Cricket Records Set on 28 September

The date's standout innings belongs to Dean Elgar, whose 199 off 388 balls for South Africa against Bangladesh in 2017 tops every score on record for this day. That same year produced Dinesh Chandimal's 155 and Hashim Amla's 137 for South Africa v Bangladesh, alongside Rangana Herath's 6/43 and Yasir Shah's 5/51 in the Pakistan v Sri Lanka Test, showing bat and ball sharing the honours in a single vintage year. By comparison, 1994 offered David Boon's 114 off 220 balls balanced by Wasim Akram's 5/63 and Shane Warne's 5/89, both from the same Pakistan v Australia contest.

More recent editions of 28 September belong to T20 cricket. Jan Frylinck's 134 off 65 balls for Namibia against Nigeria in 2025 and Brendan Taylor's 123 off 54 balls for Zimbabwe against Botswana, also in 2025, dwarf the scoring rates of the Test-era entries. Paras Khadka's 106 off 52 for Nepal against Singapore in 2019 adds to the pattern of rapid scoring in bilateral T20Is. In franchise cricket, Ishan Kishan's 99 off 58 and Faf du Plessis's 92 off 59 stand out from the IPL 2020 and CPL 2024 matches played on this date.

Bowling performances on this date tend to arrive in the longer format. Herath's 6/43 and Yasir Shah's 5/51 from 2017, plus Akram's 5/63 and Warne's 5/89 from 1994, are the only five-wicket hauls in Tests recorded here. In the shorter formats, figures are more modest: Muttiah Muralitharan took 4/18 in the 1996 ODI against Kenya, while Mohammed Hisham Shaikh, Khalidy Juma, Jonathon Tuffin and Isaac Danladi each managed four wickets in various T20Is, none matching the volume of runs scored on the same date.