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Cricket is said to be a gentleman's game. The reason to say this is that i didn't got a start to write this lens and hence i wrote this line.
Cricket was always my passion. I wanted to be a cricketer but surroundings didn't gave me the support. And naturally my interest was a little less in that than before. But still I love cricket and watch every interesting match of my country.

Of course, the people who will read this will have a certain knowledge of what cricket is. But still who don't know what this game is all about, just forget it and take a look at the facts!

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Lets start our lens by talking about the greatest player in today's generation, "Sachin Tendulkar". He is a master of this game and if you ask about him to any ordinary person in this world with little knowledge of cricket, then he will have only one answer and that's him.

He has a number of records not only for India but also has almost all the world records. Here are some of those stats.

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Sachin Tendulkar is the first and the only person to score 100 International centuries and it will be perhaps the only record which no other player can touch!

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Vivian Richards(who is the favorite player of Sachin Tendulkar) considers Sachin as the Greatest player of the world and the best thing is that Sachin is still playing in Indian Cricket team which is the sign of making many more records.

Another Interesting Fact

In 1964, an Indian bowler named Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21.5 overs(131 balls) without conceding a single run. This match was played against England in Madras(Chennai).

Best of the Best!!!

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Is Sachin Better than Sir Don Bradman

Yes Of Course! he has played against many bowlers while Bradman only played against four teams, isn't this a valid point?

TVishal says:

I have not seen Bradman play but i feel Sachin has done great job in adapting in all forms of Cricket and match conditions.

mellex says:

Yes, I don't know about statistically but for me, Sachin is better. Besides, I've been able to watch Sachin play a few times and I only got to walk around Sir Don's museum in Adelaide so for me, I prefer the player I can watch :-)

No! Though Sachin is a good player, he cannot match the talent of Bradman, especially the average of 99.94

georgetsaviel68 says:

Bradman has a better batting average than Sachin.

ChrisGray says:

Bradman = no helmet, uncovered pitches and less international cricket adversaries, therefore more dangerous, trickier conditions and better bowlers (sorry Bangladesh and Zimbabwe). Bradman for me, although Tendulkar was born to bat.

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One Day Matches Records

=> Most runs scored in One-day Internationals
=> Most Centuries in One-day Internationals
=> First player to make 10,000 runs in One day Internationals
=> First Indian player to play 6 World Cups
=> Highest score by a player in a World Cup Tournament(673 runs in 2003)
=> First player to make 15,000 runs and take 100 wickets in One-day Internationals
=> And many more records......

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Test Match Records

=> Most runs scored in Tests
=> Most Centuries in Tests
=> First player to make over 50 centuries in Tests
=> Youngest test player ever for India(made his debut at the age of 16)
=> First Player ever to score 5 Test centuries under the age of 20
=> And many more records..........

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Old Cricketing Facts

i) Iftikhar Ali Khan is the first player to play for two countries(India and England).
ii) The longest test match was played for 9 days between England and South Africa in the late 1940's.
iii)The longest cricketing career was played by Dr. William Gilbert Grace, who played for 43 years till the age of 60.
iv) Eight balls per over was first tried in the 1940's.
v) Allen Hill was the first bowler to take a wicket in Test match.
vi) Chetan sharma became the first bowler in the history of world cup to take a hatrick. This hatrick was taken against New zealand.

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Greatest test match ever

There were two test matches which was considered to be the greatest of all time.
First match was by India vs Australia - This match went to the wire and was decided on the final moments.
Second match was England vs Australia - England won by just 2 runs, one of the closest match in Test cricket.

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Greatest one day match

Nobody can deny the fact that this wasn't the best one day match

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Again and Again....

Australia has proven to be the best team as they are always in a sensational and great match. In all the three above matches Australia is common. May future matches be better than this!!

One of the Best Bowlers in Cricketing History

One of the best bowlers in world cricket. Muttiah Muralitharan is the best bowler in One - Day International cricket as he is only the second man in the history of game to take 500 ODI wickets after Wasim Akram of Pakistan. He has the world record of taking more wickets(534) than Wasim Akram(502). He is also the world record holder in Test Cricket with 800 wickets!

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He is the best music composer in India, composed over 1000 songs and theme songs in advertisement. Time has placed him in the top 100 most influential people in the world. He had worldwide recognition for the songs in the movie "Slumdog Millionaire" in which he bagged 2 Oscar(Academy awards) and thus becoming the first Indian to grab an Oscar!

Unlucky Boy!

Clem Hill, an Australian Cricketer was so unlucky that in his first three test innings he scored 99,98 and 97 runs respectively.

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Ugly Oscars

There are Oscars in cricket to show up the great talents in this game. But have you heard of Ugly Oscars in cricket. This means the ugliest player in Cricket. Ajit agarkar and Nasser Hussain has won this award previously. But this year, its an Australian, his name is Steven Smith.

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Got big runs under his belt

Brian Lara is the only player who made 400 runs in Test cricket and 500 runs in First class cricket in an Innings.

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A horrible cricket fact

India is the only team who were dismissed twice in a single day of test match.

Underarm Incident

Greg Chappel instructed his brother Trevor Chappel to bowl an underarm delivery so that New Zealand couldn't win that one day match. New Zealand wanted 7 runs of the last delivery and Greg thought if the batsman hit a six of the final ball then it will be a tie and hence Greg Chappel told Trevor Chappel to bowl an underarm delivery thus precluding the possibility of Brian McKechnie(New Zealand Batsman) scoring the six which would have tied the game for New Zealand.

The underarm delivery was then banned from International Cricket.

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Bowler or Batsman

Shane Warne is always known for his bowling as he is the first man to take 700 wickets in Test match. Incidentally he has a batting record as well i.e. he is the first and only batsman to score more runs than any player in Tests without making a century.

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Which team is going to win 2015 Cricket World Cup

NoobWriter predicts:

India!

Nitz predicts:

Aussie

TVishal predicts:

India

ChrisGray predicts:

Too early to tell, but England are building a strong young team. India have just received a bloody nose. I think that might sting them into action. Never count out SA and Oz. The Kiwis always show up for one dayers too. My answer then, is anyone really, and that's what makes the competition so good.

mellex predicts:

England!! :-)

Umpire or a Cricketer?

Kumara Dharmasena is only the second Test cricketer(after Ashoka De Silva) who became and umpire. He said he was overlooked by the selectors and hence he served International cricket as an Umpire.

Cricket World Record Of 27 Sixes in a single Test match

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What a miserable start!!!!

Marvan Atapattu who has scored a record 6 double hundreds for Sri Lanka had a miserable debut in which he scored just 1 run from his first 6 innings(0,0,1,0,0,0). This is still considered as the the weirdest and worst debut by a player.

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Bowled out!

The lowest score in a One-day game by a test playing nation was 35 by Zimbabwe. They have another lowest score of 37 runs. Both was against Sri Lanka.

Cricket score and news website

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Great player On and Off the Field.

Geoff Marsh is the first player to win a world cup as a player as well as a coach.

ICC World Cup XI

Below are the 11 best players from ICC 2011 Cricket World cup. These players were picked by ICC. Tim Southee of New Zealand was the twelfth man and hence not included in the squad.

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Kumara Sangakkara (Captain)

Sachin Tendulkar

Tillakaratne Dilshan

Shane Watson

Shahid Afridi

Yuvraj singh

Mahela Jayawardene

AB de Villiers

Muttiah Muralitharan

Zaheer Khan

Dale Steyn

Indian Team after winning the 2011 Cricket World Cup

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Some short and all out facts

The shortest match in the history of cricket was only for 10 minutes. This took place between Somerset and Worcester in 19th century and to put the icing on the cake another county team in Scotland named "Ross county team" were all out for 0 runs against another county team in their national league at the same era.

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