Virender Sehwag:
Highest individual score in history in an ODI match 219 against WI on 8th Dec 2012 at Indore, surpassing previous record by Sachin Tendulkar (200)*
Fastest 250 and 300 in Test cricket in terms of balls faced (207) and (278) respectively.
Most Test runs in a single day by an Indian, making 284 in a day against Sri Lanka.
Only Indian batsman to have scored two triple centuries in Test cricket. He is one of the four batsman in the history of Test cricket to score two triple centuries, alongside Australia's Sir Donald Bradman, and the West Indies' Brian Lara and Chris Gayle.
Fastest century in ODI cricket by an Indian ' 100 runs off 60 balls against New Zealand in 2009.
Second fastest ODI 50 by an Indian. a record, he shares with Rahul Dravid, Kapil Dev and Yuvraj Singh ' when he took 22 balls against Kenya in 2001.
Six double centuries ' the first three of which came against Pakistan. Sehwag and Tendulkar are the only Indians to have made six Test double centuries.
Highest score by an Indian batsman in Test cricket. He first achieved this when he scored 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004, and bettered his previous record in March 2008 at Chennai against South Africa by scoring 319.
Consecutive 150+ scores in Test cricket: He holds the record for consecutive test hundreds converted to scores of 150+, at 11.
Sachin Tendulkar:
Sachin crossed 18,00 Runs on March 24 world cup quarter final against Australia.
He is the leading run getter in the ODI and he is one and the only one player ever to cross the 14,000-15,000-16,000 and 17,000 run marks.
Sachin Tendulkar First player to reach 10,000-11,000-12,000-13,000-14,000-15,000, 16,000 and 17,000, 18,000 ODI runs.
Sachin Tendulkar has the record for scoring 1,000 ODI runs in a calendar year
seven times - 1994, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2007
Tendulkar has scored over 1000 ODI runs against all major Cricketing nations.
Tendulkar is the only batsman to score over 3000 runs against any opponent (Australia and Sri Lanka)
Sachin was the fastest to reach 10,000 runs taking 259 innings and has the highest batting average among batsmen with over 10,000 ODI runs
Tendulkar is the first man to score a dounble century in a one day international when he scored 200 not out in the India vs South Africa ODI on 24 February 2010.
Only player to score 5, 150+ (186*, 152, 163*, 175 and 200*)scores in ODI cricket
First man on the planet to score 100 international centuries
Rahul Dravid:
Second cricketer to reach 13000 runs in Test Cricket after Sachin Tendulkar.
He equalled Sachin Tendulkar's record of most half centuries by and Indian Batsmen in Test.
Second highest run scorer in test (13262) behind only to Sachin Tendulkar(15432).
Highest run scorer in the 4th inning in test (1597).
Third player to score 12000 runs in test cricket.
Holds the world record of being involved in most century partnerships (87) in test.
With Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record of most century partnership (20).
Second longest streak of consecutive test matches since debut (94).
Has scored century against each test playing nation while batting away from home.
Scored centuries in both the innings of the test twice. Sunil Gavaskar is the only Indian to achieve this feat thrice.
Fourth in the list of number of centuries (36) in tests behind Ponting (39), Kallis (40) and Sachin (51).
Achieved the feat of scoring 3 centuries in a test series twice in England.
Became only the third Indian batsmen to remain unbeten throughout a completed inning in test.
Most deliveries faced in the history of test cricket (31029).
Highest number of runs by a No. 3 batsmen.
Sourav Ganguly:
Captained India in a record 49 Test matches.
Led India to a record 21 Test wins.
India's most successful Test captain.
Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.
Holds the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001.
Was involved in the First 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid.
He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
Most number of runs and centuries in one single edition of the Champions Trophy Tournament.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni:
On 31 Oct 2005 Dhoni scored 183* (145) balls against Sri Lanka in Jaipur, which is the highest score made by any batsman in the second innings and highest score by any wicketkeeper, the innings featured 10 sixes which is the most by an Indian in an innings, and the fifth highest in ODIs.
Dhoni also holds the records of the most dismissals in an innings by an Indian wicketkeeper and joint International with Adam Gilchrist of 6 dismissals (5 catches and one stumping) against England at Headlingly 2 Sept 2007.
Dhoni holds the Indian record of most dismissals in ODIs. Among Indian batsmen who have played more than 50 matches, Dhoni has the highest average Dhoni's batting average is also the highest amongst wicketkeepers in ODIs.
Second Indian captain to lead Team to World Cup victory.
Only captain in the world to lead a side to T20 World cup n ODI World Cup Victory.
Anil Kumble:
He is the only Indian bowler ever, to have taken 5 wickets in a Test innings more than 30 times. He also holds the world record for the largest number of caught-and-bowled dismissals in tests, 35 ' which forms 5.65% of his total wickets.
In the third Test against Australia at WACA, Perth, Anil Kumble became the first Indian bowler and the third in the world to reach the milestone of 600 Test wickets.
Kumble is one of only two bowlers ever (the other being Jim Laker) to have taken all ten wickets in a Test innings, taking 10 for 74. Kumble achieved this against Pakistan in the second Test played in Delhi between 4 and 8 February 1999.
Gautam Gambhir:
Gambhir confirmed his status as one of India's new stalwarts with a series of brilliant performances during the 2008-09 season. He scored 1269 runs at an impressive 84.60 in the eight Tests he played. He is also the only Indian, and one of only four international cricketers, to have scored five hundreds in five consecutive test matches.
In the final of the Cricket World Cup 2011, Gambhir scored a solid knock of 97 from 112 balls.Coming in to bat in the first over itself, he stayed put and did up a match-winning partnership of 109 runs with Dhoni to ensure India lifted the Cup.
Under his captaincy, the team won a 5 match ODI series 5-0 against a visiting New Zealand team in 2010 and also one match against WI in 2011, hence making his record as a captain successful for the limited overs till now.
Harbhajan Singh:
A specialist bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.
In the 2001 Border-Gavaskar series victory over Australia, Harbhajan established himself as the team's leading spinner by taking 32 wickets, becoming the first Indian bowler to take a hat trick in Test cricket.
In the second test of 2010, he hit back with 5 for 59 against South Africa at his favourite Eden Gardens to bowl India to a dramatic innings victory with just nine balls left in the match.
Zaheer Khan:
Claimed his 200th ODI wicket against Pakistan in November 2007 and his 200th Test wicket against New Zealand in March 2009.
Has played first-class cricket in England for Surrey and Worcestershire. He was particularly impressive at New Road and picked 78 wickets in the 2006 season.
He claimed his first 10-wicket match haul in 2010 against Bangladesh when he picked up 7 for 87 and 3 for 62 in Dhaka.
Virat Kohli:
Virat Kohli led India to victory in the 2008 Under-19 World Cup.
Scored his maiden half-century in only his fourth ODI and reached three figures for the first time in his 14th match - against Sri Lanka in December 2009. Became first Indian to score a century on world cup debut against Bangladesh during the ICC cricket World Cup in 2011.
Fastest India to reach 1000 and 3000 ODI runs and India's highest run scorer in 2011.
Yuvraj Singh:
He became a permanent fixture in the India ODI team during the 2005-06 season after hitting 1161 runs.
Wrote his name in the history books in 2007 when he smacked England's Stuart Broad for six sixes in one over during the World Twenty20 in South Africa.
Won the Man of the Series for the World Cup 2011 when he scored a massive 362 runsand got 15 wickets for India.
Team Records:
Hightest Test total 726/9 decl v Sri Lanka at Mumbai on 2 December 2009
Highest team total: 418'5 in 50 overs v west indies Cricket Team at Indore (2011/12)
Most sixes in an inning: 18 v Bermuda at Queen's Park Oval, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago (2007/08) and 18 v New Zealand at AMI Stadium, Christchurch
Most Number of Chasing Target's in ODI 347
Most Number of Successful Chasing Target's in ODI 326'8
Most Number of times scoring 300+ score: 65 times
Most Number of times scoring 400+ score: 4 times
Credit: -Debzyy-
QUOTES:
"Make the impossible, possible"-Mike Horn when he gave Team India motivation talks before the world cup.
"He's carried the burden of the nation for 21 years so it's time we carry him on our shoulders" -Virat Kohli on Sachin Tendulkar after winning the World Cup.
"he is 99.5% perfect"-Viv Richards on Tendulkar.
"I have joked before that there is a good chance that I might retire before Tendulkar."-MS Dhoni.
"I am a fighter not a quitter"-Yuvraj Singh.
"If you try to hit a six, I will hit you on the bum." 😆
-Sachin Tendulkar warned Virender Sehwag when he was on 295 at Multan against Pakistan.. Sehwag hit a six to reach first triple century by an Indian!
"Success is a process. During that journey sometimes there are stones thrown at you, and you convert them into milestones."
-Sachin, in an interview the day he went past Brian Lara as leading run scorer in test cricket.
"He is a real cool customer. It seems nothing can put him under pressure. Whatever the situation, he is always under control. The best thing about his captaincy is he backs the newcomers a lot. He makes sure that every player gets enough chance to prove himself. It's very important. Much like Dada. Most of the senior players in the current team started under Dada"-Gambhir on MS Dhoni.
"we go through tough times. It's challenges that make life interesting"-M S Dhoni during tour of England in 2011.
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