Did You Know ???

Posted by : Amazing World Wednesday, January 10, 2007

DID YOU KNOW ?
The only bowler to have got the great Aussie Sir Donald Bradman out hit wicket was India's Lala Amarnath.

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Krish Srikkanth added an extra 'k' to his name so that it became nine letters : nine in numerology being associated with heaven and strength.

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Bhagwat Chandrashekhar is the only cricketer to have scored fewer runs in his test career than the number of wickets he took. (242 wickets and 177 runs)

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The reason why former India skipper Bishen Singh Bedi took up cricket at age twelve : to slim down.

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Playing at Edbaston, CK Nayudu once hit the ball into the River Rhea; the river is the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire, so he is perhaps the only batsman to have sent a cricket ball from one county to another!

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Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire (via a tv replay)

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The Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur holds the distinction of being the only stadium to witness a first ball dismissal on its debut as a Test match centre, when Sunil Gavaskar was caught by Javed Miandad off Imran Khan on the first ball of the India-Pakistan test match in 1987.

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M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match. Only two others have achieved this, Englishmen Geoff Boycott and Alan Lamb, and Australia's Kim Hughes

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Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian to have slammed centuries on debut in Ranji, Duleep and Irani trophies. What a genius!

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Only one Indian test cricketer has played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia. He is Rusi Surti who played for Queensland

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On the day of the India-Windies final in the '83 World Cup a spectator asked Sir Garfield Sobers for an autograph. Sobers denied it saying that day was India's day ...

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The first ball in the World Cup history was bowled by India's Madan Lal to England's Denis Amiss at Lord's on June 7, 1975.

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India's opener Sunil Gavaskar batted through the full 60 overs in the opening match against England at Lord's to score just 36 runs.

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One of the all-time great innings at the 1983 World Cup, 175 not out by Kapil Dev against Zimbabwe was lost to posterity. BBC had gone on strike that day with the result that it was never recorded on video.

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The only two Test cricketers to play Davis Cup tennis were Cota Ramaswami of India and West Indies wicket-keeper Ralph Legall.

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The first batsman to share in 50 century partnerships in Tests was India's Sunil Gavaskar.

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The first ODI in which wides and no balls were added to the bowlers analysis was India vs. Pakistan at Jaipur on October 2, 1983.

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The match between New Zealand and India at Auckland on February 14, 1981 was the first in New Zealand in which coloured clothing, white balls and black sightscreens were employed.

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25,000 spectators turned up to watch England play its first ODI match at Chandigarh. Unfortunately violent thunderstorm flooded the ground. In order to placate the crowd a 15 over game was staged in unplayable conditions.

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England lost their last seven wickets for 10 runs against India at Gwalior on March 4, 1993.