7 outrageous cricket records in the past decade
Given below is a list of 7 of the most outrageous cricket records in the past decade.Feats such as Sachin Tendulkar’s 100 international centuries aren’t taken into account as they are spread over a longer period of time. Records that are created during the specified time span are given preference.
#1 James Anderson and Joe Root\'s 10th wicket stand
Granted, it was on one of the deadest Trent Bridge pitches of all time, one on which India’s last-wicket pair of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Mohammad Shami had already added 111, but Joe Root and James Anderson went onto break the world record of 163 by putting together a 198-run stand.
England were in trouble when the pair came together at 298 for nine in reply to India’s 457, but, by the time Anderson had been caught off Bhuvneshwar for 81, they had a 39-run lead and the match was as good as drawn.
The stand not only broke the England Test record of 130, compiled way back in 1903 by Wilfred Rhodes and Reginald Foster, but also breezed past the world record of 163, put together by Ashton Agar and Phil Hughes at the same ground only a year earlier. On that occasion, Agar spent the next game at number eight – perhaps a truer reflection of his worth as a batsman, whereas Anderson – most definitely a true number 11, having never before passed 50 in first-class cricket – stayed put at the foot of the order for the second Test at Lord’s.