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The Mind Boggling Cricket Facts That’ll Make You Go Woah!
Hi everyone in this blog you are going to read some unknown facts that happened in cricket history.
- Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.
- Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne.
- Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s.
- The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. But 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!
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career.
- Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.
I hope you did not know about it. If you know anyone in this list then you are awesome. If you have any doubts about this search in google to know more. I will meet you in next part - 2. Bye!