Career Landmarks Players Reached on 2 November
RUN LANDMARKS ACROSS FORMATS
The run-scoring landmarks on this date span three decades of the one-day game. Sanath Jayasuriya brought up 7000 ODI runs against Pakistan in 2001, and Shiv Chanderpaul reached 6000 ODI runs against South Africa in 2006. Suresh Raina passed 5000 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 2014, while Rohit Sharma reached 3000 ODI runs against Australia in 2013. Shreyas Iyer brought up 2000 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 2023, and Rahmanullah Gurbaz reached 2000 T20I runs against Zimbabwe in 2025. Further back, Ian Johnson brought up 1000 Test runs against India in 1956. Earlier-career markers also fell on this date: Temba Bavuma's 500 T20I runs against Bangladesh in 2021, and 500 ODI runs for Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers and Saeed Anwar.
WICKETS TICKING OVER
Bowling landmarks on 2 November cluster around the 50 and 25-wicket marks in white-ball cricket. Shaun Pollock reached 50 ODI wickets against Pakistan in 1997, and Morne Morkel followed with his 50th ODI wicket against Pakistan in 2010. Luke Jongwe reached 50 T20I wickets against Netherlands in 2022. At the 25-wicket stage, Pramodya Wickramasinghe got there against Sri Lanka in 1993, James Faulkner against Australia in 2013, Adam Milne against Pakistan in 2018, and Lokumarakkalage Madushanka against Sri Lanka in 2023, showing how early such thresholds can arrive in a bowler's career.
CENTURIES THAT ADDED UP
Two hundreds reached notable career tallies on this date. Chris Gayle scored his 15th ODI hundred against South Africa in 2006, a mark reflecting his standing as a repeat centurion in the format by that stage. Decades earlier, Vijay Hazare scored his 5th Test hundred against England in 1951, a rarer achievement in an era when Test centuries were harder to accumulate. Set against each other, the two innings illustrate how differently the value of a landmark hundred can read depending on the period and format in which it was scored.
WRITTEN BY AI FROM CRICSTATS MATCH DATA · 31 OCT 2026