Cricket Stats: Oldest Cricket to score one day century

Oldest player to score a hundred

Player	Age	Runs		Team	Opposition	Ground	Match Date	Scorecard
ST Jayasuriya	39y 212d	107		Sri Lanka	v India	Dambulla	28 Jan 2009	ODI # 2806
G Boycott	39y 51d	105		England	v Australia	Sydney	11 Dec 1979	ODI # 79
SM Gavaskar	38y 113d	103*		India	v New Zealand	Nagpur	31 Oct 1987	ODI # 474
DL Haynes	38y 18d	115		West Indies	v England	Port of Spain	5 Mar 1994	ODI # 890
CG Greenidge	37y 321d	117		West Indies	v India	St John's	18 Mar 1989	ODI # 562
M Amarnath	37y 185d	102*		India	v New Zealand	Sharjah	27 Mar 1988	ODI # 513
SO Tikolo	37y 116d	102		Kenya	v Zimbabwe	Nairobi (Gym)	19 Oct 2008	ODI # 2768
AJ Stewart	37y 103d	100*		England	v West Indies	Nottingham	20 Jul 2000	ODI # 1618
BE Congdon	37y 26d	101		New Zealand	v England	Wellington	9 Mar 1975	ODI # 18
GA Gooch	36y 306d	112*		England	v New Zealand	The Oval	25 May 1990	ODI # 633
AC Gilchrist	36y 93d	118		Australia	v Sri Lanka	Perth	15 Feb 2008	ODI # 2679
CB Lambert	36y 57d	119		West Indies	v England	Port of Spain	8 Apr 1998	ODI # 1310
Zaheer Abbas	35y 331d	103*		Pakistan	v New Zealand	Nottingham	20 Jun 1983	ODI # 218
W Larkins	35y 331d	124		England	v Australia	Hyderabad (Decc)	19 Oct 1989	ODI # 575
IVA Richards	35y 304d	110*		West Indies	v India	Rajkot	5 Jan 1988	ODI # 487
ME Waugh	35y 299d	133*		Australia	v India	Pune	28 Mar 2001	ODI # 1698
GM Turner	35y 298d	140		New Zealand	v Sri Lanka	Auckland	20 Mar 1983	ODI # 190
BC Lara	35y 271d	156		West Indies	v Pakistan	Adelaide	28 Jan 2005	ODI # 2213
Javed Miandad	35y 248d	107		Pakistan	v South Africa	East London	15 Feb 1993	ODI # 803
M Azharuddin	35y 224d	101		India	v Pakistan	Toronto	20 Sep 1998	ODI # 1353
ML Hayden	35y 173d	103		Australia	v New Zealand	St George's	20 Apr 2007	ODI # 2577
SR Waugh	35y 75d	114*		Australia	v South Africa	Melbourne (Dock)	16 Aug 2000	ODI # 1620
CL Hooper	35y 64d	112*		West Indies	v Pakistan	Sharjah	17 Feb 2002	ODI # 1810
G Kirsten	35y 23d	102*		South Africa	v Pakistan	Paarl	16 Dec 2002	ODI # 1921

Highest Wickets takers in One day international cricket

With SriLanka winning the 3 ODI against Pakistan and clinching the series one another milestone was achieved by Muthiah Muralitharan yes in this match Murali claimed 2 wickets by and become the second bowler in the history on one day cricket to claim 500 dismissals. Only Pakistan's Wasim Akram has got 500 + wickets. Akram has 502 wickets in his list and is not playing International cricket now thus Murlitharan will soon break his record in a match or two.

Video of Murali taking his 500th wicket.



Also Murali is the highest wicket taker in test matches, in 125 test he played, Murali has 769 wickets at an average of 6 wickets per test. Now players closer to his record like Shane Warne, Anil Kumble and Glenn McGrath, has retired already. Only player close to his record and playing cricket currently is Chaminda Vaas that to in the twilight of his career. It seems it will take a long long way to break his records.

In recent interview Murali told the reporters, "If I have an ambition it is to play until the next World Cup. After that I will call it quits."

Murali is the only crickter to have 500 wickets in both form of cricket.

Rank Wickets Player Period
1 502 (356 mat.) Flag of PakistanWasim Akram from 1984 to 2003
2 500 (324 mat.) Flag of Sri LankaMuttiah Muralitharan from 1993 to -
3 416 (262 mat.) Flag of PakistanWaqar Younis from 1989 to 2003
4 400 (322 mat.) Flag of Sri LankaChaminda Vaas from 1994 to -
5 393 (303 mat.) Flag of South AfricaShaun Pollock from 1996 to 2008

200 wickets for Harbhajan Singh - India vs England

India is leading the series by 3-0 against England. In 3 match played today at Green Park stadium Kanpur India was declared winner by 16 runs under duckworth luis system as bad light forced the game to close few overs earlier.

Harbhajan Singh who was declared man of tha match for his 3 for 31 in 10 overs became the sixth Indian to claim 200 wickets in one day matches. Harbhajan Singh is in the elite group of Indian bowlers other five are: Anil Kumble (337 from 271 matches), Javgal Srinath (315 from 229), Ajit Agarkar (288 from 191), Kapil Dev (253 from 225) and Zaheer Khan (214 from 152).

The feisty off-spinner had also become the third Indian -- behind Anil Kumble (619 from 132 Tests) and Kapil Dev (434 from 131 Tests) -- and 22nd cricketer in the world to claim 300 wickets in Test cricket during the final Test of the four-match series against Australia in Nagpur this month.