20 amazing cricket facts every cricket fan should know

Amazing facts about Cricket

Time for some interesting and amazing facts about cricket which will blow your mind. We have collected some little known cricket facts and these facts will surprise you for sure. Cricket is a great game and like a religion in most of the countries its being played in. As World Cup of Cricket is about to start in 2 Months we thought about checking and presenting some great facts about cricket which you are going to love.

20 Amazing Interesting Facts About Cricket

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1. Sir Bradman has only hit 6 sixes in his career. That’s nothing to do with his strike rate, as he was quite a hitter of his times.

2. Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match. Sehwag was the only competitor he had, but Sehwag never been able to do that.

3. Vinod Kambli’s Test match average is better than his friend Sachin Tendulkar. Kambli averaged 54.20 in test cricket while Tendulkar averaged 53.80. Though there is one minor difference as Kambli layed only 17 test and Tendulkar 200 

4. ML Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri are the only Indians to bat on all five days of a Test. That’s quite an achievement.

5. The only cricketer to play Test cricket for India and England is Saif Ali Khan’s grandfather, Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi aka Tiger Pataudi. He played for England before Independence and for India after Independence.

6. Alec Stewart was born on 8-4-63 and he scored 8463 Test runs. That’s what we call Jo-Incidence with a ‘C’.

7. Wilfred Rhodes of England played Test cricket till he was 52!
He also took more than Scorecard and wickets. He also hcole 3Scorecardns. Love for Cricket.

8. Allan Border played 153 consecutive Test matches. Hmmmm…No Doubt he was a genius player.

9.  On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11. Another freakish coincidence which we love.

10. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date. Sad isn’t it! Even with legend like Sanga, Mahela and Murli in the team. Though that win came in Srilanka at Kandy and Sri Lanka won that series 1-0

Total 26 Played. 1 won by Sri Lanka and  Australia won 17. Draw – 8

It was the same match where Steve Waugh and Jason Gillespie collided on field and did not bat in second innings. Waugh broke his nose and Gillespie broke his leg. Quite a freakish test match.

11. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. It happened in a domestic game in New Zealand. The idea was to give as many runs as possible to batsman so they could take risk lose last two wickets. Looks like Bowler over did and cost 77 run. At the end match resulted in draw.

12. Adam Gilchrist hScorecard record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut. That’s why he is the best wicket keeper ever.

13. Ishant Sharma is a culprit. Want to know why? Here is the reason.

Alastair Cook – 294 Runs, Michael Clarke – 329 Runs and Brendon Mcculum 304 Runs. At all three occasion Ishant Sharma dropped their catch in the early part of the innings. Forgettable stat for Ishant.

14.  Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored.
Martin scored 123 runs in 71 test matches and took 238 wickets.
B.S Chandrasekhar scored 167 runs in 58 matches and took 242 wickets.

While B.S Chandrasekhar had some physical problem in his head, Chris martin had batting problem (He could not bat  )

15. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls. India had to chase 335 runs in 60 overs which is like 500 runs these days. And Gavaskar thought lets do some practice as we can’t win this match. Sunny Gavaskar was legendary in many ways.

16. Who won 4 consecutive Man of the Match award in ODI?
Nah! Its not Sachin Tendulkar or Ponting or Sir Viv Richards. Its Sourav ‘Dada’ Ganguly.

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

18. Talking about fixed batting position for everyone, you may be surprised to know that Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

19.  Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches. He was a successful and gritty player.

20. In 1992, Sachin Tendulkar became the first ever batsman to be run out after the third umpire consulted TV replays–Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. The next day, in the same test match, Rhodes was run out in the exact same way by Sachin. That’s what we call Tit for Tat.

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