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==Notable all-round feats== * [[File:Garfield Sobers, 1956.jpg|thumb|[[Garfield Sobers|Sir Garfield Sobers]] is considered as one of the most decorated all-rounders of all time.]][[V. E. Walker]] of [[Middlesex county cricket teams|Middlesex]], playing for [[All-England Eleven|All-England]] ''versus'' [[Surrey CCC|Surrey]] at [[The Oval]] on 21, 22 & 23 July 1859, took all ten wickets in the Surrey first innings and followed this by scoring 108 in the England second innings, having been the not out batsman in the first (20*). He took a further four wickets in Surrey's second innings. All-England won by 392 runs.<ref>{{Citation | title = England v Surrey at Kennington Oval, 21β23 Jul 1859 | url=http://static.espncricinfo.com/db/ARCHIVE/1850S/1859/ENG_LOCAL/ENG_SURREY_21-23JUL1859.html | access-date = 23 July 2016 | publisher=cricinfo.com }}</ref> * On 15 August 1862, [[E. M. Grace]] carried his bat through the entire [[Marylebone Cricket Club|MCC]] innings, scoring 192 not out of a total of 344. Then, [[underarm bowling|bowling underarm]], he took all 10 wickets in the Kent first innings for 69 runs. However, this is not an official record as it was a 12-a-side game (though one of the Kent batsmen was injured).{{Citation needed|date=November 2008}} * The first player to perform the [[Double (cricket)|double]] of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in an English season was W. G. Grace in 1873. He scored 2139 runs at 71.30 and took 106 wickets at 12.94. Grace completed eight doubles to 1886 and it was not until 1882 that another player ([[C. T. Studd]]) accomplished the feat.<ref>Webber, p.180.</ref> * In the [[1906 English cricket season]], [[George Hirst]] achieved the unique feat of scoring over 2000 runs and taking over 200 wickets. He scored 2385 runs including six centuries at 45.86 with a highest score of 169.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/216/f_Batting_by_Season.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}</ref> He took 208 wickets at 16.50 with a best analysis of 7/18.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/0/216/f_Bowling_by_Season.html|title=The Home of CricketArchive|website=cricketarchive.com}}</ref> In the same season, Hirst achieved another unique feat when he scored a century in both innings and took five wickets in both innings of the same match. Playing for [[Yorkshire County Cricket Club|Yorkshire]] ''versus'' [[Somerset County Cricket Club|Somerset]] at Bath, Hirst scored 111 and 117 not out, and took 6/70 and 5/45.<ref>Webber, p.184.</ref><ref>[https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/7/7160.html CricketArchive β match scorecard]. Retrieved 26 November 2008.</ref> * [[File:Jacques Kallis 6.jpg|thumb|[[Jacques Kallis]] is the only All-rounder in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 [[Run (cricket)|runs]] and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket.]][[File:Shakib al hasan 3.jpg|thumb|[[Shakib Al Hasan]] is considered one of the best all-rounders of all time. He is the only all-rounder in history of the game to score more than 14000 runs and take over 700 wickets.]][[George Giffen]] (1886, 1893 and 1896) and [[Warwick Armstrong]] (1905, 1909 and 1921) achieved the double in an English season three times, the most by members of touring teams.<ref>Webber, p.180-181.</ref> * [[Betty Wilson]] was the first player, male or female, to score a century and take ten wickets in a Test match. She scored 12 and 100 and took 7/7 and 4/9 against [[England women's cricket team|England]] at the [[Junction Oval]] in Melbourne in 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cast in bronze: 10 legends who deserve a statue|url=https://www.cricket.com.au/news/australia-women-statue-sculpture-scg-betty-wilson-belinda-clark-rolton-gregory/2021-03-08|access-date=2021-04-11|website=cricket.com.au|language=en}}</ref> * [[Alan Davidson (cricketer, born 1929)|Alan Davidson]] was the first male player to take ten wickets and score one hundred runs in a Test match, though without scoring a century. Playing for Australia against West Indies at Brisbane in 1960β61, he took 5/135 and 6/87, and scored 44 and 80 in what became the first [[Tied Test]]. He was playing throughout with a broken finger.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Full Scorecard of West Indies vs Australia 1st Test 1960/61 - Score Report {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/west-indies-tour-of-australia-1960-61-61907/australia-vs-west-indies-1st-test-62888/full-scorecard|access-date=2021-04-11|website=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}}</ref> * Twenty-seven players, on a total of 40 occasions, have taken five wickets in an innings and scored a century in the same Test match. [[Ian Botham]] achieved this feat five times, [[Ravichandran Ashwin]], [[Enid Bakewell]] and [[Betty Wilson]] three times, while [[Jacques Kallis]], [[Garfield Sobers]], [[Mushtaq Mohammed]], and [[Shakib Al Hasan]] have all done so twice.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://stats.cricinfo.com/ci/content/records/282793.html|title=Test matches | All-round records | A hundred and five wickets in an innings | ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> * Betty Wilson (see above), Enid Bakewell, Ian Botham, [[Imran Khan]] and Shakib Al Hasan are the only players who have achieved the feat of scoring a century and taking 10 wickets in a Test match.<ref>{{Cite web|title=HowSTAT! Players Scoring a Century and Taking Wickets / Dismissals in Test Innings / Match|url=http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/AllRounders/AllRounders100R10W.asp|access-date=2021-04-11|website=www.howstat.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Records {{!}} Women's Test matches {{!}} All-round records {{!}} A hundred and five wickets in an innings {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|url=https://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/records/287368.html|access-date=2021-04-11|website=Cricinfo}}</ref> * In 2013, Bangladesh's [[Sohag Gazi]] became the first, and so far only, player to score a century and take hat-trick in same Test match against [[New Zealand national cricket team|New Zealand]].<ref>{{citation |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/bangladesh/10375903/Bangladeshs-Sohag-Gazi-first-player-to-score-a-century-and-take-hat-trick-in-same-match-against-New-Zealand.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/cricket/international/bangladesh/10375903/Bangladeshs-Sohag-Gazi-first-player-to-score-a-century-and-take-hat-trick-in-same-match-against-New-Zealand.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Bangladesh's Sohag Gazi first player to score a century and take hat-trick in same match against New Zealand|work=The Telegraph |date=13 October 2013}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.howstat.com/cricket/Statistics/Bowling/BowlingHatTricksPlus.asp?s=T |title=Hat-trick and 50 in a test|work=Howstat.com}}</ref> * [[Kapil Dev]] is the only player to score 5000 runs and take 400 wickets in Test cricket. He is also the youngest player to score 1000 runs and reach the 100, 200 and 300 wicket mark in men's Test cricket.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://m.espncricinfo.com/india/content/player/30028.html|title=Profile|website=Cricinfo}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.crictracker.com/kapil-devs-international-career-in-numbers/amp/|title=Kapil Dev's International career in numbers|website=Crictracker|date=6 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://m.cricbuzz.com/profiles/3838/kapil-dev|title=Profile|website=Cricbuzz}}</ref> * [[Viv Richards]], [[Paul Collingwood]] and [[Rohan Mustafa]] are the only male players to have taken a 5-wicket haul and scored a hundred in the same One Day International. Fourteen more players have taken a 5-wicket haul and scored a half century in the same game in the format. [[Shahid Afridi]] is the only player to achieve this feat thrice in his career and [[Yuvraj Singh]] & Shakib Al Hasan are the only cricketers to do so in a [[Cricket World Cup|World Cup]] match.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/a-fifty-and-five-wickets-in-an-innings-282798|title=ODI matches | All-round records | A fifty and five wickets in an innings|website=ESPNcricinfo}}</ref> * [[Amelia Kerr]], for [[New Zealand women's national cricket team|New Zealand]] against [[Ireland women's cricket team|Ireland]] in Dublin in 2018, scored 232* (the highest score in women's ODI history), sharing a second-wicket stand of 295 (the second highest in women's ODI history) with [[Leigh Kasperek]], and took 5/17 in the second innings.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Full Scorecard of NZ Women vs Ire Women 3rd ODI 2018 - Score Report {{!}} ESPNcricinfo.com|url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/nz-women-in-ire-and-eng-2018-1126711/ireland-women-vs-new-zealand-women-3rd-odi-1145893/full-scorecard|access-date=2021-04-11|website=ESPNcricinfo|language=en}}</ref> * [[Jacques Kallis]], [[Shahid Afridi]] and [[Shakib Al Hasan]] are the only three all-rounders in the history of international cricket to reach 10,000 runs and take 500 wickets across all three formats. * In 2015, [[Shakib Al Hasan]] of Bangladesh became the first, and so far only, cricketer in history to be ranked the No. 1 all-rounder by ICC in its Player Rankings in all three formats of the game (Test, ODI and T20I){{efn|at the same time<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/Shakib-top-all-rounder-in-all-3-formats|title=Shakib top all-rounder in all 3 formats|date=12 January 2015|work=Prothom Alo}}</ref>}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/news/70393/Shakib-number-one-all-rounder-in-all-formats|title=Shakib number one all-rounder in all formats|website=Prothom Alo|date=25 June 2015 }}</ref> * In 2024, [[Shakib Al Hasan]] of Bangladesh became the first, and so far only, cricketer in history to achieve both 14000+ runs and 700+ wickets in international cricket.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.prothomalo.com/sports/cricket/ysuww9o47g#:~:text=Shakib%20Al%20Hasan%20has%20achieved,by%20dismissing%20opener%20Andres%20Gause. | title=Shakib first cricketer to bag 700 intl wickets, 14,000 runs | date=26 May 2024 }}</ref>
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