Friday, November 6, 2009
Some Facts about Cricket and Cricketers
01. The first Indian cricketer to be kissed on a cricket pitch was Abbas Ali Baig.
02. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was the first captain to win all the five tosses in a Test series.
03. Mushtaq Mohammad of Pakistan is believed to use the reverse sweep shot for the first time.
04. Gundappa Vishwanath is the only cricketer to score a Double hundred on first class debut and a hundred on Test debut
05. Wasim Akram is the youngest cricketer to have captured 10 wickets in a Test match. He was only 18 years and 257 days when he did so against New Zealand in 1984-85.
06. Lee Germon of New Zealand is the only player in cricket history to make his Test debut as the captain of the national team.
07. The highest partenership for the opening wicket in Test cricket is 413 by Pankaj Roy and Vinu Mankad of India.
08. On Januay 14, 1964, Bapu Nadakarni of India played in a Test match against Engalnd. He created a world record by bowling 21 successive maidens. Run at last was taken on the last ball of his 22nd over. Thus he did not give any run for 131 balls. By then, his figures read: 32-27-05-0.
09. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi created a world record when he captained India on 23rd of March 1962. He was 21 years and 77 days then. Thus he became the youngest captain in Test cricket.
10. Rodney Marsh of Australia holds an unique record of keeping to every delivery that Denis Lillie bowled in his entire career.
02. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi was the first captain to win all the five tosses in a Test series.
03. Mushtaq Mohammad of Pakistan is believed to use the reverse sweep shot for the first time.
04. Gundappa Vishwanath is the only cricketer to score a Double hundred on first class debut and a hundred on Test debut
05. Wasim Akram is the youngest cricketer to have captured 10 wickets in a Test match. He was only 18 years and 257 days when he did so against New Zealand in 1984-85.
06. Lee Germon of New Zealand is the only player in cricket history to make his Test debut as the captain of the national team.
07. The highest partenership for the opening wicket in Test cricket is 413 by Pankaj Roy and Vinu Mankad of India.
08. On Januay 14, 1964, Bapu Nadakarni of India played in a Test match against Engalnd. He created a world record by bowling 21 successive maidens. Run at last was taken on the last ball of his 22nd over. Thus he did not give any run for 131 balls. By then, his figures read: 32-27-05-0.
09. Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi created a world record when he captained India on 23rd of March 1962. He was 21 years and 77 days then. Thus he became the youngest captain in Test cricket.
10. Rodney Marsh of Australia holds an unique record of keeping to every delivery that Denis Lillie bowled in his entire career.
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