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Chris Schofield1999 saw Schofield become an important member of the Lancashire side, and he played ten first-class games that season, finishing with 29 wickets at 32.
Peter ForrestOn 20 November 2007, Forrest scored his first first-class century against Tasmania at the Sydney Cricket Ground, hitting 177 runs including 21 fours and two sixes.
Jacques KallisKallis endured an uncharacteristically poor 2008 with the bat, averaging well under thirty for much of it.
Simon KimberIn the 1987 season he appeared eight times in first-class cricket, his most in a single season, but the only time he was anything like a regular was in the one-day form of the game the following summer, when he made 20 List A appearances.
Mohammad Amirand bowled his quickest delivery in the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 final against Sri Lanka, at 152 kilometres per hour (94.
G. O. Smith In his youth, G. O. Smith was also a noted cricketer, representing Oxford University and scoring a match-winning 132 runs in the fourth innings of the 1896 Varsity Match to win the game against Cambridge.
James TomlinsonA left-arm medium pace bowler, capable of producing swing at a brisk pace, Tomlinson played his first major cricket match in List A match in the 2000 NatWest Trophy for the Hampshire Cricket Board (HCB) against Huntingdonshire at Grasmere Road, Cove, with Tomlinson going wicketless in the match, though his ten over spell conceded only 17 runs.
Junaid KhanIn December 2012, Junaid Khan was again picked for the series against India and was given a chance in the ODI series and he performed superbly by picking up 4 wickets in the first match (clean bowled Sehwag, Kohli, Yuvraj) and helped in Pakistan win in first ODI and again performed superbly in the second ODI and picked up three wickets including two top order vital wickets of Gambhir and Kohli.
Lee IrvineAfter two seasons of modest batting, Irvine made a big advance in the 1967 -- 68 season, scoring 504 runs in the South African domestic season and hitting his first two centuries.
Maurice FernandesHe played for the Demerara Cricket Club as a teenager, gaining a reputation as a good cricketer, He was part of the West Indian team that toured England in 1923, playing twenty first-class matches against county and representative opposition.
Yusuf PathanIn the final of the 2010 Duleep Trophy cricket tournament, Pathan scored a hundred in the first innings and a double hundred in the second and led his team West Zone to a three wicket win over South Zone.
Alma HuntIn a match for Aberdeenshire against West Lothian in 1939, Hunt took seven wickets for 11 runs as West Lothian scored 48.
Yuvraj SinghAt the 2007 World Twenty20, he famously hit six sixes in an over against England's Stuart Broad -- a feat performed only three times previously in any form of senior cricket, and previously never in an international match between two Test cricket nations.
Daniel VettoriFor the third Test against Pakistan that started on 11 December 2009, Vettori promoted himself to no. 6 in the batting order, it is presumed he will bat at this position in future Test matches.
Devon SmithThe second Test against England was the last Test Smith played in 2009, however he featured in the home ODI series against Bangladesh, where he made a highest score of 65.
Abdul Qadir (cricketer)In the 1983 -- 84 World Series Cup, Qadir played eight matches and took 15 wickets at the average of 18.
Imran FarhatHe continued to score heavily in the domestic competitions and a century in a practise game against the visiting Indian team was rewarded with a place in the squad to take on India in the Test series (2006).
Kieron PollardHe was named in the West Indies squad for the 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup, held in Sri Lanka, where he only managed to make 19 -- runs in his four innings, though he did manage to take two wickets in a defeat to Australia.
Chaminda VaasNearly 4 years later, after just 13 first class matches, he made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan cricket team against Pakistan at Kandy in August 1994.
Sanath JayasuriyaAfter scoring 78 runs on day three of the first Test against England in Kandy in 2007, he announced he was to retire from Test cricket at the end of the match.
Tufty MannBack in South Africa the following winter, however, Mann made his first-class cricket debut for Natal in five games in the 1939 -- 40 season and bowled economically in them, though he did not take more than three wickets in any one innings.
Shane Warne58 as at 2009) in Tests played in India than his overall Test figures.
Herbert HopkinsHopkins scored just one more century -- 122 against his old university in 1925 -- although he got a start in a large number of innings without pushing on to fifties or hundreds.
Martin Hawke, 7th Baron HawkeYorkshire won a third title in 1898, the same year that Hawke was elected Yorkshire President in succession to Michael Ellison, and he again scored two centuries in the season.
Bernard QuaifeHe had a better year in 1923, playing regularly and almost making a maiden hundred against Northamptonshire : he was 99 not out in the first innings when he ran out of partners.
James IremongerThe exceptional summer of 1911, though it was thought batsmen'' did not find him difficult'', saw Iremonger's nagging persevearance on the hardest of pitches rated so highly that he was taken to Australia for bowling alone.
Geoff EllisThis was to be his most successful season with the ball, eclipsing the four wickets he took in 1974.
Jimmy BlanckenbergRather ironically, his highest first-class score with the bat was 171 for Natal against his former team, Western Province in December 1923.
Len Harris (cricketer)India toured the West Indies in 1971, and faced Leeward Islands on 25 February, with Harris scoring 18 and 24 as the home team fell to a heavy nine wicket defeat at Warner Park.
Albert Moss (cricketer)He took thirteen wickets in his next three matches between January and March 1890, and shortly afterwards stood for the only time as an umpire.
Dominic CorkHe was awarded a benefit year in 2001, with some of his benefit events being boycotted by the Derbyshire committee ; although he did take 64 wickets at 18.
Dominic WilliamsonIn terms of wickets taken, the 1998 season was his most successful, with Williamson taking 33 wickets at an average of 18.
Shaaiq ChoudhryIn late August 2010 Choudhry took one wicket and took the winnings runs scoring 21 not out in a victory against Unicorns.
Laurie NashNash continued to terrorise batsmen in district cricket, including the rare occurrence of taking all 10 wickets in an innings (for 35 runs) for South Melbourne against Prahran in 1938, Nash's first-class career ended at the age of 26.
W. G. GraceJust after his eighteenth birthday in July 1866, Grace confirmed his potential with an innings of 224 not out for All-England against Surrey at The Oval.
Montague DruittOn 5 June 1886, in a match between Blackheath and a gentleman's touring team called the Band of Brothers, led by Lord Harris, Druitt bowled Harris for 14 and took three other wickets.
Eddie FullerHe took seven wickets for 11 runs in the Lancashire League Worsley Cup Final of 1957 as Ramsbottom dismissed Rawtenstall for just 36 to win the cup easily.
Ajantha MendisThe following year, on 18 September 2012 in the opening match of the 2012 ICC World Twenty20 against Zimbabwe, Mendis bettered this record by taking six wickets for eight runs.
Curtly AmbroseAmbrose played in two out of West Indies' three matches in an ODI tournament, taking one wicket, When England toured the West Indies between January and April 1998, | group note -RCB- -RCB- Many of the pitches during the tour were poor for batting, but Ambrose was very effective, particularly in the second, third and fourth Tests.
Monty PanesarOn the tour of New Zealand in 2013, Panesar took the place of the injured Swann as lead spinner in the side, but managed just 5 wickets costing 70 runs each.
Colin CowdreyMay made 285 not out and Cowdrey 154, his first Test century in England, and together they added 411 runs in 511 minutes, the third highest stand in Test cricket at the time, the highest for the fourth wicket until 2009, the highest stand ever made for England and the highest stand against the West Indies by any team.
Mike ProcterHe destroyed Worcestershire single handedly in 1977, scoring a century before lunch and taking 13 wickets for just 73 runs.
RanjitsinhjiRanjitsinhji probably developed his leg glance with Hayward around spring 1892, for during the remainder of that year, he scored around 2,000 runs in all cricket, far more than he had previously managed, making at least nine centuries, a feat he had never previously achieved in England.
Julius Caesar (cricketer)1854 saw Caesar involved in controversy when he was playing for England against Nottinghamshire at Lord's.
Asim ButtButt played three matches in the 2005 season for Scotland, taking three wickets but being expensive, before he tested positive for Ecstasy during a match with Somerset.
Michael Burns (cricketer)Although Burns had a relatively successful season statistically -- his 1,133 first-class runs were the most he scored in any season of his career, and his first-class average was just under 40 -- he offered to step down as Somerset captain, but when a suitable alternative could not be found, he continued in the position for 2004.
Loots BosmanBosman finally made it to a World Twenty20 tournament in the Caribbean in 2010, but appeared strangely out of sorts and made just eight runs in two innings, failing to find the boundary once.
David GowerHis score of nought in the second innings at Melbourne in 1991, when England were chasing quick runs for victory, ended his world record, unbroken sequence, of 119 Test innings without registering a duck.
Bill Lockwood (cricketer)In 1892, he was regarded as the most difficult bowler of the year and took a career-high 151 wickets.
Callum FergusonFerguson scored his maiden first-class century with an innings of 103 against New South Wales at the Sydney Cricket Ground on 4 December 2004.
W. G. GraceGrace's most significant Test was England v Australia in 1882 at The Oval.
Fred RootRoot's 146 wickets in 1929 was almost triple the next best return by his team mates.
Laddy OutschoornMay 1948 also saw him take his first wickets, when he took three in a match against Gloucestershire in May ; his victims (George Emmett, Tom Goddard and Charlie Barnett) were all Test cricket ers.
Arthur ShrewsburyOn 12 May 1873, having just turned 17, Shrewsbury made his first appearance at Lord's for the Colts of England against the MCC.
Wilfred RhodesConsequently, Rhodes scored more runs and moved further up the batting order after 1903, but his bowling gradually declined until the war.
Oliver NewbyNewby's good form continued into the 2007 season, during which he played nine first-class matches, taking 22 wickets at 30.
Peter Robinson (cricketer)He improved his batting considerably, and in 1970 passed a thousand first-class runs in a season for the only time, finishing with 1,158 at 26.
Frank Smailes1938 saw Smailes remarkably effective at Sheffield, but he did little as a bowler away from Yorkshire with Bowes, Verity and Ellis Robinson all beating him in the averages.
Steph DaviesDavies had a reasonably quiet 2006 domestic season with both bat and ball.
Maurice LeylandDuring that series, Leyland scored runs several times under pressure and by the time Australia toured England in 1934, he was a leading batsman in the team.
Sam CookCook was called into the England team to play the South Africans on the batsman's pitch at Trent Bridge in 1947, after taking six South African wickets in the second innings of the MCC match in May.
Gubby AllenIn his years at the school, he played for his house team and had reasonable success with bat and ball, and by 1918 was captain of his house.
Sourav GangulyIn March 1998 he was part of the Indian team that defeated Australia ; in Kolkata, he took three wickets having opened the bowling with his medium pace.
Hansie CronjeIn early 1995, South Africa won one-off tests against both Pakistan and New Zealand, in Auckland Cronje scored the only century of the match before a final day declaration left his bowlers barely enough time to dismiss the Kiwis.
George GearyHowever, despite further injuries, in 1934 he bowled so well when fit that he was chosen for two Tests but his only significant contribution was an innings of 53 against the marvellous leg spin bowling of Grimmett and O'Reilly at Trent Bridge.
John Crawley In 2002, Crawley moved from Lancashire to Hampshire, scoring 272 on his debut, and with an average of over 100 after the first three games he was recalled for Sri Lanka's tour in England.
Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount CobhamLyttelton's highest score (and only first-class century) was the 162 he made against Leicestershire in 1938, but he made many other useful if lesser contributions with the bat, reaching fifty on 14 further occasions.
Ossie WheatleyBut in 1968 an early season injury to Jones meant that Wheatley returned to play in 16 County Championship matches, bowling with such success that he took 82 wickets at a cost of under 13 runs each and topped the national averages for the season.
Muttiah MuralitharanOn 4 January 2002 in Kandy Muralitharan might have finished with the best-ever figures for a single innings, but after he had claimed nine wickets against Zimbabwe Russel Arnold dropped a catch at short leg.
Mahendra Singh DhoniIn 2009, Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one position for the first time in the ICC Test rankings.
Jason RoyHe made his first class debut on 24 August 2010 against Leicestershire at Grace Road, and was last man out in Surrey's first innings, scoring 76 runs off 65 balls (including 9 fours and 3 sixes) in Surrey's first innings total of 483.
Geoffrey BoycottBoycott began his Test career on 4 June 1964, only two years after his first-class debut, in the first Test against Australia.
A. P. LucasHe then played fairly regularly for Essex until 1901, and if not quite the outstanding batsman of twenty years beforehand, Lucas still was a model of soundness and style.
Harry PickettHe played in Essex's first ever first-class match in 1894 but struggled in that first season taking 11 wickets at an average of 31.
Frank ShacklockHis fellow fast bowler at Derbyshire was William Mycroft and the pair Shacklock and Mycroft were prominent in a match against MCC at Lords in June 1885.
Brian VitoriHe made his debut, also against Bangladesh at Harare Sports Club, on 12 August 2011, taking 5/30 on debut, the best bowling figures by a Zimbabwean player on debut, and the sixth-best overall.
Geoff Lawson (cricketer)Leading an inexperienced bowling attack weakened by player defections to the rebel tours of South Africa, Lawson captured 24 wickets in six Tests against England in 1985 despite suffering bronchial problems throughout the tour.
Bernard Bosanquet (cricketer)In the second innings, Samuel Coe had scored 98 when Bosanquet, still known as a fast-bowler, bowled his off break ; the ball bounced four times and the batsman was stumped (although, writing in 1925, Bosanquet recalled Coe had been bowled).
Steve HarmisonHarmison disappointed with the ball on the 2004 -- 05 England tour of South Africa, taking just 9 wickets in the Test series at the extremely high average of 73.
Ted BadcockIn the First Test at Lancaster Park, Christchurch in March 1933, he opened the bowling and took 3-142, taking the wicket of Herbert Sutcliffe with the first ball of the match.
Hansie CronjeCronje started 1997 -- 98 by leading South Africa to their first series victory in Pakistan, his batting continued to struggle with his biggest contribution being taking the wickets of Inzamam-ul-Haq and Moin Khan in the Third Test.
Brian BrainFor the 1976 season, Brain moved to Gloucestershire, and though he started relatively slowly with 41 first-class wickets in that first year, in the following seasons he claimed 77.
Charles Lewis (rugby union)In all, he played five matches for Oxford University Cricket Club in 1876, scoring 76 runs and taking 17 wickets, his best bowling figures being 7 wickets for 35 runs.
Colin CowdreyWhen Pakistan toured England in 1962 Dexter was made captain for the First Test, winning by an innings and 24 runs (Cowdrey making 159) and the Second Test, which was won by 9 wickets.
Shahid AfridiShahid Afridi (), born Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (born on 1 March 1980) and previously held the record for the fastest ODI century i. e. in 37 deliveries, (Now broken by Corey Anderson who took one delivery less i. e. 36 deliveries) which he made in his first international innings, as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the third highest scoring over ever in an ODI.
Shaun MarshHe played all four Tests in Australia's 2011 -- 12 home series against India, but performed poorly, scoring only 17 runs at an average of 2.
Abdul Qadir (cricketer)He also took two fiv-wicket hauls, including his best ODI performance of five wickets for 44 runs against Sri Lanka during the 1983 World Cup.
Ashok MankadHis highest first class score of 265 was made in the 1981 finals where Bombay defeated Delhi by an innings.
Rory BremnerIt was a parody of Paul Hardcastle's number one hit,'' 19'', with Bremner impersonating cricket commentators, including Richie Benaud and Brian Johnston, and replacing references to the Vietnam War with references to the England cricket team's disastrous 1984 home series against the West Indies in which the England captain David Gower had averaged 19.
Tom O'DwyerBowling left-arm orthodox spin, O'Dwyer made his first-class debut for Western Australia against the touring Marylebone Cricket Club team in October 1946, and took two wicket s on debut, dismissing Joe Hardstaff leg before wicket and having Bill Edrich caught.
Kemar RoachRoach played just four Tests in 2011, and took seven wickets at a cost of over 50 runs each.
Albert Hallam 1906 saw Hallam develop his skill considerably, showing an ability to spin the ball past the bat of even a watchful batsman when the pitch helped him.
Ravichandran AshwinIn November 2011, he made his Test debut earning his test cap from Sachin Tendulkar along with Umesh Yadav against West Indies, with figures of 27 -- 4 -- 81 -- 3 in the 1st innings and 21.
Mike GrovesIn 1964, he failed to match either the aggregate or the average, and his only score of 50 or more for the season was 61, but he retained his place through the Oxford season and was awarded a Blue, scoring eight and 10 not out and taking a single wicket, that of Richard Hutton, in the match.
John Snow (cricketer)Snow believed this cost them the County Championship in 1963 (they came 4th) as several games drifted away on a turning wicket with only part-time spinners in the team.
Dwayne BravoIn the West Indies tour of England in 2004 Bravo made his Test debut when he was selected for the First Test at Lord's in which he scored 44 and 10 and took three wickets.
Ian BellBell's best form in 2003 once again came in the one-day format, he scored 779 runs at 28.
Waqar YounisThe previous victory in 1995 was also assisted by a superb bowling spell by Waqar Younis.
Inzamam-ul-HaqHe scored twin half centuries when all appeared lost to draw the first test in Mohali against India in 2005, and also scored 184 runs in his 100th test match in the same away series causing the series to be drawn.
Ravichandran AshwinOn 16 March 2012, he got his 50th ODI wicket at an overall average of 29.