Year Ender 2025: 25 biggest and shocking records of cricket, which created a stir in the year 2025

25 Cricket Stats from 2025: The year 2025 is coming to an end. This year, many records were made and many records were destroyed on the cricket field. The year 2025 was not just a year of wins and losses for cricket, but also of incredible statistics, strange coincidences and history-changing records. At some places it became impossible to win the toss, at some places the 14 year old player scored a series of centuries. With this, women’s cricket touched new heights, associate teams entered the big stage and veteran players defied age.

Let’s take a look at the 25 most interesting cricket statistics and achievements of 2025 that have made cricket proud this year.

1. India’s streak of losing the toss in ODI ends

India has lost 20 consecutive tosses in ODIs, which seems an almost impossible sequence. This sequence started with the 2023 World Cup final in Ahmedabad and ended in 2025 in Visakhapatnam. Looking at this, it can be said that sometimes cricket also becomes a big puzzle of statistics.

2. Two Tests in Ashes ended in two days

The two Test matches in Ashes 2025/26 ended in just two days. For the first time since 1912, two or more Tests in a series ended in such a short time. This is the first time after the World War that two Tests have ended within two days. This happened in the first match of the Ashes and in the Boxing Day Test played in Melbourne. This shows that sometimes the biggest drama in cricket can happen in just two days.

England team (Photo-Social Media)

3. Despite three defeats in the Women’s World Cup, the Indian team won the trophy

The Indian women’s team won the 2025 ODI World Cup despite losing three matches. This happened for the first time in the history of the tournament. Among men, this happened only in 1992 (Pakistan) and 2019 (England).

4. CSK’s youth experiment

Chennai Super Kings fielded four players under the age of 22 in the IPL match. Never before had he fielded more than two young players in a match. The move reflected a change in their experience-centric strategy. This time also Chennai Super Kings gave more than Rs 14 crore to uncapped players. Which is the first time that he has given so much to an uncapped player.

5. Five wickets in one over

Indonesia’s Gede Priyandana took five wickets in an over in the T20I. He achieved this feat by becoming only the seventh bowler of his innings and achieved figures of 5/1. He took five wickets at the expense of one run. This is the least expensive five-wicket over in men’s T20I.

6. Indian team’s thrilling test win at the Oval.

India saved the target of 300+ runs by only 6 runs in the Oval Test. This is the smallest victory margin ever in Tests, and the first time that a 300+ target has been defended by less than 10 runs.

7. MI New York wins title despite seven defeats in MLC

MI New York won the MLC 2025 tournament despite 7 losses in 10 league matches. In no other T20 tournament has any team emerged champion with such a low win-loss ratio.

8. Sonam Yeshe of Bhutan took 8 wickets in T20I

In the third T20I against Myanmar in Gelephu on 26 December, Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshe took 8 wickets, the most by any bowler in any professional men’s or women’s T20 match (Global T20 League or International).

9. RCB won 9 out of 9 home matches this year

RCB won 9 out of 9 away matches (including Qualifier 1 and the final) without losing any match during their victorious IPL 2025 campaign, a first in 18 editions of the tournament.

10. South Africa’s 10 consecutive Test wins

South Africa won 10 consecutive Tests from August 2024 to July 2025, the third longest such streak in Tests. The highlight was defeating Australia in the WTC 2025 final under the captaincy of Temba Bavuma. Bavuma has now won 11 of his first 12 Tests as captain – Which is the highest for any captain.

11. Australia captured the Ashes for 11 days

It took Australia 11 days to win the 2025/26 Ashes – This is the joint second shortest time taken by a team to do so in a five-match Ashes series, which was also achieved by them in 1950/51 (home), 2001 (away) and 2002/03 (home). The overall record is the eight days he took on the 1921 tour of England.

Australia team (Photo-Social Media)

12. Virat Kohli returns to List A after 12 years

Virat Kohli played List-A match for Delhi after 12 years. Two weeks later, he scored India’s fastest ODI century (in 52 balls) against Australia. Before playing in the ongoing Vijay Hazare Trophy 2025/26, he last played for his state team in the 50-over format in the final of the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy 2013 against India Blue in Indore, captaining a team featuring players including Gautam Gambhir, Virender Sehwag and Ashish Nehra.

13. Shai Hope scored a century against 13 different teams

Shai Hope scored centuries against 13 different teams in international cricket. He scored centuries against all 11 full member teams. This is a record for any player. Mahela Jayawardene and Chris Gayle are jointly second in the list, having scored centuries against 12 different opponents, while Sachin Tendulkar, Gary Kirsten, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Kumar Sangakkara, Hashim Amla, Martin Guptill, Shikhar Dhawan and Paul Stirling have done so against 11 different teams.

14. Vaibhav created a stir at the age of 14

Vaibhav Suryavanshi scored a List-A century at the age of 14 years 272 days. Earlier, the youngest record was in the name of Zahoor Ilahi (15 years 209 days). Earlier this year, he became the youngest century-scorer in T20, and has since scored a century each for India A and Bihar in the current season. Vaibhav scored a total of 7 centuries this year.

15. Italy qualified for the World Cup on July

Italy qualified for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026 after finishing runner-up in the Europe Qualifier. This is his first major international success. They became the 15th Associate team to make it to the T20 World Cup (joining Afghanistan and Ireland, who also featured before gaining Test status in 2017).

16. Indian team lost one wicket for every 16 runs.

Earlier this season, India lost the Test series against South Africa 0-2. During this period, the Indian team was losing one wicket for almost every 16 runs (exactly 16.39). This is the lowest average he has ever achieved in any home Test series. Earlier, such a situation had happened on the New Zealand tour in 2002/03, when his average was 13.37. Last year also, India faced a clean sweep (0-3) against the Blackcaps on their home ground. In this way, India lost the home Test series for two consecutive years after four decades. The last time this happened was in 1983 and 1984/85.

17. India’s unbeaten T20I record

India have not lost any match in the men’s T20I tournament since 2023. This streak started with victory in the Asian Games 2023, where the final was canceled due to rain, but India emerged victorious due to better seeding. After this, India became the first team to remain unbeaten in the T20 World Cup 2024 and this was their second World Cup title. Then he also performed brilliantly in the Asia Cup in UAE in September 2025.

18. IPL final without Dhoni

After 18 editions of IPL, two consecutive finals were played without MS Dhoni. The tournament remained exciting even in the absence of the captain who won the IPL five times. The five-time IPL-winning captain has featured in 11 of them till 2023, including one for the now-defunct Rising Pune Supergiant in 2017 (under the captaincy of Steven Smith).

19. Finn Allen’s record of 19 sixes

Finn Allen hit 19 sixes in a T20 innings in MLC 2025. This is a new record for any player in men’s or women’s T20. 19 sixes hit by Finn Allen against Washington Freedom for San Francisco Unicorns in Oakland during MLC 2025, the most in any men’s or women’s T20.

20. Spain’s 20 consecutive wins

Spain, the 30th-ranked team in the men’s T20I, has won 20 consecutive matches. This streak has been going on since February 2023 and is the longest winning streak for any team so far. Interestingly, this record equals that of Australia, who had won the same number of consecutive matches across all formats in 2003, which also included a win over South Africa in the ODI World Cup. Both these records are counted among the most unique and special feats in the history of cricket.

21. Shefali Verma became man of the match in the final at the age of 21.

Shefali Verma became the player of the match in the Women’s World Cup final in Navi Mumbai at the age of 21 years and 279 days. She is the youngest player to win this award in any women’s or men’s World Cup final. His return was also special. In the last round of the tournament, he replaced the injured Pratika Raval and played against Australia in the semi-finals, whereas before that he had not played any ODI for a year. At the same time, Harmanpreet Kaur became the oldest captain to win the Women’s World Cup at the age of 36 years and 239 days.

Shefali Verma (Photo-Social Media)

22. The average of England’s opening pair is 22 balls.

England’s opening pair of Jack Crawley and Ben Duckett have been able to play only 22 balls on average so far in the Ashes 2025/26. This is the lowest average of any pair who have opened at least seven times in a Test series. England’s opening pair were often out early in this series—the first wicket fell in the first over in three of the eight innings, and they never lasted beyond the eighth over. In comparison, the average of Australia’s opening pair is 34.87 balls.

Ben Duckett and Jack Crowley (Photo-Social Media)

23. Mitchell Starc took wicket in the first over 23 times

Mitchell Starc has taken a total of 26 wickets in the first over in Test cricket. The special thing is that his eight wickets in his first over in 2025 are the most by any player in any calendar year. He took wickets in the first over in 23 innings, which were the main reason for the weaknesses in England’s opening batting. Only James Anderson is ahead of him in this record, who has taken 29 wickets in 29 innings.

Mitchell Starc (Photo- Social Media)

24. Yashasvi Jaiswal created history at the age of 24

Yashasvi Jaiswal has scored 150+ runs 5 times in Test cricket, with the most recent score coming against West Indies in Delhi in November 2025. This is the second highest record achieved by any player before the age of 24, behind only Don Bradman’s score of 8.

Yashasvi Jaiswal (Photo- Social Media)

25. More than 300 runs were scored 25 times in women’s ODI cricket.

In 2025, a score of 300+ was made 25 times in women’s ODI cricket, which is the biggest record so far in this format. Earlier in 2022 this number was only 10. The Indian women’s team has scored 300+ runs the maximum number of times this year, 9 times, followed by South Africa (6) and Australia (5). Never before had any team scored more than five such scores in a year. The year 2025 was special for women’s cricket, in which Smriti Mandhana continued to perform brilliantly and broke many records.