Interesting cricket related facts

[Guest Hiten.]

Yuvi chokes under 2nd innings high scoring chases :((

[The Outsider]

Yuvi chokes under 2nd innings high scoring chases :((

Trolls get the eff out of the thread! :hitler:

[Don Sharma]

Mushtaq Ahmed bowled Pat Symcox in a test match but the ball went thru middle&off stump without disturbing the bails .... Symcox was ofcourse given not out :-D

He went on to score 80 odd runs ;) At the end of the day - Good read

[Rajiv]

Sunil Gavaskar has Cynophobia ( He is Scared of Dogs ) He was rattled when a dog came to the cricket filed and sniffed hiim. He was dismissed almost immediately http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/306544.html Ian Botham once played a prank on him, where sunny stayed inside a phone booth for 2 hrs coz he was scared of the puppy http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gavaskar-is-still-scared-of-beamer-&-bounce/493604/

[punjabi_khota]

Sunil Gavaskar has Cynophobia ( He is Scared of Dogs ) He was rattled when a dog came to the cricket filed and sniffed hiim. He was dismissed almost immediately http://www.cricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/306544.html Ian Botham once played a prank on him, where sunny stayed inside a phone booth for 2 hrs coz he was scared of the puppy http://www.indianexpress.com/news/gavaskar-is-still-scared-of-beamer-&-bounce/493604/

But the major surprise was in store in Milind Rege's piece in which he says his friend Gavaskar was among the crowd shown in the 'Dum Maaro Dum' song from Dev Anand's superhit film of 70's 'Hare Rama Hare Krishna'. :omg::omg:

[achilles]

Stuart Broad is the England cricket team anal-yst. She's the one who will analyse their bowling' date= batting and tell them where they're going wrong and what

Corrected :yay:

[Sachinism]

Not sure how much truth there is in this story. Night before the Sharjah Final (98) one of the support staff came to know of a few players planning to throw the match and went and told Tendulkar about it, who responded with, "Don't worry about what they're planning on doing, I'm going to win the game for India" Read it in Sachin Tendulkar: The Definitive Biography by Vaibhav Purandare (Tried to find that passage again, but couldn't)

[The Outsider]

Trumper owned a cricket goods shop and could not find his bat on a SCG test morning. He used a new one from the store and made 187. After the match, an admirer came up to him saying if he could buy the bat he scored the runs with. Trumper said, yeah sure, it used to be 2 pounds but since it's used now you can have it for 1 pound.

[Jersey #10]

Virender Sehwag was facing Pakistan’s medium-fast bowler Abdul Razzaq, who was reverse-swinging the ball, and Sehwag handled that in his unique "JAT" way: “Sehwag came up to (his batting mate Jeremy) Snape and said: ‘We must lose this ball. I have a plan’. Next over he whacked the ball clean out of the ground, forcing umpires to pick another from the box that would obviously not reverse straight away. To which Sehwag said: ‘We are alright for one hour.’

Ravi Shastri narrated this talk with Sehwag "When I was cricket manager for the Indian team after the World Cup, I walked up to Sehwag to discuss his batting. I asked him how he coped with the swinging ball? Sehwag said 'I go after the ball hard.' " "I asked him how does that help?" "Sehwag replied, 'I have seen when I go at the ball hard, it stops swinging.' "

uring a tour, John Wright was asked how was Sehwag going to handle the new ball, and whether he thought the opener had any chance of succeeding. John replied that the new ball wouldn't be a problem, but the spinners could be. The puzzled reporter questioned as to why spinners could pose a threat since almost all Indians play spin well, and Sehwag hadn't struggled anywhere against spin. John replied that the problem with Sehwag was, according to him a spinner shouldn't exist in cricket. So he would go after him, and may get out due to over-aggression.

SEHWAG:hail:

Sehwag :hail::hail::hail::hail:

[Don Sharma]

During the Indian tour of the West Indies in 1962, Contractor was severely injured by a bouncer from Charlie Griffith and sustained a fractured skull which required two-life saving surgeries and several blood transfusions, and Sir Frank Worrell was one of the first donors to give blood to Contractor. The Blood Donors' Day in India is known as Sir Frank Worrell Day, to immortalize the contribution of the West Indian.

[Karan114]

The Blood Donors' Day in India is known as Sir Frank Worrell Day' date=' to immortalize the contribution of the West Indian.[/quote'] Didn't know about this, nice touch.

[Sachinism]

Brian Lara named his daughter Sydney because of his 277 @ SCG

[Don Sharma]

The Big Three among modern day batsmen (SRT, BCL & Ponting, ofcourse) couldn't manage a place on the Lord's honor board (reserved for those who scored a ton). Lara's 54 against England is the best score any of the men have managed in a combined 11 Tests at the home of cricket. Agarkar

[achilles]

Sir Aggy, you LEGEND

[Lord]

Brian Lara named his daughter Sydney because of his 277 @ SCG

i knew that.also Brett Lee's daughter is named Asha after Asha Bhonsle

[Spider]

Ponting donates thousnads of dollars and hours of his spare time looking after young children with cancer.

[Guest BossBhai]

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[Sachin200*]

Sachin was named by his Father Ramesh after the legendary music composer Sachin Dev Burman

[Sachin200*]

Sachin Tendulkar is the only male cricketer to score Double Hundred in an Odi match He is the only player to score 47 test centuries & 46 odi centuries The youngest cricketer to score a test century in Australia was Sachin Sachin is the highest run getter in tests & odis

[Spider]

Ricky Ponting has captained Australia to more test match wins than any other player in the history of the game.