10 Lesser Known Facts of Cricket

10 10 Little Little Known Known Facts Facts about about Cricket Cricket

1. Swing Sultan - Wasim Akram also has his highest Test innings score of 257, which is higher than Sachin Tendulkar's highest Test score of 248*.

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2. Pakistani magician spinner, Saeed Ajmal surprisingly has never won a single award for the ‘Man of the Match’ in ODIs.

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 3. In the entire history of recorded Cricket, only four players have played on all ten batting positions for a team; names include Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne.

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4. The cricket lord, Sir Don Bradman hit a total of 6 sixes in his entire career.

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 5. South Africa's Gary Kirsten has the highest score in a World Cup match, making 188 not-out against UAE in 1996.

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6. In all of 400 years history of Cricket, the fastest (electronically measured) speed for a cricket ball bowled by any bowler, ever, is precisely 161.3 km/h (100.23 mph) by Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan to Nick Knite of England, on the 22nd February 2003 in the World Cup hosted by South Africa.

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7. Shoaib

Akhtar handed Sachin Tendulkar a Golden Duck the first time these two came head to head, it was a late reverse swinging delivery that knocked Tendulkar’s middle wicket off the ground. He had also bowled Dravid, with a similar reverse swing, one ball before Sachin. These two deliveries are called, ‘Double jeopardy’ when Shoaib Akhtar made his first International impact

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8. Clive Lloyd of West Indies and Ricky Ponting of Australia are the only captains to win the ICC Cricket World Cup trophy twice.

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9. Australia's Glenn McGrath has the most wickets, 71 in 39 matches. McGrath also has the best bowling figures of 7-15 against Namibia in 2003.

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 10. Melbourne will become the second ground to host more than one World Cup finals. Only Lord's have hosted more number of finals (4).

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