** South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs!
** Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!
** Wasim Akram is the first man to perform a hat-trick in both one day and tests!
** England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!
** Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire. In the Test match!
** Hollywood actor Russell Crowe is Martin Crowe's cousin!
** Clem Hill’s scores in his first three Test innings was 99,98 and 97 runs.
** Charles Bannerman, Dave Houghton (Zimbabwe) and Aminul Islam (Bangladesh)are the only cricketers to score centuries on their own and theircountry's test debut.
** Geoff Boycott faced the first ball in one-day cricket - not exactly the most dashing of batsmen! Graham McKenzie was the bowler.
** No one has ever scored 4 successive one-day centuries. Herschelle Gibbs scored 3 successive centuries, and was on 97* when South Africa needed 4 to win. Alok Kapali bowled a wide which went for 4, and Gibbs was denied the record by the tiniest of margins!
** Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.
** Lala Amarnath is the only person to have got Sir Don Bradman outhit-wicket in test cricket. Probir Sen is the only keeper to have stumped the Don in tests.
** Australian Arthur Chipperfield (1934), West Indian Robert Christiani (1947-48) and Pakistani Asim Kamal ( 2003-04) are the only batsman to score 99 on test debut.
** The highest first-class score in 1107 by Victoria vs New South Wales in 1926-27. The lowest score by a full team is 12 - by Northamptonshire vs Gloucestershire in 1907!
** Khalid Hasan of Pakistan made his test debut in 1954 aged just 16 years and 352 days. Four days later his test career was over and is the youngest ever one-cap wonder and played is last day of test cricket
at just 16 years and 356 days - a record.
** Ten days after scoring a treble century at Canterbury in 1876, W.G. hit another treble century, 318 not out for Gloucestershire against Yorkshire. This is still the highest individual score for Gloucestershire
in the county championship.
** W.G.Grace played his last Test aged 50, as captain and the oldest to do so.
** The 6 balls over were first introduced in 1900
** 5,028 out of 6,996 runs of Don Bradman were scored against England.
** Imran Khan’s last Test innings was a duck against Sri Lanka in 1991-92. in his previous Test innings he had declared when he was 7 short of his 7th Test hundred.
** John Traicos who initially played Tests for South Africa before their ban had to wait for 22 years & 222 days for his next Test
** The first batsman to share in 50 century partnerships in Tests was India’s Sunil Gavaskar.
** The first ODI in which ‘wides’ and ‘no balls’ were added to the bowlers’ analysis was India vs. Pakistan at Jaipur on October 2, 1983.
** Only four test series have ended 0-0 with all five matches being drawn. India was involved in three of them, including two in a row against Pakistan.
** Makhaya Ntini is the first black man to play test cricket for South Africa. Henry Olonga was the first black Zimbabwean test cricketer
** The first international cricket match was held between the US and Canada in 1844. The match was played in New York and Canada won by 23 runs.
** "Wicket" comes from the standard definition of the wicket as a small gate. Wicket also refers to the event of a batter getting out, and to the number of batters left in the lineup. For example, one might
say, "Six wickets have fallen" or, "The team has seven wickets in hand."
** Graham Yallop, in 1978 was the first man to wear a helmet!
** Wasim Akram is the first man to perform a hat-trick in both one day and tests!
** England and Australia played the first ever one day international at Melbourne in 1971!
** Sachin Tendulkar was the first victim of the third umpire. In the Test match!
** Hollywood actor Russell Crowe is Martin Crowe's cousin!
** Clem Hill’s scores in his first three Test innings was 99,98 and 97 runs.
** Charles Bannerman, Dave Houghton (Zimbabwe) and Aminul Islam (Bangladesh)are the only cricketers to score centuries on their own and theircountry's test debut.
** Geoff Boycott faced the first ball in one-day cricket - not exactly the most dashing of batsmen! Graham McKenzie was the bowler.
** No one has ever scored 4 successive one-day centuries. Herschelle Gibbs scored 3 successive centuries, and was on 97* when South Africa needed 4 to win. Alok Kapali bowled a wide which went for 4, and Gibbs was denied the record by the tiniest of margins!
** Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer to have won four successive Man of the Match awards in One-day Internationals.
** Lala Amarnath is the only person to have got Sir Don Bradman outhit-wicket in test cricket. Probir Sen is the only keeper to have stumped the Don in tests.
** Australian Arthur Chipperfield (1934), West Indian Robert Christiani (1947-48) and Pakistani Asim Kamal ( 2003-04) are the only batsman to score 99 on test debut.
** The highest first-class score in 1107 by Victoria vs New South Wales in 1926-27. The lowest score by a full team is 12 - by Northamptonshire vs Gloucestershire in 1907!
** Khalid Hasan of Pakistan made his test debut in 1954 aged just 16 years and 352 days. Four days later his test career was over and is the youngest ever one-cap wonder and played is last day of test cricket
at just 16 years and 356 days - a record.
** Ten days after scoring a treble century at Canterbury in 1876, W.G. hit another treble century, 318 not out for Gloucestershire against Yorkshire. This is still the highest individual score for Gloucestershire
in the county championship.
** W.G.Grace played his last Test aged 50, as captain and the oldest to do so.
** The 6 balls over were first introduced in 1900
** 5,028 out of 6,996 runs of Don Bradman were scored against England.
** Imran Khan’s last Test innings was a duck against Sri Lanka in 1991-92. in his previous Test innings he had declared when he was 7 short of his 7th Test hundred.
** John Traicos who initially played Tests for South Africa before their ban had to wait for 22 years & 222 days for his next Test
** The first batsman to share in 50 century partnerships in Tests was India’s Sunil Gavaskar.
** The first ODI in which ‘wides’ and ‘no balls’ were added to the bowlers’ analysis was India vs. Pakistan at Jaipur on October 2, 1983.
** Only four test series have ended 0-0 with all five matches being drawn. India was involved in three of them, including two in a row against Pakistan.
** Makhaya Ntini is the first black man to play test cricket for South Africa. Henry Olonga was the first black Zimbabwean test cricketer
** The first international cricket match was held between the US and Canada in 1844. The match was played in New York and Canada won by 23 runs.
** "Wicket" comes from the standard definition of the wicket as a small gate. Wicket also refers to the event of a batter getting out, and to the number of batters left in the lineup. For example, one might
say, "Six wickets have fallen" or, "The team has seven wickets in hand."
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