Cricket is a game that is statisticians joy, so just for fun below are 25 of the weird and wonderful one's that the game has thrown up over the years
1. Alec Stewart was born 8.4.63 and scored 8463 Test Runs for England.
2. Brian Lara is the only man to set the World Record for highest score 375* lose the record and then get it back 400*, both times against England at the same venue.
3. Joe Root is the only man to score a double century in his 100th Test.
4. Ricky Ponting is the only man to score twin centuries in his 100th Test.
5. Peter Siddle is the only man to take an International hat-trick on his Birthday.
6. Sir Garfield Sobers maiden Test century was his then World Record score of 365*. His previous best in Test cricket was 80.
7. Chris Gayle is the only player to hit the 1st ball of a Test match for 6.
8. Mahela Jayawardene is the only player to have scored a century in a World Cup Semi Final and Final.
9. Virender Sehwag's highest score in each format ends in 19. Tests 319, ODI 219, T20 119.
10. Rahul Dravid & Sachin Tendulkar both scored 7 centuries against England, they were both not out on two of these occasions and both scored 982 runs across those 7 innings at an average of 196.40
11. Inzamam ul-Haq took a wicket with the first ball he bowled in International cricket, dismissing Brian Lara no less.
12. Graeme Smith is the only man to lead his country in more than 100 Test matches.
13. Chris Martin took more Test match wickets 233 than runs he scored 123.
14. Wasim Akram 257 has a higher Test match best score than Sachin Tendulkar 248*
15. India are the only team to have won The World Cup in 60, 50 & 20 over formats.
16. Australian wicket keeper Adam Gilchrist bowled one ball in his professional career, he dismissed Harbhajan Singh with it.
17. Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid and Sir Alastair Cook are the leading five scorers in Test Cricket. None of them ever scored a triple century.
18. Jason Gillespie holds the record for the highest score by a night watchman, his 201* against Bangladesh was completed on his 31st Birthday.
19. Mark Boucher effected 1000 dismissals during his career. 999 as a wicket keeper and 1 as a bowler
20. James Anderson is not only the leading wicket taker among fast bowlers in Tests with 611 to date, he also holds the record for most not out's with 91.
21. Nilesh Kulkarni is the only Indian bowler to take a wicket with the first ball they bowled in Test cricket. Unfortunately for Kulkarni Sri Lanka went on to post a World Record score of 952.
22. Sachin Tendulkar was only dismissed for a duck once in his Ranji Trophy career. Bhuvi Kumar was the bowler.
23. Australian batsman Charles Bannerman faced the 1st ball in Test cricket, scored the 1st run and scored the 1st century in Test cricket all in the same match.
24. India have had two Robin Singh's represent them at Test level. Both played only 1 Test.
25. The only thing that has remained unchanged in Cricket History is the length of the pitch which has always been 22 Yards.
26* When Javid Miandad played for Pakistan it was the only recorded instance of a father and two sons playing in the same Test team.
19 Feb 2021
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