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rahul dravid
The first wicket in Test cricket was bowled by English cricketer Allen Hill against Australia on March 15, 1877. The victim was Nat Thomson, whose two Test appearances came nineteen seasons after his debut in first-class cricket for New South Wales.
The 800th victim of Muttiah Muralitharan was Pragyan Ojha.
The highest Test match average for India for any player with 20 or more innings under his belt is held by Vinod Kambli, whose 21 Test innings produced an average of 54.20 runs per innings, including four centuries and three half-centuries.
The only Indian cricketer to win a Man of the Match award in the 1975 World Cup was Farokh Engineer, whose innings of 54 not out helped India to a ten-wicket victory against East Africa. The match was India's second of three in the tournament.
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Brian lara
Saeed Anwar holds the record for the highest individual innings in an ODI. The highest individual innings in first-class cricket is Brian Lara's 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994. Lara, of course, also holds the record for the highest Test innings: 400 not out v England in 2003-04. The question asked, however, for the highest total in first-class cricket. The answer is 1107 for Victoria v New South Wales at Melbourne in 1926-27.
The Bangladeshi batsman who scored the highest number of runs at the 1999 Cricket World Cup was Minhajul Abedin - whose 140 runs in four innings eclipsed the next best, 120 runs in 5 innings, scored by Mehrab Hussain. Abedin's average was significantly better than any other player's, with a 1999 World Cup average of 70.00.
The first century in a Cricket World Cup match for Pakistan was scored by Imran Khan, whose innings of 102 not out came in the 1983 World Cup, on June 16, against Sri Lanka. Pakistan won the match by an eleven-run margin, though the Man of the Match award was given to Abdul Qadir, who took bowling figures of 5-44 in Sri Lanka's innings.
The greatest number of runs in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, a total of 317 from 214 balls, with an innings high of 96 not out, were scored by Sri Lankan batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan. The greatest number of wickets, a total of 13, were taken by Umar Gul, whose best bowling statistics in the tournament were 5/6 - that is to say, 5 wickets for 6 runs.
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