Facts About Indian Cricket That Even Die Hard Fans Might Not Know

Cricket  is a sport that unites the whole nation. Moreover, cricket is not only about playing or enjoying, it is like serving the country. Either it is a world cup or test matches, we all love to cheer our country. And when it comes to Indian Premier League (IPL), where, foreign cricketers play for Indian states. Every die hard fan know millions of cricket facts but still they have some left outs. So, here are facts about Indian cricket that even die hard fans might not know.

Cricket is the only sport in the world where you are absolutely horrible at something and you still need to go out and do it. – Harsha Bhogle

India Vs Pakistan

India vs Pakistan cricket world cup has always been a piece of amusement. It took place in Sydney, Bangalore, Manchester, Centurion, Mohali, Adelaide and again Manchester, where India creates the record of 100% victory.

Mohinder Amarnath And Shane Warne

Mohinder Amarnath is a former Indian Cricketer and Shane Warne is a former Australian Cricketer. Importantly, they both share a remarkable achievement with Arvinda de Silva. Therefore, they were the Man of the Match in both Semifinals and Finals of cricket world cup.

Sunil Valson and Indian Cricket 

Do you know ? Sunil Valson was the Indian player who was a part of the 1983 World Cup winning team but didn’t play a single game in his career.

Indian Premier League

IPL (Indian Premier League) season 2 which was held in South Africa in 2009 introduces strategic time out and lasted seven and a half minutes, but the long break proved unpopular and critisized by legends like Sachin Tendulkar and they were shortened to two and a half minutes a year later.

Rahul Dravid With His Record

Rahul Dravid holds the record for the most Test match catches by a non-wicket-keeper, with 210, most of them in Slips. He happens to be the only cricketer to have faced more than 30,000 deliveries in Test Matches.

A Batsman Who Never Involved In Run Out

Ajinkya Rahane is the first batsman in history to get involve in 200 partnerships and never got a run out – neither has he ever been run out, nor have any of his partners. Before him, only five batsmen have gone through an entire Test career of more than 100 innings without ever being run out – Kapil Dev, Mudassar Nazar, Peter May, Graeme Hick, and Rahane.

Win Or Lose

In first 10 innings, when Devdutt Padikkal, is an Indian cricketer who plays for Royal Challenger Bangalore, who has scored 30+ runs, then the RCB Won the match in IPL 2020 !!

•56 v SRH (Won)
•1 v KXIP (Lose)
•54 v MI (Won)
•63 v RR (Won)
•4 v DC (Lose)
•33 v CSK (Won)
•32 v KKR (Won)
•18 v KXIP (Lose)
•35 v RR (Won)

Tendulkar and Dravid in Test cricket

Cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid got out stumped only once in their Test careers spanning 200 and 164 matches respectively. Interestingly, both the former batsmen got out stumped on the bowling of ex-England spinner Ashley Giles, who turns 45 today. Tendulkar got out for 90 in a Test in 2001 while Dravid got out for 148 in 2002.

Injury Never Stops Kapil Dev From Playing

Kapil Dev is a former Indian cricketer, who has not missed a single international match due to injury. Moreover, he never got run out in his first 100 test innings.

Smriti Mandhana In Maharashtra U-15 Team

Smriti Mandhana is an Indian opening bats-woman, who play for Women National Cricket, was only nine years of age when she was picked to play in Maharashtra’s U-15 team.

1st And 100th Wicket Of Jasprit Bumrah

On 28th October 2020, With Mumbai certain to play two more matches for sure, this could well be his most successful IPL season. But the important landmark was completing 100 wickets. which makes him a part of an elite list of bowlers in the world’s most competitive T20 league.  Incidentally, Kohli was also his first ever IPL wicket. A young Bumrah had trapped the rising Indian star LBW in the 2013 season, when he made his debut for the Mumbai Indians. That was also the season when MI won their maiden IPL title. And Bumrah has since been an integral part of the franchise and won four titles with them. And Mumbai Indians Won by 5 wickets.

So, here are facts about Indian cricket that even die-hard fans might not know. Cricket is a very unpredictable game, you never know what will happen till the last ball. Hence, keep watching cricket and keep cheering the cricketers and teams.