Amazing Facts About Cricket In Urdu/Hindi | Cricket Records

Amazing Facts About Cricket In Urdu/Hindi | Cricket Records

Cricket being rather a normal sport has always been the passion of millions of people around the globe. So for all you people here who love to know stuff about this amazing sport, I have written a few amazing Cricket Facts that will Shock You.

1. Unbelievably, most number of runs scored in one over is not 36; contrary to popular believe it is actually ‘77’ which was scored in RH Vance’s over in a match between Canterbury and Wellington.

2. Pakistani magician spinner, Saeed Ajmal surprisingly has never won a single award for the ‘Man of the Match’ in ODIs.

3. Neither Mahendra Singh Dhoni nor Suresh Raina has ever scored an ODI century outside Asia.

4.  Swing Sultan - Wasim Akram also has his highest Test innings score of 257, which is higher than Sachin Tendulkar's highest Test score of 248*.

5. The cricket lord, Sir Don Bradman hit a total of 6 sixes in his entire career.

6. Ex-Pakistan captain and veteran batsman Inzamam Ul Haq, not only bowled in International cricket, but he took a wicket on his very first delivery.

7. Dirk Nannes has played both for Australia and Netherlands, in International Cricket.

8. Can you believe that Shahid Afridi has twice as much runs and wickets in ODIs than the legendary Imran Khan.

Boom Boom Afridi has picked up 378 wickets in One Day International cricket in comparison to Imran Khan’s 182 ODI wickets, and has scored 7619 ODI runs from his strong wooden bat with a robust strike rate of 115.7 whereas Imran Khan’s 3709 runs has a strike rate of 72.65.

9. Asian little master ‘Hanif Mohammad’, holds the world record for the longest innings in International (and domestic) Test history, an astounding (nerve numbing) 970 Minute (that is, more than 16 hours) 337* against the dominating bowlers of West Indies in Bridgetown in 1957-58. 

10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career.

11. Wilfred Rhodes has taken a total of 4,204 wickets in his First Class cricket career. No, we did not make a mistake there, Rhodes did actually did take more than four thousand wickets. FYI; He also happened to score 39, 969 runs.

12. In all of 400 years history of Cricket, the fastest (electronically measured) speed for a cricket ball bowled by any bowler, ever, is precisely 161.3 km/h (100.23 mph) by Shoaib Akhtar of Pakistan to Nick Knite of England, on the 22nd February 2003 in the World Cup hosted by South Africa.

13. Sachin Tendulkar’s life stats against Shoaib Akhtar are 251 runs in 328 balls, with 8 dismissals, at an average of 27.14 and a Strike Rate of 76.