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Indian Cricket team has produced some extraordinary talent in the game. They all went on to score many thousand of runs and hundreds of wickets. Indian players have several records under their belt.
Sachin Tendulkar is the most experienced player in the world cricket today. He is the most capped player in the One Day Internationals with 417 matches under his belt. He has scored the maximum number of centuries in both forms of the game. He has 42 centuries in the One Day and 39 centuries in test match.
He is the highest run getter in the one day format and second highest run getter in test format in the world. Till date he has scored 11782 runs in test match and 16361 runs in one day.
The highest score by an Indian in test match is held by Virender Sehwag. He scored 309 in Multan against Pakistan. In one day format this record is held by Sachin Tendulkar. He scored unbeaten 186 against New Zealand in Hyderabad.
Indian team has the highest score of 705/7 in the test match which they scored in Sydney against Australia in the year 2003-04. The highest score in One Day is 413/5 which they scored against Bermuda in the 2007 world cup. They won this match by 257 runs which is the highest victory margin for the Indian team.
Indian fast bowler Ajit Agarkar took the fastest 50 wickets in the one day matches reaching in just 23 matches. He also hold the record of fastest fifty runs by bat as well. Anil Kumble has over 600 test wickets to his name, most by an Indian and third best in the world. He also has rare feat of claiming 10 wickets in an innings after English bowler Jim Laker. Kumble achieved this feat at Feroz Shah Kotla in New Delhi against Pakistan in 1999. He took 10-74.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni scored unbeaten 183 against Sri Lanka in Jaipur. This is the world highest score by a wicket keeper in one day. The opening pair of Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly is the world’s best pair taking into considerations the runs amassed and century stands between them.
India successfully chased the target of 406 runs in the fourth innings of test match against west indies. This is the second best total chased in the world. Rahul Dravid has taken 166 catches till date in the test matches. This is the second best performance in the field in world. Harbhajan Singh was the first Indian to take history in test match. He achieved this feat against Australia.
Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar hold the world record of highest partnership for 2nd wicket, 331 runs against New Zealand in Hyderabad. The record of highest opening partnership in test cricket for India is held by Pankaj Roy and Vinoo Mankad (412 runs), it was broken very recently by South Africa’s Neil Mckenzie and Graeme Smith (415 runs).