Cricket 360

These are some of the Cricket Trivia’s which I would Like Share With the Visitors:

·         Geoff Boycott faced the first ball in one-day cricket  played between England and Australia at MCG, 1971. Graham McKenzie was the bowler.

·         Madan Lal, who played 67 ODIs with the highest score of 53 not out, made a total of 401 runs in his ODI career.

·         Apart from playing cricket, Sandeep Patil acted in a Hindi film, authored the book “Sandy Storms” and edited a Marathi magazine “Ekach Shatkar”.

·         Pravin Amre and Vinod Kambli, who played for Mumbai and India, also played for the Boland province in South Africa.

·         Scotland signed Rahul Dravid as their overseas player when they made their debut in the Norwich Union League in 2003.

·         The late Vinoo Mankad batted at all eleven positions in the Indian team.

·         India played its first one-day international match against England at Headingley in 1974, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.

·         Marvan Atapattu of Sri Lanka, who later went on to captain the side, scored 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 in his first six Test innings.

·         Hollywood actor Russel Crowe is a cousin of former New Zealand skipper Martin Crowe.

·         Former Pakistan pacer Aaqib Javed is the youngest player to take a ODI hat-trick. He achieved the feat against India at the age of 19 in 1991.

·         Current selection committee chief Krishnamachari Srikkanth holds the dubious record of scoring the most number of ducks in World Cups.

·         England waited in Colombo for nine days before arriving in India for their tour in 1984 due to the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

·         Hemulal Yadav of Tripura is the only cricketer to have been given Timed Out in first-class cricket.

·         It is believed that the England’s tour of Australia in 1876-77 was organised to replace a cancelled tour by author Charles Dickens.

·         S Sreesanth is the only bowler from Kerala to have taken a hat-trick in Ranji Trophy.

·         VVS Laxman hit 44 boundaries in his knock of 281 against Australia in the Kolkata Test at the Eden Gardens in 2001.

·         Only one Indian test cricketer - Rusi Surti - played Sheffield Shield cricket  in Australia. He played for Queensland.

·         On the day of the ‘83 World Cup final a spectator asked Sir Garfield Sobers for an autograph. He denied it saying that day was India’s day.

·         Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire.

·         B Chandrashekhar is the only cricketer to have scored fewer runs in his test career than the number of wickets he took - 242 wickets and 177 runs.

·         M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match.

·         The only bowler to have got the great Aussie Sir Donald Bradman out hit wicket was India’s Lala Amarnath.

·         Southpaw Vinod Kambli, who scored two consecutive double hundreds in Test cricket, hit the first Ranji Trophy ball he faced for a six.

·         Indian spinner Maninder Singh was the last man to be dismissed in the famous tied Test against Australia in Chennai in 1986.

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