Top 10 Most Unusual Cricket Records You’Ve Probably Never Heard Of

As people say, "All records are made to be broken", like Sachin’s 100 Centuries, Muttiah Muralitharan's 800 test wickets, or Rohit Sharma's three double centuries, Virat Kohli has the following highest number of centuries with 75 to his name, or James Anderson with 685 wickets. This type of record is famous among cricket lovers, but in this article, we look into the records that make cricket such a fascinating sport. Today we look at the Top 10 Most Unusual Cricket Records, which you may never have heard of before.

1. Most Test Series Lost Consecutively

The inaugural world test champion winner with the No. 5 test team currently in the world right now also had one of the worst times in their history when they couldn’t manage to win a test series for the record straight 40 years, which started when they lost to England in 1930 and won their test series in 1969 when they played India at home. This is the longest streak of games without a win for any test-playing nation.

2. The Lowest Score At The First-inning Declaration

In a test inning, when a team declares the score, they do it when they know that they have the right amount of runs to defend or win the match, but in this, we look at when Pakistan declares their innings when they only declared when they had just 130 runs on their scoreboard with one wicket left. The following lowest totals are 164/7, 207/3, and 216/8 by England, Australia, and England, respectively.

3. Longest Test Match

A typical test match is usually played for five days, and in first class, it runs for four days. On special occasions like WTC, it has a reserve day. This match was played for ten days, but there was no result because the ship that was carrying the away team was secluded from departing. This match was played against England and South Africa in Durban from March 4–11, 1939. The match is called a "Timeless match.

4. Don Bradman Hit Only Six Sixes

The all-time greats of sports can always be debated for years to come. Sir Donald Bradman, also called "The Don," had an average of 99.94, but you would be shocked to hear that in his whole career, he just hit six sixes in his 52 test matches and 234 first-class games. He hit five sixes against England and one against India.

5. Kapil Dev Missed Only One Test

Cricketers getting rested for matches not to force their workload is typical in the modern era, but we talk about the great Kapil Dev, who just missed one Test in his whole career, which had 66 tests. He missed that Test because of his deficient performance in the previous test match he played, but he was picked again and went on to play 65 test matches in his career before retiring.

6. Mohammad Amir's First Catch

Mohammad Amir had a remarkable career before retiring at the age of 29. He debuted for Pakistan at 17, and it took him seven years to land his first catch in test cricket. He played 20 test matches in the process.

7. Shortest Test Match

The shortest test match in the history of cricket regarding actual playing time was the first test match between England and Australia at Trent Bridge on June 12, 1926. They only played for 50 minutes, in which 17.2 overs were bowled. Regarding balls bowled, the shortest is the first Test between the West Indies and England at Sabina Park, Jamaica, on January 29, 1998. Only 10.1 overs were bowled in 56 minutes.

8. Muralitharan Scored The Most Ducks

Muralithan has the record for most wickets in the history of cricket with 1347 wickets in 495 matches, but this record is very unwanted by him, which is to have the most ducks by a batter. He has 59 ducks, 33 in tests, 25 in ODIs, and 1 in T20Is.

9. Most Wickets In A Match

Taking ten wickets in a match is called extraordinary," and only a few have managed to do it, but in this, we will talk about a time when a player took 19 wickets in a match out of the 20 wickets available. Jim Laker was an English off-spinner. When he played against Australia, he took 19 wickets to win the game for England. Australia was utterly confused.

10. Most Hundreds In A Career

Everyone knows about Sachin Tendulkar's 100 centuries, but this player scored the most first-class centuries: the legendary English batter Jack Hobbs, scored the most first-class centuries with 199 and scored 273 half-centuries in his 29-year career. He played for Surrey. The next on the list is Patsy Hendren, with 170 centuries to his name.