Achievement |
Player/Place |
First Captain in Tests |
C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England. |
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs |
Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests |
Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket |
Sachin Tendulkar |
First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings |
Anil Kumble (against Pakistan) |
First Cricket Club in India |
Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club |
First Cricket Stadium |
Eden Gardens in Kolkata |
First Cricket tournament |
The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936) |
First Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined |
Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
First Cricketer to score a century in a Test match |
Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds. |
First Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match |
Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56 |
First Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match |
Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004. |
First Fastest Fifty in a T20I |
50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007) |
First Hat-trick in an ODI |
Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987. |
First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on |
Sourav Ganguly |
First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain |
Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
First Indian to score a T20 century |
Suresh Raina vs South Africa. |
First Indian to score an ODI century |
Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. |
First Indian to score an ODI double century |
Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat). |
First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup |
Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket. |
First Indian to score two ODI double centuries and the highest individual runs in ODI |
Rohit sharma, 264 against Sri Lanka in 2014. |
First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground |
India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. |
First ODI captain |
Ajit Wadekar. |
First Six sixes in an Over |
Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England. |
First Test match |
Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932 |
First test match played in India |
India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934) |
First Test Victory |
Against England At Madras |
First Winner of the first T20 World Cup |
India (in 2007) against Pakistan. |
First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket |
Mithali Raj [214* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat) |
First World Cup |
At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of Kapil Dev |
First World Cup Runners up captain |
Sourav Ganguly (2003) |