Brendan Taylor replaced India great Sachin Tendulkar as the longest-serving one-day international (ODI) player, after the Zimbabwe veteran took the field for the series opener against Australia in Harare.<\/p>\n
Taylor’s ODI career now spans 22 years and four months, taking the mantle from Tendulkar, who retired from the 50-overs format in 2012 after playing for 22 years and three months.<\/p>\n
Tendulkar remains the highest run-scorer in ODIs (18,426) and the format’s most-capped player with 463 appearances.<\/p>\n
Taylor, 40, emerged as one of Zimbabwe’s most prolific talents in 2004 and had scored a national record 11 hundreds in 207 ODI games heading into Tuesday’s match.<\/p>\n
Taylor retired in 2021 and was banned for three-and-half years in 2022 for breaching the ICC’s Anti-Corruption and Anti-Doping codes.<\/p>\n
After serving the suspension he came out of retirement in 2025, with Zimbabwe gearing up to co-host next year’s ODI World Cup with South Africa and Namibia.<\/p>\n
Australia’s Matt Renshaw scored a maiden one-day international century while Nathan Ellis took five wickets to guide their side to a 59-run win over hosts Zimbabwe on Tuesday in the first clash of their three-match series.<\/p>\n
Australia chose to bat first, and the surprise decision from captain Mitchell Marsh was vindicated as they scored 294-8 in their 50 overs, setting Zimbabwe an imposing target at Harare Sports Club.<\/p>\n
In reply, Zimbabwe were dismissed for 235 in 45.1 overs, showing good fight but always behind the required run rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brendan Taylor replaced India great Sachin Tendulkar as the longest-serving one-day international (ODI) player, after the Zimbabwe veteran…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-893187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}