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Saturday, March 5, 2011

Cricket Trivia, Interesting Facts

>The second day of the Lord's test match between England and West Indies in 2000 is the only time in the history of test cricket that a part of all 4 innings have been played on the same day.

>Mohammed Azharuddin is the only Test cricketer to score three centuries in his first three tests.

>Marvan Atapattu's first six test innings were 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0.

>There are 10 ways in which a batsman can get out in cricket: Caught, Bowled, Leg Before Wicket, Run Out, Stumped, Handling the ball, Obstructing the field, Hit the ball twice, Hit Wicket, Timed out.

>Geoff Boycott faced the first ball in one-day cricket - not exactly the most dashing of batsmen! Graham McKenzie was the bowler.

>The only player to have scored lesser runs in his test career than the number of wickets he took is Bhagwat Chandrashekhar with 242 test wickets and just 177 runs in his test career.

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