The second match of the ODI series was played between West Indies and New Zealand in Napier. West Indies captain Shai Hope equaled the record of great batsman Brian Lara by scoring a century in this match. Shai Hope, who came to bat at number four in the match against New Zealand, played an unbeaten inning of 109 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 13 fours in 69 balls. This was the 19th century of Hope’s ODI career. With this century, Hope equaled Brian Lara’s record of 19 centuries in ODIs for West Indies.

Shai Hope created history, equaled Lara’s record

Shai Hope also completed his 6,000 runs in ODI cricket in this match. Hope was chosen player of the match for his century innings, but West Indies lost the match by 5 wickets. Shai Hope has come joint second with former legend Brian Lara in the list of batsmen who have scored most centuries in ODIs for West Indies. Chris Gayle is at first place in this record list with 25 centuries.

Chris Gayle has scored the most centuries

Shai Hope, in 142 innings of 147 ODI matches played between 2016 and 2019, remained unbeaten 22 times and scored 6,097 runs with the help of 19 centuries and 30 half-centuries. Hope’s average is 50.80. His highest score is 170 runs. Whereas Brian Lara, between 1990 and 2007, remained unbeaten 32 times in 289 innings of 299 matches and scored 10,405 runs with the help of 19 centuries and 63 half-centuries. Lara’s average is 40.48 and highest score is 169 runs.

Chris Gayle is the batsman who has scored the most centuries in ODIs for West Indies. Between 1999 and 2019, in 294 innings of 301 ODI matches, he remained unbeaten 17 times, scored 25 centuries, including 1 double century and scored 10,480 runs with the help of 54 half-centuries. Gayle’s average has been 37.83.

Fastest Hundreds In ODIs: In the history of ODI cricket, there have been many explosive batsmen, who have created many records while batting with explosive style. But some batsmen created history by scoring centuries in very few balls. Let us know about the 7 batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI, and also who has scored the fastest ODI century for India?

Top-7 batsmen who scored the fastest century in ODI cricket

1. AB de Villiers (South Africa) – 31 balls

South Africa’s AB de Villiers is at number one in the list of top-7 batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. De Villiers scored a century against West Indies in just 31 balls. In this match, he played an excellent inning of 149 runs in 44 balls.

2. Corey Anderson (New Zealand) – 36 balls

New Zealand all-rounder Corey Anderson is second in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Anderson scored a century against West Indies in just 36 balls. In this match, he played a brilliant inning of 131 unbeaten runs in 47 balls.

3. Shaheed Afridi (Pakistan) – 37 balls

Pakistan’s legendary all-rounder Shaheed Afridi is at third place in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Afridi had scored a century against Sri Lanka in just 37 balls. In this match, he played a brilliant inning of 102 runs in 40 balls.

4. Glenn Maxwell (Australia) – 40 balls

Australia’s explosive batsman Glenn Maxwell is at fourth place in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Maxwell scored a century against Netherlands in just 40 balls. In this match, he played an amazing inning of 106 runs in 44 balls.

5. Asif Khan (UAE) – 41 balls

United Arab Emirates (UAE) batsman Asif Khan is at fifth place in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Asif had scored a century against Nepal in just 41 balls. In this match, he played a brilliant inning of 101 unbeaten runs in 42 balls.

6. Mark Boucher (South Africa) – 44 balls

South African wicketkeeper batsman Mark Boucher is at sixth position in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Boucher scored a century against Zimbabwe in just 44 balls. In this match, he played a brilliant inning of 147 unbeaten runs in 68 balls.

7. Brian Lara (West Indies) – 45 balls

Great West Indies batsman Brian Lara is at seventh place in the list of batsmen who have scored the fastest century in ODI cricket. Lara had scored a century against Bangladesh in just 45 balls. In this match, he played an amazing inning of 117 runs in 62 balls.

Indian batsman who scored the fastest century in ODI cricket

India’s legendary batsman Virat Kohli is the Indian batsman to score the fastest century in ODI cricket. Virat had scored a century against Australia in just 52 balls. In this match, he played an excellent inning of 100 unbeaten runs in 52 balls.

When a batsman is in great form, even big records appear small in front of him. Something similar is happening with Shubman Gill. He has broken many records by playing an unbeaten inning of 129 runs against West Indies. Let us tell you that this is Shubman Gill’s fifth century as captain in the last 12 Test innings. Thanks to Gill’s century, Team India managed to reach the score of 518 runs in the first innings. India declared its innings at 518. Here let us know about those 5 big records which Gill broke during his inning of 129 runs.

Shubman Gill broke 5 big records

Most centuries by an Indian Test captain in a year- Shubman Gill has played 5 century innings after becoming the captain this year. He has equaled Virat Kohli in terms of scoring the most centuries in a year by an Indian Test captain. Virat had scored five centuries each as captain in 2017 and 2018. Sachin Tendulkar had scored 4 centuries as captain.

Highest individual score in home test- This is also the highest score of Shubman Gill’s Test career in domestic Test matches. Earlier, his highest individual score on Indian soil was 128 runs, which he made against Australia in 2023. Now he has improved his own score and scored 129 runs.

Most runs for India in WTC- Shubman Gill has become the Indian batsman who has scored the most runs in the World Test Championship. He now has 2826 runs in his name. Gill has left behind Rishabh Pant, who has so far scored 2731 runs in the World Test Championship. Rohit Sharma is at fourth place in this list with 2716 runs and Virat Kohli is at fourth place in this list with 2617 runs.

Left Babar Azam behind- Shubman Gill has left behind Babar Azam and Rohit Sharma in terms of scoring the most centuries as a captain in the history of the World Test Championship. Now Gill has 5 centuries to his name in the WTC, while Rohit Sharma and Babar Azam had scored four centuries each as captain. The record for most centuries is in the name of Joe Root, who has touched the 100-run mark 8 times in the WTC as captain.

Most test centuries in a year- Shubman Gill has equaled Sunil Gavaskar and Virat Kohli in terms of scoring the most Test centuries in a year. He also achieved the feat of scoring 5 test centuries in one year. However, the Indian record for scoring most Test centuries in a year is in the name of Sachin Tendulkar, who scored 7 centuries in 2010.

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Cricket fans still remember Brian Lara, one of the world’s great batsmen, for his big shots and long centuries. Lara, who retired from international cricket 17 years ago, has once again registered her presence with the bat. At the North Zone Cricket Council T20 Festival held at Trinidad & Tobago, he batted brilliantly while playing for his childhood team Howard Sports Club and won the team.

Match was shortened by rain

The Howard Sports Club and Iboni Sports teams were face to face at the Diego Martin Regional Sports Complex. Earlier this match was to be 20-20 overs but due to rain it was reduced to 15-15 overs. Batting first, Iboni Sports hit 100 runs for 6 wickets and gave Howard’s team a target of 101 runs to win.

When Lara came on the field

The Howard Sports Club chased the target with a fast start, but the team lost two wickets as soon as the scoreboard reached 48. At the same time, 56 -year -old Brian Lara came to bat at number 4. As soon as he came on the field, he introduced his experience and class. Lara played the bowlers openly and rotated the strike and made big shots at the required time.

Match won by an unbeaten innings

Lara played an unbeaten innings of 26 runs and played an important partnership for the third wicket with fellow batsman Andre Yard. His innings made the match stand completely in favor of Howard. Finally, Howard Sports Club won the match by 8 wickets and the winning run also came out of Lara’s bat. In this way, he proved that whatever the age, the class is always intact.

Was seen in action in India too

Brian Lara landed on behalf of the West Indies Masters team in the International Masters League played in India earlier this year. In that tournament, his team reached the final and was runner -up.

Lara’s career

Brian Lara said goodbye to international cricket in 2007, but by then he had become the biggest name of West Indies cricket. He scored 11,953 runs while playing 131 matches in his Test career and even today he is the highest run -scorer in Test cricket for the West Indies. His unbeaten innings of 400 runs and 375 innings are recorded in Test cricket history.

Cricket and politics, there are two very different areas, but often such cases come up which make them think whether there is really politics in cricket. The case is of West Indies veteran batsman Shivnarayan Chandrapaul, who was known for his unique batting stance. Chandrapaul himself has admitted that he was forced to retire in 2016. A claim has come up after 9 years of his retirement, which said that Chandrapaul was asked to retire due to Brian Lara.

Brian Lara’s hand in retirement?

Brian Lara scored 11,953 runs in his Test career. At the same time, Shivnarayan Chandrapaul had scored 11,867 runs in Test career in 2015 by the conclusion of the Test series against England. Chandrapall was just 86 runs away from leaving Lara behind, but then he was dropped from the Test squad after the England series.

After the retirement of Chandrapaul, Brian Lara said that Chandrapaul should have got a retirement match. But in those days, rumors had flown that the board did not want to take the risk that Chandrapaul got a retirement match and go ahead of Lara in terms of runs.

The West Indies Cricket Board had advised Chandrapaul to take retirement by asking to give the youth a chance. When Shivnarayan Chandrapal himself talked about this subject, it was found that he was asked to retire by luring him to play in the Masters League. He received NOC for the Masters League, but Chandrapaul also revealed that the board had threatened to withdraw the NOC for not retirement from international career.

There was no other way

The pain of Shivnarayan Chandrapaul did not end here, because he had no other way left to continue the cricket career. Since the West Indies Cricket Board was not giving him a chance to return to the team, he had no option but to accept NOC for the Masters League.

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Ricky Ponting five Best Batter in Test Cricket: Australian cricket legend Ricky Potting has named five best batsmen of Test cricket. Virat Kohli and Steve Smith are not named among these five players. Even after not taking Virat in the best batsmen, two Indian batsmen are included in the list of Ponting. Ricky Ponting has included two veteran Indian cricket players Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid in the list of five best batsmen of Test cricket.

Ricky Ponting selected 5 best Test batsmen

Ricky Potting has not included a single Australian player in the list of five best batsmen of Test cricket. Apart from Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid, Potting has considered the best batsman West Indies player Brian Lara in the Test. At the same time, New Zealand star batsman Kane Williamson is also included in the list of Ricky Ponting. Also, Joe Root, who reached the second number in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket, is also part of the list of potting.

These players run in Test cricket

Ricky Ponting is third in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. Ponting played 168 Test matches in his career, in which this legendary player has scored 13,378 runs at an average of 51.85.

• Sachin Tendulkar is the highest run -scorer in Test cricket. Sachin scored 15,921 runs while playing 200 Test matches. It has been 12 years since Sachin retired from cricket, but so far no player has broken his record.
• The route has come second in terms of scoring the most runs in the Test. Root recently left Ricky Ponting behind in this matter. Root has scored 13,543 runs in 158 matches and is still in form.
• Rahul Dravid is at number five in this list. Dravid has scored 13,288 runs in 164 matches at an average of 52.31.
• Brian Lara is at number 8 in terms of scoring the most runs in Test cricket. Lara is the only batsman to score 400 runs in the same innings of Test cricket. Lara has scored 11,953 runs in 131 Tests.
• New Zealand veteran Kane Williamson has also said goodbye to Test cricket. Williamson has 9,276 runs in 105 matches in Tests.

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Wi vs eng test match canceled at day 1: A Test match was played between England and West Indies in 1998, which was canceled on the first day. The biggest reason for the cancellation of this match was the pitch, on which this Test match was being played between the two teams. The pitch of this ground was so bad that it became very difficult for any batsman to bat on it.

Dangerous pitch of Sabina Park

The first incident in cricket history when the England team went on a tour of West Indies. Test matches were to be played between these two teams at the Sabina Park Cricket Stadium in Jamaica. In the first match of this series, England captain Michael Atherton won the toss and decided to bat first and asked the West Indies captained by Brine Lara to bowl.

England won the toss expensive

England won the toss and made the decision thoughtfully, but batting first became very expensive to the players of this team. The pitch report of this ground of Sabina Park was saying that this pitch could be quite dangerous during the last innings, due to which England thought more right to bat in the first and third innings. But this match went on in such a way that even England’s first innings could not end.

The result came out without playing the match

When the England team came out to bat, it was impossible for the English players to withstand the balls of West Indies bowler Katli Ambros and Katni Walsh. In the game of some time of this match, England players suffered many injuries. After this, when England scored 3 wickets for 17 runs, the match was stopped and the result was removed that the match could not be played on this dangerous pitch, so that the first Test match of this series was drawn without playing without full.

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If a person is watching a cricket match for the first time, then it can be a very complex task to understand this game for him. Different rules have been made from batting to bowling. Nowadays batting is also starting to be amazing, where batsmen keep playing in a loud shots. But many times in cricket, the word ‘Khabbu batsman’ is used, after all why and for whom is this ‘Khabu batsman’?

Who is called Khabu batsman?

In cricket, the ‘Khabbu batsman’ is said to be a left -handed player. Actually the word ‘Khabbu’ means the left hand, the word ‘Khabbu’ has been used for the person working with the left hand. The player playing with the left hand has been given different names in different sports. For example, in fighting sports, such athletes are called ‘Southpow’, but in cricket it is common to call the left -handed batsman a ‘Khabbu batsman’.

5 greatest Khabbu batsman in cricket

Talking about the greatest batsmen in cricket history, these include the names of great players like Brian Lata, Kumar Sangakkara, Saeed Anwar, Sourav Ganguly and Adam Gilchrist. Lara, whose personal score of 400 runs in Tests has not been broken till date, while the swing of Sangakkara’s bat used to make the fans crazy.

Brian Lara- In his 430 matches international cricket career, Brian Lara scored 22,358 runs. He is the only West Indies player who has scored more than 10,000 runs in both Test and ODI format.

Kumar Sangakkara- Sangakkara received the Man of the Match award for a brilliant innings of 85 runs in the second match of his ODI career. He has 28.016 runs in international cricket and his number comes after Sachin Tendulkar in terms of scoring the most runs in cricket.

Adam Gilchrist- Adam Gilchrist made a great recognition for his aggressive style batting. Gilchrist, who scored a total of 33 centuries in all three formats, scored a total of 15,461 runs in international career. Gilchrist got the status of being a great batsman as well as a great wicketkeeper.

Sourav Ganguly- Sourav Ganguly, one of the most successful captains of India, is also a ‘batsman’. Ganguly scored 18,575 runs in his 424 international matches career. He also played 38 centuries in his historical career.

Saeed Anwar- Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, especially one of the best opening batsmen of ODI cricket. He scored 8,824 runs in his 247 matches ODI career. The record for making the biggest personal score in ODI cricket remained his name for many years. He scored 194 runs against India in 1997.

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There are some moments in cricket that remember for years, especially when a batsman blows the bowler in a single over. Test cricket may be considered a long and restrained format, but sometimes such explosive batting is seen in it. One such record is recorded in the name of a bowler from India, who has set the world record by scoring the most runs in one over. Let’s know which veterans are involved in this list and who made his target for which bowler.

Jaspreet Bumrah (India) – 35 runs

Vs- England

Bowler- Stuart broad

place- Edgbaston, Birmingham (2022)

India’s fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah set a new record in the history of Test cricket in 2022. In one over of England veteran Pesar Stuart Broad, Bumrah hit 35 runs. The balls of the over were as follows, 4, 5 (no-ball), 7 (wide + four), 4, 4, 6, 1. This bang batting not only strengthened India’s position, but also put Bumrah’s all-round capabilities in front of everyone.

2- Brian Lara (West Indies)- 28 runs

Vs- South Africa

Bowler- Robin Peterson

place- Johannesburg (2003-04)

Brian Lara, one of the greatest batsmen of cricket, scored 28 runs in Robin Peterson’s over against South Africa in 2003. He had set a spectacular boundary of 4, 6, 6, 4, 4, 4 runs in an over. Lara’s timing, footwork and ability to put shots in gaps surprised the audience.

3-George Bailey (Australia)-28 runs

Vs- England

Bowler- James Anderson

place- Perth (2013-14 Ashes)

George Bailey of Australia hit 28 runs in an over of James Anderson in the Perth Test in the 2013-14 Ashes series. The over was the score of 4, 6, 2, 4, 6, 6. The aggressive batting of Bailey broke the back of England bowlers and gave Australia a strong lead.

5-Keshav Maharaj (South Africa)-28 runs

Vs- England

Bowler- Joe root

place- Port Elizabeth (2019-20)

South Africa’s left -handed spinner Keshav Maharaj showed that he can do wonders not only in bowling but also in batting. In the over of England captain Joe Root, he scored 28 runs, including 4, 4, 4, 6, 6, 4 (no-ball).

5-Shahid Afridi (Pakistan)-27 runs

Vs- India

Bowler- Harbhajan Singh

place- Lahore (2005-06)

Shahid Afridi, popularly known as ‘Boom-Boom Afridi’, had scored 27 runs in an over of Harbhajan Singh in the Lahore Test against India. Over the balls were 6, 6, 6, 2, 1. Afridi’s aggression filled the audience with thrill and this innings became an example of his classic style.

Bryan Lara Had made history in the year 2004, when he scored 400 runs in the same innings of the Test match. Lara The highest runs in an innings still have Record Is, but one Test match To score the most runs in Record They do not have. One Test Most of the runs scored in the match Record England Of batsman Graham Kuch Is the name of Kuch Had this Record In the year 1990, it was made against India, which no one has been able to break even after 35 years.

One Test 5 players scoring the most runs in

• Graham Kuch

England Of batsman Graham Kuch Had this Record The year 1990 was created. He only one against India Test He had scored 456 runs in the match. Kuch Had scored 333 runs in the first innings. At the same time, he scored 123 runs in the second innings.

• Shubman Gill

Indian Test team captain Shubman Gill is List I am in second place. Gill England The same against the year 2025 Test In the match Birmingham He was given 430 runs on the ground. Gill scored 269 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, Gill scored 161 runs.

• Mark Tailor

Australia Of batsman Mark Tailor This List Is in third place in. Tailor The same against Pakistan in Peshawar in 1998 Test He was given 426 runs in the match. Tailor Had scored 334 runs in the first innings. In the second innings there Tailor Had scored 92 runs.

• Kumar Sangakkara

Sri Lankan veteran batsman Kumar Sangakkara This List I am in fourth place. Concerted Against Bangladesh in 2014 Rockogram I had given 424 runs in a single match. Sangakkara Had played a historic innings of 319 runs in the first innings. In the second innings there Sangakkara Had given 105 runs.

• Bryan Lara

West Indies The legendary batsman England He was given 400 runs in a single innings against. His name is to score the most runs in an innings Record Is. But one Test In terms of scoring the most runs in I am at 5th place. Lara Had scored 400 runs in St. Johns in 2004.

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