Did You Know | #E07 | 15 Amazing Cricket Facts That'll Blow Your Mind

1. Kapil Dev’s 175* against Zimbabwe in 1983 World Cup was never recorded because of broadcaster strike.

2. Sachin Tendulkar played for Pakistan before India. During a practice match between India and Pakistan at the Brabourne Stadium in 1987 where Tendulkar came on the field as a substitute fielder for Pakistan.

3. Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match.

4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. In 1990, a match between Canterbury and Christchurch of Shell Trophy in New Zealand’s Wellington RH Vance gave 77 runs in a single over. Full toss, no balls and many weird deliveries were bowled by Vance.

5. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in each format ends with 19. Sehwag Test highest is 319, ODI is 219 and in T20s in 119 (in IPL).

6. Cricket Has been played at Olympics only once - in 1990, at the 2nd modern day olympics, Athens.

7. England’s John Jameson, who was born in India, made his highest test score (82) against India.

8. New Zealand’s Geoff Allott scored a duck after playing 77 deliveries against South Africa in 1999.

9. Mahela is the only cricketer who has managed to score in both semi-finals and finals for centuries. He had scored for semi-finals in 2007 against his opponent team New Zealand he also scored in world cup finals in India in 2007.

10. Pakistani bowler Mohammad Sami bowled a 17 balls over against Bangladesh in the 2004 Asia cup.

11. On the morning of 11/11/11 South Africa needed 111 runs to win at 11:11. The match was against Australia.

12. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Creator of Sherlock Holmes) was also a first class Cricketer.

13. Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls, in 1975 a Prudential World Cup.

14. The Cricket balls are made of layered cork wrapped tightly with string and covered by an outer layer of leather.

15. The only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over World Cup is India. 60-overs in the captaincy of Kapil Dev (1983) and 50-over (2011) and 20-over (2007) format in the captaincy of the captain cool MS Dhoni.

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