Cricket Trivia

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

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Krish Srikkanth added an extra 'k' to his name so that it became nine letters : nine in numerology
being associated with heaven
and strength.

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Bhagwat 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)

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The reason why former India skipper Bishen Singh Bedi took up cricket at age twelve : to slim down.

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Playing at Edbaston, CK Nayudu once hit the ball into the River Rhea; the river is the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire, so he is perhaps the only batsman to have sent a cricket ball from one county to another!

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Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire (via a TV replay)

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The Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur holds the distinction of being the only stadium to witness a first ball dismissal on its debut as a Test match centre, when Sunil Gavaskar was caught by Javed Miandad off Imran Khan on the first ball of the India-Pakistan test match in 1987.

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M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match. Only two others have achieved this, Englishmen Geoff Boycott and Alan Lamb, and Australia's Kim Hughes

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Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian to have slammed centuries on debut in Ranji, Duleep and Irani trophies. What a genius!

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Only one Indian test cricketer has played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia. He is Rusi Surti who played for Queensland

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On the day of the India-Windies final in the '83 World Cup a spectator asked Sir Garfield Sobers for an autograph. Sobers denied it saying that day was India's day ...

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There are 10 ways in which a batsman can get out in cricket:

1. Caught
2. Bowled
3. Leg Before Wicket
4. Run Out
5. Stumped
6. Handling the ball
7. Obstructing the field
8. Hit the ball twice
9. Hit Wicket
10. Timed out

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Some say that the Walt Disney cartoon character Donald Duck was named after Don Bradman. Bradman scored a duck on the 1932 tour of North America. Walt Disney was a cricket fan and a member of the Hollywood Cricket Club.



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