31 mind boggling cricket facts

Received in my inbox from a Pakistani friend...found interesting enough to share.
there were 31 wonderful images also....but too much hard work to upload


31 Mind Boggling Cricket Facts That’ll Make You Go Woah!

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1. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.

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2. Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne.

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3. Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s.

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4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77.

This is how the over went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1

RH Vance was the bowler for Wellington vs Canterbury

what many people don’t know is that the bowling team allowed the batting team to get close enough to the target and give them a chance to win so that they take risks and get out!

5. Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut.

He played 96 Test matches between 5th November 1999 and 24th January 2008 without dropping out from any of them.
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6. Ishant Sharma is responsible for all the three highest scores made by a batsman against India in the 21st century.

Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011; Michael Clarke – 329 Runs, Sydney 2012; Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014. They were all dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings.
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7. On 12th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai.

His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled.
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8. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored.

In 71 Tests, Martin has scored 123 runs, while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name along with 242 wickets.
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9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket.

No, it’s not a typo. He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs.
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10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career.

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11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls.

In the Prudential World Cup of 1975, in the match between India and England, England set the target of 335 runs in 60 overs. Sunil Gavaskar batted throughout the innings and scored only 36 runs  of 174 balls. India managed to score only 132 runs in 60 overs with 7 wickets in hand.
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12. Jim Laker once took 19 wickets in a Test match.

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13. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup.

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14. After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times.

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And in 4 of these 5 matches, Virat Kohli scored a century.

15. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.

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16.  Sachin + Zaheer = (Almost) Kallis
kallis 12005 56.9 271 32.3
sachin 15183 56.0 -    -
Zaheer -      -   273 31.8

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17. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh.

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He’s been unbeaten a total of 61 times in 185 innings.

18. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs.



19. Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket.

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20. Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a ODI match.


21. In 1989, along with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debuts. The last one to retire before Sachin, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004.

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22. Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket.



23. Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career.

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24. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.

119 was scored in an IPL game.

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25. Wasim Akram’s highest Test innings score of 257 is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar's (who has 248 n.o. to his credit).

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26. The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.

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27. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

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28. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.

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29. Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches.

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30. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him.

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31. Saeed Ajmal has never won a Man of the Match award in One Day International Cricket.

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Fact 32. Eng have a winning record against India in iT20.

Kind of sums T20 up!!!

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the Aussies have a losing record in home ODIs against the Saffas

Inzaman's feat was in ODI.

Galted wrote:#33

the Aussies have a losing record in home ODIs against the Saffas

#34 and a winning record in away ODIs against SA

#35 Australia rules cricket. They are the only team to have won over 350 Tests, 500 ODIs.................. and 35 T20s.   

Linebreaker wrote:

Galted wrote:#33

the Aussies have a losing record in home ODIs against the Saffas

#34 and a winning record in away ODIs against SA

#35 Australia rules cricket. They are the only team to have won over 350 Tests, 500 ODIs.................. and 35 T20s.   

#36 Australians are not actually jerks   

Linebreaker wrote:

#34 and a winning record in away ODIs against SA

 

I don't think that you understood the bit about "mind-boggling", Lb.

#38.... Kevin Pietersen has played both for and against England in First Class cricket.
#39 - Faf du Plessis was the captain of the Affies Boys high Cricket team - his underling? AB de Villiers.
#40 AB de Villiers was a world ranked junior tennis player, had a scratch handicap, was a national track athlete, and was a provincial-level flyhalf... Thank god he's balding, otherwise I'd think he's perfect

Galted wrote:

Linebreaker wrote:

#34 and a winning record in away ODIs against SA

 

I don't think that you understood the bit about "mind-boggling", Lb.

Sorry mate. I meant "mind boggling" for all of their victims. I should have been clearer.   

There's a follow on to the Bradman fact about 6s, which is that Geoff Boycott has hit more than that .

And one of my favourites, about another TMS stalwart - Aggers only took 4 wickets in test cricket, but what he lacked in quantity he made up for in quality: Gordon Greenidge, Viv Richards, Aravinda da Silva and Artura Ranatunga were his 4 victims.

In 1928/29 NSW were 113/9 chasing Victoria's 1st innings 376 but managed a first innings lead of 44.

Galted wrote:In 1928/29 NSW were 113/9 chasing Victoria's 1st innings 376 but managed a first innings lead of 44.

They won the Sheffield Shield again today for the 46th time.   



Oops, sorry, I keep forgetting the mind boggling bit.

Luke Wright has only scored 30 runs in his last nine international innings.

Shane Warne's cumulative figures after the first four innings in which he bowled were
90-11-335-1 (a strike rate of a wicket every 540 balls)

Don Bradman's career test batting average was below 100 at the completion of 35 of his 52 innings.

Galted wrote:In 1928/29 NSW were 113/9 chasing Victoria's 1st innings 376 but managed a first innings lead of 44.

In 2000-01 India were following on at Kolkata vs. Aus by 275 runs......and went to win the test by a 171 runs     

In 1982 Warwickshire reached 523/3 after 106 overs during the first day against Lancashire only to lose by 10 wickets.

The Netherlands once ballsed up a run chase against S Africa after needing only 32 in 8 overs with 6 wickets in hand.

.Most runs scored in a single ball [First class level] - 10
The first class record is 10 (set by Albert Hornby in 1873 and equalled by Samuel Wood in 1900), but tales from club cricket claim figures far higher than this.

.17 runs scored of 1 hit [Guniess book of World Record]

"Vinny umpired against Macleod as Borrie and I ran, walked and, finally, staggered our way to the world record of 17 runs from a single ball (p. 247 Guinness Book of Records 1992). We were enjoying ourselves. 'Twelve…' we'd shout as we headed back for another.

.CK Nayudu really did hit a ball into the next county (batting in a tour match at Edgbaston, he hit a six onto the opposite bank of the River Rea, which at the time formed the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire).

.There is myth in the past that 286 runs were scored in 1 hit, but no documents to prove it.

Reference/Source - espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622041.html.

invisiblecoolers wrote:.Most runs scored in a single ball [First class level] - 10
The first class record is 10 (set by Albert Hornby in 1873 and equalled by Samuel Wood in 1900), but tales from club cricket claim figures far higher than this.

.17 runs scored of 1 hit [Guniess book of World Record]

"Vinny umpired against Macleod as Borrie and I ran, walked and, finally, staggered our way to the world record of 17 runs from a single ball (p. 247 Guinness Book of Records 1992). We were enjoying ourselves. 'Twelve…' we'd shout as we headed back for another.

.CK Nayudu really did hit a ball into the next county (batting in a tour match at Edgbaston, he hit a six onto the opposite bank of the River Rea, which at the time formed the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire).

.There is myth in the past that 286 runs were scored in 1 hit, but no documents to prove it.

Reference/Source - espncricinfo.com/blogs/content/story/622041.html.

i do remember having read a story that the ball hit by the batsman got stuck in a tree...and while the tree had to be cut to fetch the ball........batsmen kept running