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Charles Bannermann of Australia faced the first ball in test cricket. He also scored the first test century, in the first innings(168*). He holds the distinction along with David Houghton of Zimbabwe to have scored a century on his country's debut in test cricket.
Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire, via a tv replay.
The record holder for the maximum ducks in test cricket is Courtney Walsh of the West Indies(25). He overtook Danny Morrison's(New Zealand) record of 24.
Bhagwat Chandrashekhar is the only cricketer to have scored fewer runs in his test career than the number of wickets he took. He took 242 wickets and scored 177 runs.
Wilfred Rhodes of England has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad.
Wilfred Rhodes of England has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad.
Mohammed Azharuddin is the only batsman to have scored three centuries in his first three test matches.
Hanif Mohammed once batted for 16 hours and 10 minutes - nearly 3 full days - against the West Indies, scoring 337*.
Bhausahib Nimbalkar was on 443*, with one day to go in a first-class match, just 9 short of the then world record 452* held by Bradman, but was unable to play on the final day, because he had to go and get married.
Sir Donald Bradman is the only cricketer to have scored two triple centuries in tests. He also scored 14 double centuries, and was once left 299*. Martin Crowe of New Zealand is the only person to have been out for 299.
Marvan Attapatu of Sri Lanka had scores of 0,0,1,0,0,0 in his first three test matches. No prizes for guessing what he scored in his first one-dayer..... yes 0 !
The highest one-day individual score was made by Saeed Anwar of Pakistan, 194, against India in 1997.
Javed Miandad was batting when Pakistan needed 4 runs to win off the last ball of the match, against India at Sharjah. He hit Chetan Sharma's ball for six!!! A few years later he hit Steve Waugh for six off the penultimate ball of the match giving Pakistan another memorable victory.
Sunil Gavaskar, regarded as one of the all time great batsman, batted the entire 60 overs of a one-dayer, scoring 36*.
Pakistan were once bowled out by South Africa in Cape Town for 43. 7 of their 11 batsman scored ducks.
The quickest one-day century was scored by Shahid Afridi of Pakistan off 37 balls against Sri Lanka, in Nairobi, Kenya. Ironically Sanath Jayasuriya, who was the previous holder of the same record was hit by Afridi for 43 runs in 2 overs.
In 1952, versus England at Leeds, India were reduced to 0 for 4.
Sir Donald Bradman retired from test cricket having scored 6,996 runs at an average of 99.94. In his last test innings he needed 4 runs to have an average of 100. He scored 0.
New Zealand have the dubious distinction of having scored the lowest ever team test score - 26.
Sir Garfield Sobers' first test century was a then world record 365*. Brian Lara's first test century was 277. He later went on to break Sir Garfield's record, scoring 375.
Allan Border is the only batsman to have scored over 150 in both innings of a test match.
On test debut Lawrence Rowe of West Indies scored 214* and 100*.
Against England, at Lord's in 1990, India needed 24 runs to avoid the follow-on, with 1-wicket in hand. After playing the first 2 balls of the over defensively Kapil Dev hit off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for 4 consecutive sixes (the only time this has ever been done), to avoid the follow-on. Next ball number 11 batsman Narendra Hirwani was dismissed by Angus Fraser.
The contemporary batsman who Sir Donald Bradman thinks bats a bit like he did is Sachin Tendulkar of India.
Playing at Edbaston, CK Nayudu once hit the ball into the River Rhea; the river is the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire, so he is perhaps the only batsman to have sent a cricket ball from one county to another!
Only one Indian test cricketer has played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia. He is Rusi Surti who played for Queensland.