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Three Stumps Were Not Enough
Even as a young player in his locality, Chikalwadi, a small suburb in Mumbai, Sunil Gavaskar was a playmate that no other boy could get out. Because of his incredible superiority in the game, while three stumps against a garage door was what his friends had to guard against, Gavaskar would be given out if the ball hit any part of the downed shutters. Guess that's where most of Gavaskar's training came from.
Indian Princes Scored 100s For England
There were three Indian princes who played Test cricket for England. These were Ranjitsinhji, Duleepsinhji and the Nawab of Pataudi senior. All three made centuries in their first tests against Australia!
Unusual Match For Kunderan
Budhi Kunderan, opened India's batting and bowling against England at Edgbaston in 1967. And importantly also kept wickets for the same match. With two of India's new-ball bowlers unavailable because of injury, Kunderan was also given his only chance to bowl during that tour!
Good Chasers, India And Australia
In cricket, most times it is impossible to chase targets above 300. But India and Australia have managed to do so. They have managed to get to 316, which is the highest score chased successfully, in a one-day match. And coincidentally, both these teams chased the scores against Pakistan.
India's Triumphant Chase
Chasing a set target for the team batting second, is always considered difficult, be it one day or a test match. Yet, India has managed to set a record in chasing, by successfully reaching 406/6, in a test match and that too in the fourth innings of the match. The opposition was West Indies, in 1975/76 in Port of Spain.
Economical surprise!
Guess who holds the record for the most economical bowling figures in One-Day International Cricket. Nope it is not any of the full time bowlers, its West Indian opening batsman Phil Simmons. Simmons had a dream spell at Sydney, against Pakistan with figures of 10-8-3-4.
Little Master's Big Mistakes
Kapil Dev and Malcolm Marshall are the only two bowlers to claim wickets in the first ball of a test match twice. And do you know, the only batsman to have been dismissed twice in the first ball of a test match... is none other than Sunil Gavaskar? Now, now, we sure don't know enough about the Little Master, or do we?
An Indian At Lords
Vinoo Mankad was the first Indian to do the Test double of 1,000 runs and 100 wickets.
Dilip Vengsarkar set a record for an overseas batsman by scoring a century in each of his three Tests at Lords.
Three of Australia’s all-time greats, Greg Chappel, Dennis Lilee and Rod Marsh, played their first and last Tests in the same series: 1971 and 1983-1984.
The First Maiden Century In Ranji
Syed Mohammed Hadi was the first batsman to score a century in Ranji Trophy. Hadi, who was representing Hyderabad, achieved this feat by scoring an unbeaten 132 against Madras, at Hyderabad in 1934-35. This was also his debut match. |
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