Five Dismissals in an ODI

Kamran Akmal becomes third Pakistani wicket keeper to take 5 dismissals in an ODI inning against West Indies in the Champions Trophy match. Before that; Rashid Latif and Moin Khan had done twice for Pakistan. Australian Adam Gilchrist has the world record of 6 dismissals in ODI by six times, while England A J Stewart & M J Prior, West Indies RD Jacobs, India MS Dohni, South Africa MV Boucher done once.

5 Dismissal in ODI from Pakistan 

Player	Dis	Ct	St	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
Moin Khan	5	5	0	Pakistan	v Zimbabwe	Harare	26-Feb-95
Rashid Latif	5	4	1	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	6-Mar-96
Moin Khan	5	3	2	Pakistan	v Australia	Melbourne	23-Jan-00
Rashid Latif	5	5	0	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dambulla	18-May-03
Kamran Akmal	5	4	1	Pakistan	v West Indies	The Oval	7-Jun-13

Most dismissals in an innings
Player	Dis	Ct	St	Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date
AC Gilchrist	6	6	0	Australia	v South Africa	Cape Town	14-Apr-00
AJ Stewart	6	6	0	England	v Zimbabwe	Manchester	13-Jul-00
RD Jacobs	6	5	1	West Indies	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	11-Dec-01
AC Gilchrist	6	5	1	Australia	v England	Sydney	23-Jan-03
AC Gilchrist	6	6	0	Australia	v Namibia	Potchefstroom	27-Feb-03
AC Gilchrist	6	6	0	Australia	v Sri Lanka	Colombo (RPS)	27-Feb-04
MV Boucher	6	6	0	South Africa	v Pakistan	Cape Town	11-Feb-07
MS Dhoni	6	5	1	India	v England	Leeds	2-Sep-07
AC Gilchrist	6	6	0	Australia	v India	Vadodara	11-Oct-07
AC Gilchrist	6	5	1	Australia	v India	Sydney	24-Feb-08
MJ Prior	6	6	0	England	v South Africa	Nottingham	26-Aug-08
RW Marsh	5	5	0	Australia	v England	Leeds	8-Jun-81
RG de Alwis	5	5	0	Sri Lanka	v Australia	Colombo (PSS)	13-Apr-83
SMH Kirmani	5	5	0	India	v Zimbabwe	Leicester	11-Jun-83
S Viswanath	5	3	2	India	v England	Sydney	26-Feb-85
KS More	5	3	2	India	v New Zealand	Sharjah	27-Mar-88
HP Tillakaratne	5	5	0	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Sharjah	20-Dec-90
NR Mongia	5	3	2	India	v New Zealand	Auckland	27-Mar-94
AC Parore	5	3	2	New Zealand	v West Indies	Margao	26-Oct-94
DJ Richardson	5	5	0	South Africa	v Pakistan	Johannesburg	12-Jan-95
Moin Khan	5	5	0	Pakistan	v Zimbabwe	Harare	26-Feb-95
RS Kaluwitharana	5	4	1	Sri Lanka	v Pakistan	Sharjah	11-Apr-95
DJ Richardson	5	5	0	South Africa	v Zimbabwe	Harare	21-Oct-95
A Flower	5	5	0	Zimbabwe	v South Africa	Harare	22-Oct-95
CO Browne	5	5	0	West Indies	v Sri Lanka	Brisbane	5-Jan-96
JC Adams	5	4	1	West Indies	v Kenya	Pune	29-Feb-96
Rashid Latif	5	4	1	Pakistan	v New Zealand	Lahore	6-Mar-96
NR Mongia	5	3	2	India	v Pakistan	Toronto	18-Sep-96
A Flower	5	5	0	Zimbabwe	v England	Harare	3-Jan-97
RD Jacobs	5	4	1	West Indies	v England	Kingstown	5-Apr-98
NR Mongia	5	4	1	India	v Zimbabwe	Leicester	19-May-99
RD Jacobs	5	5	0	West Indies	v New Zealand	Southampton	24-May-99
MSK Prasad	5	4	1	India	v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	29-Sep-99
RD Jacobs	5	2	3	West Indies	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	9-Oct-99
Moin Khan	5	3	2	Pakistan	v Australia	Melbourne	23-Jan-00
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v England	Johannesburg	13-Feb-00
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v Australia	Durban	12-Apr-00
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v Pakistan	Colombo (SSC)	12-Jul-00
RD Jacobs	5	5	0	West Indies	v Zimbabwe	Sydney	23-Jan-01
AC Gilchrist	5	4	1	Australia	v Pakistan	Melbourne (Docklands)	12-Jun-02
KC Sangakkara	5	4	1	Sri Lanka	v Netherlands	Colombo (RPS)	16-Sep-02
BB McCullum	5	4	1	New Zealand	v India	Napier	29-Dec-02
BB McCullum	5	5	0	New Zealand	v India	Christchurch	1-Jan-03
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	17-Apr-03
Rashid Latif	5	5	0	Pakistan	v Sri Lanka	Dambulla	18-May-03
CMW Read	5	5	0	England	v South Africa	Lord's	12-Jul-03
BB McCullum	5	5	0	New Zealand	v South Africa	Napier	2-Mar-04
MS Dhoni	5	3	2	India	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	27-Dec-04
KC Sangakkara	5	2	3	Asia XI	v ICC World XI	Melbourne	10-Jan-05
AC Gilchrist	5	5	0	Australia	v New Zealand	Christchurch	22-Feb-05
GO Jones	5	5	0	England	v Australia	Birmingham	28-Jun-05
AC Gilchrist	5	5	0	Australia	v Bangladesh	Canterbury	30-Jun-05
GO Jones	5	5	0	England	v Australia	Lord's	2-Jul-05
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v New Zealand	Centurion	6-Nov-05
AC Gilchrist	5	4	1	Australia	v Bangladesh	Chittagong	23-Apr-06
Khaled Mashud	5	3	2	Bangladesh	v Kenya	Nairobi (Gym)	12-Aug-06
AC Gilchrist	5	5	0	Australia	v England	Jaipur	21-Oct-06
D Ramdin	5	5	0	West Indies	v Pakistan	Faisalabad	7-Dec-06
MV Boucher	5	5	0	South Africa	v Pakistan	Johannesburg	14-Feb-07
D Ramdin	5	5	0	West Indies	v Netherlands	Dublin	10-Jul-07
D Ramdin	5	5	0	West Indies	v Zimbabwe	Harare	2-Dec-07
MS Dhoni	5	4	1	India	v Australia	Melbourne	10-Feb-08
AC Gilchrist	5	4	1	Australia	v India	Adelaide	17-Feb-08
AB de Villiers	5	5	0	South Africa	v Bangladesh	Dhaka	14-Mar-08
GJ Hopkins	5	5	0	New Zealand	v Ireland	Aberdeen	1-Jul-08
CJO Smith	5	5	0	Scotland	v Ireland	Aberdeen	2-Jul-08
D Ramdin	5	5	0	West Indies	v India	Kingston	28-Jun-09
TD Paine	5	5	0	Australia	v England	Centurion	2-Oct-09
BJ Haddin	5	5	0	Australia	v Pakistan	Perth	29-Jan-10
BB McCullum	5	5	0	New Zealand	v Bangladesh	Napier	5-Feb-10
MA Ouma	5	3	2	Kenya	v Netherlands	Nairobi (Gym)	18-Feb-10
MV Boucher	5	4	1	South Africa	v India	Ahmedabad	27-Feb-10
MS Dhoni	5	4	1	India	v Sri Lanka	Dambulla	24-Jun-10
BB McCullum	5	5	0	New Zealand	v Pakistan	Wellington	22-Jan-11
Mohammad Shahzad	5	4	1	Afghanistan	v Canada	King City (NW)	7-Aug-11
MS Wade	5	4	1	Australia	v Sri Lanka	Perth	10-Feb-12
MS Wade	5	5	0	Australia	v India	Brisbane	19-Feb-12
C Kieswetter	5	2	3	England	v South Africa	Lord's	2-Sep-12
Kamran Akmal	5	4	1	Pakistan	v West Indies	The Oval	7-Jun-13

Luke Ronchi makes double for Australia and New Zealand

Luke Ronchi played for New Zealand last week, after previously playing for Australia. This particular double is so called unique as no one had played for Australia and New Zealand in official internationals. Luke Ronchi, who was born in Dannevirke (New Zealand) but moved to Australia when he was only seven years old. He played four ODI’s in the West Indies in 2008, taking a catch off Brett Lee from the first ball he kept to, and also appeared in 3 Twenty20 games for Australia. Due to stiff competition Australian pecking order, and then eventually he returned to his native country, and has done very well for Wellington since. Luke Ronchi made his ODI debut for New Zealand at Lord's against England, but had to wait till the 11th over to get Ian Bell. Luke Ronchi is the 7th player to appear for two different countries in official one-day internationals, following Kepler Wessels (Australia and South Africa), Ed Joyce and Eoin Morgan (England and Ireland), Dougie Brown (England and Scotland), Anderson Cummins (West Indies and Canada), and Clayton Lambert (West Indies and USA).

 

James Anderson 300 Test Wicket before 30th Birthday

Jimmy Anderson took his 300th Test wicket at Lord's, aged only 30. Jimmy Anderson became the 26th bowler to reach 300 Test wickets when he had Peter Fulton caught at slip by his great mate Graeme Swann in the first innings at Lord's last month. Anderson is actually in a respectable mid-table position age-wise. He is the 13th-youngest (or 14th-oldest) of the 26, being five days younger than Glenn McGrath was when he reached the mark in 2000-01. The youngest man to reach 300 Test wickets is Indian Kapil Dev, who got there the day after his 28th birthday in January 1987. Shane Warne, Harbhajan Singh, Muttiah Muralitharan and Ian Botham were also 28 when they reached 300. The most interesting is oldest man to make it to 300 was West Indian off spinner Lance Gibbs, who was 41 in 1975-76.

 

Best Match Figures in Test defeat

Tim Southee took ten wickets in the Lord's Test - but New Zealand still lost. You will perhaps be surprised to discover that Tim Southee valiant effort at Lord's when he took 10 for 108 but still lost the test match was actually the 69th occasion on which a bowler has bagged ten or more wickets in a Test but finished up on the losing side. Pakistan left arm fast bowler Wasim Akram took ten but lost three times, while Sri Lankan Muttiah Muralitharan, Tom Richardson, Saeed Ajmal, Hugh Trumble, Daniel Vettori and Shane Warne have all done it twice. The best match figures in defeat are Javagal Srinath's 13 for 132 for India against Pakistan in Kolkata in 1998-99. He took 5/46 in the first inning and 8/86 in the 2nd inning.

 

Leading Test Wicket Taker as Captain

Pakistan legend Imran Khan has taken the most wickets while captaining in Tests, and leading the way to took 187 wickets in Tests while captain. Australian leg spinner Richie Benaud is next with 138, and in fact there are only six other bowler-captains who took more than 100 wickets, Garry Sobers (117), Daniel Vettori (116), Kapil Dev (111), Wasim Akram (107), Bishan Bedi (106) and Shaun Pollock (103). Of these, Imran also has the best average (20.27) and strike rate (49.26 balls per wicket) while captain.

 

Father & Son Played Same Number of Test Matches

Which father-and-son pair played the same number of Test matches? The answer to this neat little conundrum is the Kanitkars from India: Hemant Kanitkar won two caps against West Indies in 1974-75, scoring 65 on his debut in Bangalore - and ...his son Hrishikesh (a left-hander, unlike his father) also won two caps, in Australia in 1999-2000, making 45 on debut in Melbourne. Hrishikesh, who's now 38, still captains Rajasthan in the Ranji Trophy - he scored his 33rd first-class hundred last December.

 

Longest Test Career

Sachin Tendulkar has now been playing Test cricket for more than 23 years. He’s one of only 16 men whose Test careers have lasted longer than 20 years - the last one to complete two decades before him was John Traicos, of South Africa and Zimbabwe, in 1993. At the moment Sachin Tendulkar lies fifth on the all-time list - but he's going to have to hang on until he's 47 if he wants to claim the longest Test career of all, which is currently held by the Yorkshire and England all-rounder Wilfred Rhodes. He made his Test debut in 1899 (in WG Grace's final Test), and won the last of his 58 caps in the West Indies in April 1930, when he was, at 52, the oldest man ever to appear in a Test. In all Rhodes's Test career lasted 30 years and 315 days.