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Cricket (sport): What are some mind blowing facts about Cricket?
Abhijeet Pawar, Senior Undergrad, IIT Bombay, Cricket Enthusiast Votes by Abbas Halai, Pinkesh Malhotra, Chandan Behera, Jay Mehta, and 596 more. I)a. Despite of averaging just over 42 in Test Cricket, Sourav Ganguly's average never fell below 40 at any point of time in his entire career. b.Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals. He has got these four man of the match awards withing the 8 days period. (Sept 14 to Sept 21, 1997)

II) Cameron White is the only player to play the role of specialist bowler and a specialist batsman at different point of time for Australia. But, he was never considered as an all-rounder during the selection procedure. He was included in the team as a specialist spin bowler in 2004 Test Squad for India tour.

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He has played several matches as a specialist bowler. Then he turned into specialist batsman, somehow, hardly bowled at International level after that.

III) Shahid Afridi has played 350 One-Day International matches, where he scored 7360 runs with 6 centuries and 35 half centuries, but he has not played 100 balls in an innings yet. (He has played 94 balls for his innings 124 (HS))

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IV) Sharjah stadium has hosted most no. of International matches until this date (211 ODIs) and not Lord's or MCG. V) David Warner is the only cricketer in the last 100 years of cricket history, who has played his first Test match without playing a single first class(domestic) match before that.

VI) Zimbabwe has won more Test matches than Australia this year. VII) On 3rd Sept 2013, Boyd Rankin, playing for England, dismissed Ed Joyce of Ireland. In the 2007 World Cup Rankin - then playing for Ireland - dismissed Joyce who was then playing for England.

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VIII) Ryan Ten Doeschate has highest ODI average which is 67.00 at present and no one is anyway close to break it.

IX) Every Test playing nation has a captain who captained the side in his first match. (When the country played its first match) For India, the man is C. K. Nayudu (Management interview question, typically after you point out Cricket as an interest) X) Since 2008, no one could replace Dale Steyn as a no. 1 Test bowler. Now, that's dominance.

XI) A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls. The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting. XII) The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications is the length of the pitch(22 yards).

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XIII) Cricket has appeared in the Olympics only twice. The first time was in 1896 in Athens, however, when it came down to it there were not enough teams to compete so the competition did not occur. Then, in 1900 at the Paris Olympics, only two teams were able to compete: Great Britain and France. The winner, Great Britain, received the gold medal.

XIV) Jim Laker took 10 wicket haul in an innings, twice. 10-53 and 10-88, both against Australia. The later one was taken while he was playing for Surrey in a first class match hence, less known.

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XVI) In the possible scores between 1-300 no one has completed innings at 228. XVII) From October 2001 to March 2006 (More than 5.5 years) Harbhajan Singh has not won a single man of the match award. He played 83 ODI, during this period.

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XVIII) One of the most astonishing bowling analyses on record was returned by R.G. Nadkarni in the India v. England Test at Madras in 1964. It read 31-275-0 and, according to reports, English batsmen said he was 'unhittable'.

XIX) In 1829 James Broadbridge literally threw his bat at a wide ball and was caught at point by Mr Ward. XX) ODI scores from 0 to 100 that Sachin Tendulkar has never finished his innings on - 56, 58, 59, 75, 76 and 92 ! (In the 403 innings when he scored <100)

XXI) There was an Australian cricketer in 1870's named George Bailey, who is Great-great-grandfather of current Australian ODI skipper George Bailey.

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XXII) Playing most no. of games without having a single man of the match with the name. Nayan Mongia (140 ODIS)

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XXIII) Normally sledging is considered as a disturbance, but here's an exception During the 1997 Ashes series, England 's coach David Lloyd and captain Michael Atherton came to a realisation about Steve Waugh. He loved getting sledged. He actually thrived under it. So the English team made a decree. No one at all was to talk to Waugh when he came out to bat. Australia were 3-42 when Waugh came out to bat, and it didnt take long for waugh to realise. "Oh, I get it. Nobody 's talking to Steve. OK! I 'll talk to my fucking self then." Waugh then proceeded to spend the next 4 hours talking to himself while making 108 runs. The next innings England repeated the silent treatment, and Waugh repeated his efforts. He made 116 in the second innings. This entry

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Other interesting incidences a. New Zealand keeper Parore greeted the South African, carefully playing the first ball from kiwi Chris Harris, with a cry of "Bowled Warnie!" b. Mike Whitney (the 12th man in the game) "If you leave the crease ill break your f***ing head". Shastri "If you could bat as well as you can talk you wouldnt be the f***ing 12th man." c. Rod Marsh, "So hows your wife and my kids?" Ian Botham, "The wife is fine but the kids are retarded." XXIV) When you keep weight measuring instrument where Brett Lee lands his front leg while bowling, it will show weight of around 1500 Kg. That's the force Brett Lee exerts on ground.

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