Top 3 Unbreakable Records In Cricket Bowling
Many records have been created throughout cricket history, and other players have broken many records. However, some records were unbeaten by any player throughout cricket history.
These types of records are called unbreakable records in cricket. The players holding these records can say in vain that they hold unbreakable records in cricket, and they can say it because many people have tried to break these records and failed to do so.
What Are The Unbreakable Records In Cricket Bowling?
When we speak about unbreakable records in cricket bowling, few shocking records cannot be broken by the current and upcoming bowlers. Let us see some of the important ones in these records.
Muttiah Muralitharan 1300+ Wicket in International Cricket
When we speak about the unbreakable records in cricket, we have to take this man’s name for sure. He has a history that no one in the past, present and future can ever break. In his lustrous cricket career, Muttiah Muralitharan has taken 1347 wickets to stand at the top of the pinnacle.
Muralitharan has dominated the bowling and terrorized his opponents in his career as an ace bowler for the Sri Lankan team. During his bowling, even seasoned bowlers tend to take a stroke and move past his bowling to score runs.
Such a legend in his bowling career has taken an unbreakable 1347 wickets. Let us split up the wickets taken by the cricket game format.
In the test format, Muttiah Muralitharan has taken a humongous and perfect 800 wickets, a massive accomplishment for a spin bowler. He has played in 133 matches in his Test career and holds the best bowling record of 9/51 in an innings.
Likewise, in the ODI format, Muralitharan has not been lazy with the limited-overs he can bowl in a game. He has taken 534 wickets in his ODI career, has played 350 ODI matches and has the best bowling figure of 7/30 in a single game.
This legendary player has not got a lot of time in the T20 format of the game because of his age. When T20 cricket was at its boom, Muttiah Muralitharan was at the gate of his retirement. Even though he was nearing retirement, Muttiah Muralitharan played in 12 T20I and took 13 wickets.
So he has taken 1347 wickets in his international career alone. This record is an unbreakable record in cricket history because nowadays, bowlers are prone to many injuries and are given rests at regular intervals to keep their injuries minimal.
As a result, the time the international level plays gets shortened and taking 1348 wickets in such a short period is not at all possible. That is the reason this legendary 1347 wickets will forever remain at the top of the table in cricket history as the most number of wickets taken by a bowler on the international stage.
Phil Simmons’ 0.30 Economy Rate in ODI
In recent times if we say that there was an all-rounder with an economy of 0.30, would anyone believe it. Yes, no one will believe this freakish economy rate. In the current trend, batsmen are more aggressive even in the test games.
In the 8th game of the Benson & Hedges series in 1992, West Indies and Pakistan faced each other. On batting first, West Indies scored 214 runs for losing nine wickets in 50 overs.
On batting second, Pakistan came up with a plan to conquer this score quickly and bid their opponent farewell. This dream was shattered by West Indian all-rounder Phil Simmons when he took four crucial Pakistan wickets in short gaps.
The crumbling Pakistan team didn’t know what to do and started to avoid Phil Simmons bowling, leading to him bowling eight maiden overs in a limited over game. In his assigned ten overs, he has already bowled eight maiden overs. In the remaining two over, he has only three runs. Thus this freakish figure of 0.30 economy rate.
This record will always be unbreakable in cricket history because, in the current trend, the batsman is more aggressive and tends to beat the ball hard. As a result, few runs will run loose, however tough the bowler may have bowled.
List of 3 best unbreakable records in Cricket history
In cricket, there are some unbreakable records that we can speak of. But some records creating the record itself were self-made. Let us see the top 3 best unbreakable records in cricket history.
Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 Centuries
When we speak about unbreakable records in cricket history, the first and foremost record that comes to mind will be the legend Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 centuries in his career. This record was self-made because there was no such record before this was created.
In his lustrous career (1989 – 2003), Tendulkar has many records in his name, a most capped player in ODI and most capped player in test, and the highest run scorer in both formats. But two records are under Sachin Tendulkar’s name, which will be very difficult to break. In other words, they are an unbreakable record that Tendulkar alone will be wielding.
In his career, Tendulkar scored 34357 runs across all three formats in international cricket, and this was a massive amount of runs to be achieved by a single player. In his test career, he has scored 15921 runs, and in his ODI career, he has scored 18426 runs.
Likewise, the number of centuries Sachin hit will remain one of the unbreakable records in cricket history. In his career, Sachin has hit 51 centuries in tests and 49 centuries in ODI to combine his career centuries to a perfect hundred.
These two records will be unbeaten because no player in the current cricket can sustain them for such a long term. Likewise, a single player playing for a long time to break these records is impossible with the abundance of cricket players. So in cricket history, Sachin’s 100 hundred will remain unbeaten records in cricket history.
Jacques Kallis’ All Rounder Record
Many all-rounders need to be recognized in cricket history, but the one we mention here is South African Veteran Jacques Kallis. He has scored many runs for his team at the most crucial points of the game and helped his team with both bat and ball.
Kallis scored 25534 runs in his career, including all three formats of cricket. In ODI, he has accumulated 11579 runs. In test format, he came close to Tendulkar’s record but fell short of couple thousand runs and ended up with 13289 runs. In his short T20I career, he accumulated 666 runs.
Likewise, in his bowling career, Kallis has shown that he is not good with the bat alone and has taken 577 wickets, including all three formats of cricket. In ODI, he has taken 273 wickets; in the test, he has taken 292 wickets; with 12 T20I wickets, he has tallied his total to 577.
This record will stay at the top as an unbreakable record in cricket history because nowadays, there are no perfect all-rounders that are both good with bat and ball. Also, with more batsmen, all-rounders are given 5th down positions, equal to tail enders. A person coming at 5th down scoring such a huge run current cricket generation is impossible.
Yuvraj Singh’s 50 From 12 Balls
The next on the list of Unbreakable records in cricket will be Yuvraj Singh’s 12 balls half-century. In the inaugural T20 World Cup, we saw Yuvraj Singh smashing six sixes out of the park in a single over. In the game, Yuvraj scored the fastest fifty in just 12 balls.
This record of Yuvraj Singh is held as the fastest half-century scored. It has been almost a decade and a half still with all the new players who are very aggressive in their batting and have been unable to break Yuvraj Singh’s 12-ball 50 runs.
Who has the best record in cricket history?
Australian cricket legend Sir Don(ald) Bradman holds the best unbreakable records in cricket history. As a cricket enthusiast, we might have heard someone saying what a legend Don Brandman was, but we can never justify the things he did in his career with just word of mouth.
For his outstanding performance in cricket, he was given the title Sir. He has played 52 test matches and scored 6996 runs in his career. Think about it: in just 52 test matches, he scored 6996 runs, which puts his average at 99.94, which was unthinkable.
This unthinkable average of 99.94 will always go down in history as the best unbreakable record in cricket. Let’s face it, this record is not meant to be broken by any player who has played, played, and will be playing in cricket history.
Conclusion
These records are all individual in their trait, and each record holds the effort and work the player has put into his career. So these unbreakable records in cricket history are not a milestone that a player can cross; these are the stamps and marks each player has left in cricket history.
