Some Mind-Blowing Facts About Cricket?

I) 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 within the 8 days period. (Sept 14 to Sept 21, 1997).

 

 

 II) 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)).

 

 

III) David Warner is the only Australian cricketer in the last 100 years of cricket history, who has played his first international match without playing a single first class(domestic) match before that.

 

 

 

IV) First T20I six was hit Australian opener, whose name is Michael Clarke.

 

 

 

V) Ab de Villiers (Abraham de Villiers) was shortlisted for national hockey and football squads, Captain of SA junior Rugby, is still the holder of six SA school swimming records, the fastest 100m time in SA juniors, a member of SA Junior Davis Cup team, the National Badmintion U-19 champion, received a national medal from Mandela for a science project, has a golf handicap of scratch, can captain, can keep wicket, can bat, can bowl, brilliant fielder. In addition to this, he is a decent singer and his song albums have released in the past years.

 

 

 

VI) Stuart Clarke, Wasim Akram, Brett Lee, Glenn McGrath, Shaun Pollock, Dale Steyn, Kapil Dev have one thing in common. They all have taken wickets of the first and last bowl of an Innings.

 

 

VII) People with the surname "Patel" have played international cricket for at least five countries – India, New Zealand, Kenya (as well as East Africa), Canada and England.

 

VIII) The Longest Test : The last match of England's tour of South Africa in 1939 was decided to be timeless. It went on for 10 days (3rd March to 14th March with 2 rest days). And sadly even after going on for 10 days, it had to be declared a draw. England needed just 42 runs with 5 wickets in hand at tea. But rain ruined the remaining of the day. England team had to catch their train on 15th so that they could take the ship to England on 17th. So match was declared a draw.

 

IX) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (writer Sherlock Holmes) was also a pretty decent cricketer. He played 10 first class matches for the Marleybone Cricket Club (MCC) between 1899 and 1907.

 

 

 

X) 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.