Who has most centuries as a opener?

Sachin Tendulkar has 45 ODI centuries batting as an opener, and Virat Kohli stands with 38 ODI centuries to date batting at No.
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Who made 1 run in 100 balls?

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Who is best ODI opener of all time?

"Matches" denotes the number of matches played as an opening batsman.
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Who scored most centuries at No 7 in ODI?

New Zealand batsman Chris Harris has scored the most runs playing as No. 7 in ODIs.
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Who scored most centuries at No 4?

No.4 – Ross Taylor – (19)

New Zealand's leading run-scorer, Ross Taylor, holds the record for most centuries at the no. 4 spot with 19 hundred. Taylor has scored 40 international hundreds, but his first century at no. 4 came against Bangladesh in 2008, where he scored 103.
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Who scored 6 fours in an over?

Indian opener Sandeep Patil was the first batter to hit six fours in an over in Test cricket. In 1982, when Test batting was defensive and classical, Patil took on Bob Willis at Old Trafford in Manchester, accumulating 25 runs in the over.
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Who is the only player to score 400 runs in a test match?

As of January 2023, the cricket player that holds the record for the highest individual score in international test match cricket is Brian Lara of the West Indies. The legendary batsman scored a record-breaking 400 not out against England in 2004.
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Who scored the slowest hundred in Test history?

Note: The slowest hundred for any Test in England is 458 minutes (329 balls) by KWR Fletcher, England v Pakistan, The Oval, 1974. The slowest double-hundred in a Test was scored in 777 minutes (548 balls) by DSBP Kuruppu for Sri Lanka v New Zealand at Colombo (CCC), 1986-87, on his debut.
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Who is the greatest opener?

Rohit Sharma becomes the best opener in the history of ODIs
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Who is the most destructive opener batsman in the world?

One of the most phenomenal wicketkeeper-batsmen of his era in cricket, Australian cricketer Adam Gilchrist is widely regarded as the most dangerous batsman in the world, coming from Australia. In Test cricket, he has made 5570 runs and in ODI, his runs tally up to 9619 in total.
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Who is the greatest batsman of all time?

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.
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Who is the slowest test player?

G.I. Allot of New Zealand played the slowest innings in Test Cricket. He was dismissed on zero after playing 77 balls in 101 minutes.
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Who scored 50 runs in 12 balls?

Yuvraj Singh scored his half-century in just 12 balls in an ICC T20 World Cup match in 2007. He hit Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over during the knock. Quickfire half centuries have become increasingly common in modern cricket, especially in the shortest Twenty20 or T20 format of the game.
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Who faced most balls for zero runs?

1. Geoff Allott (New Zealand, 1999) – 0 runs from 77 balls, Strike Rate: 0.00.
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Who got to 12000 ODI runs the fastest?

Who became the fastest to score 12000 runs in ODI, and why? Virat Kohli surpassed Sachin Tendulkar by achieving the fastest 12000 runs in ODI title. Kohli achieved this in his 242nd innings during the third ODI against Australia at the Manuka Oval in Canberra.
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Who Hitted 6 sixes in 6 balls?

Yuvraj Singh became the second batter, after Herschelle Gibbs, to hit six sixes in an over in international cricket. The occasion was the World T20 encounter against England, the venue Kingsmead, Durban, and the bowler under the withering onslaught was Stuart Broad.
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Who is the king of Sixer?

Maximum men: Batters with most sixes in international cricket. Amongst active cricketers, Rohit Sharma (521) has hit the most number of sixes in international cricket.
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Who hit 6 sixes in an over list?

Herschelle Gibbs hits six sixes in an over in ODI cricket

Gibbs entered the record books as the first batsman to have achieved the feat in a World Cup and remained the only man to have hit six sixes in an over in a 50-over game until 2021.
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Who played only 1 Test match?

Khalid Hasan played for Pakistan in 1954, and at the age of 16 years 352 days, he is the youngest cricketer to play in just one Test.
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Who has 99.94 Test career batting average?

Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been claimed by Brett Hutchins to be the greatest achievement by a sportsman in a major sport. The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore.
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