Garry Sobers Cricket Records — Tests, ODIs & T20Is
Top Records
8th
Most consecutive matches as captain of a team
Captains39
4th
Most runs in an innings (by batting position)
Most runs365*
10th
Highest career batting average
Averages and strike rates57.78
Hundred in each innings of a match
HundredsHundred and a ninety in a match
Nineties7th
Fifties in consecutive innings
Fifties6
Hundred and a duck in a match
Ducks and pairs2nd
Fastest to 6000 runs
Fastest career runs111
2nd
Best economy rate in an innings
Averages, strike rates and economy0.21
9th
Most catches in a match
Most catches6
A hundred and five wickets in an innings
Batting and bowling1000 runs, 50 wickets and 50 catches
Batting, bowling and fielding5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals
Batting and fielding5th
Highest partnership for the fourth wicket
Innings partnerships399
2nd
Longest lived players
Players89y 354d
6th
Hundreds in consecutive innings
Hundreds3
5th
Fifties in consecutive matches
Fifties8
Players
15th
Most consecutive matches for a team
Players85
28th
Youngest players
Players17y 245d
19th
Longest careers
Players20y 6d
Captains
33rd
Most matches as captain
Captains39
8th
Most consecutive matches as captain of a team
Captains39
18th
Winning all tosses in a series
Captains5
Most runs
6th
Most runs in an innings
Most runs365*
35th
Most runs in career
Most runs8032
32nd
Most runs in a day
Most runs208
35th
Most runs on a single ground
Most runs1354
4th
Most runs in an innings (by batting position)
Most runs365*
14th
Most runs in a series
Most runs824
12th
Most runs in a match
Most runs365
8th
Most runs in an innings (progressive record holder)
Most runs365*
7th
Most runs in an series by a captain
Most runs722
Averages and strike rates
10th
Highest career batting average
Averages and strike rates57.78
Hundreds
22nd
Hundreds in consecutive matches
Hundreds3
1st
Highest maiden hundred
Hundreds365*
4th
Youngest player to score a double hundred
Hundreds21y 213d
1st
Youngest player to score a triple hundred
Hundreds21y 213d
5th
Hundreds in consecutive innings
Hundreds3
8th
Most hundreds against one team
Hundreds10
22nd
Most hundreds in a calendar year
Hundreds5
Hundred in each innings of a match
Hundreds5th
Most triple hundreds in a career
Hundreds1
23rd
Most hundreds in a career
Hundreds26
Nineties
21st
Most nineties in career
Nineties5
Hundred and a ninety in a match
NinetiesFifties
41st
Most fifties in career
Fifties56
15th
Fifties in consecutive matches
Fifties8
7th
Fifties in consecutive innings
Fifties6
Ducks and pairs
Hundred and a duck in a match
Ducks and pairs17th
Most innings before first duck
Ducks and pairs41
Boundaries
35th
Most runs from fours and sixes in an innings
Boundaries152
22nd
Most fours in an innings
Boundaries38
Fastest career runs
5th
Fastest to 7000 runs
Fastest career runs138
3rd
Fastest to 5000 runs
Fastest career runs95
2nd
Fastest to 6000 runs
Fastest career runs111
4th
Fastest to 8000 runs
Fastest career runs157
8th
Fastest to 4000 runs
Fastest career runs77
8th
Fastest to 3000 runs
Fastest career runs55
16th
Fastest to 2000 runs
Fastest career runs39
Most wickets
36th
Best figures in a match by a captain
Most wickets8
16th
Best figures in a innings by a captain
Most wickets6
Averages, strike rates and economy
43rd
Worst strike rate in an innings
Averages, strike rates and economy342
2nd
Best economy rate in an innings
Averages, strike rates and economy0.21
Most balls bowled
23rd
Most balls bowled in career
Most balls bowled21599
Most runs conceded
41st
Most runs conceded in career
Most runs conceded7999
Most catches
17th
Most catches in a series
Most catches12
9th
Most catches in a match
Most catches6
33rd
Most catches in career
Most catches109
Batting and bowling
1000 runs and 100 wickets
Batting and bowling250 runs and 20 wickets in a series
Batting and bowlingA hundred and five wickets in an innings
Batting and bowlingBatting, bowling and fielding
1000 runs, 50 wickets and 50 catches
Batting, bowling and fieldingBatting and fielding
5000 runs and 50 fielding dismissals
Batting and fieldingInnings partnerships
5th
Highest partnership for the fourth wicket
Innings partnerships399
15th
Highest partnership for the sixth wicket
Innings partnerships274*
35th
Highest partnership for the second wicket
Innings partnerships269
18th
Highest partnerships for any wicket
Innings partnerships399
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