Interesting and Amazing Facts About Indian Cricket 1. Out of the 2086 ODI cricketers that have played till date, 2073 have not even managed to score half of Sachin Tendulkar’s total ODI runs in their personal ODI career. That is almost 99.37% cricketers worldwide. 2. In 1988, in a one-day practice match of India vs Pakistan, Sachin who was just a 14-year-old then, fielded for Pakistan as a substitute in Mumbai’s Brabourne stadium. This was Tendulkar’s first exposure to international cricket. 3. Up till now (2013) Indian team in total has played 812 ODIs, out of which Sachin has been the part of the playing 11 in 463 ODIs(more than half of them). 4. Cricket is a 165 years old sport in India. It was first played in India in 1848. 5. Indian cricket team was the first cricket team to be dismissed twice in a single day of a test match in 1952 against England (58 in the 1st Innings & 82 in the 2nd innings). The only other team to hold this record is Zimbabwe, who were dismissed twice in a single day not once, but twice (2005 and 2011), both of them against New Zealand. To read more chk out 50 Interesting and Amazing Facts About Indian Cricket -- goo.gl/8Gbxbd Like * Share * Comment --------More @India Facts
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:30:00 +0000
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