Sohag Gazi Shines First Player to Take Hat-Trick & Century in a Same Match

Sohag Ghazi had plenty of reasons to celebrate first Test against New Zealand at Chittagong Oct 13, 2013, although Test petered out into a draw. Sohag Gazi’s became the first cricketer to score a hundred and take a hat-trick in the same match. Gazi’s performance on the final day will be memorable for sure, A Test hat-trick, and 2^nd only by a Bangladesh bowler, gave him a singular place in cricket history He also completed a six-wicket haul to join team-mate Shakib Al Hasan on the list of cricketers who have scored a century and taken five or more wickets in a Test. Sohag Gazi named Man of the Match for his brilliant all round performance by record creating century and five-wicket haul. 

Player	Bat	Bowl	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
JH Sinclair	106	6/26	South Africa	v England	Cape Town	1 Apr 1899
GA Faulkner	123	5/120	South Africa	v England	Johannesburg	1-Jan-10
C Kelleway	114	5/33	Australia	v South Africa	Manchester	27-May-12
JM Gregory	100	7/69	Australia	v England	Melbourne	31-Dec-20
MH Mankad	184	5/196	India	v England	Lord's	19-Jun-52
DS Atkinson	219	5/56	West Indies	v Australia	Bridgetown	14-May-55
KR Miller	109	6/107	Australia	v West Indies	Kingston	11-Jun-55
R Benaud	100	5/84	Australia	v South Africa	Johannesburg	7-Feb-58
OG Smith	100	5/90	West Indies	v India	Delhi	6-Feb-59
PR Umrigar	172*	5/107	India	v West Indies	Port of Spain	4-Apr-62
GS Sobers	104	5/63	West Indies	v India	Kingston	13-Apr-62
BR Taylor	105	5/86	New Zealand	v India	Kolkata	5-Mar-65
GS Sobers	174	5/41	West Indies	v England	Leeds	4-Aug-66
Mushtaq Mohammad	201	5/49	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Dunedin	7-Feb-73
AW Greig	148	6/164	England	v West Indies	Bridgetown	6-Mar-74
Mushtaq Mohammad	121	5/28	Pakistan	v West Indies	Port of Spain	1-Apr-77
IT Botham	103	5/73	England	v New Zealand	Christchurch	24-Feb-78
IT Botham	108	8/34	England	v Pakistan	Lord's	15-Jun-78
IT Botham	114	6/58, 7/48	England	v India	Mumbai	15-Feb-80
IT Botham	149*	6/95	England	v Australia	Leeds	16-Jul-81
Imran Khan	117	6/98, 5/82	Pakistan	v India	Faisalabad	3-Jan-83
IT Botham	138	5/59	England	v New Zealand	Wellington	20-Jan-84
Wasim Akram	123	5/100	Pakistan	v Australia	Adelaide	19-Jan-90
PA Strang	106*	5/212	Zimbabwe	v Pakistan	Sheikhupura	17-Oct-96
JH Kallis	110	5/90	South Africa	v West Indies	Cape Town	2-Jan-99
JH Kallis	139*	5/21	South Africa	v Bangladesh	Potchefstroom	25-Oct-02
R Ashwin	103	5/156	India	v West Indies	Mumbai	22-Nov-11
Shakib Al Hasan	144	6/82	Bangladesh	v Pakistan	Dhaka	17-Dec-11
Sohag Gazi	101*	6/77	Bangladesh	v New Zealand	Chittagong	9-Oct-13

England Youngest Player in Test Match, One-day International & T20I

England's youngest Test player remains Brian Close, who was 18 years 149 days old when he made his debut against New Zealand at Old Trafford in 1949. Four other Englishmen won their first caps aged 19: Jack Crawford (1905-06), Denis Compton (1937), Ben Hollioake (1997) and Ian Peebles (1927-28). Although Brian Close played just 22 Tests, his international career lasted until 1976 - when, aged 45 years 140 days, and again at Old Trafford.  He also ended up as the 11th-oldest England Test cricketer. So in ODI Ben Hollioake, at 19 years 195 days in 1997, was also England's youngest player in a one-day international, at 2^nd place Stuart Broad was only 20 years 67 days in 2006 is the youngest of 11 20-year-olds to have played.  England's youngest player in a T20I is Stuart Broad, again in 2006: Ben Stokes and Jos Buttler were also under 21 when they made their debuts in 2011.

Brian Close ways out of the way of a Michael Holding bouncer, England v West Indies, Old Trafford, July 10, 1976

Player Played his First Four Tests against Four Different Countries.

Tony Dodemaide of Australia did do it in 1987-88, when his first four Tests against New Zealand, Sri Lanka, England and Pakistan were successive matches for Australia, so it wasn't a case of him being in and out of the side. Tony Dodemaide started his career as a fast-bowling all-rounder and appeared in 10 Tests and 24 One Day Internationals for Australia, taking 534 first-class wickets for Victoria and Sussex. In spite of healthy batting and bowling averages for an all-rounder at test level Tony only made 10 Test appearances. On his debut, he took six wickets in the second innings against New Zealand in Melbourne in 1987

But it wasn't unique, even then: the Scottish-born Middlesex and England opener Eric Russell had played his first five Tests against different countries during the 1960s (Pakistan, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand). Since then three others have replicated Russell's feat: Robin Peterson, the South African slow left-armer;  and current New Zealand quick bowler; Trent Boult,  and the Bangladesh fast bowler Hasibul Hossain, who actually only played five Tests, all against different opposition. 

Most ODI Runs without Playing a Test

The only man to have scored more runs in ODI  without playing in a Test is Steve Tikolo of Kenya, who made 3421 runs in 134 matches. Indian Rohit Sharma, who lies 2nd on the list, recently became the first man from a Test-playing country to appear in 100 ODIs without winning a Test cap, another Indian Suresh Raina held the previous record with 98 ODI before his Test debut. Another Kenyan Thomas Odoyo (2418 Runs) and Kennedy Otieno (2016 Runs), Ireland's William Porterfield (2060 Runs) have all reached 2000 runs without winning a five-day cap. Therefore; from Test-playing countries are Kieron Pollard of West Indies (1869 runs) and Australia's David Hussey (1763 Runs).

Umpire officiated in the Most County Championship Matches

Old Kent player Tommy Spencer headed in the list, he officiated in no fewer than 570 Championship matches in an umpiring career that stretched from 1950 to 1980. Four others stood in more than 500: Frank Chester 531 (1922-55), David Constant 523 (1969-2006), Harry Baldwin 517 (1932-62) and Alan Whitehead 511 (1970-2005). Constant spent a record 38 seasons on the English first-class panel (he was only 27 when he joined it in 1969), and Whitehead 36.

Played most Test matches without ever bowling?

Over ten years, Ian Healy was the pulse of the Australian team. From his shock selection and humbling beginning in Pakistan in 1988-89, he worked and willed himself to become the most successful wicketkeeper of them all.  Ian Healy leads this list. He never turned his arm over during the course of 119. Second is the leading non-wicketkeeper, New Zealand Stephen Fleming of New Zealand, with 111: the only other man to play a century of Tests without ever bowling is Andrew Strauss, who won exactly 100 caps.

11 Oct 1999 Ian Healy of Australia the usual wicketkeeper, in the unusual position of bowling, during the tour match between the Zimbabwe President's XI and Australia at Bulawayo

50,000 Runs in all Forms of Cricket

England prolific batsman Graham Gooch, with 67,057 runs in all formats with 44,846 in first-class cricket, and 22,211 in List A games. On the 2^nd place not far behind is Graeme Hick, with 64,372. At 3rd place is at Sir Jack Hobbs, the old Surrey and England opener, whose 61,670 runs all came in first-class cricket and constitute the overall record for that.  The record includes all first-class, List A’ one-day matches and T20 games).

Graham Gooch batting in the Benson & Hedges Cup final, Essex v Northamptonshire, Lord's, July 21, 1980

Player	Span	Mat	Inns	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50
GA Gooch	1973-2000	1194	1591	123	67057	333	45.67	172	356
GA Hick	1983-2008	1214	1537	183	64372	405*	47.54	178	307
JB Hobbs	1905-1934	834	1325	107	61760	316*	50.7	199	273
FE Woolley	1906-1938	978	1530	84	58959	305*	40.77	145	295
G Boycott	1962-1986	922	1316	206	58521	261*	52.72	159	312
EH Hendren	1907-1937	833	1300	166	57611	301*	50.8	170	272
DL Amiss	1960-1987	1062	1530	160	55942	262*	40.83	117	289
CP Mead	1905-1936	814	1340	185	55061	280*	47.67	153	258
WG Grace	1865-1908	870	1478	104	54211	344	39.45	124	251
CG Greenidge	1970-1992	963	1325	108	53703	273*	44.12	125	277
IVA Richards	1971-1993	1007	1262	124	53207	322	46.75	140	271
MW Gatting	1975-1998	1102	1369	202	51025	258	43.72	106	268
H Sutcliffe	1919-1945	754	1098	124	50670	313	52.02	151	230
MR Ramprakash	1987-2012	931	1221	167	50651	301*	48.05	131	245
WR Hammond	1920-1951	634	1005	104	50551	336*	56.1	167	185
SR Tendulkar	1988-2013	954	1120	116	50024	248*	49.82	142	244
TW Graveney	1948-1972	777	1266	166	48940	258	44.49	122	239
AJ Lamb	1972-1995	951	1235	171	48160	294	45.26	108	264
KWR Fletcher	1962-1988	1158	1561	232	47613	228*	35.82	65	285
Zaheer Abbas	1965-1987	782	1077	125	46083	274	48.4	127	230
GM Turner	1964-1983	768	1100	123	45130	311*	46.19	117	214
MC Cowdrey	1950-1976	779	1208	145	44697	307	42.04	110	243
JH Edrich	1956-1978	724	1133	122	44582	310*	44.09	104	227
KJ Barnett	1979-2005	1004	1284	130	44157	239*	38.26	78	245
AI Kallicharran	1966-1990	888	1197	122	43986	243*	40.91	102	231
TW Hayward	1893-1914	712	1138	96	43551	315*	41.79	104	218
A Jones	1957-1983	933	1452	93	43206	204*	31.79	58	236
MJK Smith	1951-1975	777	1221	156	42938	204	40.31	69	256
Javed Miandad	1973-1998	841	1039	174	42636	311	49.29	93	240
CH Lloyd	1963-1986	865	1073	168	42147	242*	46.57	91	241
DL Haynes	1976-1997	795	1055	116	41681	255*	44.38	89	248
R Dravid	1990-2013	856	1014	129	41651	270	47.06	89	242
ME Waugh	1985-2004	802	1008	117	41518	229*	46.59	108	218
RT Ponting	1992-2013	793	982	118	41422	257	47.94	116	210
A Sandham	1911-1937	643	1000	79	41284	325	44.82	107	165
RA Smith	1980-2003	869	1140	147	41082	209*	41.37	88	212
AJ Stewart	1981-2003	951	1208	134	40936	271*	38.11	67	242
DW Randall	1971-2000	955	1269	142	40756	237	36.16	58	236
W Larkins	1972-2002	967	1309	79	40736	252	33.11	85	182
L Hutton	1934-1955	513	814	91	40140	364	55.51	129	177
SG Law	1988-2009	810	1021	97	40089	263	43.38	100	199