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First Class Cricket

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First Class cricket is the term used for domestic matches played in a country. First Class cricket is also used to describe matches played by a test team against a local team (warm up games) while touring another country.

First class cricket follows the same rules as Test Cricket. However they can range between a 1-5 day matches. The only difference is the 'follow on' target which reduces from 200 (5 & 4 days) to 150 (3 days), 100 (2 days) 75 (1 day).

Test Teams

( I've ranked them according to their present strength)

Rank Country Flag
1 Australia [Australia]
2 South Africa [Republic of South Africa]
3 India [India]
4 Sri Lanka [Sri Lanka]
5 New Zealand [New Zealand]
6 Pakistan [Pakistan]
7 West Indies * [West Indies]
8 England [England]
9 Zimbabwe [Zimbabwe]
10 Bangladesh [Bangladesh]

* The West Indies is composed of the following major countries: Barbados, Jamaica, Antigua, Guyana, Trinidad & Tobago.

ODI Teams

1 Kenya (the KEN team is better than BAN) [Kenya]
2 Netherlands [The Netherlands]
3 Canada [Canada]
4 Namibia [Namibia]
5 UAE [United Arab Emirates]
6 Scotland [Scotland]
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The World Cup

The World cup is played every 4 years, and keeps rotating from continent to continent. Here are the venues and results.

Year Winners Venue
1975 West Indies England
1979 West Indies England
1983 India England
1987 Australia India & Pak
1992 Pakistan Aus & New Zealand
1996 Sri Lanka India, Pak & Sri
1999 Australia Eng, Scot, Wales, Holland, Ireland
2003 Australia South Africa, Zim , Kenya
2007 - West Indies, Can , USA

Records

The following records are accurate to 22 Mar 2003. If there are any inconsistencies, please bring it to my notice.

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Limited Overs

ODI Records ODI Records Player
Max runs individual 194 - Saeed Anwar (Pak) vs India 1997
Most 6's Shahid Afridi (Pak) - 11 in 1996
Fastest 100 Shahid Afridi made 100 runs in 37 balls vs. Sri in Nairobi in 1996
Fastest 50 Sanath Jayasuria made 50 runs in 17 balls vs. Pakistan in Singapore in 1996
Highest Partnership Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid from India made a partnership of 310 vs. Sri Lanka 1999
Max Runs Chased  Australia successfully chased 326 runs set by South Africa in 2000.
Most number of 100's 35, Sachin Tendulkar (India).
Most career runs Sachin Tendulkar has over 12,000 runs to his name.
Best career Average Michael Bevan from Australia has an ODI average of 52.00
Most career Wickets taken Wasim Akram has over 500 wickets taken by him in ODI's. (1985-2003)
Oldest age played ODI Geoffrey Boycott England, age 52 yrs.
Youngest player Hasan Raza, 14 yrs in 1996 from Pak
Fastest ball bowed 100.3 mph by Brett Lee , Australia.
Most wickets in a match  Chaminda Vaas of Sri Lanka took 8 wickets vs Zimbabwe in 2002 [8/19]

Test Records

Test Records Test Records Player
Max runs individual Brian Lara 375* vs. England 1992
Max Runs team: 952 dec.; Sri Lanka vs. India 1997
Max wickets in an innings 10; Jim Laker (Eng) & Anil Kumble (Ind)
Max wickets in match 19; Jim Laker (Eng)
Max Career Runs Allan Border 11,000 + (Aus)
Fastest 100 Mohammed Azharrudin (Ind) 60 balls
Best Average Sir Donald Bradman 99.94 (1908 - 2001)
Most Career Wickets Courtney Walsh 519 (West Indies)
Highest sucessful chase 410 India vs West Indies
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Venues

The cricket venues are spread out over the Test Playing world. All 10 test countries have hosted Test Matches. Sharjah in UAE has hosted both Test & ODI matches. East Africa have played in the 1975 World Cup.

ODI matches have also been held in Toronto, Sharjah, Amsterdam, Dublin, Singapore, Morocco & Nairobi.