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

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.