What 11 November Tells Us About Cricket

On 11 November a few individual Test matches account for a disproportionate share of the entries above them. The 2018 Bangladesh v Zimbabwe Test alone supplied Mushfiqur Rahim's 219, Mominul Haque's 161, bowling figures from Mehidy Hasan, Kyle Jarvis and Taijul Islam, plus 500 Test runs for both Peter Moor and Litton Das. The 2006 Pakistan v West Indies Test did something similar for Mohammad Yousuf's 192, Umar Gul's 5/65, and milestone wickets for both Umar Gul and Chris Gayle. The 1983 Australia v Pakistan Test even gave Carl Rackemann two separate five-wicket hauls, 6/86 and 5/32, in the same game. This date's record list is less a spread of great days than a record of a handful of great matches.

Away from the big international scores, 11 November is a fixture-heavy date for white-ball cricket outside the main international calendar. The Women's Big Bash League has played on this date in seasons from 2020/21 through 2025/26, and the Bangladesh Premier League produced three of the day's biggest T20 scores in a single 2017 game between Rangpur Rangers and Rajshahi Royals. In 2021 the date carried five T20Is among Argentina, the United States of America, Bermuda, Panama, Bahamas, Belize and Canada, several finishing with overs still unused, pointing to congested associate nation scheduling around this point in November.

The milestones often land in the same innings as the big scores already noted elsewhere. AB de Villiers reached 6000 ODI runs and his 15th ODI hundred together, against Pakistan in 2013, and Faf du Plessis passed his 10th ODI hundred in the same 2018 innings that also produced David Miller's 139 for South Africa against Australia. The most recent entry, Bangladesh's innings and 47 run win over Ireland in 2025, paired Mahmudul Hasan Joy's 171 with Nahid Rana's 25th Test wicket, showing the date keeps generating fresh Test milestones alongside the older ones from 1961, 1983 and 2006.