Dravid's 30th Hundred Headlines 4 November Landmarks
ONE MATCH, FOUR LANDMARKS
The India v New Zealand Test of 2010 produced four separate career landmarks in one match. Rahul Dravid scored his 30th Test hundred, a landmark reached deep into a long career, while Harbhajan Singh, known chiefly for his bowling, scored his first Test hundred in the same match. New Zealand's Daniel Vettori brought up 4000 Test runs, and Jesse Ryder, earlier in his career, passed 1000 Test runs. The pairing of Dravid and Harbhajan is striking: one had scored hundreds many times over, the other for the first time, yet both landmarks fell on the same day in the same fixture.
WICKET LANDMARKS DECADES APART
The Zimbabwe v West Indies Test of 2003 carried four landmarks of its own. Daren Ganga passed 1000 Test runs and Andy Blignaut reached 500, while Ray Price took his 50th Test wicket and Vasbert Drakes his 25th, all in the same match. Further back, the India v Australia Test of 1969 saw two bowlers, Bishan Bedi and John Gleeson, each reach 50 Test wickets in that single fixture. Fifty wickets marks a threshold that separates a fleeting Test career from a sustained one, and this match produced it twice over, for Bedi and for Gleeson alike.
WHITE-BALL LANDMARKS ACROSS FORMATS
White-ball cricket on this date has produced landmarks spanning several decades, from Steve Waugh's 50 ODI wickets in 1987 to Matthew Breetzke's 500 ODI runs in 2025. In between, Imran Tahir reached 150 ODI wickets in 2018 and Hasan Ali 100 ODI wickets in 2023, while Johnson Charles passed 1000 ODI runs in 2015 and Pat Cummins 500 ODI runs in 2024. T20 internationals added their own markers: Babar Azam reached 1000 runs in 2018, Wanindu Hasaranga 50 wickets in 2021, and Trent Boult and Josh Hazlewood 25 wickets apiece, in 2017 and 2021 respectively. Spread across formats and years, these totals show milestones accumulating steadily rather than in any single standout match.
WRITTEN BY AI FROM CRICSTATS MATCH DATA · 31 OCT 2026