Cricket Milestones Reached on 9 November

Mahela Jayawardene passed 12000 ODI runs in the India v Sri Lanka match of 2014, the same fixture in which Virat Kohli reached 6000 ODI runs. Sourav Ganguly had reached 8000 ODI runs against West Indies in 2002, and Inzamam-ul-Haq brought up 6000 Test runs against Zimbabwe in 2002. Hashim Amla moved through two landmarks on this date a year apart, 4000 Test runs in 2011 and 5000 Test runs in 2012, both against Australia, while Michael Clarke reached 5000 Test runs in that 2011 South Africa v Australia Test.

Several players marked earlier staging posts on 9 November. Shikhar Dhawan reached 2000 ODI runs against Sri Lanka in 2014, the same fixture in which Kohli and Jayawardene both had days to remember. Brad Haddin reached 2000 Test runs against South Africa in 2011, a landmark Lindsay Hassett had reached decades earlier, against West Indies in 1951. Philip Salt brought up 1000 T20I runs against West Indies in 2024, and Geraint Jones and VVS Laxman both reached 1000 ODI runs on this date, in 2014 and 2002 respectively. Sediqullah Atal reached 500 T20I runs against Afghanistan in 2025, while Taufeeq Umar, Anil Kumble and Larry Gomes each passed 500 runs in their own formats, in 2002, 1998 and 1983.

Bowling milestones were less common on this date than batting ones, with only three recorded among the data. Javagal Srinath reached 200 ODI wickets in the India v Sri Lanka match of 1998, the same game in which Anil Kumble brought up 500 ODI runs. Umar Gul reached 100 ODI wickets in the New Zealand v Pakistan match of 2009, and Daniel Vettori reached the same landmark in the Australia v New Zealand fixture of 2003, six years apart from Gul's milestone. Both reaching the hundred-wicket mark on 9 November underlines how career bowling landmarks can fall on the same date even years apart.