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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Albeit Cricket has undergone lot of changes in its laws from its inception, there is only thing that has remained constant. Can you make a Guess? Of course it is the length of the pitch which is 22 yards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 The first Limited Overs International Match took place at Melbourne Cricket Ground on 5th January, 1971 as a time-filler after a Test match between Australia and England had been abandoned because of heavy rain on the first three days. The match officials decided to conduct a one-off one day game consisting of 40 eight-ball overs per side in which Australia won the game by 5 wickets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 The Highest Score by an individual in the last test of their career is 325 by Andy Sandham, England opener, which was against West Indies in 1930. However, the record of highest individual score in the last test innings is held by Seymour Nurse(258) against NZ in WI tour of NZ, 1969. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Do you know which batsman reached fastest double hundred in first class cricket? Rather surprisingly it was Ravi Shastri who was generally cited for his crawling innings. He reached double ton in just 123 balls in a Ranji Match for Bombay against Baroda in 1985. His 200* included 13 fours and 13 sixes and Six of those sixes came off a single over of the left arm spinner Tilak Raj which was another record for "Most runs scored off one over". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Different Ways of Getting Out: Part-III When Wide-Ball has been called, a batsman shall be out only under, a) Handled the ball Obstructing the field c) Run out d) Stumped e) Hit wicket Misbah-ul-Haq is out "Hit-Wicket" off a wide ball in ongoing Champions Trophy against Australia yesterday. When No-Ball has been called, a batsman shall be out only under, a) Handled the ball Obstructing the field c) Run out d) Hit the Ball twice Mohinder Amarnath is the only player to get out both "handled the ball" and "obstructing the field" in ODIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Different Ways of Getting Out: Part-II What's this Obstructing the field and Timed Out is all about? Timed Out The incoming batsman is timed out if he fails to take position within 3 minutes of the fall of the previous wicket. Obstructing the field If either batsman wilfully, and without the consent of the fielding side, strikes the ball with his bat or person, other than a hand not holding the bat, after the ball has touched a fielder. The incident of getting out in this fashion in recent times accounts to Inzamam-ul-Haq in a match against India in 2006. Inzy who was out of the crease, blocked the throw from Raina, becoming Second Pakistani and third overall in ODIs to get out Obstructing the field. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Different Ways of Getting Out: Part-I There are ten different ways of a batsman getting out. a) Bowled Leg Before Wicket c) Caught d) Hit Wicket e) Stumped f) Run-out g) Handled the Ball h) Obstructing the field i) Hit the Ball twice j) Timed Out The Bowler is not credited for the second half of dismissals. The last four types of dismissals are not often seen, but took place at some instances in cricket history. "Timed out" and "Hitting the ball twice" took place only at first class level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 The first batsman to twice score a hundred in each innings of a Test was England's Herbert Sutcliffe against Australia(176 & 127) in 1925 and against South Africa(104 & 109*) in 1929. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Over-arm bowling was initially illegal and everybody ensued bowling underarm! A woman was responsible for creating the over-arm bowling action that is now a key part of the modern game. This was devised by Christine Willes in the early 1800s, as a practical solution to avoid getting her bowling arm tangled in her huge, hoop skirt. However it is first introduced to cricket by a Kent cricketer, John Willes which he actually learnt it from her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 "Supersub" is a twelfth man becoming a substitute, able to come on and replace any player, who can take over the substituted player's batting and bowling duties. Thus allowing a team to go with 12 players. The first match which witnessed SuperSub concept is between Eng and Aus in Headingley on 7 July 2005. Later ICC decided to halt it and Kenya vs Bangladesh on 25 March 2006 is such last match. The first supersub in ODI cricket was Vikram Solanki(Eng), who replaced Simon Jones and the last supersub was KO Otieno(Kenya), who replaced MA Ouma. Although they are chosen as supersubs, they did not get to play any part in those matches, thus Brad Hogg(Aus) and Manjural Islam Rana(Bang) were the first and the last supersubs respectively who actually did that job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 New Zealand is the only team that cannot reach World cup finals even once despite its five Semis encounters (1975, 1979, 1992, 1999, 2007). And England though made it thrice from its five Semis could not turn Finals fruitful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Score of 111 or multiples thereof is considered unluckiest in Cricket and popularly termed as "Nelson". The superstitious custom is to remove one or both feet from the ground until the score has moved on. The term was invented in the belief that Lord Nelson was unlucky enough to have had only one eye, one arm and one leg despite the history challenges that he had both of his legs intact, the third missing body part is mythical. Also, some consider that '111' represents the three stumps without the bails, which symbolizes being out. Umpire David Shepherd made it much popular who keeps one leg off the ground by hopping from one foot to the other when score board reads Nelson. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 Sachin Tendulkar scored century a piece in all three of his Ranji Trophy(100*), Irani Trophy(103*) and Duleep Trophy(159) debuts. He is the only player to have achieved such a feat at domestic level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 The concept of "Fielding Restrictions" in Cricket is first introduced by MCC only after infamous "Bodyline Series". This not only prevents the captains from using outlawed or controversial bowling tactics but also aides the batsmen to play big shots. However these rules differ for different formats of the game with Test Matches being relaxed as compared to ODIs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Simha Marni Posted January 11, 2010 Author Share Posted January 11, 2010 The first ever international cricket match was played between Canada and USA dated back in 1844 in which former won by 23 runs. However the first official test match between two nations (England Vs Australia) was held on 15 March 1877. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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