Cricket Milestones Reached on 5 November

Sachin Tendulkar passed 17000 ODI runs against Australia in 2009, a milestone that arrived late in an international career built up over many years. Ajay Jadeja reached 5000 ODI runs against New Zealand in 1999, Aamer Sohail reached 4000 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 1997, and Shane Watson reached 3000 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 2010. Navjot Sidhu reached 3000 ODI runs against West Indies in 1994. In the Pakistan v West Indies ODI of 1993, Phil Simmons and Brian Lara both passed 2000 ODI runs in the same match. Mathew Sinclair's 1000 ODI runs, against Bangladesh in 2004, and Mitchell Johnson's 500 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 2010 mark earlier staging posts. In Tests, Michael Slater passed 4000 runs against Pakistan in 1999 and Usman Khawaja passed 500 against New Zealand in 2015.

T20I career milestones on this date cluster around two matches. In 2025, New Zealand's game against West Indies produced two landmarks together: Rovman Powell reached 2000 T20I runs and James Neesham reached 1000 T20I runs. In 2022, Sri Lanka's meeting with England did the same, with Pathum Silva reaching 1000 T20I runs and Ben Stokes reaching 500 T20I runs. Steven Smith's 500 T20I runs came earlier, against Pakistan in 2019. The T20I totals here are smaller than the Test and ODI figures elsewhere on this date, reflecting the format's shorter history, with these entries running from 2019 through to 2025.

Wicket landmarks on 5 November are rarer in the data than batting ones. Javagal Srinath reached 100 ODI wickets against West Indies in 1994, an early entry into three figures. India's Test against South Africa in 2015 brought up two bowling milestones in the same match: Ravichandran Ashwin reached 150 Test wickets and Ravindra Jadeja reached 50 Test wickets. The oldest landmark recorded on this date belongs to Jack Gregory, who reached 50 Test wickets in the South Africa v Australia Test of 1921, more than nine decades before Ashwin and Jadeja's shared milestone match.