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ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) [ 4] is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket. [ 5] The site features news, articles, live coverage of cricket matches (including liveblogs and scorecards), and StatsGuru, a database of historical matches and players from the 18th century to the present.
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.
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game that is played between two teams of eleven players on a field, at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. Two players from the batting team (the striker and nonstriker) stand in front of either wicket holding bats, with one ...
Cricket is a sport that generates a variety of statistics. Statistics are recorded for each player during a match, and aggregated over a career. At the professional level, statistics for Test cricket, one-day internationals, and first-class cricket are recorded separately. However, since Test matches are a form of first-class cricket, a player ...
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.
This was the highest score recorded in the earliest match now designated first-class by some statisticians and remained the highest known score through the 1772 season. 88 – William Yalden for Surrey v Hampshire at Broadhalfpenny Down in 1773. [55] 95 – Joseph Miller for Kent v Hampshire at Sevenoaks Vine in 1774.
A qualification of 15 overall centuries is used for entry onto the men's list. To date, 127 cricketers have scored 15 or more international centuries, 82 of whom went on to score 20 or more centuries, 44 have scored 30 or more centuries, and 21 have a total of 40 or more centuries. Across all three formats, 8 players have scored 50 or more ...
Rohit Sharma is the highest individual scorer in ODI history with a score of 264. One Day International (ODI) cricket is played between international cricket teams affiliated to the International Cricket Council (ICC), the global governing body of cricket. Men's ODI cricket is played between teams which are Full members of the ICC and the top ...