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Rohit Sharma has scored not one, not two but three double tons in ODI history. Rohit’s second double ton against the Sri Lankan team, at the Eden garden, Kolkata in 2014 is the biggest individual score of IDIs cricket (264).
Sachin Tendulkar scored maximum 523 runs in just 7 matches in 1996 WC and scored 673 runs in 11 matches in 2011 WC.
Making his bow against the West Indies, Hirwani bagged 8 for 61 in the first innings, with the likes of Viv Richards and Richie Richardson among his victims. He followed it up another brilliant spell of bowling in the second innings grabbing 8 for 75, making total tally to 16 Wickets for 136 runs.
Mohammad Sami went on to have himself a wild 17-ball over which included seven wides and four no-balls for 22 runs in all
Pakistan’s Misbah-Ul-Haq holds the record of scoring Most Runs In A Career Without A Hundred.
M S Dhoni’s 183 not out against Sri Lanka in 2005 is the highest score by a wicket-keeper in ODI Cricket.
Ajaz Patel is the first and only player to end up on the losing side despite taking all ten wickets in a Test innings, 10/119
One interesting fact about Muttiah Muralitharan is he also holds the record of most Test career runs scored by a player at no. 11. He has scored a total of 623 runs in 99 innings at no. 11.
If we exclude 1 exclusive team and match of ICC World XI, there are 12 countries which played test cricket till now. But there is only one country which has played more than 1000 test matches and that is England.
India is the team which stopped Australia 16 matches winning streak TWICE.