Thursday, August 27, 2020

Whitewash

 


  

A unique record made by Australian test cricket team which no other test playing nation has been able to achieve which made Australian cricket team is the only team in the world to whitewash every single test playing nation in test cricket, they played till date except Afghanistan and Ireland.

Universe Boss is the only batsman who scored a six in test cricket.


 "Universe Boss " Chris Gayle is the only batsman in the world who scored a six of the first ball of a match in Test Cricket. He made this unique record against Bangladesh when he hit spinner Sohag Gazi for a six.

Thursday, July 2, 2020

Not Yuvraj but Shastri is the 1st Indian to hit 6 sixes in an over



Ravi Shastri is the first Indian cricketer to hit 6 sixes in an over in any format of the cricket equaled the record of Sir Gary Sobers's First-Class record of scoring 6 sixes in an over.  

Ravi Shastri while playing for Bombay against Baroda scored 36 runs in 6 balls and went on to score the fastest-ever double century in First-Class cricket history. He scored 200* in just 123 balls with the help of 13 sixes and 13 fours.

This record was touched by Yuvraj Singh in 2007 T-20 world cup vs England when he hit Stuart Broad for 6 sixes in an over and hit the fastest fifty in T20 international cricket. 

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

India is the only cricket team which has won the 60-over, 50- over and 20-over World Cup



Taking a moment of pride for all Indian fans reading this!

1)  India won its 1st ever world cup in 1983, which was a 60-over tournament, under the captaincy of Kapil Dev by beating West Indies in the final.

2)  In 2007, India won the 1st ever 20-over world cup under the captaincy of MS Dhoni by beating their rivalries Pakistan in the final.

3)  Again in 2011, under the captaincy of  MS Dhoni, India won the 50-over world cup by beating Sri Lanka in the final.

This is the record which is held by not even the potent Australian cricket team.

Not Sachin but Clark was the first cricketer to hit a double century in ODI matches


Sachin Tendulkar was not the first cricketer to score a double century in ODI matches but Australian women cricketer Belinda Clark was. Belinda Clark is former Australian cricketer who played international cricket for Australia's women national team from 1991 to 2005. She was the first ever cricketer to score a double century in One Day International matches when she scored 229* against Denmark women's team in 1997 world cup. She came to bat as an opener and scored an unbeaten 229 runs in 155 balls with the help of 22 fours and became player of the match as well.

In men's ODI matches, Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to score a double century. He scored 200* runs vs South Africa in 147 balls with the help of 25 fours and 3 sixes.

Saturday, June 27, 2020

Is Kallis the combination of Sachin and Zaheer?


This question came in my mind a long time ago, I couldn't decide that whether it is true or not ? So here I'm providing you some stats and you'll tell me that it is true or not ?? 

If I'm talking about Sachin, so you all know that people called him as the God of Cricket because of the runs that he scored, records that he made but also because of his image that he created in everyone's mind with his sportsman spirit towards the game of cricket whether I'm talking about his reaction when umpire gives the wrong decision or while replying to the sledging only with his Bat. In India, not only people but the players like Dhoni, Kohli, Sehwag and many more started watching cricket because of him. Once Australian cricketer Matthew Hayden said -"I have seen God, he bats at number 4 for India in test."
Now here are the career stats of him:-
Career statistics
CompetitionTestODIFCLA
Matches200463310551
Runs scored15,92118,42625,39621,999
Batting average53.7844.8357.8445.54
100s/50s51/6849/9681/11660/114
Top score248*200*248*200*
Balls bowled4,2408,0547,60510,230
Wickets4615471201
Bowling average54.1744.4861.7442.17
5 wickets in innings0202
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling3/105/323/105/32
Catches/stumpings115/–140/–186/–175/–

 Zaheer is the best bowler India has ever produced. He played in the era where batsmen like Kallis, Sangakara, Ponting, Sanath Jayasurya and many other great players had played. He was not played against them but also got them out. He also has the distinct record of dismissing Graeme Smith, Kumar Sangakkara, Matthew Hayden and Sanath Jayasurya- some of the games most feared left hand batsmen- over 10 times each in international cricket.
Once Dhoni said," Zaheer is the Sachin Tendulkar of Indian Bowling."
Here are his career stats:-
Career statistics
CompetitionTestODIFCLA
Matches92200169253
Runs scored1,2307922,4891047
Batting average11.9412.0013.6012.17
100s/50s0/30/00/50/0
Top score7534*7543
Balls bowled18,78510,09734,27912,745
Wickets311282672357
Bowling average32.9529.4427.9729.07
5 wickets in innings111351
10 wickets in match1080
Best bowling7/875/429/1385/42
Catches/stumpings19/–43/–46/–57/–

 Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest allrounder of all time this game has ever produced and South Africa's greatest batsman as well. As of 2020, he is the cricketer in the history of game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket. He also took 131 ODI catches and 200 test catches.He has been described by Kevin Pietersen and Daryll Cullinan as the greatest crickter to play the game. 
Once West Indian cricketer Kemar Roach said, "Kallis is probably the hardest batsmen I ever bowled to."

Here are his career stats:-
Career statistics
CompetitionTestODIFCLA
Matches166328257424
Runs scored13,28911,57919,69514,845
Batting average55.3744.3654.1043.53
100s/50s45/5817/8662/9723/109
Top score224139224155*
Balls bowled20,23210,75029,03313,673
Wickets292273427351
Bowling average32.6531.7931.6930.68
5 wickets in innings5283
10 wickets in match0000
Best bowling6/545/306/545/30
Catches/stumpings200/–131/–264/–162/–

Here is one of the images that I had from one of the test matches comparing Sachin + Zaheer = Kallis




Hope you find it good enough.




Thursday, June 25, 2020

Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar's bat to hit the then fastest ODI century


It was Afridi's debut ODI series in a four nation Sameer Cup in 1996,Kenya. He came into team as a leg spinner as a replacement for the injured Mushtaq Ahmed. He made his debut against Kenya but hadn't got a chance to bat and went wicket-less but in the next match vs Sri Lanka he got a chance to bat at number 3 as a pinch-hitter. In his first International innings, he broke the record for fastest century in ODI cricket, reaching his hundred in just 37 balls with the help of  11 sixes and the sixes he struck also equalled the record for most sixes in an ODI innings.

In his autobiography,Game Changer, he clearly mention that he made that century with Sachin Tendulkar's bat. He said that Sachin gave the bat to Waqar Younis for a custom-made replica to be made of it in Sialkot but before the bat could go for the replica process, it landed in Afridi’s hands when Younis gave it to him just before he went out to bat. 

The record for fastest century in ODI was broken by New Zealand cricketer Corey Anderson on 1 January 2014 who reached triple-figures from 36 balls and is now held by South-African cricketer AB de Villiers who made a century from 31 balls on 18 January 2015 against West Indies

When AB de Villiers scored 4 ducks in ICC World Cup 2007

Surprised!
 When AB de Villiers scored 4 ducks in ICC World Cup 2007

Yeah! Me too when I saw that. You read it right when Mr. 360 of cricket scored 4 ducks in a                   single edition of ICC World Cup 2007. This is an unwanted record which no other cricketer                     wanted . So here are the stats of his ducks which he scored in the tournament.

  1)   0(2) vs Netherlands in a group stage and the later three in Super Eight Matches           ]
  2)  0(5)vs Sri Lanka
  3)  0(3)vs Ireland
  4)  0(6)vs New Zealand
    
 Apart from that he scored a hundred "146(130) "vs West Indies scored in which he hits 12 fours and 5 sixes and a fifty "62(45)" vs Scotland with the help of  9 fours and 2 sixes.

Whitewash

      A unique record made by Australian test cricket team which no other test playing nation has been able to achieve which made Australian...