13 Cricket Records That May Never Be Broken

721-RUN PARTNERSHIP: Think of big partnerships in school cricket and our thoughts automatically turn to Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli’s 664 runs in the 1980s. That record was broken in 2006 when another set of thirteen-year-olds from Hyderabad added 721 runs—in just 40 overs! B Manoj Kumar (320, 127 balls, with 46 fours) and Mohamed Shaibaaz Tumbi (327, 116 balls, with 67 fours) of St. Peter's High School destroyed St. Phillip's High School ..
10 WICKETS FOR 10 RUNS: Yorkshire and England left-arm spinner Hedley Verity was a peerless bowler who took 1956 wickets in 378 First Class matches. He has taken all 10 wickets in an innings twice and holds the record for the best figures in an innings. Against Nottinghamshire in a home game in 1932, the wicket turned sticky and Verity rained hell on the visitors as they crashed for 44-0 to 67 all out. He took 10-10 in 19.4 overs, 16 of which
MURALITHARAN’S INTERNATIONAL WICKETS: The Sri Lanka off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan has 800 Test wickets and 534 ODI wickets. To fully fathom what Muralitharan has achieved in Tests, take the current 100m sprint record and halve it. When Murali started playing Test cricket, the record was a mere 431. With his ruthless efficiency for consuming wickets, he has pushed the record to heights that may not be touched again

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   721-RUN PARTNERSHIP: Think of big partnerships in school cricket and our thoughts automatically turn to Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli’s 664 runs in the 1980s. That record was broken in 2006 when another set of thirteen-year-olds from Hyderabad added 721 runs—in just 40 overs! B Manoj Kumar (320, 127 balls, with 46 fours) and Mohamed Shaibaaz Tumbi (327, 116 balls, with 67 fours) of St. Peter's High School destroyed St. Phillip's High School ...more 

2. 10 WICKETS FOR 10 RUNS: Yorkshire and England left-arm spinner Hedley Verity was a peerless bowler who took 1956 wickets in 378 First Class matches. He has taken all 10 wickets in an innings twice and holds the record for the best figures in an innings. Against Nottinghamshire in a home game in 1932, the wicket turned sticky and Verity rained hell on the visitors as they crashed for 44-0 to 67 all out. He took 10-10 in 19.4 overs, 16 of which ...more 

3. MOST WICKETS IN A MATCH: There have been plenty of 17-fors in First Class cricket, but never an 18-for. Only one bowler has once managed 19. Jim Laker took an incredible 19-90 in the Manchester Test against Australia in 1956: 9-37 in the first innings (7-8 off his last 22 balls) and 10-53 in the second innings in 51.2 overs. No bowler has come within an earshot of this incredible feat, which suggests that the record will stay with Laker for long.

4. TENDULKAR’S INTERNATIONAL MATCHES, RUNS AND HUNDREDS: Sachin Tendulkar has amassed a mountain of batting records. He has 15,921 Test runs with 51 hundreds in 200 matches, 18,426 ODI runs with 49 hundreds in 463 matches, and each of these numbers is unlikely to be topped

1. 10 WICKETS FOR 10 RUNS: Yorkshire and England left-arm spinner Hedley Verity was a peerless bowler who took 1956 wickets in 378 First Class matches. He has taken all 10 wickets in an innings twice and holds the record for the best figures in an innings. Against Nottinghamshire in a home game in 1932, the wicket turned sticky and Verity rained hell on the visitors as they crashed for 44-0 to 67 all out. He took 10-10 in 19.4 overs, 16 of which ...more 

2. MOST WICKETS IN A MATCH: There have been plenty of 17-fors in First Class cricket, but never an 18-for. Only one bowler has once managed 19. Jim Laker took an incredible 19-90 in the Manchester Test against Australia in 1956: 9-37 in the first innings (7-8 off his last 22 balls) and 10-53 in the second innings in 51.2 overs. No bowler has come within an earshot of this incredible feat, which suggests that the record will stay with Laker for lon721-RUN PARTNERSHIP: Think of big partnerships in school cricket and our thoughts automatically turn to Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli’s 664 runs in the 1980s. That record was broken in 2006 when another set of thirteen-year-olds from Hyderabad added 721 runs—in just 40 overs! B Manoj Kumar (320, 127 balls, with 46 fours) and Mohamed Shaibaaz Tumbi (327, 116 balls, with 67 fours) of St. Peter's High School destroyed St. Phillip's High School ..

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4. 10 WICKETS FOR 10 RUNS: Yorkshire and England left-arm spinner Hedley Verity was a peerless bowler who took 1956 wickets in 378 First Class matches. He has taken all 10 wickets in an innings twice and holds the record for the best figures in an innings. Against Nottinghamshire in a home game in 1932, the wicket turned sticky and Verity rained hell on the visitors as they crashed for 44-0 to 67 all out. He took 10-10 in 19.4 overs, 16 of which ...more 

5. MOST WICKETS IN A MATCH: There have been plenty of 17-fors in First Class cricket, but never an 18-for. Only one bowler has once managed 19. Jim Laker took an incredible 19-90 in the Manchester Test against Australia in 1956: 9-37 in the first innings (7-8 off his last 22 balls) and 10-53 in the second innings in 51.2 overs. No bowler has come within an earshot of this incredible feat, which suggests that the record will stay with Laker for long.

List of One Day International cricket records

West Indies' Carlos Brathwaite hit England's Ben Stokes for four successive sixes to snatch a thrilling four-wicket win in Sunday's World Twenty20 final as the Caribbean side became the first team to win the title twice. 

Needing 19 off the last over sent down by Stokes, Brathwaite exhibited nerves of steel to complete the chase in stunning style and trigger wild celebrations amongst his jubilant team mates who invaded the Eden Gardens pitch.

England's death overs hero Stokes was left distraught after failing to contain Brathwaite, who had a memorable night having scored 34 with the bat after earlier claiming 3-23 with the ball to restrict England to a modest total.

Marlon Samuels remained not out on 85, playing a key role in reviving the 2012 champions' chase, but it was brilliant Brathwaite's blistering total off 10 balls that saw them home.

Put in to bat, England got off to a horrendous start before Joe Root hit a fluent 54 to help the 2010 champions post a competitive 155 for nine wickets.

Root added 61 in partnership with Jos Buttler (36), who hit left-arm spinner Sulieman Benn for back-to-back sixes before holing out in the deep.

Dwayne Bravo (3-37) struck twice in the 14th over and Root perished in the next over, trying to scoop a Brathwaite (3-23) delivery.

West Indies wobbled early in their chase after part-time spinner Root dismissed Johnson Charles and the dangerous Chris Gayle in his the first three balls to peg them back.

Samuels added 75 runs with Dwayne Bravo (25) to steady the ship before Brathwaite provided the remarkable late fireworks to secure an emotional victory.

                       

                                         Listing criteria

In general the top five are listed in each category (except when there is a tie for the last place among the five, when all the tied record holders are noted).

                                          Listing notation

Team notation

• (300–3) indicates that a team scored 300 runs for three wickets and the innings was closed, either due to a successful run chase or if no overs remained (or are able) to be bowled.
• (300) indicates that a team scored 300 runs and was all out, either by losing all ten wickets or by having one or morebatsmen unable to bat and losing the remaining wickets.

Batting notation

• (100*) indicates that a batsman scored 100 runs and was not out.
• (175) indicates that a batsman scored 175 runs and was out after that.

Bowling notation

• (5–40) indicates that a bowler has captured 5 wickets while giving away 40 runs.
• (49.5 overs) indicates that a team bowled 49 complete overs (each of six legal deliveries), and one incomplete over of just five deliveries.

Currently playing

• Record holders who are currently playing ODIs (i.e. their record details listed could change) are shown by ‡.

Seasons

• Cricket is played during the summer months in most countries. Domestic cricket seasons in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Zimbabwe and the West Indies may therefore span two calendar years, and are by convention said to be played in (e.g.) "2008–09". A cricket season in England is described as a single year. e.g. "2009". An international ODI series or tournament may be for a much shorter duration, and Cricinfo treats this issue by stating "any series or matches which began between May and September of any given year will appear in the relevant single year season and any that began between October and April will appear in the relevant cross-year season".^[8] In the record tables, a two-year span generally indicates that the record was set within a domestic season in one of the above named countries.

Team records

Team wins, losses, ties, and no results

Team	First ODI	Matches	Won	Lost	Tied	No result	Win
Afghanistan	19 April 2009	67	34	32	0	1	51.51
Africa XI	17 August 2005	6	1	4	0	1	20.00
Asia XI	10 January 2005	7	4	2	0	1	66.66
Australia	5 January 1971	882	546	295	9	32	64.76
Bangladesh	31 March 1986	312	98	210	0	4	31.81
Bermuda	17 May 2006	35	7	28	0	0	20.00
Canada	9 June 1979	77	17	58	0	2	22.66
East Africa	7 June 1975	3	0	3	0	0	0.00
England	5 January 1971	674	326	317	8	23	50.69
Hong Kong	16 July 2004	13	3	9	0	1	25.00
ICC World XI	10 January 2005	4	1	3	0	0	25.00
India	13 July 1974	899	454	399	7	39	53.19
Ireland	13 June 2006	108	47	52	3	6	47.54
Kenya	18 February 1996	154	42	107	0	5	28.18
Namibia	10 February 2003	6	0	6	0	0	0.00
Netherlands	17 February 1996	76	28	44	1	3	39.04
New Zealand	11 February 1973	703	311	348	6	38	47.21
Pakistan	11 February 1973	863	454	383	8	18	54.20
Papua New Guinea	8 November 2014	2	2	0	0	0	100.00
Scotland	16 May 1999	87	29	52	0	6	35.80
South Africa	10 November 1991	558	342	194	6	16	63.65
Sri Lanka	7 June 1975	777	365	373	5	34	49.46
United Arab Emirates	13 April 1994	28	5	23	0	0	17.85
United States of America	10 September 2004	2	0	2	0	0	0.00
West Indies	5 September 1973	741	376	333	8	24	52.99
Zimbabwe	9 June 1983	474	122	337	5	10	26.83
The win percentage excludes no results; a tie counts as half a win

Result records

Greatest win margin (by runs)

Margin	Teams	Venue	Date	Scorecard
290 runs	New Zealand (402–2) beat  Ireland(112)	Mannofield Park, Aberdeen	1 July 2008	Scorecard
275 runs	Australia (417–6) beat  Afghanistan(142)	WACA, Perth	4 March 2015	Scorecard
272 runs	South Africa (399–6) beat  Zimbabwe (127)	Willowmoore Park, Benoni	22 October 2010	Scorecard
258 runs	South Africa (301–8) beat  Sri Lanka (43)	Boland Park, Paarl	11 January 2012	Scorecard
257 runs	India (413–5) beat  Bermuda (156)	Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain,Trinidad	19 March 2007	Scorecard
	South Africa (408–5) beat  West Indies (151)	SCG, Sydney	27 February 2015	Scorecard

Greatest win margin (by balls remaining)

Margin	Teams	Venue	Date	Scorecard
277 balls†	England (46–2) beat  Canada (45)	Old Trafford, Manchester	13 June 1979	Scorecard
274 balls	Sri Lanka (40–1) beat  Zimbabwe (38)	SSC, Colombo	8 December 2001	Scorecard
272 balls	Sri Lanka (37–1) beat  Canada (36)	Boland Park, Paarl	19 February 2003	Scorecard
264 balls	New Zealand (95–0) beat  Bangladesh(93)	Queenstown, New Zealand	31 December 2007	Scorecard
253 balls	Australia (66–1) beat  United States(65
†This match was played with 60 overs per innings

Most consecutive wins

Wins	Team	First win	Last win
21	Australia	England at Hobart, 11 January 2003	West Indies at Port of Spain, 24 May 2003
12	South Africa[a]	England at Centurion, 13 February 2005	New Zealand at Port Elizabeth, 30 October 2005
	Pakistan	India at Jaipur, 18 November 2007	Bangladesh at Dhaka, 8 June 2008
11	West Indies	England at Lord's, 4 June 1984	Sri Lanka at Perth, 2 February 1985
	Australia[b]	Scotland at Basseterre, 14 March 2007	Sri Lanka at Bridgetown, 28 April 2007
No Results are treated the same as losses and ties in the above table.
Notes: ^[a] This sequence began after a no-result, and was ended by a no-result. The first win was over England in the 7th and final ODI (ODI 2226) of a seven-game series. The 6th ODI (ODI 2225) was a no result, before which South Africa had won the 3rd (ODI 2221), 4th (ODI 2223), and 5th (ODI 2224) ODIs. Ignoring this no result, the sequence lasted 15 matches.[13] The last win came against New Zealand in the 3rd ODI (ODI 2289) of a five-game series. The 4th ODI (ODI 2292) was a no result and South Africa won the 5th ODI (ODI 2293) as well as the 1st ODI (ODI 2297) against India in their next series before losing to India in the 2nd ODI (ODI 2298). Ignoring this no result as well, South Africa's winning streak is further extended to 17 matches.[14] ^[b] This sequence was ended by a no-result. The last win was the 2007 Cricket World Cup Final (ODI 2581). Australia's next ODI (ODI 2621) was the first game of a seven-game series against India; there was no result. Australia won the next two ODIs of the series (ODI 2623 and 2625) before losing the 4th ODI (ODI 2627). If this no result is ignored, the second and third ODIs would be included in Australia's winning streak, extending it to 13 matches.[15]

Most consecutive defeats

Defeats	Team	First defeat	Last defeat
23	Bangladesh[a]	West Indies at Dhaka, 8 October 1999	South Africa at Kimberley, 9 October 2002
22	Bangladesh	Pakistan at Moratuwa, 31 March 1986	India at Mohali, 14 May 1998
18	Zimbabwe	India at Leicester, 11 June 1983	Australia at Hobart, 14 March 1992
	Bangladesh[a]	South Africa at Bloemfontein, 22 September 2003	England at Dhaka, 12 November 2003
17	Zimbabwe	Sri Lanka at Bulawayo, 20 April 2004	England at Bulawayo, 5 December 2004
No results are treated the same as wins and ties in the above table.
Notes: ^[a] The 23-game sequence was ended by a no result (ODI 1904). Another four defeats followed, then another no result (ODI 1956), and then Bangladesh's 18 game losing sequence. Ignoring these no results, Bangladesh's 23 game losing sequence and 18 game losing sequence combine with the intervening four defeats into a single losing streak of 45 matches.[17]

Team scoring records

Highest innings totals

See also: List of 400+ innings scores in ODIs

Score	Team	Opponent	Venue	Date	Scorecard
444–3 (50 overs)	England	Pakistan	Nottingham	30 August 2016	Scorecard
443–9 (50 overs)	Sri Lanka	Netherlands	Amstelveen	4 July 2006	Scorecard
439–2 (50 overs)	South Africa	West Indies	Johannesburg	18 January 2015	Scorecard
438–9 (49.5 overs)†	South Africa	Australia	Johannesburg	12 March 2006	Scorecard
438–4 (50 overs)	South Africa	India	Mumbai	25 October 2015	Scorecard
†See the match report for more details about this match, in which several records were set.

Highest match aggregate

Score	Teams	Venue	Date	Scorecard
872–13 (99.5 overs)†	Australia (434–4) v  South Africa (438–9)	Johannesburg	12 March 2006	Scorecard
825–15 (100 overs)	India (414–7) v  Sri Lanka (411–8)	Rajkot	15 December 2009	Scorecard
763–14 (96.0 overs)	New Zealand (398–5) v  England (365–9)	London	12 June 2015	Scorecard
730–9 (100.0 overs)	South Africa (439-2) v  West Indies (291-7)	Johannesburg	18 January 2015	Scorecard
726–14 (95.5 overs)	India (392–4) v  New Zealand (334)	Christchurch	8 March 2009	Scorecard
†See the match report for more details about this match, in which several records were set.

Highest runs in successful chasing

Score	Team	Opposition	Venue	Date	Scorecard
438–9 (49.5 overs)†	South Africa	Australia	Johannesburg	12 March 2006	Scorecard
362–1 (43.3 overs)	India	Australia	Jaipur	15 December 2009	Scorecard
351–4 (49.3 overs)	India	Australia	Nagpur	12 June 2015	Scorecard
350–9 (49.3 overs)	New Zealand	Australia	Hamilton	16 October 2013	Scorecard
350–3 (44.0 overs)	England	New Zealand	Nottingham	30 October 2013	Scorecard
†See the match report for more details.

Lowest innings totals

Score	Team	Opponent	Venue	Date	Scorecard
35 (18 overs)	Zimbabwe	Sri Lanka	Harare	25 April 2004	Scorecard
36 (18.4 overs)	Canada	Sri Lanka	Paarl	19 Feb 2003	Scorecard
38 (15.5 overs)	Zimbabwe	Sri Lanka	Colombo	8 Dec 2001	Scorecard
43 (19.5 overs)	Pakistan	West Indies	Cape Town	25 Feb 1993	Scorecard
43 (20.1 overs)	Sri Lanka	South Africa	Paarl	11 Jan 2012	Scorecard

Individual records

Individual records (batting)

Most career runs

Runs	Innings	Player	Period
18,426	452	Sachin Tendulkar	1989–2012
14,234	404	Kumar Sangakkara	2000–2015
13,704	365	Ricky Ponting	1995–2012
13,430	433	Sanath Jayasuriya	1989–2011
12,650	418	Mahela Jayawardene	1998–2015

Most career runs – progression of record

Runs	Player	Record held until	Duration of record
82	John Edrich	24 August 1972	1 year, 232 days
113	Greg Chappell	26 August 1972	2 days
144	Ian Chappell	28 August 1972	2 days
302	Dennis Amiss	31 March 1974	1 year, 215 days
316	Ian Chappell	13 July 1974	104 days
322	Dennis Amiss	15 July 1974	2 days
400	Keith Fletcher	5 June 1975	325 days
509	Dennis Amiss	11 June 1975	6 days
599	Keith Fletcher	14 June 1975	3 days
859	Dennis Amiss[a]	21 December 1979	4 years, 190 days
867	Greg Chappell	23 December 1979	2 days
883	Viv Richards	26 December 1979	3 days
953	Greg Chappell	16 January 1980	21 days
1,059	Viv Richards	28 May 1980	133 days
1,133	Gordon Greenidge	25 November 1980	181 days
1,154	Greg Chappell	5 December 1980	11 days
1,211	Viv Richards	7 December 1980	2 days
2,331	Greg Chappell[b]	7 December 1983	3 years
6,501	Viv Richards	9 November 1990	6 years, 337 days
8,648	Desmond Haynes[c]	8 November 1996	5 years, 365 days
9,378	Mohammad Azharuddin[d]	15 October 2000	3 years, 342 days
18,426	Sachin Tendulkar[e]	Current	15 years, 354 days
Notes: ^[a] Dennis Amiss finished his career with 859 runs ^[b] Greg Chappell finished his career with 2,331 runs ^[c] Desmond Haynes finished his career with 8,648 runs ^[d] Mohammad Azharuddin finished his career with 9,378 runs ^[e] Sachin Tendulkar finished his career with 18,426 runs

Highest individual scores

See also: List of highest individual scores in ODIs

Runs	Player	Match	Venue	sDate	Scorecard
264	Rohit Sharma	India v  Sri Lanka	Kolkata	13 November 2014	Scorecard
237*	Martin Guptill	New Zealand v  West Indies	Wellington	21 March 2015	Scorecard
219	Virender Sehwag	India v  West Indies	Indore	8 December 2011	Scorecard
215	Chris Gayle	West Indies v  Zimbabwe	Canberra	24 February 2015	Scorecard
209	Rohit Sharma	India v  Australia	Bangalore	2 November 2013	Scorecard

Highest individual score in chronological order

Date	Runs	Player	Match Scorecard	Notes
5 January 1971	82	John Edrich	Scorecard	First ever ODI fifty Ended up in losing side
24 August 1972	103	Dennis Amiss	Scorecard	First ever ODI Century Achieved while chasing target
7 September 1973	105	Roy Fredericks	Scorecard	Achieved while chasing target
31 August 1974	116*	David Lloyd	Scorecard	Lost the match
7 June 1975	137	Dennis Amiss	Scorecard	World Cup Only player to reclaim the record
7 June 1975	171*	Glenn Turner	Scorecard	World Cup First ever ODI 150 Faced maximum number of balls (209)
18 June 1983	175*	Kapil Dev	Scorecard	World Cup Fastest century as on date (18 June 1983)
31 May 1984	189*	Viv Richards	Scorecard	Century stand for the last wicket
21 May 1997	194	Saeed Anwar	Scorecard
16 August 2009	194*	Charles Coventry	Scorecard	Equaled the record but was not out. Lost the match
24 February 2010	200*	Sachin Tendulkar	Scorecard	First ever ODI double century in men's cricket
8 December 2011	219	Virendar Sehwag	Scorecard
13 November 2014	264	Rohit Sharma	Scorecard	Current Record Holder First ever ODI 250 First man to achieve two double hundreds in ODI Cricket history

Highest career average

Average	Innings	Runs	Player	Period
53.95	196	8740	AB de Villiers‡	2005–present
53.58	196	6912	Michael Bevan	1994–2004
52.26	133	6204	Hashim Amla‡	2008–present
51.51	163	7212	Virat Kohli‡	2008–present
51.25	241	8918	Mahendra Singh Dhoni‡	2005–present
Qualification: 5,000 runs

Highest strike rates

Strike rate	Runs	Balls faced	Player	Period
125.82	1759	1398	Glenn Maxwell‡	2012–present
120.32	2072	1722	Jos Buttler‡	2012–present
117.00	8064	6892	Shahid Afridi	1996-2015
108.77	1178	1083	Thisara Perera‡	2009–present
104.33	8273	7929	Virender Sehwag	1999-2013
Qualification: 1000 balls faced

Most centuries

Centuries	Innings	Player	Period
49	452	Sachin Tendulkar	1989–2012
30	365	Ricky Ponting	1995–2012
28	433	Sanath Jayasuriya	1989–2011
25	170	Virat Kohli‡	2008–present
25	380	Kumar Sangakkara	2000–2015

Most fifties

Fifties	Innings	Player	Period
96	452	Sachin Tendulkar	1989–2012
93	380	Kumar Sangakkara	2000–2015
86	314	Jacques Kallis	1996–2014
83	318	Rahul Dravid	1996–2011
	350	Inzamam-ul-Haq	1991–2007