Out twice in a match in the same manner

Bangladeshi dashing opener Tamim Iqbal was out Ct Prior b Anderson in the both innings in the recently concluded Manchester test against England.. His opening partner Imrul Kayes also done the same by being out Ct by Shahzad b Finn in this test. This is some unusual in test cricket.
*** There are 834 instances when a batsman lost his wicket in the same manner in the same test.
*** There are 32 occasion when a Bangladeshi batsman out in the same manner in the both innings of a test.
*** This was the fifth instance when Bangladeshi batsman out in a same manner in both test innings against England.
*** These were the 205th and 206th occasion when an English bowler took the wicket of a rival batsmen in the same manner in both innings of a test.
*** Former England wicket keeper Alan Knott lost his wicket in this fashion for six time.

Read more...

RG Sharma : TWO consecutive hundred

With the 100 against Sri Lanka on 30.05.2010 in the ongoing tri series in Zimbabwe Rohit Sharma became only fifth Indian player to score two consecutive hundreds in One Day International. RG Sharma scored 114 against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo on 28.05.2010 and now scored 101 not out against Sri Lanka on Sunday.
The other Indians to score two consecutive centuries in ODI are … SR Tendulkar (22.04.1998 to 24.04.1998), RS Dravid (23.05.1999 to 26.05.1999), SC Ganguly (13.10.2000 to 15.10.2000), VVS Laxman (22.01.2004 to 24.01.2004) and Yuvraj Singh (14.11.2008 to 17.11.2008).
This was the 64th instance when a batsman scored two back to back hundreds in One Day International history. Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar has the distinction to score two hundred in two match for 4 times. While Sanath Jayasuriya, BC Lara and CH Gayle have done it in three separate occasions.

Read more...

Fifty hundred in a losing cause

Rohit Sharma’s 114 in the game against Zimbabwe on 28.05.2010 was in a losing cause providing the 50th occasion of an Indian batsman’s hundred going in vain in one day internationals. Thus India became the only team in the one day history to have 50 hundreds in a losing cause.
Sachin Tendulkar, naturally, is on top with 12 hundred for losing cause while four hundred each scored by Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly when India lost a One Day match. There are 21 players involved in losing cause by scoring hundred. 3-each by Ravi Shastri, Yuvraj Singh and Asharuddin, 2-each by Gautam Gambhir, K Srikkanth, Ajay Jadeja, Manoj Prabhakar and VVS Laxman and one-each by Raman Lamba, MS Dhoni, Mohinder Amarnath, Suresh Raina, NS Sidhu, Vinod Kambli, Virender Sehwag, Sanjay Manjrekar, Dilip Vengasarkar, Hemang Badani and Rohit Sharma.
Rohit Sharma’s was the 22nd instance when a batsman scored maiden century in India’s losing cause.
And above all… Vinod Kambli scored his maiden hundred on his 21st birthday and India lost the match against England by 4 wickets at Jaipur on 18 January 1993

Read more...

Fastest fifties in ODI

West Indies No. 9 batsman DJ Sammy scored his fifty off only 20 balls here is the list of fastest half centuries in One Day International history.

Balls, Batsmen, Team, Vs, At, ON
17, ST Jayasuriya, SL, Pak, Singapore, 07.04.1996
18, SP O’Donnell, Aus, SL, Sharjah, 02.05.1990
18, Shahid Afridi, Pak, SL, Nairobi, 04.10.1996
18, Shahid Afridi, Pak, Net, Colombo, 21.09.2002
19, MV Boucher, SAF, Ken, Cape Town, 22.10.2002
19, JM Kemp, SAF, ZIM, Durban, 27.02.2005
19, BB McCullum, NZ, Ban, Queenstown, 31.12.2007
19, Ross Taylor, NZ. Ire, Aberdeen, 01.07.2008
19, DJ Hussey, Aus, WI, St Kitts, 06.07.2008
20, Shahid Afridi, Pak, Ind, Kanpur, 15.04.2005
20, Shahid Afridi, Pak, SAF, Durban, 07.02.2007
20, BB McCullum, NZ, Can, St Lucia, 22.03.2007
20, DJ Sammy, WI, SAF, North Sound, 24.05.2010

Read more...

Some more stats of NZ-SL T20 International

*** New Zealand were dismissed all out 81 in this game providing the 23rd occasion of a team dismissed all out for a total less than 100 runs in T20I and second occasion for New Zealand. They have been all out for 99 against Pakistan at The Oval on 13.06.2009.
*** New Zealand’s 81 all out in this game provides the third occasion of a team dismissed all out for a total less than 100 runs against Sri Lanka.
*** RJ Nicol, KD Mills and AJ Mckay scored zeroes in this innings to take the number of zeroes scored by New Zealand batsman in T20I to 24.
*** Nuwan Kulasekhara returned with figures of 3.0-1-4-3 in this game. He became the 14th bowler (and second Sri Lankan) to capture three or more wickets conceding single digit runs in T20I.
*** He bowled a maiden over in this game providing the 81st occasion o of a bowler bowling one or more maiden overs in T20I. He is the fifth Sri Lankan bowler to bowl a maiden over in T20I.
*** Mahela Jayewardene hit a six in his knock of 17 in this game which gave him a total of 35 sixes in the calendar year 2010. His aggregate of 35 sixes provide the seventh occasion of a batsman scoring 35 or more sixes in a calendar year. The complete list read thus – DA Warner (45 in 2010), SE Marsh (38 in 2008), LRPL Taylor (37 in 2008), LRPL Taylor (37 in 2010), LRPL Taylor (36 in 2009), Yuvraj Singh (36 in 2009) and DPMD Jayewardene (35 in 2010)
*** Kulasekhara (3 for 4) and SL Malinga (3 for 12) captured three wickets each in this game providing the 28th occasion of two bowlers capturing three or more wickets in an innings in T20I.

Read more...

4 LBWs in a T20 game

Four New Zealand batsmen have been victim of leg before wicket during the game against Sri Lanka on 23.05.2010 at Lauderhill ground in the T20 International match. This is something rare in T20I so far.
This was the only second instance when a team lost their four wickets as LBW. AJ Redmond, Ross Taylor, RJ Nicol and KD Mills lost their respective wickets as LBW. Nuwan Kulasekhara has taken two of them.
Sri Lanka involved in both of these instance. Earlier on 12.10.2008 Sri Lankan bowlers have taken four wickets of Canada as LBW at the King City.
Incidentally Sri Lanka holds the record of most LBWs wickets in an ODI innings. They have taken 6 wickets of New Zealand at Auckland on 06.01.2007 and also 6 wickets of Zimbabwe at Harare on 30.11.2008 as LBW.

Read more...

TWO centuries and result

South Africa’s HA Amla and AB de Villiers scored hundreds against West Indies at North Sound on 22.05.2010 and South Africa won the match by 66 runs. (D/L method)
*** This was the 84th occasion when two batsmen from the same team scored century in the history of ODI.
*** This was the 6th time two batsmen from South Africa scored hundreds in the same ODI match. However South Africa won the five times while lost one match.
*** Incidentally on six occasion the rival team’s two batsmen posted centuries against South Africa and five of them were able to won the match.
*** India beat South Africa by 3 wickets at Cochin on 09.03.2000 when G Kirsten (115) and HH Gibbs (111) scored hundreds.
*** India is on top of the list as there are 21 occasion when TWO Indian batsmen scored centuries in the same ODI. The others are : Australia 10, Afghanistan 1, England 6, Ireland 1, Kenya 1, Netherlands 1, New Zealand 1, Pakistan 18, Scotland 1, South Africa 6, Sri Lanka 8, West Indies 7, Asia Xi 1 and Zimbabwe 1.

Read more...

Result by ONE run

*** South Africa beat West Indies by a run at North Sound in the second T20 International on 20.05.2010. This was the only fifth game when a team won the match by only ONE runs. *** The list is: Australia beat New Zealand at Sydney on 15.02.2009, South Africa beat New Zealand at Lord’s on 09.06.2009, England beat South Africa at Johannesburg on 13.11.2009, New Zealand beat Pakistan at Bridgetown on 06.05.2010, and South Africa beat West Indies at North Sound, 20.05.2010.
*** This was the second instance when South Africa won the match by one run in T20I history.
*** New Zealand lost twice by a margin of one run in T20I history.
*** This was the second time when a team won the T20I match won by one run in last 12 days after New Zealand beat Pakistan on 06.05.2010.
*** South Africa won the TWO match series by 2-0. This was the 9th occasion when a team won the T20I bilateral series by 2-0. South Africa did it second time after they beat Australia at home in 2008-09.
*** 239 runs have been scored in this game without witnessing any half century from any side. This is the highest combined total involving South Africa when no half century has been scored. The previous record was 170 runs between South Africa and New Zealand at Bridgetown on 06.05.2010 during the recent T20 World Cup.
*** 239 runs have been scored in this game without witnessing any half century from any side. This is the highest combined total involving West Indies when no half century has been scored. The previous record was 141 runs between West Indies and Australia at Hobart on 21.02.2010.

Read more...

33 runs in an over

West Indian opener Chris Gayle, while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders, was in full form against Kings XI Punjab at the Eden Gardens on Sunday and blast 4 sixes in an over of Ravi Bopara. In this process Bopara has given 33 runs in that over. This is the new record in Indian Premier League history.
No bowler has given 33 runs in a single over in IPl. The previous record, though dubious, was 30 runs given by Andrew Symonds of Hyderabad when he gave away 30 runs to Virender Sehwag against Delhi in 2008 at Hyderabad.

Read more...

1500 runs in Twenty20 games

JH Kallis completed 1500 runs in Twenty20 game when he was on 5 during his knock of 54 in the game between Bangalore and Delhi at Delhi on 04.04.10. At the end of this game, his aggregate stood at 1549

His 1549 runs have come from 52 mathces, 52 innings of which nine were not outs. He has an average of 36.02 runs per innings. His highest score is 89 not out made against Punjab at Bangalore on 16.03.10 representing Royal Challengers Bangalore. He has scored 14 half centuries and three zeroes. He has hit 171 fours and 31 sixes

The following is the list of batsmen who have an aggregate of 1500 runs in Twenty20 games. BJ Hodge {2646}, DJ Hussey {2429}, BB McCullum {2268}, LRPL Taylor {1907}, GC Smith {1900}, HH Gibbs {1866}, HD Ackerman {1811}, KC Sangakkara {1794}, IJL Trott {1775}, ST Jayasuriya {1769}, OA Shah {1739}, JP Duminy {1720}, SB Styris {1651}, RG Sharma {1629}, G Gambhir {1624}, Yuvraj Singh {1616}, Shoaib Malik {1605}, CL White {1595}, DA Warner {1594}, M van Jaarsveld {1573}, JH Kallis {1549}, A Symonds {1520}, V Sehwag {1513}, MJ Lumb {1510} and DPMD Jayawardene {1503}

DPMD Jayawardene completed 1500 runs in Twenty20 games in the match between Punjab and Kolkata at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Sunday. He reached the milestone when he was on 107 during his knock of 110 not out. At the end of the game his aggregate stood at 1503

India opner and Delhi’s former captain Virender Sehwag also completed 1500 runs in Twenty20 games in the match between Delhii and Bangaloer at Kotla on Sunday. He reached the milestone when he was on 22 during his knock of 35. At the end of the game his aggregate stood at 1513

JH Kallis is the 25th batsman in the history of Twenty 20 games to aggregate 1500 runs. He has represented Warriors, Western Province Boland, South Africa and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Twenty20 games.

Read more...

Its TWO run win for the ROYALS

Deccan Chargers have been abject with the ball towards the end of the innings all tournaments but Shane Warne produced the old magic and handed the ball over to Siddharth Trivedi for the last over of the match against Deccan Chargers, Hyderabad at the VCA Stadium, Nagpur on Monday. This was the first ever IPL match on this ground and what a match that was. Rajasthan Royals, in the end, won the match by just two runs and earned TWO points too.
This was the only fourth occasion when a team won the match by less then 2 runs. Interestingly Rajasthan won 2 of them and Hyderabad have lost three times by 3 or less runs in IPL.
One more interesting thing is that five matches were won by the team in three or less runs and five of them were in the month of May. See the table.
Winner margin loser venue date

Punjab,1 run, Hyderabad,Wanderers,17/5/2009
Punjab,1 run,Mumbai,Wankhede,21/5/2009
Rajasthan,2 runs,Hyderabad,Nagpur,5/4/2010
Rajasthan, 2 runs,Mumbai,Kingsmead,14/5/2009
Bangalore, 3 runs,Hyderabad,Bangalore,3/5/2008
Chennai,3 runs,Kolkata,Kolkata,18/5/2008
Punjab, 3 runs,Mumbai,Kingsmead,29/4/2009

Read more...

Four wicket in IPL as captain

Shane Warne’s match winning performance of 4 for 21 against Hyderabad at the VCA stadium, Nagpur on Monday gave him an aggregate of 43 wickets in IPL and he now stands second in the list of most wicket taker in IPL. RP Singh of Hyderabad leads the table with 47 wickets. Shane Warne is the fourth bowler to capture 40 plus wickets in this tournament.
However Warne registered his best bowling performance in IPL when he took 4 for 21 against Hyderabad on Monday and he became the second captain to capture four wickets after Anil Kumble of Bangalore. Anil Kumble had taken 4 for 16 against Hyderabad at Wanderers on 24 May 2009, the finals of the second edition of IPL held in South Africa.
There are 27 occasion of a bowler capturing four or more wickets in IPL. The break up of 27 occasion read thus- 11 in 2008 edition, 12 in 2009 edition and 4 in this season.
Shane Warne is the third Rajasthan bowler to capture four wickets in an innings after Sohail Tanvir (twice) and Amit Singh.
Here is the list.
Sohail Tanvir, 6/14, Vs Chennai, Jaipur, 4/5/2008
Sohail Tanvir, 4/14, Vs Mumbai, Jaipur, 26/5/2008
Amit Singh, 4/19, Vs Bangalore, Centurion, 7/5/2009
Shane Warne, 4/21, Vs Hyderabad, Nagpur, 5/4/2010

Read more...

Easy to score 1000 runs against India

Australian player Mike Hussey needs only 45 runs to complete 1000 runs against New Zealand. When he will play a 3rd ODI of the series on 9 March at Hamilton Australian middle order batsman will try to scored those 45 runs. He will be the 21st batsmen in ODI history and 4th Australian to complete 1000 runs against the KIWI team.
Australia’s Ricky Ponting is on the top of the table by scoring 1840 runs in 47 matches against New Zealand while India’s Sachin Tendulkar is at No.2 of the overall list of the same player by scoring 1750 runs in 42 matches.
While searching more the out put came with some interesting facts. Sachin Tendulkar scored 1000 or more runs against most countries (8) but the fact is there are 40 players have scored 1000 or more runs against India.
This is a record, though dubious, as there are 162 players have scored 1000 or more runs against any nations and 40 of them have done it against India.
Here are the details.
40 players vs India
22 vs Pakistan
20 vs New Zealand
20 vs Australia
18 vs Sri Lanka
16 vs South Africa
15 vs West Indies
10 vs England
1 vs Bangladesh

Read more...

10th DOUBLE in LIST A

Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar blast on Wednesday at Gwalior by hitting Double century against South Africa. Thus he became the first ever batsman to scored 200 in One Day International but in the List A one day matches this was the 10th double century in the history. Here is the list.
click on the table to view in larger scale.

Read more...

FASTEST HALF CENTURIES IN T20

Australia’s David Warner blast 67 runs off only 29 balls against West Indies on Tuesday at the Sydney Cricket Ground during the second Twenty20 International against the visitors and help the Oz to remained unbeaten in this Australian summer.
During his 29 balls innings Warner completed his fifty off only 18 balls. This is the second fastest half century in the history of T20 Internationals. India’s Yuvraj Singh holds the world record by completing off only 12 balls during his famous 16-ball 58 against England at the Kingsmead in September 2007. Yuvraj hit 6 sixes off Stuart Broad’s one over.
In fact Yuvraj has the distinction to hit fifties in 20 or less balls for three times.
Here is the list of fastest fifties in T20 Internationals.
12 balls,Yuvraj Singh, India V England, Durban, 19-9-2007.
18 balls, David Warner, Australia V West Indies, SCG, 23-2-2010
19 balls, David Warner, Australia V South Africa, MCG, 11-1-2009
19 balls, Gautam Gambhir, India V Sri Lanka, Nagpur, 9-12-2009
20 balls, Mohd Asharaful, Bangladesh V West Indies, J’burg, 13-9-2007
20 balls, Yuvraj Singh, India V Australia, Durban, 22-9-2007
20 balls, Yuvraj Singh, India V Sri Lanka, Mohali, 12-12-2009

Read more...

Kirsten, Amla and Kolkata

South African batsman Hashim Amla scored hundred in the both innings of a test match against India at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata on Thursday and tried to save the match for his team. Thus he became the only 6th batsmen to hit a ton in both innings of a test match against India. He is also the second South African to do so against India and no mark for guessing, the other one is the current Indian team coach Gary Kirsten.
Gary Kirsten scored 102 and 133 in 1996-97 at the same venue while Amla scored 114 and an unbeaten123 at the Eden Gardens.
Others to score hundred in each innings against India are. Don Bradman (Australia, 132 & 127*, Melbourne, 1947-48), Everton Weekes (WI, 162 & 101, Kolkata, 1948-49), Dulip Mendis (SL, 105 & 105, Chepauk, 1982-83), Graham Gooch (Eng, 333 & 123, Lord’s, 1990), Arvinda de Silva (SL, 146 & 120, Colombo, 1997-98) and Andrew Strauss (Eng, 123 & 108, Chepauk, 2008-09).

Hashim Amla also scored 490 runs in this series. Here is the list of most runs scored by a batsman in 2-test series.


Most runs in a 2-test match series

Runs, Batsman, Team, Vs, Season, innings, Hs, Avg., 100, 50
571, ST Jayasuriya, Sri Lanka, India, 1997-98, 2, 3, 340, 190.33, 2, 0.
563, WR Hammond, England, New Zealand, 1932-33, 2, 2, 336*, 563.00, 2, 0.
540, Andy Flower, Zimbabwe, India, 2000-01, 2, 4, 232*, 270.00, 2, 0
510, M Jayawardene, Sri Lanka, South Africa, 2006, 2, 3, 374, 170.00, 2, 0
501, ML Hayden, Australia, Zimbabwe, 2003-04, 2, 3, 380, 250.50, 2, 0
490, H Amla, South Africa, India, 2009-10, 2, 3, 253*, 490.00, 3, 0


Hashim Amla stood second in the all time great list of the best Average in the series. England’s great Wally Hammond is on top with the avg of 563.00 in 1932-33 against New Zealand.
Here is the list.
Avg., Batsman, team, Vs, Season
563.00, WR Hammond, England, New Zealand, 1932-33
490.00, H Amla, South Africa, India, 2009-10
432.00, Rahul Dravid, India, Zimbabwe, 2000-01

Read more...

FOUR Hundreds in an innings

Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and MS Dhoni scored centuries against South Africa in the ongoing second test at the Eden Gardens. This was the only second instance when four Indian batsmen scored a ton in the same innings of a test. In the only previous occasion Indians have done it against Bangladesh at Mirpur in 2007.
Dinesh Karthik, Wasim Jaffer, Rahul Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar have scored hundred at that time. Thus Sachin Tendulkar is the only batsman to be involve in the both occasion.
However this was the 19th instance when four or more batsmen have scored hundreds in the same innings of a test match. Five Australians have reached three figure mark against West Indies at Kingston in 1954-55 while FIVE from Pakistan scored hundred against Bangladesh under the captaincy of Waqar Younis at Multan in August 2001. These are the only two instances when five batsmen returned to the pavilion with a score of at least 100.
In the list of most centuries in an innings Pakistan is on top as 4 times four or more Pakistani batsmen scored hundreds in an innings and interestingly twice they have done it against India.

Read more...

Coincidence in Ranji One Day

Saurashtra beat Maharashtra by achieving a target of 328 runs at the Sardar Patel Gujarat Stadium, Motera B Ground on Thursday in the West Zone Ranji Trophy One Day tournament for the Vijay Hazare Trophy.
The coincidence is both the team involve in the same situation two years back in the same tournament and also in the month February. On 28 February Saurashtra scored 327 runs in 50 overs and Maharashtra achieved the target of 328 runs in the 49th over. On Thursday Maharashtra scored 327 for 9 in 50 overs while Saurashtra’s team cross the mark in the last over.
Kedar Jadhav might remember both this match as he has scored hundred in both match. He scored unbeaten 124 at Pune two years back while scored 141 at Motera and the coincidence is both time he has hit 4 sixes.
The century maker on Thursday Pratik Mehta of Saurashtra remained not out at Pune and also did the same a Motera but he added 102 more runs to his 32 not out at Pune. Yes, he has scored 134 not out on Thursday.
There are 8 players from Suarashtra played at Pune and Motera while 4 of the Maharashtra players witness both match. They are. Sagar Jogiyani, Jaydev Shah, Chirag Pathak, Cheteshwar Pujara, Sitanshu Kotak, Pratik Mehta, Sandeep Maniar and Jayesh Odedara for Saurashtra and HH Khadiwale, Kedar Jadhav, NS Paradkar and SM Fallah for Maharashtra.
And above all umpire Ganesh Iyer did the job in both match.

Read more...

Out Twice by the same bowler on the Same Day

India’s Gautam Gambhir was out twice on the same day off the bowling of Morne Morkel against South Africa at the VCS Stadium, Nagpur on Monday. This is very rare thing in test cricket. In 1951 test matches played so far and this was the 128th instance when a batsman out twice on a same day by the same bowler.
When India resumed its innings on Monday Gambhir lost his wicket to Morkel when he gave away a catch to wicketkeeper Mark Boucher. In the afternoon session when India began its second innings, after follow on, Gambhir again became the victim of Morkel. This time South African bowler uprooted his stumps.
Gambhir is the 17th Indin batsmen to be out twice on the same day against the same bowler and this was the 19th instance when an Indian have done it. Vinoo Mankad had done it three times in his career.
Here is the list.
Pls read as
player, Vs,Day,Season, venue,bowler
Vijay Merchant,Eng,3, 1936,The Oval,GOB Allen
L Amar Singh,Eng,3, 1936,The Oval,H Verity
CT Sarwate,Eng,4, 1946,Old Trafford,AV Bedser
MH Mankad,Aus,4, 1947-48,Brisbane,RR Lindwall
G Kishenchand,Aus,5, 1947-48,Adelaide,RR Lindwall
L Amarnath,Aus,5, 1947-48,Melbourne,DT Ring
CS Nayudu,Aus,5, 1947-48,Melbourne,DT Ring
PK Sen, Aus,5, 1947-48,Melbourne,LJ Johnson
MH Mankad,WI,5, 1948-49,Chepauk,J Trim
MH Mankad,Eng,3, 1952,Old Trafford,AV Bedser
Pankaj Roy,Eng,3, 1952, Old Trafford,FS Trueman
RB Kenny,WI,4,1958-59,Kolkata,WW Hall
ML Jaisimha,WI, 5, 1966-67,Kolkata,LR Gibbs
RF Surti,WI,5, 1966-67,kolkata, Gary Sobers
SM Patil,WI,3, 1983-84,Kanpur,WW Davis
M Prabhakar,NZ,3, 1989-90,Christchurch,MC Snedden
VVS Laxman,SL,4, 2008,Colombo (SSC),BAW Mendis
Zaheer Khan,SL,4, 2008,Colombo (SSC),BAW Mendis
Gautam Gambhir,SAF,3, 2009-10,Nagpur,M Morkel

Read more...

541 runs in 4th innings and won the match

West Zone created a new world record by scoring 541 runs in a Duleep Trophy match (final) at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Hyderabad on Saturday against South Zone. Yusuf Pathan hit a powerful double century to help his team to won the Duleep Trophy for the season 2009-10.
West Zone required 536 runs to win the final. Saurashtra’s Ranji player Chirag Pathak scored 130 and then Yusuf Pathan took the charge of the chase. Hi has hit 10 sixes and 19 fours in his 190-ball unbeaten 210.
This was the only 8th instance when a team successfully chases a target of over 500 runs in the history first class cricket. The previous record was 513 for 9 by Kumar Sangakkara led Central Province against Southern Province during the Ten Sports Interprovincial Tournament (Sri Lanka) in 2003-04 in Kandy.
During the same season South Zone won the Duleep Trophy Group match against England A team by achieving a target of 503 at Gurgaon and that time Y Venugopal Rao scored 228 not out for the winners. Today’s test debutant against South Africa S Badrinath also hit a ton of 100 not out.
Here is the list of the team successfully chase the target of over 500 runs in first class cricket.
541/7, West Zone Vs South Zone, Hyderabad, 2009-10
513/9, Central Province Vs Southern Province, Kandy, 2003-04
507/7, Cambridge Uni Vs MCC, Lord’s (st John’s Wood, 1896
506/6, South Australia Vs Queensland, Adelaide, 1991-92
503/4, South Zone Vs England A, Gurgaon, 2003-04
502/8, Players Vs Gentleman, Lord’s (st John’s Wood, 1900
502/6, Middlesex Vs Nottinghamshire, Trent Bridge, 1925
500/7, S African Uni Vs Western Province, Stellenbosch Uni Ground, 1978-79

Read more...

Hundred in both innings in Duleep Trophy

South Zone’s skipper Dinesh Karthik scored hundred in both innings of a Duleep Trophy match on Thursday at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad against West Zone. In this final he scored 183 in the first innings and again he rescued his team in the second innings when South Zone lost 3 wickets in 8 runs on the third morning f the match.
With this hundred he became the only 7th batsmen in the history of the Duleep Trophy. He is the first batsman to do so for South Zone and also first batsman to score centuries in both innings of a Duleep Trophy match against West Zone.
Here is the list.

Batsmen For Vs Venue Season 1st 2nd
Lalchand Rajput WZ SZ Mumbai (WS) 1986-87 105 109
Bhaskar Pillai NZ EZ Jodhpur 1987-88 129 103*
Akash Chopra NZ SZ Vijaywada 2000-01 110 125*
Wasim Jaffer WZ CZ Rajkot 2001-02 122 103*
KP Pietersen Eng A SZ Gurgaon 2003-04 104 115
Yuvraj Singh NZ EZ Mohali 2003-04 106 148
Dinesh Karthik SZ WZ Hyderabad 2009-10 183 150

Read more...

10 wicket victory : Rare in T20

New Zealand beat Bangladesh by 10 wickets in the Only T20 match played at Hamilton on Wednesday. This is very rare in this nature of cricket as the batsmen are raring to go for a kill and losing wicket. This was the only 3rd occasion in the 131 match old history of T20 cricket.
Only Australia and South Africa could manage to win the match by 10 wickets in T20. Exactly three years back on the 2nd Fabruary of 2007 South Africa beat Pakistan by the same margin at the Wanderers and then Australia beat Sri Lanka at Cape Town on 20 September 2007in the first T20 World Cup Quarter Final.
There are only 7 instances when a team won the match by 9 or more wickets and 3 of them during the first T20 World Cup.

Read more...

BOTH OPENERS OUT FOR DUCK

Both Bangladeshi openers out for Duck against India on Sunday at the Share Bangla Stadium, Mirpur. Ishant Sharma got the rid of Imrul Kayes on his first ball of this test and then Zaheer Khan bowled Tamim Iqbal on third ball of his second over.
This was the 43rd instance in test history. Here are some more interesting details about both openers out for duck.
*** This was the first instance since August 2006 and after 138 test matches.
*** This was the first time a Bangladeshi opening pair out for a duck
*** Tamim-Imrul is the fifth pair to be out for a duck against India.
*** Last time Zimbabwe opening pair of Grant Flower and Gavin Rennie lost their wicket without opening the account at Delhi in 2000-01.
*** Out of five such instances 3 time a West Indian opening pair out for a duck against India. They are John Hott & Conrad Hunte (at Kanpur, 1958-59), Alvin Greenidge & Basil Williams (at Wankhede, 1978-79, both wicket by Karasan Ghavri) and Gordon Greenidge & Desmond Haynes (at Port of Spain, 1982-83 both wicket by BS Sandhu).
*** Javagal Srinath took both wickets against Zimbabwe during the Delhi test mention above.
*** There are 6 instances each when Australian and Pakistani openers out for a duck while 5 time this has happened with England, India, New Zealand and West Indies. 4 Sri Lankan opening pair and South Africa and Zimbabwe lost their openers 3 time each before they open their account.
*** This has happened 11 times against England in test cricket.

Read more...

Consecutive hundreds in test matches

India’s Gautam Gambhir scored hundred against Bangladesh on Wednesday. This was his fifth consecutive hundred in FIVE test matches. Thus became the 4th batsmen to do so in the history of test cricket.
Sir Donald George Bradman is the only batsman to hit SIX consecutive ton in 11 innings of six consecutive tests from January 1937 to July 1938, while Mohammad Yousuf scored five in five from August 2006 to December 2006 for Pakistan.
South African batsman Jacques Kallis hit five ton in five consecutive from December 2003 to March 2004 and now Gautam Gambhir joined this elite club.
Gambhir scored 137 and 167 against New Zealand in March 2009 at Napier and Wellington respectively and then went on to score 114 at Ahmedabad and 167 at Kanpur against Sri Lanka in November 2009. He missed a test at Brabourne (While taking a break due to his sister’s marriage) against Sri Lanka.
And now in Bangladesh at Chittagong again he reached hundred and scored 116 before becomes the first test victim of Shafiul Islam.
There are 18 batsmen who scored hundred in 4 consecutive centuries in test history.

Read more...