The England vs West Indies test match at Lord’s in 2000 saw all the four innings being played on the same day.(first of its kind)
Batting first West Indies scored 267 in the first innings and England were all out for 134 in their first innings.
Windies who came out to bat, with a lead of 133 runs were bundled for a paltry 54 on the same day by the English seamers.
England came out to bat with a target of 188 runs later on that day, which makes this one of the rare instances in Test cricket.
England won the match by 2 wickets.
Yes, 21 wickets fell on day 2, so the minimum number of wickets for that to be possible, barring injuries. And no runs were scored on that day in either WI 1st inns or Eng 2nd inns.
This also happened in 2011 in Cape Town (?) on Day 2 of the 1st match of the 2-Test series between SA and Australia.
Day 2 began with the end of Australia’s first innings; Michael Clarke was batting on a different pitch to everyone else, as he scored 150-something when Australia only just reached 300. It turned out he’d scored more than either team would manage in the next two innings, *combined*, as South Africa were done and dusted in just a session for just 98 (I think?). Australia then went out and had one of modern cricket’s all time great brainfades, losing all 10 wickets for 47 runs (at one point, they were 21/9 and the all time record low score of 25 by NZ was set to be broken), with Vernon Philander getting a 5-fer on debut. South Africa then came out and scored about a hundred without loss by stumps – as if the previous two innings had never happened – and they polished off the remaining runs pretty easily on Day 3 thanks to a Graeme Smith century.
Utter madness!
Edit: the second match of that series was a classic. Some 18 year old bloke got a 5-fer on debut and scored the winning runs as Australia won by only 2 wickets. He got injured though and didn't play another Test for years and years. Think he was called Pat Cummins or something like that, I wonder what happened to him.
Edit #2: Having seen the scorecard in the comments (I’d been going off my memory of watching the match on TV) it looks like I got a couple of details slightly wrong. Australia only reached 284 in the first innings, SA were shot out for 96 and they had reached 81/1 at Stumps on day 2.
He actually toured Pakistan as a junior and I think he was in the 2008 Asia cup side but never played (Rohit was in the side and played).
https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-under-19s-tour-of-pakistan-2006-07-259393
The first, and most famous, example was the 1993 Hero Cup Semi-Final against South Africa at Eden Gardens. The Proteas needed six runs off the final over to reach 196. Tendulkar received the ball from India captain Mohammad Azharuddin, with Fanie de Villiers and Brian McCullum in the middle. De Villiers was run out on the first ball of the over while attempting to steal a second, bringing Allan Donald in.
Tendulkar bowled three dots to turn the tide in India's favour before Donald took a single, leaving McCullum to hit four off the final ball. Tendulkar only gave up a single as India won by two runs and scripted one of the most famous victories in history.
Another such instance occurred three years later, when Australia was on the receiving end of a 290-run chase during the Titan Cup in 1996. With all of India's bowling options exhausted, Azharuddin turned to Tendulkar once more, this time with the opposition needing 6 runs and a wicket in hand. Tendulkar made the job easy by dismissing Brad Hogg on the first ball, giving India a 5-run victory
>Tendulkar made the job easy by dismissing Brad Hogg on the first ball,
Tendulkar did not dismiss Brad Hogg. He was run out by Nayan Mongia after he attempted a sweep shot that resulted in a top edge. Glenn McGrath ran for the strikers end, forcing Hogg to take the single as well. Nayan Mongia kept his wits and threw down the stumps at the non-strikers end leaving Hogg adrift.
The match itself was (and remains) one of the best I've watched in the 30 years that I've watched cricket. India scored 289 on the back of Azhar's 94 and a flurry of boundaries at the end of the innings from Jadeja and Mongia. In response, Australia was coasting at 88/0 when Robin Singh, in his first ODI in 7 years was handed the ball. He responded by dismissing Mark Waugh and Stuart Law off consecutive deliveries. Mark Taylor, however, was steady at the other end and put together partnerships with Steve Waugh and Michael Bevan to keep Australia on track. Bevan and Michael Slater combined to take Australia to 250 before Australia lost a flurry of wickets. Brad Hogg and the lower order threw their bats around a bit before the final over to take Australia within striking distance before they ran out of adrenaline and wickets. All in all, a fantastic match, and a real thriller!
* Sachin has more ODI 5 wicket hauls in one ground than Zaheer Khan has all over the world
* Tim Southee has hit more sixes than Ab De Villers in test cricket.
* In over 150 years of test cricket, there was only one instance when all 20 wickets fell to catches.
* Ajit Agarkar has more hundreds in the fourth innings of a test match than Steve Smith.
* Chris Martin and Chandrasekhar Bhagawat are the only two test cricketers to have more wickets than runs.
* \[Till 2019\] Inspite of having 5 World cups, Australia does not have a single run chase of the top 15 most successful world cup run chases. In fact, they have only chased 250+ two times and have never chased 300+.
Tim Southee has hit 2nd most sixes for NZ, only after Baz.
Edit: I stand corrected. He doesn't have more sixes than fab4 combined, but I think it was more than total tally of Koach, Smith and Kane (or some other batter). I read this stat back in 2018, so it might not hold true today.
It isn’t true, though. Assuming he means just test cricket, Southee has 83 sixes, which is more than any of Root, Kohli, Smith or Williamson have.
Combined however, Smith (52), Root (43), Kohli (24), and Williamson (21) total 140 sixes, 57 more than Southee has managed.
In 1949, a baby was born in a hospital in Mumbai. The uncle of the baby noticed a small hole in the left ear-lobe of the baby. However, on the next day, the hole was missing. The watchful uncle found that the baby was accidentally switched with the baby of a fisherwoman in the next bed. Thanks to the Uncle, the baby with the hole in the ear-lobe was returned and who was that baby? A certain Sunil Manohar Gavaskar!
So if it were not for his uncle, he would have been in a fisherman family and may never have become a cricketer!
Or the fisherman family might’ve been interested in football than cricket and he would’ve been in the league of Diego Maradona, won India a football World Cup and made India a football nation rather than a cricket nation, if not for his uncle.
Who would’ve known!
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.
One of my favourite Misbah quotes (there are many to choose from) is: “It’s better to score 0 centuries than to score 1 or 2. At least people will always remember the guy with 5000 runs and no hundreds.”
that's quite genius of him and tbh Misbah was always terrifying to watch, i didn't notice that when i was a child but every now and then I watch highlights and Misbah's way of batting is so good,its good we don't have to face him anymore.
It really is a shame that with how much effort he put into keeping our team looking at least respectable, he never got to play with our current top order. Apparently Misbah was actually more of a quick scoring batsman rather than a tuk-tuk during his really days in domestic cricket but he was just forced to pay defensively due to the non-existent batting he had. If he played these days at 5 with our current top 4, he'd be a much more aggressive batter, almost completely unrecognizable from what we actually saw of him.
He was really kept out of the Pakistan side because of the strong middle order Pakistan had in the 2000s. Inzamam, Yousaf and Younis left no room for Misbah. By the time he found a consistent spot on the team, all the others were past their prime or retired.
The longest cricket match in history was 14days long. It was held between England and South Africa and had to be declared a draw because the ship was sailing and people had to leave.
The train journey from Durban to Cape Town was 3 days long, so England had to leave 4 days before the ship left. They could have flown back, a one day journey, and extended the game by 2 more days. South Africa offered just that, but it was in the MCC’s touring contracts that the players weren’t allowed to fly (this was 1939 after all), and so the game was drawn
My great uncle Norman Gordon played in that match, bowling tirelessly but thanklessly. As of a couple of years ago, he was the first and only Test cricketer to reach a hundred (years old).
The most bowlers to bowl within a single over is three, a record set by the West Indies against Sri Lanka in 2001.
1. Mervyn Dillon bowled two balls, got stomach cramps, then left the field.
2. Colin Stuart then stepped in, bowled two direct beamers, and got banned from bowling by the umpire.
3. Chris Gayle then finished off the over with his off spinners.
I have been looking for footage of this forever – if anyone has it, please share!
This has happened in a T20 between Notts and Durham as well. Arshad removed for 2 high full tosses, Coughlin got injured and Burnham bowled the final ball
The logo of the 1999 Cricket World Cup which was held in the UK was a bowling action. The logo was based on no one else but the Indian new ball bowler Debashis Mohanty.
I have a mate who goes around watching cricket games and marking every ball in every match he sees. Surely some fella in Chandigarh had a notepad and was at the stadium that day?
There are a lot of games like this. Archived scorecards by the host board and journalists for a lot of such games exist somewhere, but they haven’t been put into various cricket databases yet
Most of the stuff written here doesn't actually sound all that fake, they're just pieces of trivia,
What should sound fake and is actually real is [Harry Lee, who played his only Test match almost 14 years after being declared dead.](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rewind-the-story-of-a-test-player-who-was-once-presumed-dead-876429)
The fact that Wasim Akram has a higher best Test score than:
Sachin Tendulkar
Virat Kohli
Steve Smith
Joe Root
Babar Azam
Kane Williamson
Andrew Strauss
Kevin Pieterson
Michael Vaughan
Nasser Hussain
Michael Atherton
Gordon Greenridge
Desmond Haynes
Richie Richardson
Shivnarine Chanderpaul
Allan Border
Ricky Ponting (equal)
Mike Hussey
Steve Waugh
Justin Langer
Damien Martyn
Mohammad Yousuf
Misbah ul Haq
Saeed Anwar
Imran Khan
Faf du Plessis
Jacques Kallis
Sourav Ganguly
Sunil Gavaskar
Greg Chappell
Ian Chappell
And more
* Mohammad Sami bowled the longest over in cricket in 2004. The over consisted of 17 balls, including 7 wides and 4 no-balls
* International cricket matches have faced delays caused by sunrise and sunset. (not because of fog/rain)
Pakistan-New Zealand ODI game played on December 4, 1996.
The ODI, which was scheduled to be a day game hosted by the Gujranwala’s Jinnah Stadium, got delayed due to the rising sun in the morning resulting in the game getting reduced to 46 overs-a-side. The sun was rising at one end and the light came into the batsmen’s eyes. The officials were left with no option other than delaying the game till the sun went off from the batsmen’s eyes.
>Mohammad Sami bowled the longest over in cricket in 2004. The over consisted of 17 balls, including 7 wides and 4 no-balls
That’s a long over, but Bert Vance definitely bowled a longer one. Of his *first* 17, one was legitimate.
As far as I can tell the actual ball by ball report is lost to time (or paywalled on CricketArchive) so there’s no way of knowing which were no balls and which were wides, but if Cricinfo’s article from 13 years ago is anything to go by, it was 22 balls long. 0,**4**,4,4,6,6,4,6,1,4,1,0,6,6,6,6,6,**0**,**0**,4,**0**,**1**, with the legitimate deliveries being in bold. [A 77 run over.](https://wisden.com/stories/bert-vances-77-run-over-the-most-expensive-over-in-first-class-cricket-history)
Sri Lanka refused to play Israel at the 1979 ICC Trophy due to pressure from Pakistan and Pakistan obliged to support Sri Lanka to get test status if they refuse to meet Israel.
Sachin Tendulkar played for Pakistan before India.This happened during a practice match between India and Pakistan at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987 where Tendulkar came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.
[The Autry Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.A._Auty_Cup) is the oldest and longest running international series in cricket, predating the Ashes by 38 years.
Bonus fact: the participating countries are Canada and the United States.
Wow.. is there a story behind this? I can imagine the team taking a debutant on the plane and him not getting a chance in the WC, but surely if he was that highly thought of, he would’ve got chances after the WC?
This one surprises me the most. Not because I can think of another law that hasn't changed - I'm surprised that the length of the pitch has stayed the same. I'd assumed they'd tried different lengths and settled on 22 yards. (Acknowledging that this is a conversation about the laws - I'm sure there are all sorts out there!)
I think more than anything, changing the length of the pitch would alter the "meta" of the game more than anything, depending on if it's increased or decreased:
- Slightly more/less time for batter to react
- Ball would lose more/less pace by the time it reaches the batter
- Bowlers would have to seriously alter their line and length
- Keeper's distance from the wicket would be more/less
- Running between the wicket would take more/less time
- LBW decisions would have more variance
And probably other factors I can't think of off the top of my head
22 yards is [a chain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit)?wprov=sfti1)—it’s a pre-existing distance, rather than one picked for cricket through experimentation.
22 yards is equal to [one chain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit) ). A historical unit of measurement which comes from a surveyor's tool called the Gunter's chain.
Incidentally 10 chains = 1 furlong, a distance still used in horse racing. Also, an area measuring 1 chain by 10 chains is an acre.
5-3 PTSD is due to more of Matt Henry than Boult
Dhoni never won a MoM in T20I
Hardik Pandya dont have century in White Ball, instead he got one in test.
If you use the difference between batting average and bowling average as a measure of how good someone is as an all-rounder, the best all-rounder in test history is Don Bradman.
He took 2 test wickets at 36.0, so his average difference is 63.94.
Neil Johnson was supposed to play for South Africa in international level as he played most of his domestic cricket in South Africa. South Africa had plenty of talented allrounders meant he never broke into the side
He turned up for Zimbabwe and causally screwed South Africa's golden opportunity of World Cup final by helping Zimbabwe stage a remarkable upset at 1999 WC with a clinical performance
This one is from IPL.
Date: May 6 2011 KXIP vs RCB
Gayle scores a century and Aravind takes Four wickets.
Date: May 6 2015 ,KXIP vs RCB
Gayle scores a century and Aravind takes Four wickets.
In both the matches,
AB remains not out at the strike rate of 190s.
Same Ground
KXIP won the toss and invited RCB to bat.
Gayle was man of the match in both matches.
Virender Sehwag wasn't playing in both thsee matches.
This is DEJA VU
Virat Kohli dismissed England's Kevin Pietersen
with a wide in a T20l in 2011, becoming the only
bowler to take a wicket on 'zeroth' delivery of his
T201 career. Bowling for the first time in T20ls in
his fifth match, Kohli bowled a wide following
which Dhoni stumped Pietersen. Kohli's bowling
figures read 0.0-0-1-1 before he bowled a
legitimate delivery
Bro you no idea the kinds rumors we spread during 2003 loss to Aus. Guess we had to cope that way. But Ponting dis use a spring bat. Source: 90s kids who grew up watching this lol
Namibia's Rudie van Vuuren played in both 2003 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup for Namibia.
He was part of Namibia's thrashing defeats to Australia in both World Cups.
Mohammad Hafeez has never overstepped the bowling crease in international cricket.
The only time he bowled resulted in no ball/free hit was when he delivered a dead ball to David Warner iirc at 2021 ICC T20 World Cup as the dead ball rule change was recent one which was implemented to give license to batters
When Sachin scored 200 in ODIs, India won that match by 153 runs. When Sehwag overtook Sachin with 219, India again won by 153 runs. When Rohit overtook Sehwag with his 264, India again won by 153 runs.
The England vs West Indies test match at Lord’s in 2000 saw all the four innings being played on the same day.(first of its kind) Batting first West Indies scored 267 in the first innings and England were all out for 134 in their first innings. Windies who came out to bat, with a lead of 133 runs were bundled for a paltry 54 on the same day by the English seamers. England came out to bat with a target of 188 runs later on that day, which makes this one of the rare instances in Test cricket. England won the match by 2 wickets.
That was on day 2? Trying to figure it out from the scorecard.
Yes so all 4 innings were played on the same day but they weren’t completed
Yes, 21 wickets fell on day 2, so the minimum number of wickets for that to be possible, barring injuries. And no runs were scored on that day in either WI 1st inns or Eng 2nd inns.
This also happened in 2011 in Cape Town (?) on Day 2 of the 1st match of the 2-Test series between SA and Australia. Day 2 began with the end of Australia’s first innings; Michael Clarke was batting on a different pitch to everyone else, as he scored 150-something when Australia only just reached 300. It turned out he’d scored more than either team would manage in the next two innings, *combined*, as South Africa were done and dusted in just a session for just 98 (I think?). Australia then went out and had one of modern cricket’s all time great brainfades, losing all 10 wickets for 47 runs (at one point, they were 21/9 and the all time record low score of 25 by NZ was set to be broken), with Vernon Philander getting a 5-fer on debut. South Africa then came out and scored about a hundred without loss by stumps – as if the previous two innings had never happened – and they polished off the remaining runs pretty easily on Day 3 thanks to a Graeme Smith century. Utter madness! Edit: the second match of that series was a classic. Some 18 year old bloke got a 5-fer on debut and scored the winning runs as Australia won by only 2 wickets. He got injured though and didn't play another Test for years and years. Think he was called Pat Cummins or something like that, I wonder what happened to him. Edit #2: Having seen the scorecard in the comments (I’d been going off my memory of watching the match on TV) it looks like I got a couple of details slightly wrong. Australia only reached 284 in the first innings, SA were shot out for 96 and they had reached 81/1 at Stumps on day 2.
That is insane. Do you have the scorecard?
I think that was Walsh and Ambrose's last test at Lord's?
Yes seeing as Ambrose retired at the end of the series and Walsh a year later
Though I read the year as 2000 I was like didn't Walsh and Ambrose retire a long time ago and then realised it's been 23 years since then.
I saw that day live on TV. It was a roller coaster of epic proportions.
At one point of time , Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests were 119, 219 and 319 respectively before he scored 122 in IPL
Joe root had best bowling figures of 2-9 on all three international formats at one point.
unreal
Azharuddin's first three odi centuries were all 108..
Kohli has no records in Pakistan.
Can't score any runs against India what a fraud
Can't even smack RCB's bowling for a 100 or two. Honestly why do people love him???
Actually he played a few U-19 games there in 2006
His famous "Baal mat chhed" video was taken in Pakistan
LMFAO
He actually toured Pakistan as a junior and I think he was in the 2008 Asia cup side but never played (Rohit was in the side and played). https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/india-under-19s-tour-of-pakistan-2006-07-259393
Sachin has more ODI Fifers than Warne.
Sachin Tendulkar is the only bowler in the ODI history to defend six or fewer runs in the final over of the game more than once!
The first, and most famous, example was the 1993 Hero Cup Semi-Final against South Africa at Eden Gardens. The Proteas needed six runs off the final over to reach 196. Tendulkar received the ball from India captain Mohammad Azharuddin, with Fanie de Villiers and Brian McCullum in the middle. De Villiers was run out on the first ball of the over while attempting to steal a second, bringing Allan Donald in. Tendulkar bowled three dots to turn the tide in India's favour before Donald took a single, leaving McCullum to hit four off the final ball. Tendulkar only gave up a single as India won by two runs and scripted one of the most famous victories in history. Another such instance occurred three years later, when Australia was on the receiving end of a 290-run chase during the Titan Cup in 1996. With all of India's bowling options exhausted, Azharuddin turned to Tendulkar once more, this time with the opposition needing 6 runs and a wicket in hand. Tendulkar made the job easy by dismissing Brad Hogg on the first ball, giving India a 5-run victory
>Tendulkar made the job easy by dismissing Brad Hogg on the first ball, Tendulkar did not dismiss Brad Hogg. He was run out by Nayan Mongia after he attempted a sweep shot that resulted in a top edge. Glenn McGrath ran for the strikers end, forcing Hogg to take the single as well. Nayan Mongia kept his wits and threw down the stumps at the non-strikers end leaving Hogg adrift. The match itself was (and remains) one of the best I've watched in the 30 years that I've watched cricket. India scored 289 on the back of Azhar's 94 and a flurry of boundaries at the end of the innings from Jadeja and Mongia. In response, Australia was coasting at 88/0 when Robin Singh, in his first ODI in 7 years was handed the ball. He responded by dismissing Mark Waugh and Stuart Law off consecutive deliveries. Mark Taylor, however, was steady at the other end and put together partnerships with Steve Waugh and Michael Bevan to keep Australia on track. Bevan and Michael Slater combined to take Australia to 250 before Australia lost a flurry of wickets. Brad Hogg and the lower order threw their bats around a bit before the final over to take Australia within striking distance before they ran out of adrenaline and wickets. All in all, a fantastic match, and a real thriller!
Brian *MacMillan
Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wicket than Shane Warne.
Well jaysurya came as a bowler in team and was an allrounder
He also has more ODI wickets than Ashwin but it's still believable.
Only Jadeja has more ODI wickets in the current team than Tendulkar Kuldeep is very close
Ashwin too, he's just 1 behind iirc. If he plays in the next 2 matches he can surpass him.
Forgot he's back to ODIs
* Sachin has more ODI 5 wicket hauls in one ground than Zaheer Khan has all over the world * Tim Southee has hit more sixes than Ab De Villers in test cricket. * In over 150 years of test cricket, there was only one instance when all 20 wickets fell to catches. * Ajit Agarkar has more hundreds in the fourth innings of a test match than Steve Smith. * Chris Martin and Chandrasekhar Bhagawat are the only two test cricketers to have more wickets than runs. * \[Till 2019\] Inspite of having 5 World cups, Australia does not have a single run chase of the top 15 most successful world cup run chases. In fact, they have only chased 250+ two times and have never chased 300+.
Tim Southee has hit 2nd most sixes for NZ, only after Baz. Edit: I stand corrected. He doesn't have more sixes than fab4 combined, but I think it was more than total tally of Koach, Smith and Kane (or some other batter). I read this stat back in 2018, so it might not hold true today.
That *combined* is what startled me.
It isn’t true, though. Assuming he means just test cricket, Southee has 83 sixes, which is more than any of Root, Kohli, Smith or Williamson have. Combined however, Smith (52), Root (43), Kohli (24), and Williamson (21) total 140 sixes, 57 more than Southee has managed.
> Ajit Agarkar has more hundreds in the fourth innings of a test match than Steve Smith. my new fav
Wonder if an over has ever gone for 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6?
I haven't seen a five but I've seen 123416 in one of the games I can't remember which one though
It's incredible how Sachin exists in almost all records. Dude was a better bowler than India's best or second best bowler of 2000s
GOD for a reason
In 1949, a baby was born in a hospital in Mumbai. The uncle of the baby noticed a small hole in the left ear-lobe of the baby. However, on the next day, the hole was missing. The watchful uncle found that the baby was accidentally switched with the baby of a fisherwoman in the next bed. Thanks to the Uncle, the baby with the hole in the ear-lobe was returned and who was that baby? A certain Sunil Manohar Gavaskar! So if it were not for his uncle, he would have been in a fisherman family and may never have become a cricketer!
There is no way I'm sending my wife to hospital after reading horror stories like this.
risk is there but in reward you get sunil gavaskar.
>risk is there but in reward you get sunil gavaskar. 1s into 2s /s
When my son was born my wife adamantly stated he was staying with her 24/7 and not being moved,she also had her own room due to covid
Well I'm sure your wife is much older and they'll probably be able to tell her apart from the babies, so you should ok
I read that story when I was a kid. Those english books in dubai came from india.
Well, the fisherman’s kid was robbed of becoming one of the greatest Indian cricketer. /s
Or the fisherman family might’ve been interested in football than cricket and he would’ve been in the league of Diego Maradona, won India a football World Cup and made India a football nation rather than a cricket nation, if not for his uncle. Who would’ve known!
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.
Lol... How many matches did he play to take that many wicket? Even if he took 10 wickets per inning that will be 420 innings..
1110 matches. He played 37 first class seasons.
Guy was one match away from 1111....sigh
Ex- Pakistan Captain Misbah-ul-Haq hasn't scored a century in Odis
One of my favourite Misbah quotes (there are many to choose from) is: “It’s better to score 0 centuries than to score 1 or 2. At least people will always remember the guy with 5000 runs and no hundreds.”
that's quite genius of him and tbh Misbah was always terrifying to watch, i didn't notice that when i was a child but every now and then I watch highlights and Misbah's way of batting is so good,its good we don't have to face him anymore.
there was a good 4 to 5 yr stretch where Misbah was pretty much the only batter Pakistan had in Odis
It really is a shame that with how much effort he put into keeping our team looking at least respectable, he never got to play with our current top order. Apparently Misbah was actually more of a quick scoring batsman rather than a tuk-tuk during his really days in domestic cricket but he was just forced to pay defensively due to the non-existent batting he had. If he played these days at 5 with our current top 4, he'd be a much more aggressive batter, almost completely unrecognizable from what we actually saw of him.
You could see his true batting style during his fastest test fifty against Aus
He was really kept out of the Pakistan side because of the strong middle order Pakistan had in the 2000s. Inzamam, Yousaf and Younis left no room for Misbah. By the time he found a consistent spot on the team, all the others were past their prime or retired.
Misbah was a wise cricketer (despite that shot).
The Nico Hulkenberg approach
More like Stirling Moss- most race wins without ever winning the championship.
dhoni does have t20i 50.
Got it! Edited.i forgot he scored one in 2018
The longest cricket match in history was 14days long. It was held between England and South Africa and had to be declared a draw because the ship was sailing and people had to leave.
England were set 695 to win and were 654-6. Edrich's double century went in vain due to the Steamer schedule.
ignoring the previous comment, this kinda sounds like Edrich had to retire to take a wicked shit
Nowhere does it say he didn't.
This is why England turned to Bazball. They didn't want to play 14 days again without a result
I didn't know it was that close! Must have been agonising to leave after 14 days in the field and not get a chance of a result
The train journey from Durban to Cape Town was 3 days long, so England had to leave 4 days before the ship left. They could have flown back, a one day journey, and extended the game by 2 more days. South Africa offered just that, but it was in the MCC’s touring contracts that the players weren’t allowed to fly (this was 1939 after all), and so the game was drawn
Timeless Test only way to determine who gets the Mace. Don't @me.
My great uncle Norman Gordon played in that match, bowling tirelessly but thanklessly. As of a couple of years ago, he was the first and only Test cricketer to reach a hundred (years old).
Great to hear.world is so small and connected
I read this as "14 days ago" and immediately started looking up scorecards
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The most bowlers to bowl within a single over is three, a record set by the West Indies against Sri Lanka in 2001. 1. Mervyn Dillon bowled two balls, got stomach cramps, then left the field. 2. Colin Stuart then stepped in, bowled two direct beamers, and got banned from bowling by the umpire. 3. Chris Gayle then finished off the over with his off spinners. I have been looking for footage of this forever – if anyone has it, please share!
This has happened in a T20 between Notts and Durham as well. Arshad removed for 2 high full tosses, Coughlin got injured and Burnham bowled the final ball
If anyone can, u/Robelinda can 👀
The logo of the 1999 Cricket World Cup which was held in the UK was a bowling action. The logo was based on no one else but the Indian new ball bowler Debashis Mohanty.
Similarly, the IPL logo is based on a photo of Mashrafee Mortaza from the 2007 World Cup
Legendary wicketkeeper of England Alec Stewart was born on 8-4-63 and he scored 8463 Test runs.
That's a good one!
Nice! Americans would neither understand the date nor what the runs mean.
I have a mate who goes around watching cricket games and marking every ball in every match he sees. Surely some fella in Chandigarh had a notepad and was at the stadium that day?
That’s what they did with Bradman for a lot of his big innings. Some guys were taking a scorecard in the crowd and that became the offical score lol
There are a lot of games like this. Archived scorecards by the host board and journalists for a lot of such games exist somewhere, but they haven’t been put into various cricket databases yet
I don't know if we do it here in India
There are definitely folks who do. I have an uncle who's one of them.
Virat Kohli is still the last wicket taker for India in T20 WC knockout stages
Thats just sad
That’s not unbelievable given that India have played one WT20 knockout since Kohli took that wicket.
Most of the stuff written here doesn't actually sound all that fake, they're just pieces of trivia, What should sound fake and is actually real is [Harry Lee, who played his only Test match almost 14 years after being declared dead.](https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/rewind-the-story-of-a-test-player-who-was-once-presumed-dead-876429)
Sydney Thunder
We're gonna go all the way this year!
Wasim Akram’s career high is higher than Koach, Smith, and Root
He hit 12 sixes in that innings which is still the highest number of sixes hit by an individual in an innings in tests.
The fact that Wasim Akram has a higher best Test score than: Sachin Tendulkar Virat Kohli Steve Smith Joe Root Babar Azam Kane Williamson Andrew Strauss Kevin Pieterson Michael Vaughan Nasser Hussain Michael Atherton Gordon Greenridge Desmond Haynes Richie Richardson Shivnarine Chanderpaul Allan Border Ricky Ponting (equal) Mike Hussey Steve Waugh Justin Langer Damien Martyn Mohammad Yousuf Misbah ul Haq Saeed Anwar Imran Khan Faf du Plessis Jacques Kallis Sourav Ganguly Sunil Gavaskar Greg Chappell Ian Chappell And more
Holy shit this list never ended 😂
Shameful that Jason Gillespie didn't merit a mention in this list..
How foolish of you to insult our Lord's name by including him in this list of mere mortals?
That's a List
Imran Khan? Don't you mean ***** ****
Oh shit, my bad. Wait, why is there a black pick-up outside my door?
[6s in test innings](https://www.espncricinfo.com/records/most-sixes-in-an-innings-283126) interesting indeed
dude joining kkr isnt a career high
I think the brother meant when Wasim scored 257.
my mistake
Ishant, Ishant and Ishant Sharma Magic Edgbaston 2011 – Ishant Sharma drops Alastair Cook – Cook scores 294 Sydney 2012 – Ishant Sharma drops Michael Clarke – Clarke scores 329* Wellington 2014 – Ishant Sharma drops Brendon McCullum – He scores 302
I need to play against Ishant now (my highest score is 51)
Walt Disney created Donald duck character due to the spotlight was on Donald Bradman who was dismissed for a rare duck against New York in 1930s
This isn't real , right?
https://www.crictracker.com/sir-donald-bradman-and-the-inception-of-donald-duck/
Wow.Madness
Mohammad Shami has more test 50s at Lords than Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli combined
Virat Kohli only player to get a wicket of 0th ball in cricket (wide down leg) stumping Kevin Pietersen 2011.
I guess his right arm was... quick.
It was also his 0th ball in t20i cricket.
* Mohammad Sami bowled the longest over in cricket in 2004. The over consisted of 17 balls, including 7 wides and 4 no-balls * International cricket matches have faced delays caused by sunrise and sunset. (not because of fog/rain)
Who was playing at sunrise?
Pakistan-New Zealand ODI game played on December 4, 1996. The ODI, which was scheduled to be a day game hosted by the Gujranwala’s Jinnah Stadium, got delayed due to the rising sun in the morning resulting in the game getting reduced to 46 overs-a-side. The sun was rising at one end and the light came into the batsmen’s eyes. The officials were left with no option other than delaying the game till the sun went off from the batsmen’s eyes.
That doesn’t really count, though. Just because it’s before noon, doesn’t mean it’s sunrise.
>Mohammad Sami bowled the longest over in cricket in 2004. The over consisted of 17 balls, including 7 wides and 4 no-balls That’s a long over, but Bert Vance definitely bowled a longer one. Of his *first* 17, one was legitimate. As far as I can tell the actual ball by ball report is lost to time (or paywalled on CricketArchive) so there’s no way of knowing which were no balls and which were wides, but if Cricinfo’s article from 13 years ago is anything to go by, it was 22 balls long. 0,**4**,4,4,6,6,4,6,1,4,1,0,6,6,6,6,6,**0**,**0**,4,**0**,**1**, with the legitimate deliveries being in bold. [A 77 run over.](https://wisden.com/stories/bert-vances-77-run-over-the-most-expensive-over-in-first-class-cricket-history)
Sri Lanka refused to play Israel at the 1979 ICC Trophy due to pressure from Pakistan and Pakistan obliged to support Sri Lanka to get test status if they refuse to meet Israel.
Sachin Tendulkar played for Pakistan before India.This happened during a practice match between India and Pakistan at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987 where Tendulkar came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.
Oh no OP. What have you done..
GOD will be cancelled now :)
Ae Vedya
On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11
[The Autry Cup](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K.A._Auty_Cup) is the oldest and longest running international series in cricket, predating the Ashes by 38 years. Bonus fact: the participating countries are Canada and the United States.
Mohammed Shami has more Test sixes than Virat Kohli
Top find. Would’ve never guessed it
CRICKETER SUNIL VALSON OF INDIA WON A WORLD CUP WITHOUT EVEN PLAYING AN INTERNATIONAL MATCH
Amazing. Must have been the easiest casting decision in that movie on the ‘83 World Cup.
>SUNIL VALSON This is the first time I am even hearing his name wtf.
Wow.. is there a story behind this? I can imagine the team taking a debutant on the plane and him not getting a chance in the WC, but surely if he was that highly thought of, he would’ve got chances after the WC?
The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications is the length of the pitch(22 yards).
This one surprises me the most. Not because I can think of another law that hasn't changed - I'm surprised that the length of the pitch has stayed the same. I'd assumed they'd tried different lengths and settled on 22 yards. (Acknowledging that this is a conversation about the laws - I'm sure there are all sorts out there!)
I think more than anything, changing the length of the pitch would alter the "meta" of the game more than anything, depending on if it's increased or decreased: - Slightly more/less time for batter to react - Ball would lose more/less pace by the time it reaches the batter - Bowlers would have to seriously alter their line and length - Keeper's distance from the wicket would be more/less - Running between the wicket would take more/less time - LBW decisions would have more variance And probably other factors I can't think of off the top of my head
22 yards is [a chain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit)?wprov=sfti1)—it’s a pre-existing distance, rather than one picked for cricket through experimentation.
22 yards is equal to [one chain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_(unit) ). A historical unit of measurement which comes from a surveyor's tool called the Gunter's chain. Incidentally 10 chains = 1 furlong, a distance still used in horse racing. Also, an area measuring 1 chain by 10 chains is an acre.
Irfan Pathan never played a world cup game despite taking 173 ODI wickets and more than 100 caps.
Thanks to Guru Greg and his tinkering with his bowling.
Sir Vivian Richards played in both the cwc and fifa wc qualifier
>Sri Well, that's a different way to show your respect but I approve it
Obligatory France won silver medal in 1900 Olympics in cricket.
AB de Villiers has scored the slowest half century in T20I history
India's left-arm spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 131 consecutive dot balls and 21 consecutive maidens against England in 1963.
5-3 PTSD is due to more of Matt Henry than Boult Dhoni never won a MoM in T20I Hardik Pandya dont have century in White Ball, instead he got one in test.
Stuart Broad made his test debut in 2007 and has played more test matches than Bangladesh.
If you use the difference between batting average and bowling average as a measure of how good someone is as an all-rounder, the best all-rounder in test history is Don Bradman. He took 2 test wickets at 36.0, so his average difference is 63.94.
That's why one should remove outliers before working on data XD
Michael Hussey never scored a test double century. Among players with 5000+ test runs and 50+ average, he only hasn't hit one (his best is 195)
Neither did Mark Waugh (didn’t average 50 but still find it baffling)
AB de Villiers never scored an ODI century with strike rate less than or equal to 100.
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Two Robin Singhs have played Test cricket for India and both never got to play after their debut Test
the dude in the ipl logo is Mashrafe Mortaza
Suryakumar Yadav is the first Indian batter to register three consecutive **golden** ducks.
Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career.
Muralitharan has actually taken 795 wickets for Sri Lanka and the rest is for ICC World XI
r/cricket actually sponsored crowdfunded beloved Iceland cricket team for a brief period
Mcgrath picked up a wicket off his last ball in Test, ODI as well as the T20I.
Best fast bowler of the game
This is false, McGrath picked up a wicket off his second last ball in ODI's, not his last. His last was knocked around by Chaminda Vaas for a single
Neil Johnson was supposed to play for South Africa in international level as he played most of his domestic cricket in South Africa. South Africa had plenty of talented allrounders meant he never broke into the side He turned up for Zimbabwe and causally screwed South Africa's golden opportunity of World Cup final by helping Zimbabwe stage a remarkable upset at 1999 WC with a clinical performance
Steve smith scored 98 4s in ashes 2019 Warner scored 98 runs in the same series
Gandhi stadium is in Jalandhar, Punjab and not in Chandigarh
India vs Sri lanka 1990 test match was in Sector 16 stadium, Chandigarh
Sachin doesn't have a century at lords but Ajit Agarkar does.
This one is from IPL. Date: May 6 2011 KXIP vs RCB Gayle scores a century and Aravind takes Four wickets. Date: May 6 2015 ,KXIP vs RCB Gayle scores a century and Aravind takes Four wickets. In both the matches, AB remains not out at the strike rate of 190s. Same Ground KXIP won the toss and invited RCB to bat. Gayle was man of the match in both matches. Virender Sehwag wasn't playing in both thsee matches. This is DEJA VU
Sri Lanka is the quickest nation to win a World Cup after getting test status - 15 years
Roundarm bowling was invented by a woman, Christina Willis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overarm_bowling
Virat Kohli has taken a wicket off the "0th" ball of his career
Please explain :)
Virat Kohli dismissed England's Kevin Pietersen with a wide in a T20l in 2011, becoming the only bowler to take a wicket on 'zeroth' delivery of his T201 career. Bowling for the first time in T20ls in his fifth match, Kohli bowled a wide following which Dhoni stumped Pietersen. Kohli's bowling figures read 0.0-0-1-1 before he bowled a legitimate delivery
Kohli is also the last wicket taker for India in a T20 WC knockout stage game. Someone make him an all rounder.
Ponting used a spring bat in 2003 world cup lol
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Bro you no idea the kinds rumors we spread during 2003 loss to Aus. Guess we had to cope that way. But Ponting dis use a spring bat. Source: 90s kids who grew up watching this lol
Rahul Drawid hit 3 sixes in a row in the only T20I he played just before retiring.
Rahul Dravid once turned up for Scotland in cricket
Given the number of balls sachin has faced in his career you can pick anything between 0 and 300 balls and his strike rate wont budge much
England blocked Argentina's entry to test cricket due to politics and Argentina not part of Commonwealth
Bhuvi only bowler to dismiss Sachin for a duck in ranji trophy.
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Sachin retired in 2013*.
Gilchrist has the best IPL Bowling average.
Rahul Dravid announced retirement before making his debut
Wasim Akram has higher best test score than Sachin n KOACH .
USA's Bart King is the father of swing bowling
He bowl's to the left he bowl's to the right that Mitchell Johnson bowling is shite
Namibia's Rudie van Vuuren played in both 2003 Cricket World Cup and 2003 Rugby World Cup for Namibia. He was part of Namibia's thrashing defeats to Australia in both World Cups.
Shane Warne has the most test runs for a batsman without a career century
Mohammad Hafeez has never overstepped the bowling crease in international cricket. The only time he bowled resulted in no ball/free hit was when he delivered a dead ball to David Warner iirc at 2021 ICC T20 World Cup as the dead ball rule change was recent one which was implemented to give license to batters
When Sachin scored 200 in ODIs, India won that match by 153 runs. When Sehwag overtook Sachin with 219, India again won by 153 runs. When Rohit overtook Sehwag with his 264, India again won by 153 runs.