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Cricket being rather a normal sport has always been
the passion of millions of people around the globe. So for all you
people here who love to know stuff about this amazing sport, I have
written a few amazing Cricket Facts that will Shock You.
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Unbelievably, most number of runs scored in one over is not 36; contrary
to popular believe it is actually ‘77’ which was scored in RH Vance’s
over in a match between Canterbury and Wellington.
RH Vance bowled one over in the match, and this is how it went: 0 4 4 4
6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1
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Pakistani magician spinner, Saeed Ajmal surprisingly has never won a
single award for the ‘Man of the Match’ in ODIs.
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Neither Mahendra Singh Dhoni nor Suresh
Raina has ever scored an ODI century outside Asia.
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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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The cricket lord, Sir Don Bradman hit a total of 6 sixes in his entire
career.
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Ex-Pakistan captain and veteran batsman Inzamam Ul Haq, not only bowled
in International cricket, but he took a wicket on his very first
delivery.
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Dirk Nannes has played both for Australia and Netherlands, in
International Cricket.
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Can you believe that Shahid Afridi has twice as much runs and wickets in
ODIs than the legendary Imran Khan.
Boom Boom Afridi has picked up 378 wickets in One Day International
cricket in comparison to Imran Khan’s 182 ODI wickets, and has scored
7619 ODI runs from his strong wooden bat with a robust strike rate of
115.7 whereas Imran Khan’s 3709 runs has a strike rate of 72.65.
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Asian little master ‘Hanif Mohammad’, holds the world record for the
longest innings in International (and domestic) Test history, an
astounding (nerve numbing) 970 Minute (that is, more than 16 hours) 337*
against the dominating bowlers of West Indies in Bridgetown in 1957-58.
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Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class
career.
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Wilfred Rhodes has taken a total of 4,204
wickets in his First Class cricket career. No, we did not make a mistake
there, Rhodes did actually did take more than four thousand wickets.
FYI; He also happened to score 39, 969 runs.
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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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Sachin Tendulkar’s life stats against Shoaib Akhtar
are 251 runs in 328 balls, with 8 dismissals, at an average of 27.14 and
a Strike Rate of 76.
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