Wicketkeeper made the most stumpings in Tests?

This record has stood for more than 75 years now, the only wicketkeeper to make more than 50 stumping in Tests is Bert Oldfield, the little New South Welshman who spent much of his long international career which stretched from 1920-21 to 1936-37 keeping to the teasing leg-spin of Clarrie Grimmett. Bert Oldfield ended up with 52 Test stumping, 28 of them off Grimmett’s bowling. Next come Godfrey Evans, with 46 stumping, and then next Indian Syed Kirmani (38) and Adam Gilchrist (37), just ahead of the leading current keeper, MS Dhoni (36). The leader in one-day internationals is Kumar Sangakkara, with 85 stumpings, ten ahead of MS Dhoni and Romesh Kaluwitharana both at 75.

Wicketkeeper made the most stumpings in Tests?

Player                                                      Span                        Mat         Inns         Dis           Ct             St            

WAS Oldfield (Aus)                                1920-1937               54            101          130          78            52           

TG Evans (Eng)                                       1946-1959               91            175          219          173          46           

SMH Kirmani (India)                               1976-1986               88            151          198          160          38           

AC Gilchrist (Aus)                                   1999-2008               96            191          416          379          37           

MS Dhoni (India)                                     2005-2013               77            143          248          212          36           

HAPW Jayawardene (SL)                        2000-2012               52            90            129          97            32           

IA Healy (Aus)                                         1988-1999               119          224          395          366          29           

Wasim Bari (Pak)                                      1967-1984               81            146          228          201          27           

RS Kaluwitharana (SL)                            1992-2004               49            85            119          93            26           

JM Blackham (Aus)                                 1877-1894               35            57            59            35            24           

ATW Grout (Aus)                                    1957-1966               51            98            187          163          24           

LEG Ames (Eng)                                      1929-1939               47            81            95            72            23           

MV Boucher (ICC/SA)                             1997-2012               147          281          555          532          23           

AFA Lilley (Eng)                                      1896-1909               35            67            92            70            22           

Kamran Akmal (Pak)                                2002-2010               53            99            206          184          22           

H Carter (Aus)                                         1907-1921               28            55            65            44            21           

JJ Kelly (Aus)                                          1896-1905               36            67            63            43            20           

KS More (India)                                       1986-1993               49            90            130          110          20           

KC Sangakkara (SL)                                 2000-2013               117          90            151          131          20           

Moin Khan (Pak)                                     1990-2004               69            118          147          127          20           

Oldest man to make his ODI debut for a Test-playing country?

England left-arm spinner Norman Gifford was 44 years old when he made his debut in a one-day tournament in Sharjah in 1985. Norman had been the assistant manager on a couple of overseas tours, and took over as captain for this tournament when a few senior players were rested. Next comes South African Clive Rice, who was 42 years old  when he captained in their first official one-day internationals, in India in November 1991. If you include the non-Test teams then the oldest debutant in one-day internationals and the oldest player overall too is the Barbados-born opener Nolan Clarke, who was 47 when he played for the Netherlands in the 1996 World Cup.

Norman Gifford was 44 when he made his one-day debut for England

The youngest double-centurion in the County Championship

Surrey batsman Dominic Sibley made 242 runs against Yorkshire at the Oval on 26 Sep 2013 is the youngest player to score a double-century in county cricket, a record previously held by David Sales, for Northamptonshire v Worcestershire at Kidderminster in 1996, when he was about seven months older than Sibley, who turned 18 on September 5. But the only younger man to score a double-century in English first-class cricket was WG Grace, who was nine days younger than Sibley when he made 224 for England v Surrey at The Oval in 1866.  Dr. William Gilbert is also known as W G Grace, MRCS, LRCP was an English amateur cricketer who was important in the development of the sport and is considered by many historians to have been the greatest cricketer of all time. However; there have been 11 younger double-centurions in all first-class Cricket seven on them scored in Pakistan where there are sometimes doubts about the accuracy of birth records. Top of the list is Pakistan Hasan Raza who was 15 years 215 days old when he scored 204 not out for Karachi Whites against Bahawalpur in Karachi in 1997-98.

Dr. William Gilbert is also known as W G Grace

Dominic Sibley completes his double hundred, Surrey v Yorkshire, County Championship, Division One, The Oval, 3rd day September 26, 2013

Hasan Raza batting on debut when it was claimed he was 14 ... that was later disputed by his own board, Pakistan v Zimbabwe, Sheikhupura, October 20, 1996

 

Most half-centuries in a calendar year, in Tests and ODIs?

The Test record is 13 by Virender Sehwag in 2010 - that included eight scores between 50 and 99, and five centuries too. If you just mean half-centuries, then Keith Fletcher made nine for England in 1973 (plus two hundreds as well), and Hansie Cronje 9 for South Africa in 1998 (plus one century). In one-day internationals, Sachin Tendulkar reached 50 on 16 occasions in 1998, going on to three figures in nine of them. Sachin Tendulkar also made 13 half-centuries in 2007 (plus one century), equalling South Africa Gary Kirsten's 13 scores between 50 and 99 in 2000. In 2002, Pakistan Younis Khan made 12 fifties and never converted into  three figures, a record equalled by Sourav Ganguly and Graeme Smith in 2007.

Most over’s bowled in a single Test Series

Australian magician leg spinner Shane Warne, bowled 439.5 over’s (2639 balls) during the 1993 Ashes series in England. Mind it that was a six-Test series, the 2nd place overall is the man who bowled the most in a 5 match Test series is West Indian slow left-armer Alf Valentine, with 430 over’s at home against India in 1952-53. amazingly, Alf Valentine is also third on this list  and this time for a 4 Test rubber in England in 1950, in his debut series, Alf Valentine sent down 422.3 over’s. In 4th place for balls bowled in a series is Maurice Tate, who sent down 316 ( 8 balls over’s) in the 1924-25 Ashes series in Australia.

Wicketkeeper has made the most dismissals in a single one-day tournament.

Australian dashing wicket keeper batsman Adam Gilchrist leads the way by taking 26 catches and a stumping in 12 matches in the triangular series in 1998-99 involving England and Sri Lanka. Adam Gilchrist also holds the World Cup record, with 21 catches in South Africa in 2002-03. Whereas the record for a bilateral series is 19  set by Brendon McCullum (18 catches and a stumping) in New Zealand's  7matches home series against India,  in 2002-03. 

Aaron Finch Tumble T20I Records with Blazing 156

Aaron Finch, the 26-year-old Victorian batsman, ransacked England's bowling with an eye-popping world record 156. Finch brutal display of batting; hitting sixes all corners of ground, had just appeared six previous T20 caps, well past Brendon McCullum's 123 as the highest score in an international Twenty20. Australia's eventual 248 for 6 was the second-highest total in a T20 international - and the highest in a match involving two Test nations - only Sri Lanka's 260 against Kenya was out of reach and for a while it appeared they may cross that landmark too. Finch's 14 sixes is another records of most sixes by any batsman in T20I that he broke during the onslaught. He began with a six first ball, picked up effortlessly off Steven Finn, and it was a theme that would continue throughout. Each of Finch's landmarks came up with a six; his half-century, from 26 balls; his hundred, off 47, beating McCullum's record, and his 150. He’s in 2^nd spot at fastest T20I hundred, just behind South African Richard Levi 45-balls hundred against New Zealand in Hamilton. He was the first Australian to make a Twenty20 international hundred and it took him just 13 more deliveries to power past 150. By then, it had long since stopped being an even contest.

High Scores in T20I
Player	Runs	Balls	4s	6s	SR	Teams	Ground	Match Date
AJ Finch	156	63	11	14	247.61	Aus v Eng	Southampton	29-Aug-13
BB McCullum	123	58	11	7	212.06	NZ v BD	Pallekele	21-Sep-12
RE Levi	117*	51	5	13	229.41	SA v NZ	Hamilton	19-Feb-12
CH Gayle	117	57	7	10	205.26	WI v SA	Johannesburg	11-Sep-07
BB McCullum	116*	56	12	8	207.14	NZ v Aus	Christchurch	28-Feb-10
TM Dilshan	104*	57	12	5	182.45	SL v Aus	Pallekele	6-Aug-11
MJ Guptill	101*	69	9	6	146.37	NZ v SA	East London	23-Dec-12
SK Raina	101	60	9	5	168.33	Ind v SA	Gros Islet	2-May-10
DPMD Jayawardene	100	64	10	4	156.25	SL v Zim	Providence	3-May-10
RD Berrington	100	58	10	5	172.41	Sco v BD	The Hague	24-Jul-12

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