Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Amazing Facts
- In 1868, when Australia first toured England under Charles Lawrence to play cricket, each player was wearing a different coloured cap so that the spectators could identify them.
- The first Test match began on 15 March 1877 and had a timeless format with four balls per over. It ended on 19 March 1877 with Australia winning by 45 runs.
- England’s Alfred Shaw was the bowler to bowl the first delivery in a Test match.
- Allen Hill was the first player to hold a catch in Test cricket.
- Australia’s Charles Bannerman faced the first delivery in a Test match.
- Australia’s Charles Bannerman was the first Test centurion.
- W.Newing became the first substitute fielder in Test cricket.
- South Africans were the first to introduce TV run outs.
- in 1978,Graham Yallop became the first man to wear a helmet.
- Sachin Tendulkar was the first player to be judged by the third umpire in a Test match.
- Sourav Ganguly is the only cricketer who had won four successive Man of the Match awards in ODI.
- Mohammed Azharruddin is the only player in the history of Test cricket to score a century in each of his first three tests.
- India is the only international team to be dismissed twice in a single day of test match cricket
- Sunil Gavaskar has featured in a record 52 century partnerships.
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