who is the first player to score Century in cricket?
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It was DL Amiss Against Australia in the Second ODI.\nInterestingly he also scored First Century In World Cup.\nIt was 1st Match of Prudential World Cup'75.\nEngland was playing against INDIA.
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In 1984, Shastri became only the second cricketer to ever hit six sixes off one over (bowler name Tilak Raj), playing for Bombay against Baroda, in Bombay. In the same innings he went on to make the fastest double-hundred in first class cricket, off 123 balls in 113 minutes.\nSource:http://psychcentral.com/psypsych/Ravi_Shastri
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first batsman hits 3.while running umpires ruled 1 short.\nso he had 2. but the batsman stays in opposite end. meanwhile the fielder overthrows for a four.the total runs are 6 to compleate the century.  but he is in runner-end.\nnext on strike and hits a sixer to get his century.\nok?
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21 by Gibbs (RSA) against Australia in ODIs.\n52 by Edrich (England) against New Zealand in Tests.
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West Indies has scored 600 plus in an innings 18 times in Tests. The highest being 790/3 dec. against pakistan
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Australia's David Boon is believed to have scored the slowest century in ODIs. In a Benson & Hedges World Series Cup match against India, at Hobart in 1991-92, Boon reached the three-figure mark off 166 balls during his unbeaten innings of 102
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Manisha, there is a bit of history to this than just C.K. Nayudu.\n\nOn 26 Jan 1893 there was a match played between Lord Hawke's XI in India  at the Madan Mohan Malaviya Stadium, Allahabad. This is the first recorded first-class match played by India. The Indian team was captained by a certain George MacLagan Chesney,  a Mussoorie  born Englishman.\n\n1911, an Indian team went on their first official tour of England, but only played English county teams and not the English cricket team. In their first match against Oxford University at Christ Church College Ground, Oxford, the Indian team was captained by Bhupendrasingh Rajindersingh, also known as the Maharaja of Patiala. \n\nIndia's first test captain was C.K. Nayudu in 1932. In ODIs Ajit Wadekar was the first Indian captain in the 1974 Prudential Trophy against England.
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Shastri hit 6 sixes in an over against Tilak Raj of Baroda in Ranji Trophy match while playing for Mumbai. He actually scored 200* in 113 balls hitting 13 fours and 13 sixes in that innings!!
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TO SCORE A TRIPLE HUNDRED AGAINST SOUTH AFRICA.\nIn fact he broke the 75 years Don Bradman record of maximum runs(299*) against South Africa when he scored 317 in the Fourth Test at St. John's Park, Antigua last year.
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Ravi shastri \nand gary sobers.. \nin first class cricket ... \nin internation cricket this has beeen not happened ..
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Wouldn't be surprised if Mahendra Singh Dhoni breaks the record in the forthcoming West Indies tour.\n\nHe almost did it against Sri Lanka ( http://usa.cricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/2005-06/SL_IN_IND/SCORECARDS/SL_IND_ODI3_31OCT2005.html ) but sadly, there weren't enough runs on the board.
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sachin.....simply coz had he been in DON's era, he surely would have got 35 odd centuries. One can't claim that DON would have got runs at avg. of 99 had he been playing currently.\nAlso sachin has vast experience behind him. DON i guess played just 29 odd matches
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Brian Lara (West Indies) who has scored a total of 11904 runs in 130 test matches at an average of 53.14.\n\nSee the attached link for the top batsmen.\n\n*********************************************************************\n\nThank you so much to whoever gave me a negative vote. Could you let me know what's wrong with my answer please? The answer is correct and has a reliable source - honestly you just can't please some people.
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In the history of cricket there is only 6 people to have scored 30 or more centuries, and they avg 100-150 matches, for top players the ratio is around 7-15%\n\nInterestingly of people to score 11 test centuries there is only 12 people! In the entire history, that seems quite rare, and rember thesse people are the cream of the history of plyers, they can spend their entire carears playing avg, 50-80 tests\n\nWhen looking at the stats the conversion rates of around 5-15% of all matches turn to centuries.  Than in a match there are probally 6 reconized batsman with chances 5-15%, i will assume that each team has a 30-40% chance of scoring a century, so total chacne of scoring a century is around 80% per every match, which is quite high, but rember that there are alot of batman, in the team so there are alot of chances, that go missing.
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Jeff Thomson.\n\nJeff Thomson's all time fastest ball bowled in cricket history, 161.5 kph against the West Indies in 1975 in Australia.\n\nShoaib Akhtar became the first bowler after Thomson to break the 100 miles per hour barrier bowling against New Zealand, but he made it clear he was not specifically looking to break Thomson's record.
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He played for Yorkshire between 1962 and 1986.\n\nPlayed 609 Matches, scored an aggregate of 48426 runs at an average of 56.83. He scored a total of 151 centuries and 238 fifties.\n\nHe received first ball in a ODI and was first wicket to fall.