#1 Ricky Ponting Former Australian captain and one of the all-time greats, Ricky Ponting, holds the record for the most hundreds in test cricket for Australia. In his nearly two-decade-long career, Ponting scored 41 centuries in 287 games.
Englishman Joe Root has the highest score in a hundredth Test match; he was the first player to have scored a double century (200 runs or more) in their hundredth Test match.
Don Bradman: a Test batting average of 99.94, almost 40 runs per innings ahead of anyone else, gives The Don claims to being not just the greatest cricketer of them all, but perhaps the greatest sportsperson.
Sachin Tendulkar (India) When talking about the world's No. 1 batsman, we cannot proceed without mentioning Sachin Tendulkar, one of the best cricket players in the entire cricket fraternity. In the cricket world, there is only one God of Cricket, and that is Sachin Tendulkar.
NEW DELHI: Australia's veteran opener David Warner created history by becoming the second batter after Joe Root to make a double century in his 100th Test. He achieved the milestone on Day 2 of the second Test against South Africa at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Tuesday.
200 & 100 in a Same Test Match
Graham Gooch and Kumar Sangakkara are the only two players with a triple century and a century in the same Test match.
Muttiah Muralitharan's 59 international ducks, the most among players across the three formats. Courtney Walsh has the most ducks in Tests (43) while Murali's former teammate Sanath Jayasuriya leads the list in ODIs (34).
Former Australian wicket-keeper batter Adam Gilchrist has also hit 100 sixes in Tests. While Gilchrist clobbered 100 sixes in 96 Tests, Stokes has smashed the same number of sixes in just 82 Tests. Chris Gayle and former South Africa all-rounder Jacques Kallis complete the top five list of most sixes in Tests.
Australia's lowest Test score against India came way back in 1981 when it was bowled out for 81 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, resulting in a 59-run defeat.
The record in Tests is held by England's Jonathan Trott, whose 3835 runs did not include a single six.
Pranav Dhanawade (born 2000) is an Indian cricketer from Kalyan, Maharashtra. Batting in one innings, stretching over 4 and 7 January 2016, he became the first person to score more than 1,000 runs in one innings in an officially recognised match.
Zak Crawley, Ben Duckett, Ollie Pope, and Harry Brook all smashed tons on a flat Rawalpindi pitch. They now hold the record for most tons in a single day. This game also saw seven centuries hit in the game. Only twice in the history of cricket, 8 centuries were scored in a Test match.
Which player scored four consecutive double centuries in Test cricket? The Indian batsman Virat Kohli scored four consecutive double centuries in Test cricket. Till date, he remains the only batsman with the record for four consecutive double centuries in Test matches.
With 7 double centuries as captain, Virat Kohli leads the chart of most double centuries in Tests by a captain, with Brian Lara coming next with 5 double tons while playing as captain. Find out the list of Virat Kohli double tons here.
He has the highest individual score in both first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994) and Test cricket (400 not out for the West Indies against England in 2004). Lara amassed his world record 501 in 474 minutes off only 427 balls.
Ricky Ponting: The only player to score a century in both innings of his 100th Test.
What is 150 runs called in cricket? In cricket, the score between 50 - 99 is considered as a 'Half-Century'. The score between 100 - ∞ is considered as a 'Century'. If a batsman out for a score between 100 - 199 is also considered as a 'Century'.
Voted the greatest PBA player ever, when the PBA announced its "50 Greatest Players of the Last 50 Years" list in the 2008–09 season. The Earl Anthony Bowl in Dublin, California is named in his honor.
MS Dhoni
India's most successful captain and their greatest wicket-keeper ever, MS Dhoni was the only captain to win three ICC tournaments. From the World T20 in 2007, to the 50-over World Cup in 2011 and the Champions Trophy in 2013, Dhoni led from the front as India had a magnificent run for nearly 7 years under him.
AB de Villiers, also known as Mr. 360 owing to his ability to smash a ball to every corner of the stadium, is perhaps the best finisher in the history of cricket. Over the course of his career, he has chased down innumerable targets for both his national team South Africa and numerous T20 league franchises.
Shahid Afridi holds the record of hitting the longest six in cricket history. He hit a massive 153m six against South Africa's Ryan McLaren in 2013. Hitting exceptional sixes one after the other is not every cricketer's cup of tea.