times against England, the West Indies, South Africa and India for 6996 runs
at that average of 99.94.
• Bradman made 29 Test hundreds.
• Discounting his 10 not outs and his multiple hundreds, this means Bradman exceeded the
century more often than every third time he went out to bat.
• His nearest contemporary in batting genius, England's Walter Hammond, made only 253
more runs in 33 more Test matches and another 60 innings at an average of 41 less than
Bradman. Hammond's 22 hundreds came at a rate greater than every sixth time he went
out to bat.
• Bradman made 12 Test double-centuries or more, with 334 and 304 against England and
299 not out against South Africa the highest.
• In all first-class cricket Don Bradman scored 28,067 runs at an average of 95.14 with 117
centuries and a highest score of 452 not out. He hit 37 double-centuries, six of them over
300.
• If Bradman had scored just four runs in his last Test innings at The Oval in 1948, he would
have finished with a Test average of 100 runs an innings -
•  Sachin Tendulkar is a former Indian international cricketer and a former captain, regarded
as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. The highest run scorer of all time
in International cricket.
• He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman
to score a double century in a One Day International, the holder of the record for the most
number of runs in both ODI and Test cricket, and the only player to complete more than
30,000 runs in international cricket.
• In 2002, halfway through his career, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the second
greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Don Bradman, and the second greatest ODI
batsman of all time, behind Viv Richards.
• Tendulkar received the Arjuna Award in 1994 for his outstanding sporting achievement,
the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award in 1997, India's highest sporting honour, and the Padma
Shri and Padma Vibhushan awards in 1999 and 2008, respectively,
•  After a few hours of his final match on 16 November 2013, the Prime Minister's
Office announced the decision to award him the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian
award.
• Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers, AO, OCC (born 28 July 1936), also known as Gary or Garry
Sobers, is a former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974, and is
widely considered to be cricket's greatest all-rounder.
• Overall, Sobers played 93 Tests for the West Indies, scoring 8032 runs at an average of
57.78, and taking 235 wickets at an average of 34.03.
• He has the fourth highest batting average in Test cricket in the list of cricketers with more
than 5,000 runs.
• In his 383 first-class matches, he scored over 28,000 runs and took over 1000 wickets,
having spent time with South Australia and Nottinghamshire towards the end of his career. 
• Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv
Richards, is a former Antiguancricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and
international levels. He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.
•  Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century by a 100-member panel of
experts in 2000, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack
Hobbs and Shane Warne.
• In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the greatest ODI batsman of all time, as
well as the third greatest Test batsman of all time, after Sir Don Bradman and Sachin
Tendulkar.
•  His consistent batting ability is highly regarded; he is the first cricketer in ODI history to
achieve 20 Man of the Match awards.
• Richards scored 8,540 runs in 121 Test matches at an average of 50.23, including 24
centuries. As a captain, he won 27 of 50 Test matches and lost only 8.
• He also scored nearly 7,000 runs in One Day Internationals and more than 36,000 in first-
class cricket.
•  Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He was named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of
the Century in 2002,
• KAPIL Dev captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. He was
India's national cricket coach between October 1999 and August 2000.
• He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets taken in Test
cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000.
• At the time, he was also India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests
and ODIs.
• He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434
wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-
rounders to have played the game.
• IMRANKhan made his Test cricket debut against England in 1971 Edgbaston. Three years
later, he debuted in the One Day International (ODI) match
• In 9 Tests, he got 62 wickets at 13.29 each, the lowest average of any bowler in Test history
with at least 50 wickets in a calendar year.
• Khan achieved the all-rounder's triple (securing 3000 runs and 300 wickets) in 75 Tests, the
second fastest record behind Ian Botham's 72.
• He is also established as having the second highest all-time batting average of 61.86 for a
Test batsman playing at position 6 of the batting order.
• Khan retired permanently from cricket six months after his last ODI, the historic 1992
World Cup final against England in Melbourne, Australia.
• He ended his career with 88 Test matches, 126 innings and scored 3807 runs at an average
of 37.69, including six centuries and 18 fifties.
• As a bowler, he took 362 wickets in Test cricket, which made him the first Pakistani and
world's fourth bowler to do so.
•  In ODIs, he played 175 matches and scored 3709 runs at an average of 33.41.
• Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest cricketers of all time and one of the game's
greatest all-rounders.
•  As of 2016 he was the only cricketer in the history of the game to score more than
10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket, pouching 131
ODI catches along the way as well.
• His Test match career in particular saw him score 13,289 runs, take 292 wickets and 200
catches respectively.
• Kallis played 166 Test matches and had a batting average of over 55 runs per .
• With his century in the second innings of the third Test against India in January 2011, his
40th in all, he moved past Ricky Ponting to become the second-highest scorer of Test
centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar's 51.
• Muralitharan holds the world record for the most wickets in both test and one-day cricket.
In 2017, he became the only Sri Lankan to inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame.
•  He won the Ada Derana Sri Lankan of the Year in 2017.
• Muralitharan took the wicket of Gautam Gambhir on 5 February 2009 in Colombo to
surpass Wasim Akram's ODI record of 502 wickets.
• He became the highest wicket-taker in Test cricket when he overtook the previous record-
holder Shane Warne on 3 December 2007.
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• Warne played his first Test match in 1992 and took over 1000 international wickets (in Tests
and One-Day Internationals), second to this milestone after Sri Lanka's Muttiah
Muralitharan. Warne's 708 Test wickets was the record for the most wicketstaken by any
bowler in Test cricket, until it was also broken by Muralitharan on 3 December 2007.
•  A useful lower-order batsman, Warne is also the only player to have scored 3000+ Test
runs without a career century and he holds the record for most Test runs without a century
(3154).
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• Akram is regarded as one of the greatest fast bowlers in the history of game.
• He holds the world record for most wickets in List A cricket, with 881, and he is second only
to Sri Lankan off-spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of ODI wickets, with 502 in
total. He is considered to be one of the founders—and perhaps the finest exponent of—
reverse swing bowling.
• He was the first bowler to reach the 500-wicket mark in ODI cricket during the 2003 World
Cup.
• Wasim was ranked as the best bowler in ODI of all time, with a rating of 1223.5, ahead
of Allan Donald, Imran Khan, Waqar Younis, Joel Garner, Glenn McGrath and Muralitharan.
• Wasim has taken 23 four-wicket hauls in ODI in 356 matches he played
•  Brian Lara topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several
cricketing records, including the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket,
with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only
quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.
•  Lara also holds the record for the highest individual score in a Test innings after scoring 400
not out against England at Antigua in 2004.
•  He is the only batsman to have ever scored a century, a double century, a triple century, a
quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior
career.
•  Lara also shares the test record of scoring the highest number of runs in a single over in a
Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003
(matched in 2013 by Australia's George Bailey)
• Ponting was captain of the Australia national cricket team during its 'golden era'; between
2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day International cricket.
• He is a specialist right-handed batsman, an excellent slip / close catching fielder, as well as a
very occasional bowler.
• He was named "Cricketer of the decade 2000". He led Australia to victory at the 2003 and
2007 Cricket World Cups and was also a member of the 1999 World Cup winning team
under Steve Waugh.
• After being involved in over 160 Tests and 370 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's leading run-
scorer in Test and ODI cricket.
• He is one of only four players (along with Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Jacques Kallis)
in history to have scored 13,000 Test runs.
• Statistically, he is one of the most successful captains of all time, with 48 victories in 77
Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010.
• As a player, Ponting is the only cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories.
•  Ponting also holds the record to have been involved in the most ODI victories as a player,
with 262 wins
• Jayasuriya was an all-rounder, who had an international cricket career that spread over two
decades,
•  He is the only player to score over 12,000 runs and capture more than 300 wickets in One
Day International cricket, and hence regarded as one of the best all rounders in the history
of limited-overs cricket.
• He was named the Most Valuable Player of 1996 Cricket World Cup and Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack broke an age old tradition by naming him one of Five Cricketers’ of the Year 1997
despite not playing the previous season in England.
•  Jayasuriya was also the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1999 to 2003.
• McGrath's consistency enabled him to be one of the most economical and dangerous fast
bowlers of his time.
• McGrath holds the world record for the highest number of Tes twickets by a fast bowler
and is fourth on the all-time list, with the top three wicket takers Muttiah
Muralitharan, Shane Warne, and Anil Kumble all being spin bowlers.
• He has also taken the seventh-highest number of one day international wickets (381), and
holds the record for the most wickets in the Cricket World Cup.
• McGrath holds seven highest tenth wicket partnerships, and two tenth wicket partnerships
of 100 plus.
• McGrath holds the record for dismissing the most batsmen for ducks in test cricket (104).
• His win-loss record at World Cup tournaments is impressive; he's been in four tournaments
(1996, 1999, 2003 and 2007), two less than the record. Australia won three of those (1999,
2003 and 2007) and were runners-up in 1996 to Sri Lanka.
• He holds most bowling records in ICC Cricket World Cup, including most wickets, most
wickets in a single tournament, best bowling figures, bowling average and most maiden
overs.
• Jack Hobbs, was an English professionalcricketer who played for Surrey from 1905 to 1934
and for England in 61 Test matches between 1908 and 1930.
• Known as "The Master", he is regarded by critics as one of the greatest batsmen in the
history of cricket
• He is the leading run-scorer and century-maker in first-class cricket, with 61,760 runs and
199 centuries.
•  A right-handed batsman and an occasional right-arm medium pace bowler,
• Inzamam-ul-haq also known as Inzy, is a former Pakistani cricketer, and former captain.
•  He is the leading run scorer for Pakistan in one-day internationals, and the third-highest
run scorer for Pakistan in Test cricket.
• He was the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team from 2003–07 and is considered
to be one of the best leaders in Pakistan Cricket history.
• Inzamam set a record for scoring the most half centuries in One Day Internationals, 83 –
though this is now surpassed by Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis and Kumar Sangakkara. 
• He also became the second batsman to score 10,000 runs in One-day Internationals (again
after Tendulkar) and was named in the ICC World XI for both Tests and One-day
Internationals in the 2005 ICC Awards.
• Rahul Dravid is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the
greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.
•  He is the current Overseas Batting Consultant for the Indian team, and also the head coach
for the Under-19 and 'A' teams.
• , Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers'
Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year
awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004.
• As of December 2016, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin
Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis.
•  In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first
and the only player till date to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries.
•  As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most number of catches taken by a player
(non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with 210.
•  Dravid holds a unique record of never getting out for a Golden duck in the 286 Test innings
which he has played.
• He has faced 31258 balls, which is highest number of balls face by any player in test cricket.
•  He has also spent 44152 minutes at the crease, which is highest time spent on crease by
any player in test cricket
•  Steve Waugh captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004, and was the
most capped Test cricket player in history, with 168 appearances, until Sachin
Tendulkar of Indiabroke this record in 2010. 
• He is one of only twelve players to have scored more than 10,000 Test runs.
• As captain, he led Australia to fifteen of their record sixteen consecutive Test wins, and to
victory in the 1999 Cricket World Cup.
• Adam Craig Gilchrist,  is a former Australianinternational cricketer and former captain of all
formats.
• Widely regarded as the greatest wicket-keeper–batsman in the history of the game.
•  Gilchrist held the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in One Day
International (ODI) cricket until it was surpassed by Kumar Sangakkara in 2015 and the
most by an Australian in Test cricket.
• Holder of the second most sixes in a Test career, with 100 sixes.He was also the first to hit
100 test sixes.
• Holder of fourth fastest Test hundred (100 in 57 deliveries) vs England, 16 December 2006.
• Holder of the second most Test dismissals by a wicketkeeper (416), 4 February 2008.
• Holder of most Test centuries by a wicketkeeper (17), 4 February 2008