5 Cricket Records Impossible To Break

The old proverb goes that records are made to be broken. In modern sports, over the years, several cricket records have been created and broken. It’s the law of the universe that most records are broken by the new generation of players.

Despite this, a few records have been around for a long time. This, however, doesn’t mean that these records won’t be broken.

For the longest time, Sunil Gavaskar’s most Test centuries, the most ODI centuries by Sachin Tendulkar, and the fastest century in ODIs by Shahid Afridi stood apart.

But there are still five impossible cricket records that are not expected to be broken in the future. It’s difficult to imagine a few of these records being broken in the upcoming years.

5 Cricket Records Impossible To Break

1. Most wickets in international cricket

Sri Lanka’s veteran off-spinner, Muttaih Muralidaran, is the highest wicket-taker across formats in the game.

The right-arm spinner has picked up 1347 wickets in 583 innings for 19 years at an average of 22.86 and a strike rate of 46.8 with the help of 77 five-wicket hauls and 22 ten-wicket hauls at the best bowling figures of 9/51 in an innings.

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It’s a cricket record that is hard to break in the future. The second best in the list is Shane Warne, who is behind by nearly 350 wickets.

In the upcoming generation, most of the players have pushed themselves into franchise cricket, and this cricket record is unlikely to happen.

2. Highest Score In A Test Inning

The only player to have scored 400 runs in a single inning is the West Indies batter, Brian Lara, against England in 2004.

This cricket record has stood as the highest individual score in international cricket.

Some players may score near the mark, with Matthew Hayden and Mahela Jayawardene, who scored 280 and 374, respectively, but no one has stayed unbeaten for long enough.

This cricket record will be hard to get in the future because most teams would look to draw the games.

3. Most wickets in a Test match

In terms of achievements in a single match, it will be hard to break the cricket record of most wickets in a red-ball contest.

During the fourth Test of Australia’s 1956 tour to England, the off-spinner Jim Laker took a whopping 19 wickets out of 20. It’s quite an unbelievable record, no one has come close to this record for almost 70 years.

Only three players have ever taken 10 wickets in an innings, including Anil Kumble and Ajaz Patel. Laker grabbed nine wickets in the first inning and 10 wickets in the second inning.

The former England pacer, Sydney Barnes, picked 17 wickets before World War 1, while Harbhajan Singh is the only spinner to take 15 wickets in the 21st century, against Australia in 2001.

4. Highest career average in international cricket

Legendary Australian batter, Sir Donald Bradman, retired from international cricket, with 6996 runs in 80 innings, with a mind-boggling average of 99.94, having scored 29 centuries.

During his final inning in 1948 against England, he needed just four runs to end with a career average of 100. But he was dismissed for a duck and failed to close the three-digit mark average.

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The next best is Adam Voges, who averaged 61.87 in 20 games.

5. Most centuries in international cricket

Since Sachin Tendulkar celebrated his hundredth century across formats in 2012 against Bangladesh during the Asia Cup, many fans speculated if the cricket record would be broken in the future.

Virat Kohli was approaching it, but a slip in his career has found him still 19 centuries away in the twilight stage of his career. It will be incredibly hard for him to break the record. He has broken Tendulkar’s record in the 50-over format but is unlikely to break that in international cricket.