Tied Tests, Super Overs, legendary innings, and iconic moments that defined cricket history
105 incidents documented
India
May 2025
Within weeks of each other in 2025, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli — India's two greatest contemporary Test batsmen — announced their retirements from Test cricket, bringing a definitive close to one of international cricket's most celebrated batting partnerships.
India vs South Africa
2024-06-29
India beat South Africa by 7 runs in a dramatic final in Barbados to win the 2024 T20 World Cup — Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli both announcing retirement from T20 internationals after the victory, ending an era in Indian T20 cricket.
India vs South Africa
29 June 2024
India ended an 11-year ICC trophy drought by defeating South Africa in a breathtaking T20 World Cup Final in Barbados — a victory that sparked celebrations across the subcontinent and prompted the retirement of Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Ravindra Jadeja from T20 international cricket.
India vs Australia
22-23 November 2024
Acting captain Jasprit Bumrah's 8-wicket match haul at the Optus Stadium in Perth — combined with his aggressive, astute captaincy — produced one of India's most dominant Test victories on Australian soil, widely hailed as among the finest individual fast bowling performances in Test history.
India vs various
2023-11-19
Virat Kohli scored 765 runs in the 2023 World Cup — the highest aggregate in a single World Cup — including 3 centuries (tying the record for most in a single tournament), as India went unbeaten in 10 matches before falling to Australia in the final.
Australia vs India
19 November 2023
Travis Head's stunning 137 off 120 balls transformed a desperate Australian chase in front of 134,000 partisan Indian supporters into one of cricket's most astonishing individual performances, handing Australia a sixth ODI World Cup title.
Australia vs Afghanistan
24 October 2023
Australia's captain Pat Cummins delivered one of the most memorable hat-tricks in World Cup history — cleaning up three Afghan batsmen in consecutive balls at Wankhede Stadium, including two with unplayable toe-crushing yorkers.
New Zealand vs Bangladesh
2022-01-08
Ross Taylor played his 100th Test for New Zealand in January 2022 — becoming the first New Zealander to achieve the milestone — before retiring as his country's highest run-scorer with 7,683 Test runs, ending a 16-year career that changed New Zealand batting.
India vs Australia
2021-01-19
India, decimated by injuries and playing largely reserve players, chased 328 to win at the Gabba — a ground where Australia had not lost in 32 years. Rishabh Pant hit the winning boundary off the last-but-one over, winning the series 2-1.
New Zealand vs India
2021-06-23
New Zealand beat India by 8 wickets to win the inaugural ICC World Test Championship Final — Kane Williamson's 49 and Kyle Jamieson's 5/31 defeating the highest-ranked Test team in the world, giving cricket's longest format its first global champion.
England vs New Zealand
2019-07-14
The most extraordinary finish in World Cup history — the final tied, the Super Over tied, and England were declared World Champions on boundary count. New Zealand were devastated. The boundary countback rule was subsequently abolished.
England vs Australia
2019-08-25
England needed 73 off the last 17 overs with one wicket remaining. Ben Stokes scored 135 not out, hitting the winning four off Pat Cummins to give England a 1-wicket victory — the most remarkable Ashes run chase since Botham's Leeds 1981.
Australia vs England (Women)
2019-02-14
Ellyse Perry made 213 not out — the highest score ever in a Women's Ashes Test — while also taking 7 wickets in the match to produce the greatest all-round performance in Women's Test history.
England vs New Zealand
2019-07-14
Ben Stokes dived for his crease as Martin Guptill's throw deflected off his outstretched bat to the boundary — the umpires awarded 6 runs (4 for the boundary + 2 being run), though replays suggested only 5 should have been given. The 'extra' run may have changed the World Cup result.
India vs Australia (Women)
2017-07-20
Harmanpreet Kaur made 171 not out off 115 balls against Australia in the Women's World Cup semi-final — the highest score in a Women's World Cup knockout match, an innings so explosive it changed the commercial trajectory of women's cricket globally.
West Indies vs England
2016-04-03
West Indies needed 19 off the last over. Carlos Brathwaite hit Ben Stokes for four consecutive sixes to win the 2016 ICC T20 World Cup — the greatest single-over comeback in World Cup history.
India vs various
2016-10-13
Rohit Sharma is the only batsman in history to have scored three double centuries in ODI cricket — 209 vs Australia (2013), 264 vs Sri Lanka (2014), and 208* vs Sri Lanka (2016) — an achievement so statistically remote that no other player has scored more than one.
South Africa vs West Indies
2015-01-18
AB de Villiers made 149 off 44 balls against West Indies — reaching his century off just 31 deliveries, the fastest ODI hundred in history — with 16 sixes and 9 fours in an innings that redefined what was considered humanly possible in white-ball cricket.
Sri Lanka vs various
2015-03-09
Kumar Sangakkara scored four consecutive centuries in the 2015 World Cup — against Bangladesh, England, Australia, and Scotland — the first batsman ever to score centuries in four consecutive matches in a World Cup, in what proved to be his farewell tournament.
New Zealand vs South Africa
2015-03-24
New Zealand needed 12 off the last over to reach their first World Cup final. Grant Elliott — a South African-born New Zealander — hit Dale Steyn for six with 3 balls remaining, then two with the last ball to win by 4 wickets in one of cricket's most emotionally charged finishes.
New Zealand vs West Indies
2015-03-21
Martin Guptill made 237 not out against West Indies in the 2015 World Cup quarter-final — the highest individual score in World Cup history and in any knockout ODI match — as New Zealand won by 143 runs to reach their first World Cup semi-final in 23 years.
Australia vs New Zealand
2015-03-29
Australia beat New Zealand by 7 wickets in the 2015 World Cup Final at the MCG — captain Michael Clarke's farewell tournament — winning their fifth World Cup title and becoming the first team to win the tournament on home soil.
India vs Sri Lanka
2014-11-13
Rohit Sharma made 264 not out off 173 balls at Eden Gardens against Sri Lanka — the highest individual score in ODI cricket history, including 33 fours and 9 sixes in an innings of controlled, extraordinary brilliance.
New Zealand vs India
2014-02-15
Brendon McCullum made 302 against India in Wellington — New Zealand's first ever Test triple century — batting with the same attacking freedom he brought to captaincy and T20 cricket, becoming the fastest player to reach 300 in Tests at the time.
India vs West Indies
2013-11-16
Sachin Tendulkar played his 200th and final Test at his home ground, Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, retiring after 24 years of international cricket — the longest such career in history. His retirement speech, delivered in the middle of Wankhede, moved a nation to tears.
India vs Bangladesh
2012-03-16
After waiting 12 agonizing innings to reach the milestone, Sachin Tendulkar became the first player in history to score 100 international centuries — an achievement that is statistically the most distant landmark from any other player in cricket.
India vs Australia
2012-02-29
Virat Kohli's 2012 CB Series in Australia announced him to the world as cricket's next great batsman — scoring 230 runs across three successive run-chases, including 133* to chase 316, 75 to chase 270, and 66 to chase 321 — an unprecedented sequence of successful chases.
India vs Sri Lanka
2011-04-02
MS Dhoni promoted himself up the batting order and hit Nuwan Kulasekara for six over long-on to win India's second World Cup — the first on home soil, 28 years after the 1983 win. The moment fulfilled a nation's dream and carried the weight of Sachin Tendulkar's final World Cup.
India vs Pakistan
2011-03-30
India beat Pakistan by 29 runs in the 2011 World Cup semi-final at Mohali — the most watched cricket match in history, televised to an estimated 988 million viewers globally, with both Prime Ministers watching from the same stand.
India vs South Africa
2010-02-24
Sachin Tendulkar became the first batsman in history to score a double century in ODI cricket, making 200 not out off 147 balls against South Africa — a record that many thought was statistically impossible.
Sri Lanka vs India
2010-07-22
In the final over of his Test career, Muttiah Muralitharan took his 800th wicket — dismissing Pragyan Ojha off the last ball to finish his career on the most unimaginable round number in bowling history.
South Africa vs Australia
2009-01-04
South Africa needed 72 more runs to save the first Test when Graeme Smith — their captain — came to the crease with a broken left hand, batting one-handed to guide South Africa to a draw over the final 56 balls.
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
2009-02-28
Younis Khan made 313 against Sri Lanka at the National Stadium, Karachi — Pakistan's second-highest individual Test score — in what proved to be one of the last Tests played in Pakistan before security concerns moved international cricket away from the country.
India vs South Africa
2008-03-29
Virender Sehwag made 319 off 304 balls at a strike rate of 104 in a Test match — the second-highest score ever made by an Indian, remarkable not just for its size but for the extraordinary speed at which it was accumulated.
South Africa vs various
2008-12-27
Dale Steyn finished his Test career with 439 wickets at 22.95 — the best average by any bowler with over 200 wickets in the 21st century — and became the fastest South African to 300 wickets, consistently ranked world's number one Test bowler for five years.
India vs England
2007-09-19
Yuvraj Singh hit Stuart Broad for six consecutive sixes in a single over at the 2007 T20 World Cup — the fastest T20 fifty ever at the time (12 balls), one of only a handful of times six sixes in an over have been hit in international cricket.
Australia vs Sri Lanka
2007-04-28
Adam Gilchrist made 149 off 104 balls in the World Cup final — with a squash ball hidden in his glove — as Australia completed a comprehensive victory that confirmed their status as the greatest ODI side ever assembled.
Ireland vs Pakistan
2007-03-17
Ireland chased 266 to beat Pakistan in the 2007 World Cup — the most significant upset in World Cup history, causing Pakistan's elimination and the subsequent resignation and tragic death of coach Bob Woolmer.
Australia vs South Africa
2007-04-03
Australia needed 19 off the last over to reach the 2007 World Cup final. Michael Hussey hit 18 off the first five balls — then a bye completed the single needed as Australia tied the match and qualified for the final on Duckworth-Lewis calculations.
Australia vs England
2007-01-05
Australia whitewashed England 5-0 in the 2006-07 Ashes — revenge for England's 2005 series win — with every Test won by a margin of over 200 runs, confirming Ponting's side as the dominant Test team of the decade.
India vs Pakistan
2007-09-24
Pakistan needed 13 off the last over with 3 wickets remaining. MS Dhoni gave the ball to Joginder Sharma — a bowler with no T20 experience — who dismissed Misbah-ul-Haq attempting a scoop shot, giving India the inaugural T20 World Cup in the most dramatic possible finish.
Pakistan vs India
2007-09-24
With Pakistan needing 6 off 4 balls, Misbah-ul-Haq attempted a ramp/scoop shot off Joginder Sharma — the ball lobbed up to Sreesanth at fine leg. Pakistan lost the inaugural T20 World Cup final by 5 runs in a moment of individual tragedy.
Australia vs England
2007-01-05
Shane Warne played his final Test at the SCG in January 2007 — retiring with 708 wickets, the world record at the time (later broken by Muralitharan), after completing the 5-0 Ashes whitewash. His final wicket: Andrew Flintoff, caught at slip.
Sri Lanka vs South Africa
2006-07-27
Mahela Jayawardene (374) and Kumar Sangakkara (287) added 624 runs for the 3rd wicket — the highest partnership in Test cricket history — as Sri Lanka piled up 756/5 declared and skipped to an innings victory.
Sri Lanka vs South Africa
2006-07-31
Mahela Jayawardene batted for 752 minutes to score 374 against South Africa — the second-highest individual score in Test history, one run short of Brian Lara's record, as part of the 624-run partnership that broke the Test partnership record with Sangakkara.
England vs Australia
2005-08-07
After England won the second Ashes Test by 2 runs — the narrowest Ashes victory in history — Andrew Flintoff walked to Brett Lee, who sat dejected on the pitch, knelt beside him and consoled him. The photograph became cricket's most iconic image of sportsmanship.
England vs Australia
2005-09-12
Kevin Pietersen made 158 in his first Ashes Test appearance at The Oval — including sixes off Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath — to help England draw the final Test and win their first Ashes since 1987.
India vs various
2005-10-19
MS Dhoni's helicopter shot — a full swing of the bat through a full or yorker-length delivery, generating enormous loft and power to leg — became one of cricket's most copied innovations, a shot that cricket coaches had no name for until Dhoni invented it.
England vs Australia
2005-08-07
England beat Australia by 2 runs at Edgbaston in 2005 — the narrowest Ashes victory in history, a match that swung multiple times across four days, and is widely voted the greatest Test match ever played.
England vs Australia
2005-09-12
Andrew Flintoff made 402 runs and took 24 wickets in the 2005 Ashes — joint Man of the Series with Shane Warne — in a sustained all-round performance that defined the series and England's first Ashes win in 18 years.
West Indies vs England
2004-04-12
Brian Lara batted for 778 minutes to score 400 not out against England in Antigua — reclaiming the world record he had lost to Matthew Hayden and setting a mark that has never been approached since.
India vs Pakistan and Sri Lanka
2004-03-29
Virender Sehwag scored 309 against Pakistan at Multan in 2004 and 319 against South Africa at Chennai in 2008 — the only batsman in history to score two Test triple centuries, each innings remarkable for the extraordinary strike rate at which they were scored.
Australia vs various
2004-07-22
Ricky Ponting captained Australia in 77 Test wins — the most by any Test captain in history — across 7 years and 77 matches, leading them to two World Cup titles, four consecutive Ashes series wins, and the world's top Test ranking.
Australia vs India
2003-03-23
Ricky Ponting made 140 not out off 121 balls as Australia made 359/2 in the World Cup final — the highest team total in a World Cup final — before bowling India out for 234 to win by 125 runs and complete a second consecutive World Cup triumph.
Pakistan vs England
2003-02-22
Shoaib Akhtar bowled a delivery clocked at 100.2mph against Nick Knight at the 2003 World Cup — the fastest delivery in the history of cricket according to official speed gun measurements.
Australia vs England
2003-01-02
Steve Waugh made 102 in his final Ashes Test at the SCG — reaching his century off the last ball before tea with a boundary, having been dropped from Tests only to be recalled for this series finale, in what became one of cricket's most celebrated farewell innings.
India vs Pakistan
2003-03-01
Sachin Tendulkar hit Shoaib Akhtar — the world's fastest bowler — for a six over third man off a 93mph delivery in the most politically charged ODI in history, setting up a 6-wicket Indian win watched by 300 million viewers.
India vs England
2002-07-13
India needed 146 off 25 overs with 5 wickets down in the NatWest Trophy Final. Mohammed Kaif (87*) and Yuvraj Singh (69) guided India to victory, with Sourav Ganguly memorably removing his shirt on the Lord's balcony to celebrate.
Pakistan vs New Zealand
2002-09-02
Inzamam-ul-Haq scored 329 for Pakistan against New Zealand in Lahore — Pakistan's highest individual Test score — in an innings of controlled authority that lasted 571 minutes and placed him among the great Test batsmen of his era.
India vs Australia
2001-03-14
Following on 274 runs behind, India were on the brink of a historic innings defeat. VVS Laxman (281) and Rahul Dravid (180) added 376 for the 5th wicket to set Australia 384 to win — and Anil Kumble bowled them out for 212, completing the most miraculous comeback in Test history.
India vs Australia
2001-03-11
Harbhajan Singh took India's first Test hat-trick in 67 years — dismissing Ricky Ponting, Adam Gilchrist, and Shane Warne in the first innings — sparking India's comeback from following on that ultimately won the Test and the series.
Australia vs various
2000-10-29
Between October 1999 and March 2001, Australia won 16 consecutive Test matches — a record that has never been equalled in Test cricket history, representing the most dominant period of Test cricket ever seen by a single team.
West Indies vs England
2000-04-18
Curtly Ambrose played his final Test in Barbados in April 2000, retiring with 405 wickets at 20.99 — the end of an era that had seen West Indies produce the finest fast bowlers in cricket's history across 25 consecutive years.
Australia vs South Africa
1999-06-17
Lance Klusener smashed Australia to the brink of elimination, then ran out Allan Donald off the penultimate ball to tie the match — but Australia advanced to the final on superior run rate, ending South Africa's greatest World Cup campaign in devastating fashion.
India vs Pakistan
1999-02-07
Anil Kumble became only the second bowler in Test history to take all 10 wickets in a single innings, finishing with 10/74 as Pakistan were bowled out for 207 — a performance that, like Laker's, required near-perfect conditions and one man to be utterly unplayable.
South Africa vs various
1999-06-01
Lance Klusener was named Player of the Tournament at the 1999 World Cup after scoring 281 runs at an average of 140.50 and a strike rate of 122, taking 17 wickets — the most dominant all-round tournament performance in World Cup history — for a team that did not win the title.
India vs Australia
1998-04-22
In the space of three days, Sachin Tendulkar hit two centuries against Australia in Sharjah — one in a qualifying match against a desert sandstorm, one in the final — comprehensively destroying Shane Warne's aura and cementing his status as the world's greatest batsman.
India vs Australia
1998-01-24
The 1998 India-Australia Test series produced the greatest sustained individual duel in cricket history — Sachin Tendulkar vs Shane Warne — with Tendulkar making 446 runs in the three-Test series, including 155 not out and 177, dominating the world's greatest bowler on his home grounds.
Sri Lanka vs Australia
1996-03-17
Aravinda de Silva made 107 not out in the World Cup final — and also took 3 wickets with the ball — to lead Sri Lanka to their first World Cup title in a comprehensive 7-wicket victory over favourites Australia.
England vs South Africa
1994-08-20
After being hit on the helmet by Fanie de Villiers, Devon Malcolm told South Africa 'You guys are history.' He then took 9/57 — the best bowling figures by an England fast bowler in Test history — to bowl South Africa out for 175.
West Indies vs England
1994-04-01
Curtly Ambrose produced one of cricket's most sustained bowling spells — taking 7 English wickets for just 1 run in 32 balls, reducing England from 40/1 to 46 all out as he became virtually unplayable on a lively Queen's Park Oval pitch.
England vs Australia
1993-06-04
Shane Warne's first ball in Ashes cricket pitched outside leg stump and spun 18 inches to hit the top of Mike Gatting's off stump — the most famous single delivery in cricket history, announcing to the world that leg-spin was not dead.
South Africa vs Pakistan
1992-03-01
Jonty Rhodes launched himself horizontally through the air, gathered the ball one-handed, and broke the stumps in a single motion to run out Inzamam-ul-Haq — a fielding moment that changed how the game thought about athleticism in the field.
Pakistan vs England
1992-03-25
With England seemingly in control of the 1992 World Cup Final chase, Wasim Akram dismissed Allan Lamb and Chris Lewis with consecutive balls using devastating reverse swing — the two wickets that sealed Pakistan's first and only World Cup title.
New Zealand vs various
1992-02-22
Martin Crowe made 188 runs across New Zealand's 1992 World Cup campaign and 91 in their semi-final vs Pakistan — the tournament's leading scorer — alongside captaining a side that pioneered pinch-hitting and spin bowling tactics later adopted by the entire cricket world.
Pakistan vs various
1992-03-04
Imran Khan's Pakistan were on the verge of elimination in the 1992 World Cup — five losses in seven games. His 'Fight like cornered tigers' speech transformed the campaign. Pakistan won their next five matches, including the final, to lift their only World Cup trophy.
Pakistan vs various
1992-03-01
Pakistan entered the 1992 World Cup with a rain-affected, points-based format that threatened to eliminate them even before the knockouts. They won five consecutive matches including the final to lift their only World Cup — in Imran Khan's farewell tournament.
Pakistan vs various
1992-01-01
Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis developed reverse swing — the technique of making an old cricket ball swing away from the seam rather than toward it — into a weapon so potent it won Pakistan a World Cup final and changed the Laws of cricket twice.
India vs Pakistan
1989-11-15
Sachin Tendulkar made his Test debut aged 16 years and 205 days against Pakistan in Karachi — facing Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, and Imran Khan — becoming one of the youngest Test debutants in history and beginning the most storied career in cricket.
India vs various
1987-03-07
Sunil Gavaskar became the first batsman in history to score 10,000 Test runs in March 1987 — completing a career of extraordinary technical excellence in which he faced some of the world's fastest bowling without a helmet in his early career.
India vs Australia
1986-09-22
Twenty-six years after Brisbane, cricket produced only its second tied Test — Dean Jones's heroic 210 through crippling heat and Dean Jones's fever, Ravi Shastri's unbeaten 48 and India needing 2 off the last over, only for Maninder Singh to be out lbw off the final ball.
Pakistan vs India
1986-04-18
Pakistan needed 4 off the last ball to tie, 5 to win. Chetan Sharma ran in. Javed Miandad hit the full toss over long-on for six. Pakistan won by 1 wicket. The shot became the most replayed moment in Pakistan cricket history.
India vs Pakistan
1985-04-05
Sunil Gavaskar hit the winning boundary off the last ball to give India the 1985 Rothmans Cup against Pakistan in Sharjah — the day before his 36th birthday — in an innings so dramatic that Sharjah became cricket's most celebrated neutral ground.
England vs West Indies
1984-08-14
West Indies whitewashed England 5-0 in the 1984 series — the first time England had ever been beaten 5-0 in a home series — through the most dominant fast bowling combination ever assembled: Marshall, Holding, Garner, and Baptiste.
India vs West Indies
1983-06-25
India, 175-run underdogs, bowled out West Indies for 140 to win the 1983 World Cup at Lord's — a victory that transformed cricket's global landscape, made India the sport's financial superpower, and inspired a generation of cricketers.
India vs Zimbabwe
1983-06-18
India were 17 for 5 against Zimbabwe in a 1983 World Cup group match. Kapil Dev, with no recognized batting partner, scored 175 not out off 138 balls — the highest ODI score at the time, a match-saving and match-winning innings that no broadcaster captured on film.
England vs Australia
1981-07-21
England, following on 227 runs behind and 500-to-1 outsiders with bookmakers, were bowled to 135/7 in their second innings when Ian Botham walked in and made 149 not out — setting up a Bob Willis spell that completed the most improbable Ashes victory ever.
West Indies vs England
1979-06-23
Viv Richards made 138 not out — the highest score in a World Cup final until 2003 — as West Indies defended their 1975 title by beating England at Lord's in a match that confirmed West Indian dominance of world cricket.
England vs West Indies
1976-07-22
45-year-old Brian Close, recalled to face West Indies' pace onslaught, took blow after blow from Michael Holding, Andy Roberts, and Wayne Daniel at Old Trafford without complaint — walking toward the ball, refusing to take evasive action, in one of cricket's most extreme acts of physical courage.
West Indies vs England
1976-08-12
West Indies' 1976 tour of England introduced the most feared fast bowling quartet in cricket history — Holding, Roberts, Daniel, and Holder — as they beat England 3-0 in a series defined by pace, aggression, and the emergence of Viv Richards as the world's best batsman.
West Indies vs Australia
1975-06-21
Clive Lloyd made 102 off 85 balls in the very first World Cup final at Lord's in 1975, leading West Indies to a 17-run victory over Australia in a match that ran until 8:43pm under floodlights — and established the World Cup as a viable global cricket competition.
West Indies vs various
1975-06-01
Clive Lloyd captained West Indies from 1974 to 1985 — 18 Tests unbeaten between 1980 and 1984, two World Cup wins, and the creation of the four-pace-bowler strategy that dominated Test cricket for a decade and permanently changed how cricket is played.
India vs England
1971-08-24
India beat England at The Oval in 1971 — their first ever Test victory in England after 39 years of trying — through Bhagwath Chandrasekhar's 6/38 that bowled England out for 101, completing a 4-wicket win that validated a decade of Indian cricket development.
South Africa vs Australia
1970-02-05
Graeme Pollock made 274 against Australia — the highest score ever made by a South African in Tests until 2012, and one of the finest innings in the game's history, played by a batsman whose career was cut short by apartheid isolation.
Nottinghamshire vs Glamorgan
1968-08-31
Gary Sobers hit Malcolm Nash for six consecutive sixes in a single over at Swansea — the first time six sixes in an over had been achieved in first-class cricket, a feat since matched only by Ravi Shastri in 1985 and a handful of others.
England vs Australia
1964-08-14
Fred Trueman became the first bowler in Test history to take 300 wickets — getting Neil Hawke caught behind at The Oval in the 1964 Ashes. On being told he was the first, Trueman's response: 'I hope that whoever does it next gets as much pleasure from it as I have.'
Australia vs West Indies
1960-12-14
The first tied Test in 86 years of cricket history — Australia and West Indies finished level on 737 runs each after five days of breathless cricket in Brisbane, producing one of the most dramatic finishes the game has ever seen.
West Indies vs Pakistan
1958-02-27
Garfield Sobers, 21 years old, batted for 614 minutes to score 365 not out against Pakistan — breaking Len Hutton's 20-year-old world record of 364 and becoming the most prolific single innings in Test history for 36 years.
Pakistan vs West Indies
1958-01-24
Hanif Mohammad batted for 970 minutes — over 16 hours — to score 337 against West Indies, saving Pakistan from an innings defeat. It remains the longest innings in Test history, an act of sustained concentration that lasted over 16 hours.
England vs Australia
1956-07-31
Jim Laker took 19 wickets for 90 runs in a single Test match — 9/37 in the first innings and 10/53 in the second — a bowling performance so dominant it remains the most extraordinary individual bowling feat in the history of the game.
England vs Australia
1948-08-14
Don Bradman walked out to bat in his final Test innings needing just 4 runs to finish with a career average of 100. Eric Hollies bowled him second ball for 0 — leaving cricket's greatest batsman with an immortal average of 99.94.
Australia vs England
1948-08-18
Don Bradman's 1948 Australian side went through the entire England tour — 34 matches including 5 Tests — without losing a single game, becoming the only team in Ashes history to complete a full tour unbeaten.
England vs Australia
1938-08-23
Len Hutton made 364 against Australia at The Oval in 1938 — breaking Don Bradman's previous record of 334 and setting a world record that stood for 20 years until Gary Sobers broke it in 1958.
Australia vs England
1930-07-11
Don Bradman made 334 against England at Headingley in 1930 — the world record at the time, set by a 22-year-old who had already scored 131 and 254 in his previous two Tests of the series — at the peak of the most extraordinary run of batting form cricket has ever seen.
Australia vs England
1877-03-15
The first ever Test match was played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground in March 1877 — Australia beat England by 45 runs, with Charles Bannerman scoring the first century in Test cricket history (165 retired hurt).