Are you a Cricket Lover? If yes, then read and challenge yourself with these mind blowing Cricket facts that you might never heard before.
List of 30+ Interesting and Unknown Cricket Facts That You Might Not Knew
1. Indian Former Cricketers, Ravi Shastri and ML Jaisimha, were the only Indians that played all the five days in a Test Cricket Match.
2. In India, the cricket was first held and played in the year 1848 (165+ year's back from now).
3. Indian Former Crickter, Mohammed Azharuddin is the only cricketer that scored three consecutive centuries, in his first three Test Cricket matches.
4. Ravi Shastri was the first Indian Cricketer that hits Six Sixes in the six consecutive deliveries on January 10, 1985.
5. India became the first Cricket team that wins and holds the Cricket World Cup as host of the final match in the year 2011.
6. Navjot Singh Sidhu married with Navjot Sidhu, quite interesting.
7. Indian Cricket Team is the only Cricket team that won World Cup of limited 20 Overs, 50 Overs and 60 Overs cricket match.
8. Mahendra Singh Dhoni made a world record, in the year 2007, of 6 batsmen dismissals by a wicket-keeper in a single match.
9. Sunil Gavaskar, in 1975 World Cup batted for the entire 60 Overs and scored only 36*. This was in itself was the world record.
10. Shahid Afridi, Pakistani Former Cricketer, used the bat of Sachin Tendulkar, God Of Cricket, to score the fastest Century of his ODI career.
11. Lala Amarnath was the only Bowler to hit wicket Sir Donald Bradman, Australia.
12. Abdul Hafeez Kardar, Gul Mohammad and Amir Elahi were the only Indian Cricketer's who also played Cricket matches for Pakistan.
13. Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, aka, Nawab Of Pataudi was the only Indian Cricketer who also played Cricket matches for England.
14. Bhagwat Chandrasekhar, Indian Former Cricketer, has world record of taking more wicket counts than scoring runs in his career.
15. Amazingly, two Robin Singh's has played for India, yet unfortunately, they both never got to play after their Debut Cricket Matches.
16. Abbas Ali Baig, Indian Former Cricketer was the first Cricketer that was kissed by a girl during the Test Match.
17. VVS Laxman, Indian Former Cricketer, is the only Indian to have played 100 Test Cricket Matches, yet, was never been a part of Indian World Cup Team.
18. Indian Wicket-keeper, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, has never scored an ODI Century outside Asia in his cricket career.
19. Bapu Nadkarni, India's Best Economical Bowler, In 1964, delivered 131 balls without even conceding a single run against England.
20. Prabir Sen, India's Former Wicket-Keeper, was the only cricketer in World History to have stumped Sir Donald Bradman, Australia.
21. Sachin Tendulkar, God Of Cricket, once played for Pakistan, even before playing for India, in a practice match between India v/s Pakistan (rival nation teams) as a substitute Pakistani fielder.
22. Sourav Ganguly, Dada, was the only Indian Cricketer in history of Cricket to receive four Consecutive "Man of the Match" award in ODI Cricket format.
23. Sourav Ganguly is also the only Indian Cricketer who had scored a century in the Knock Out match of World Cup.
24. Anil Kumble, Former Indian Captain, was the first Indian and the world's second cricketer to take 10 wickets in a Test Match Innings. He achieved this record against Pakistan in the year 1999.
25. Before 1983 World Cup, India had defeated only one Cricket team, East Africa in World Cup Tournament.
26. G.R. Vishwanath, former Indian Cricketer, is the only Indian Batsman to score ton and got out on duck in his debut, which was held in year 1969 against Australia.
27. K.S. Ranjitsinjhi was the first Indian Player to play Test Cricket. He represented England Cricket Team from year 1896 till 1902.
28. Kapil Dev takes his first break for a single test match after the 65 test cricket match in his 131 test matches career.
29. Virendra Sehwag has scored some magnificent figures in his career, that you might not know, these are 119 in T-20 Match, 219 in ODI Match and 319 in Test Cricket Match.
30. VVS Laxman, Former Indian Batsman, was a medical student before he joins the Indian Cricket Team.
31. VVS Laxman is also great grandnephew of Our India's former President, Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
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