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Bradman scored 6,996 Test runs in 52 Tests with 29 centuries from 80 innings. He made 974 in the 1930 Ashes, survived Bodyline in ...

Warne revived leg spin as a strike weapon, starting with the Gatting ball at Old Trafford in 1993. He took 708 Test wickets at 25....

McGrath bowled an unerring line and length on or just outside off stump, planning dismissals ball by ball. He took 8 for 24 agains...

Ponting is the second highest run scorer in Test history with 41 centuries and the most as an Australian captain. He led the unbea...

Gilchrist redefined the wicketkeeper batter, scoring 17 Test centuries at a strike rate beyond any keeper before him. His 57 ball ...

Lillee fought back from a serious back injury that should have ended his career, remaking his action and returning as a master of ...

Border rebuilt Australian cricket from the depths of the mid 1980s, captaining the 1987 World Cup win and setting a record of 153 ...

Waugh transformed Australia into the most ruthless team in history, winning 16 consecutive Tests through 1999 and 2001. He made 32...

Benaud was the first man to complete 2,000 runs and 200 wickets in Tests and never lost a series as Australia captain, drawing the...

Perry played World Cups for Australia in both cricket and football before choosing cricket full time. She made an unbeaten 213 in ...

Clark scored an unbeaten 229 against Denmark in the 1997 World Cup at Mumbai, the first ODI double hundred by any player, man or w...

William Gilbert Grace dominated the infancy of the game, scoring over 54,000 first class runs with 126 centuries across the Victor...

Hobbs, the Master, opened for England into his 40s and finished with 61,760 first class runs and 199 centuries, both all time reco...

Barnes bowled medium pace off cutters and devastating swing with a rare genius, taking 189 Test wickets at 16.43 from only 27 matc...

Hutton made 364 in 1938, then the highest Test score, at 22 years of age. A war injury left his left arm shorter, yet he remade hi...

Botham produced the greatest one man series in Ashes history in 1981, scoring 149 not out at Headingley as Bob Willis bowled Engla...

The Burnley Express bowled swing at its most relentless for two decades, taking 704 Test wickets, the only pacer beyond 700. He pl...

Cook scored a century on debut at Nagpur in 2006 and played 161 consecutive Tests, a record of durability. He made 33 Test centuri...

Bakewell scored 118 in the 1973 inaugural womens World Cup final against Australia at Edgbaston, a match England won. She complete...

Sobers made 365 not out against Pakistan at Kingston in 1958 at 21 years old, then the highest Test score. In 1968 he hit six sixe...

Richards batted with regal menace, making 1,710 Test runs in the 1976 calendar year and 189 not out at Old Trafford in the same su...

Lara made 375 against England at Antigua in 1994, the Test record for nine years, and 501 not out for Warwickshire the same season...

Marshall combined skiddy pace with vicious late swing and cut, taking 376 Test wickets at 20.94 with the best strike rate of the l...

The 6 foot 7 Antiguan produced perhaps the most devastating spell of the modern era, 7 wickets for 1 run against Australia at the ...

Holding delivered the most beautiful fast bowling action ever filmed, the run so smooth umpires never heard him coming. At The Ova...

Tendulkar debuted for India at 16 in 1989 and played 24 years, compiling 15,921 Test runs, a record, and the first one day double ...

Gavaskar faced the fearsome West Indies quicks of the late 1970s without a helmet and made 13 of his 34 Test centuries against the...

Kapil Dev captained India to the 1983 World Cup, his 175 not out against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells rescuing the campaign from 17...

The Wall stood longest of anyone, facing more deliveries in Test history than any batter. Dravid scored 13,288 runs with 36 centur...

Kumble bowled leg spin at fast medium pace with ferocious accuracy, taking 619 Test wickets, the most by an Indian. At Delhi in 19...

Dhoni led India to the inaugural T20 World Cup in 2007, the 2011 World Cup sealed by his winning six, and the 2013 Champions Troph...

Kohli passed the 49 ODI hundreds of Tendulkar in the 2023 World Cup semi-final at his home Wankhede, the 50th a national festival....

Mithali scored a century on ODI debut at 16 in 1999 and captained India for more than a decade, leading them to the 2005 and 2017 ...

Imran was the greatest cricketer Pakistan produced, a fast bowling allrounder with 3,807 Test runs and 362 wickets. In 1982 he too...

Wasim moved the ball both ways in the air at genuine pace, the finest left arm fast bowler in history. He took 3 for 49 and made 3...

Waqar reversed the old ball at pace, toe crushing yorkers his signature, forming with Wasim the two Ws that ruled the early 1990s....

Miandad hit Chetan Sharma for six off the final ball to win the 1986 Austral Asia Cup final against India, the most famous single ...

Hanif batted 970 minutes for 337 against the West Indies at Bridgetown in 1958, saving a Test after following on, still the longes...

Muralitharan took more wickets than any bowler in Test history, 800, sealing the count with his final delivery in his last Test at...

Sangakkara made double hundreds in four straight Tests in 2014, a feat no one else has matched. He scored 28,016 international run...

Jayasuriya turned the first 15 overs of a chase into blitzkrieg at the 1996 World Cup, winning man of the series as Sri Lanka took...

Pollock made 274 at Trent Bridge in 1965, still among the highest by a visiting batter in England, and averaged 60.97 in Tests. Do...

Richards scored 207 at Cape Town in his debut Test of 1970 against Australia and made 508 runs in his only series. The isolation o...

Kallis compiled numbers no allrounder has matched, 13,289 Test runs at 55 with 45 centuries, plus 292 wickets with the ball and 20...

Steyn combined 150 km/h pace with late away swing, taking 439 Test wickets at 22.95 and striking every 42 balls, the best rate of ...

Mr 360 scored around the entire field, and his 31 ball century against the West Indies at Johannesburg in January 2015 rewrote the...

Hadlee carried the New Zealand attack for 17 years, becoming the first bowler to 400 Test wickets in 1990 and finishing with 431. ...

Crowe batted with a correctness rare in his era, scoring 5,444 Test runs at 45, including 299 run out against Sri Lanka at Welling...

Williamson led New Zealand to the inaugural World Test Championship title in 2021, beating India at Southampton. A craftsman of so...

Shakib topped ICC allrounder rankings in all three formats, the only man to do so at once. He is the leading wicket taker in Bangl...

Hammond was the dominant English batsman of the 1930s, a commanding driver through the off side and a superb slip fielder. His 336...

Fiery Fred from Yorkshire was the fast bowling spearhead of England through the 1950s and early 1960s. At the Oval in 1964 he beca...

Miller flew fighter bombers with the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War and brought a carefree flair to cricket af...

Smith began as a leg spinner and reinvented himself as one of the leading Test batsmen of his generation, with an idiosyncratic sh...

One of the three Ws of Barbados with Everton Weekes and Clyde Walcott, Worrell was an elegant batsman who became West Indies capta...

Lloyd scored a century in the first World Cup final at Lords in 1975 and led the West Indies to a second title in 1979. Building h...

Rohit is the only batsman with three double centuries in one day internationals, including the record score of 264 against Sri Lan...

Qadir bowled with an extravagant, bounding action and a full range of leg breaks, googlies and flippers at a time when fast bowlin...

Jayawardene was a graceful right handed batsman and astute captain for Sri Lanka. At the SSC in Colombo in 2006 he scored 374 agai...

McCullum smashed 158 not out in the first ever IPL match in 2008 and became a pioneer of aggressive batting in every format. He ca...

Smith was appointed South Africa captain in 2003 at just 22 and promptly scored 277 and 259 in consecutive Tests in England. A pow...

Flower averaged over 50 in Test cricket for a struggling Zimbabwe side and was briefly ranked the best batsman in the world. At th...

Edwards debuted for England at 16 and became one of the leading run scorers in womens international cricket. As captain she led En...

Rashid rose from a refugee childhood to lead the rapid rise of Afghanistan cricket, bowling quick leg spin and googlies that batsm...