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27 April – Sunday Cricket begins broadcasting a match each week from the new Sunday League. [8] 1972. A new one-day competition, the Benson & Hedges Cup, begins and the BBC provides live coverage of a match from each round. 1975. 7–21 June – The BBC shows extensive live coverage of the first Cricket World Cup.
Official podcast. Test Match Special (also known as TMS) is a British sports radio programme, originally, as its name implies, dealing exclusively with Test cricket matches, but currently covering any professional cricket. The programme is available on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra ( digital) and on BBC Sounds to the United Kingdom and (where ...
BBC Sport is the sports division of the BBC, providing national sports coverage for BBC television, radio and online.The BBC holds the television and radio UK broadcasting rights to several sports, broadcasting the sport live or alongside flagship analysis programmes such as Match of the Day, Test Match Special, Ski Sunday and Today at Wimbledon.
Notes: Alan Davidson (Australia), in the tied 1st Test at Brisbane against the West Indies in 1960-61, was the first man to score 100 runs and take 10 wickets in a match (and is the only other player to achieve this so far), but without a century: his two scores with the bat were 44 and 80, in addition to 11 wickets (5/135 and 6/87).
This is a list of notable media commentators and writers on the sport of cricket from around the world. A number of famous players have had a second career as writers or commentators. However, many commentators never played the game at a professional level, yet they have gone on to become famous names associated with the game.
Most runs in a single tournament. India's Rohit Sharma (pictured) scored his seventh century at the 2023 tournament, a World Cup record. [82] The 2023 Cricket World Cup saw India's Virat Kohli set the record for the most runs scored in a single World Cup, with 765 runs.
Twice, teams have won successive tournaments: the West Indies won the first two editions ( 1975 and 1979) and Australia won three in a row ( 1999, 2003, and 2007 ). Australia has played in the most finals (eight out of thirteen: 1975, 1987, 1996, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2015, and 2023 ). England has lost the most World Cup finals, ending as runner-up ...
Sunil Gavaskar was the first player to cross the 10,000 run mark in Tests. Scoring over 10,000 runs across a playing career in any format of cricket is considered a significant achievement. In the chase to achieve top scores, West Indian Garfield Sobers retired in 1974 as the most prolific run scorer in Test cricket, with a total of 8,032 runs. The record stood for nine years, until it was ...