Fun Facts

• Throughout history most of the cricket rules suffered modifications. The only rule that did not change over time is the length of the pitch.
• Test matches between England and Australia are known as The Ashes because of an obituary published in the Sporting Times in 1822: "In affectionate remembrance of English cricket. … The body will be cremated, and the Ashes taken to Australia."    

                                  

• Alec Bedser the former England fast bowler is the only bowler to dismiss Bradman for a duck on more than one occasion. 
• Mike Hendrick of England in a Test vs. India clean-bowled Madan Lal leaving his middle stump upright and uprooting his off and leg stumps.
• Bapu Nadkarni sent down 131 deliveries (21.5 overs) without conceding a single run vs. England at Madras in 1964.
• India is the only team to be dismissed twice in a single day of a test match.
• Clem Hill's scores in his first three Test innings was 99,98 and 97 runs.
• Australia have only once in their test history won a test with nine wickets down.
• Some of the important changes there were introduced in the 1992 Cricket World Cup were ‘White Cricket Ball’ and ‘Colored Clothings’. Prior to this World Cup, all matches were played with traditional white clothes and red balls.
• A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !
• In a test match in Faisalabad in 1997-98 ,Mushtaq Ahmed was bowling to Pat Symcox. Symcox missed the ball,which went on to knock the middle stump.However,the heat had fused together the bails and they did not fall. Symcox went on to make 81,his second highest test score.!             

                      

• Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a One-Day International!   

                               

• Which style of play is known as 'MANKAD'? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is called 'MANKAD', It is named after Vinoo Mankad , an Indian bowler,who used this method controversially,in a test match.            

                                              

• It was a county match in 1946.After two overs had been bowled,Len Hutton,who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch.The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards lng instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch.
• Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day,in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire.This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar.!
• During a County match in 1986,a batsman hit the ball and ran three runs but dropped the bat in the process. The bowler picked up the bat. When the ball was returned from the boundary,the bowler stopped it with the bat ! For fielding the ball with any other substance than the person , the penalty is 5 runs. So the batsman got eight runs in that ball.!!
• Which cricketer faced the first ball in One-Day Cricket?? Geoff. Boycott was the one who faced the first ball in One-Day cricket. Graham Mc-Kenzie was the bowler.
• In a World Cup Match in 1975, Gavaskar batted throughout the 60 overs & scored only 36 runs . India lost to England by a huge margin of 203 runs.
• In 1877 Test, Australia beat England by 45 runs. 100 yrs later,in the Centenary Test ,the result was exactly the same.!!
• The longest cricket match took place in 1939 between England and South Africa, after 14 days it ended with a tie.
• A cricket game was once stopped because a pig ran across the field. It is even considered legal to suspend the game if an animal entered the field.