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The skipper Alastair Cook became England's highest run-scorer in Test cricket after surpassing Graham Gooch's record of 8,900 runs. Most test centuries by Englishman. Quickest batsman to 8,000 Test runs.  112th Test in a row, and England record.  Cook, 30, achieved the landmark on his 114th test match in the afternoon session on day two of the second Test against New Zealand at Headingley. The left-handed batsman, who made his debut in 2006, has played four fewer Test matches than his own mentor Gooch. Cook climbed up to 13th on the list of leading run-scorers in Test cricket, where India’s former batsman Sachin Tendulkar remains with 15,921 runs in 200 matches. Congratulations Alastair Cook !!! With age on his side you'd think he is only half way through his career.. Admire his courage !!!! — Russel Arnold (@RusselArnold69) May 30, 2015 30 yrs Old...Great achievement for Ali Cook.. As tough as they come and many more to follow playing like he is no...

One Day International cricket has seen many outstanding batting action, but nothing matches a quick fire hard centuries either at the beginning of the match or at the end of the innings. Here are the Top Ten fastest ODIs fifties in cricket history. 10. New Zealand’s Ross Taylor in 19 balls vs. Ireland, Aberdeen, 2008 9. New Zealand’s Brendon McCullum in 19 balls vs. Bangladesh, Queenstown, 2007 8. South Africa’s Justin Kemp in 19 balls vs. Zimbabwe Durban, 2005 7. South Africa’s  Mark Boucher in 19 balls vs. Kenya Cape Town, 2001 6. Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi in 18 balls vs. Bangladesh Mirpur, 2014 5. Australia’s Glen Maxwell in 18 balls vs. India Bangalore, 2013 4. Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi in 18 balls vs. Netherlands SSC Colombo, 2002 3. Pakistan’s Shahid Afridi in 18 balls vs. Sri Lanka Nairobi, 1997 2. Australia’s Simon O’Donnell in 18 balls vs. Sri Lanka Sharjah, 1990 1. Sri Lanka’s Sanath Jayasuriya in 17 balls vs. Pakistan, 1996 ...

The Former Sri Lankan skipper Kumar Sangakkara became the fifth and the fastest batsman to reach 12,000 Test runs. The 37-year-old, who is regarded as one of the greatest batsman in the test cricket - joins the elite 12000 runs club with the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Jacques Kallis and Ricky Ponting. He achieved the milestone in his 224 Test innings, which is 23 innings lesser than the legendary Sachin Tendulkar and Ricky Ponting. Sangakkara averages more than 58 in 130 Tests including 37 centuries. S.No Batsman Team Matches/Innings Runs 1 Sachin Tendulkar India 200/329 15,921 2 Ricky Ponting Australia 168/287 13,378 3 Jacques Kallis South Africa 166/280 13,289 4 Rahul Dravid India 164/286 13,288 5 Kumar Sangakkara* Sri Lanka 129/233 12,026

On 1- January-2014, New Zealand Left-handed batsman Corey Anderson has set a new record of hitting fastest century off just 36 balls in an ODI against West Indies. In 1996, Pakistani all-rounder Shahid Afridi had made the record in just 37 balls. Now, Anderson has made the fastest ever international century with the help of 16 sixes. Though, it's fact that the grounds in New Zealand are shorter than others. Surely, IPL franchises will be looking to secure the services of 23-year-old hitter soon for the next campaign.

South Africa skipper Graeme Smith has completed 9,000 runs in Test cricket. The 32-year-old opener achieved this milestone when he completed double ton against Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai stadium (UAE) on Thursday. Left-handed batsman, Smith became the 12th player in Test cricket's history to complete 9,000 Test runs and second South African behind Jacques Kallis who has so far scored 13,140 runs in 164 Tests. India's master blaster Sachin Tendulkar leads the all time run scorers in Test cricket, with 15,837 in 198 Tests. Besides Tendulkar, there are two other Indians, three Australians, two South Africans, West Indies and Sri Lanka have scored 9,000 or more runs in Test cricket.

The former captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team, Mahela Jayawardene will be the third cricketer to reach 400th ODI milestone after playing the today's tri-series final against India in Trinidad, followed by Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya . The 36-years-old, Right-handed batsman has played 57% of Sri Lanka's ODIs games- 394 out of 692 matches. In his career, Jayawardene has 19 Man-of-the-Match awards despite playing 399 ODIs, the sixth highest for any Sri Lankan cricketer.

The Royal Challengers Bangalore opener batsman Chris Gayle has set a new record milestone for the fastest century in the history of professional cricket by hitting a ton off just 30 balls against Pune Warriors India in the Indian Premier League season 6. West Indies international, Gayle smashed century in just 30-ball with the help of 11 sixes and 8 boundaries. The fastest in the history of the game. At the end of an innings, Gayle was not out with 175 runs in 66 balls. Gayle stated just after his innings, " I am lost for words myself. It was just one of those days, it was a good wicket. We went berserk in the first 6 overs, it worked out well. Then I decided to play myself a bit in and very happy that it went my way. " The 30-ball ton beats the previous record set by Australia 's Andrew Symonds in 34-ball. The other record is of Shahid Afridi 's 37-ball ton in 50-over cricket for Pakistan against Sri Lanka in 1996. Interesting Stats: Chris ...

India became the first team in the world to play in 800 ODIs matches. India played one-day match for the first time in 1974. India’s record: Wins = 394, Losses = 365, Ties = 6, No results = 35 Australia in the second place after india for playing most number of ODIs. Australia played 783 matches and wins 486. Pakistan in the third place after india and australia. Pakistan played 765 matches and wins 412. Following are the remaining teams with most number of ODIs: West Indies (665) Sri Lanka (654) New Zealand (618) England (583) South Africa (468) Zimbabwe (407) Bangladesh (258) and Kenya (146)

Indian Captain Virender sehwag here on Thursday against the West Indies in fourth one-day innings scored 219 runs highest individual score in one day international cricket. Sehwag scored 219 runs including 7 sixes and 25 fours in just 149 balls.

Master-Blaster Sachin Tendulkar once again missed the 100th ton in Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai against West Indies. Recently in England tour, Sachin Tendulkar had missed 100th ton by only nine runs in the oval test. Sachin made his last test century against South Africa at Cape Town in January 2011. While in the ODI cricket sachin made his last century against South Africa in Nagpur in the World Cup 2011. Since then sachin has played 13 test innings and made four half centuries, but still 100th ton has yet to wait. In Nervous Nineties record, Sachin has been out 10 times in test Cricket, while 17 times in ODI .

Cape Town, Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Australia first test match against South Africa in second innings on Thursday scored only 47 runs all out, which is the lowest score in the last 110 years by Australia. This is the fourth lowest score of the Australian team. Aussie's nine wickets falls only on 21 runs but Peter Siddle (12) and Nathan Lyon (14) added 26 runs partnership to the last wicket. New Zealand team has Record the lowest score of 26 runs in test cricket against England in Auckland in 1955. Ever the world's number one team Australia's lowest score was 36 runs against England in Birmingham in 1902.