India's Best Moments In Cricket

When it comes to watching cricket,  one cannot predict the game completely. This uncertainty in prediction showcases some of the magical and best moments in cricketing. India has risen up as a cricketing giant these days. Youth packed team, good run chasing ability, powerful batting line up are some of the few amazing traits to mention about the Indian Cricket team. In this article, I am sharing some of the best moments in Indian cricketing growth.(in no particular order)

1) The 1983 World Cup

India was considered as underdog when it started off for the 1983 world cup at England. No one has ever expected that India will fly back home with the World Cup trophy in hand. India gave a easy target of 183 run in a 60-over match batting first at the Lords. But it was more shocking to see that the mighty West Indies team was all out for just 140. This was India's maiden world cup victory and one of the proud moments.

click here to see the highlights

click here to view the score card

2) Sehwag's 309 and 319 runs in a test inning

Before Sehwag smashed 309 runs, there were no any Indian batsman to reach the 300+ runs runs in a test match. The interesting part associated with this is that Sehwag scored this massive triple century against their cricket arch rival Pakistan at their home ground. (Multan, 2004). This was one of the most celebrated innings played by Sehwag. Later in 2008, Sehwag scored 319 against South Africa in Chennai. Till date, Sehwag is the only Indian to have scored triple centuries.

watch Sehwag's 309 runs vs Pakistan

watch Sehwag's 319 runs vs South Africa

click here to view Sehwag's 309 runs scorecard
click here to view Sehwag's 319 runs scorecard

3) Anil Kumble's 600th test wicket

On January 17th, 2008, Anil Kumble became the only Indian bowler and third in the world to reach the 600th test wickets landmark. Playing the test against the Aussies in Perth, Kumble reached this mile stone. His 600th test victim was Andrew Symonds. Kumble bags a total of 619 test wickets in his cricketing career. This was one of the greatest moment for the Indians he is the only Indian to reach that record.

Kumble's full statistics here

4) The ICC T20 World Cup, 2007

What could be more great moment for India than winning the first edition of the T20 World Cup. India were once again a world champion since 1983 when it won the World Cup. India beat their arch rival Pakistan and bagged the final over win in one of the thrilling finals ever played. Whole India and Indian fans across the globe celebrated this moment with great enthusiasm.

watch INDIA vs PAKISTAN World T20 final, 2007

5) Yuvraj Singh's six 6s in an over and a fastest fifty

The first T20 world cup was even more exciting and great for India as the world cricket witnessed a rare but amazingly exciting moment. Yuvraj Singh hit six 6s in an over, being the first Indian and second after Herschelle Gibbs in the world to have achieved this record in international cricket. This match was more exciting as Yuvraj bagged the record of fastest fifty sparing only 12 balls (he still holds this record). Yuvraj smashed every deliveries of Stuart Board in achieving this record.

6) Exclusive Indian double centuries in ODI

This one of those great moments that India boasts off exclusively till date. There are only three double centuries being hit in ODI cricket and all the centuries are in the name of Indian batsman Sachin Tendulkar, Virendar Sehwag and Rohit Sharma. Sachin being first scored 200* against South Africa, followed by Virendar Sehwag who scored 219 against West Indies and Rohit Sharma who scored 209 against Austrailia.

Rohit hit 16 sixes while scoring the double century and that stands as a record till date for the maximum number of sixes in ODI.

Sachin's 200*

Sehwag's 219

Rohit's 209

7) 2011 World Cup

India won the World Cup for the second time since 1983 but this time defeating the neighboring cricketing giant Sri Lanka. In this match once again captain Dhoni played the match finisher innings. India bagged the world cup title for the first time in their home ground. This victory was very hugely celebrated in India.

click here to see scorecard of 2011 World Cup Final

click here to view highlights 2011 World Cup Final

8) ICC Champions Trophy 2013

This is another celebrated great moments of Indian Cricket. India became the champions once again after they beat England by just 5 runs in their home ground. Despite being given a easily chase able target of 130 runs, England failed getting it and were defeated by a nominal margin of 5 runs.

watch highlights of Champions Trophy 2013 final 

view scorecard of Champions Trophy 2013 final 

9) India's 418/5 vs West Indies , 2011

This is another great moment that every Indian cricket fan remembers. In this match against West Indies, India scored highest total in its cricketing history. This is the match when Sehwag smashed 219 runs off 149 deliveries. Always refreshing to see the massive shots in this match from the Indian side especially coming off from Sehwag's bat.

view scorecard here

This sums up the India's best moments in cricket. I might have skipped some moments. Please feel free to comment, I will incorporate those moments in later updates.

Funny Dismissals in Cricket (videos)

Dismissals in cricket carries the two emotions at the same time. Dismissal may be painful  for the batting team while it holds the bursts of happiness for the bowling team. Today I am presenting some of the dismissals that seem very funny from the viewpoint of spectators. Lets get started fellas.

1) Inzamam-ul-Haq dismissal 

In this test match between Pakistan and England, Inzamam attempts a sweep shot but he loses his balance and stumbles upon the wicket. He tries his best to avoid touching the stumps but he could not succeed and eventually the bails drop. 

2) Kevin Pietersen dismissal 

Pietersen was dismissed in this weird momentum, but his dismissal was kind of funny to watch as a spectator. He misses hitting the bouncer of Dwayne Bravo and the ball hits his helmet. Whether to say it was the power of the ball or the loose knot of helmet strap, the helmet gets pulled of  his head and directly hits the stumps. One of the weirdest and funniest dismissal one can ever encounter in cricket.

3) Shahid Afridi dismissal

In this match between Bangladesh and Pakistan, Shahid Afridi gets dismissed in funny manner. Afridi drives the ball straight, the ball still being in the air seemed to be carried to bowler Shakib-ul-Hasan. Hasan attempts the low catch but could not get hold of the ball and the ball escapes into the air, AGAIN attempts getting the ball but still could not make it, and the ball again escapes into the air but far this time towards Misbah-ul-Haq. The ball gets deflected from Misbah's body and now Hasan grips the ball comfortably leaving one of the funny dismissal in cricketing history.

4) Kumar Sangakkara's dismissal

This is another piece of fun that came in Compaq Cup between India and Sri Lanka. One of the funniest hit wicket till date I think. It was RP Singh who was bowling a full toss, Sangakkara stroked it casually but in the meanwhile the bat slipped of his hand and landed over the stumps. If you look at the gesture of Sangakkara, he seemed completely amused. Meanwhile, RP Singh tried to stop the ball and dived into the field. He was still unaware that Sangakkara was out and all his fellow teammates pounded over him. Check the video to find out more.

5) Peter Kirsten's dismissal

This dismissal has the weird factor dominant in contrast to the funny factor. In this ODI between India and South Africa, it was Proteas batting and the bowler was Kapil Dev. While Kapil was about to bowl, he noticed that Peter Kirsten was leaving the crease before he bowled. So, Kapil took a cunning trick, he stopped bowling and directly hit the stumps with ball in his hand. Kirsten was unaware of Kapil's trick and seemed frustrating. Find more in the video.

6) Mohinder Amarnath dismissal
This dismissal happened long ago in a match between India and the Aussies. It was GRJ Matthews bowling and Amarnath was on the crease. Amarnath attempted a normal shot but the ball slipped towards the wicket and was about to hit the stumps. Amarnath deliberately deflected the ball away from hitting the wicket. He was given out for "handling the ball". The most funny part is Amarnath himself laughed for his deeds after he was given out.

7) Adam Parore dismissal
This dismissal is very much analogous to the dismissal of Kevin Pietersen mentioned above. It was Aussie fast bowler Brett Lee who forced Adam Parore of New Zealand to return to the pavilion. Find out the fun more in the video embedded below.

8) Grant Lambert dismissal
It was funniest and most dumbest dismissal that counts. It was the match between the New South Wales and South Australia in the Ford Rangers Cup. Sahun Tait was the bowler and Lambert was on strike. After Tait bowled, Lambert made a comfortable room to play the shot but he did not bothered playing the shot and  was bowled at the end. Even Tait enjoyed the this show.

and the funniest of all
This dismissal is from the village cricket in England, so I didn't watched it on TV. But I bet you will watch this video at least twice. One of the most funniest and rib ticking dismissal. Now get ready for an awesome roller coaster of laughter. (please start from 1:55 for awesome laughter)

This marks the end of this funny dismissal series. Hope you enjoyed  this article. Please feel free to comment .

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Different Orthodox Batting Shots

Orthodox simply holds the meaning "traditional". The orthodox batting shots are classified according to the region of the cricket ground where the batsman hits the ball. We must have been a great fan of Straight Drive of Sachin Tendulkar, Pull shot of Ricky Ponting, Square drive of Sourav Ganguly and so on. Many batsman around the globe show the orthodox shots at many times. In traditional batting, the entire cricket ground is sectioned into various small and large slices (think it analogous to the pizza slices ). And the shots are named accordingly into which slice of the cricket ground the batsman hits the ball. To get the clear picture, I have edited the cricket ground according to the playing zones. Lets get started.

[Note : all the batting shots are mentioned with reference to a Right Handed Batsman]

Drives :

A drive is a shot that is played by swinging the bat in the vertical arc along the line of the ball. While implementing the drive, the batsman uses the momentum of the ball and drives the ball into different slices. Just by looking at the batsman immediately after he plays the drive, the different kinds of drives can be differentiated. According to the region the ball traverses,  there are following different kinds of drives.

1) Straight Drive : A shot that is played by driving the ball into the straight region or point of the field. Straight Drive is best believed to be played by the batting legend Sachin Tendulkar.

Sachin playing straight drive

2) Off and On Drive : An off region is the region that is left to the straight region or often mid-off for a right handed batsman. The region right to the straight region is the on region or often called mid-on (see figure above). A batsman can drive the ball into the off and on slices of the field by playing the off and on drive respectively.

Off Drive - Kevin Pietersen (England)

On Drive - Zeshan Siddiqui

3) Cover Drive : A drive shot played along the cover region is a cover drive. A well timed cover drive is always mesmerizing and classy to watch.

Cover Drive - Yasir Hameed (Pakistan)

4) Square Drive : The drive played along the square region is a square drive. There is contradiction somewhere saying that a square drive is actually a square cut because it is taken as the horizontal bat shot.

Square Drive - Sachin Tendulkar (India)

Cuts

The cuts are the kinds of the horizontal bat sots played at the off-region. To be more specific, the cuts are the cross batted shots usually played at the short-pitched ball. In cuts, the bats man diverts the ball by utilizing the bowler's pace. Unlike drives, there is least effort of the batsman involved. It is because the batsman just diverts the bowler's pace and the required effort is normally low. The different forms of the cuts are:

1) Square cut : This shot is played on the off region at nearly 90 degrees in reference to the wicket or the point region. 

Square Cut - Mohammed Hafeez (Pakistan)

2) Late cut : It is a shot that is played after the ball traverses the batsman body and is usually played towards the third man. Late cuts are more often played against the spinners.

Late Cut - Dough Watson

Leg glance : This is another clever orthodox shot. In this shot, the batsman uses the bat to flick the ball towards the leg region. This is straight batted shot and is often played when the ball is pitching towards the leg side.

Leg Glance - Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)

Hook and Pull shot : The pull shot is the cross batted shot that is played along the leg side when the ball is usually waist high. The shot got its name as it seems the batsman is pulling the ball towards the square leg. Aussie Player Ricky Ponting is best believed to master the pull shot.

Pull Shot - Ricky Ponting (Australia)

Hook shot, on the other hand is played against the bouncy ball or the ball up to chest high and the ball is played behind the square leg. The shot got its name as the it seems batsman hooks the ball.

Both hook and pull shot can be played at the front as well as back foot while the later being more effective.

Hook Shot - T Suman (Pune Warriors India)

This sums up the orthodox batting techniques. Please feel free to comment.

Thank You Sachin

With 24 brilliant years devoted to cricket, Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar charming cricketing career has finally concluded. Sachin's career concluded with a loud enthusiasm on his 200th test match at his home ground, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai a midst thousands of enthusiastic fans. 16th November, 2013 will always be remembered in the cricketing history as one of the important day the world cricket has ever witnessed. This day has a mixed emotions from the millions of cricket lovers and fans as they will miss the Little Master's play and also a matter a pride at the same time that they were fortunate enough to see the magic when he came to play.

Talking about the career, Tendulkar had that career that every cricketer dreamed of. Impressive batting class, most number and kinds of cricketing records in his hand, occasional magic with bowling made his career evergreen. He always pleased millions of fans with his great batting performance and succeeded in making a warm place in their hearts in return. The world cricket will always miss this legend and his strokes. It would not be a false story to claim that it was Sachin at many stages of his career who united many Indians through his game and also it was him who cultivated the hunger for cricket among Indians.

After Sachin announced his retirement from cricket, their were many campaigns to make his retirement memorable. #SacinSachin, #ThankYouSachin were some of the viral campaigns that earned a lot of respect and homage to this legend's retirement.

Below, I present some pictures and tweets about the historic retirement of Little Master.

(all the photographs presented here are the copyright content of respective owners.)

The Epic Pictures of Retirement

Sachin's son Arjun as ball boy during 2nd day of his father's final match

"Thank you everyone. I am really grateful to you"

Sachin with son Arjun and daughter Sara 

Sachin above the pillars of Young Indian Cricket Team 

Memento by West Indies Team

BCCI president presenting Sachin his own portrait

The coin that was tossed on Sachin's 200th test match

Sachin's mother with his portrait

Sachin with Wankhede Cricket Stadium staffs

Finally, a tearful farewell.

Sachin's final match tweets

Mick Jagger (Rolling Stones legend) :  "Saluting you @Sachin_RT on your last Test match. Thanks for all the wonderful cricket you've shown us over the last 25 years, we'll miss you"

David Cameron(UK Prime Minister) : "India transfixed by @sachin_rt's final test match. Today I sent him this pic of his 1st century in the UK #Tendulkar"

Brett Lee (former Aussie fast bowler): "All the best to the little Master Sachin. A true legend of the game @sachin_rt Best Ever!"

Mahela Jayawardene : "@sachin_rt Great opponent, fantastic memories..no better role model. Enjoy ur last game! #sachintendulkar #BCCI"

Dinesh Karthik : "Wishing Sachin paji a grt test match,will be watching it only for the legend #ThankYouSachin @bcci"

Zaheer Khan: "#ThankYouSachin @BCCI its been a really special journey!! Enjoy the last one..."

Yuvraj Singh (responding to goggles he weared): "Master that's a very funky piece if Oakley u wearing for ur last test ! Cu at the ground when u batting #ThankYouSachin #BCCI"

Paul Collingwood (former English batsman): "Will never forget the roar when Sachin came walking out to bat in India, a true cricketing God #ThankYouSachin"

Shane Warne (former Aussie spinner): "Sachin's best innings I saw was (in) 98 in Chennai ! I got #sachin out in the 1st innings for 4. Then he made 155 & helped India win the test."

He futther tweeted : "#Sachin was the best batsmen I've seen. @BrianLara was also outstanding. These 2 were so much better than everybody else.."

Aaron Finch (current Aussie opener) : "Amazing scenes with @sachin_rt walking out to bat! I can guarantee no work will be getting done in India right now! #thankyousachin @BCCI"

Eoin Morgan (England) (referring to roaring crowd at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai): "Amazing scenes in Mumbai!! #SRT200"

Shane Warne (in reference to stadium noise): "The noise here at the stadium is so loud. Plenty of Sachiiiin, Sachin's too... Amazing atmosphere !!!! #Sachin"

Joe Root (English batsman): "Sachin made his debut for India before I was born. Then played in my test debut #ThankYouSachin"

Stuart Broad (English bowler) : "Remarkable achievement by a legend of the sport we love. #200"

Iain O'Brien (former New Zealand bowler): "#ThankYouSachin. Oh, and the rest of your team mates."

He further added: "The only batsman that mind controlled (somehow) me into bowling a ball where he wanted it. Scary. ThanksForBeingMy46th."

Brendan Taylor (Zimbabwe skipper): "Glued to the TV. Extremely nervous for #Sachin , holding thumbs for him. @BCCI #ThankYouSachin"

Michael Vaughan (former England skipper) : "Come on @sachin_rt ... The viewing figures tomorrow could break all records... Please be Not Out over night... #Sachin #God."

Roger Federer (tennis legend): "What a remarkable career @sachin_rt. Wish you the very best moving forward #ThankYouSachin."

Graeme Swann (England): "I'm not sure if you heard but Sachin Tendulkar retired today! What a great little player and lovely bloke #ThankYouSachin"

Chris Gayle (West Indies): "Was absolutely a pleasure being a part of history Sachin Tendulkar 200 Test Match. #legends #Lara…"

Sanjay Manjrekar: "It was a long speech but then it was a long career. Every minute was worth it. Emotional words from Sachin to finish an emotional series"

Brett Lee : Congrats to the legend @sachin_rt well done mate on everything you have achieved. A phenomenal career."

Sania Mirza: "So emotional...the whole country is..we will miss u #RESPECT #SACHIN #LEGEND"

Michael Vaughan : "What a Speech... #ThankYouSachin #God"

Alviro Petersen: "A legend of the game says goodbye... #SachinTendulkar . An honour to have played against him."

Matthew Hayden: "The end has arrived for Sachin with fitting scenes in Mumbai #goodbye and #goodluck."

Harbhajan Singh: "Let's salute the master.cricket won't be the same without u.for me u r cricket.thank u paji for everything."

Virender Sehwag: "Been an emotional time for me since the announcement #SRT. Can't articulate what he means to me, it's so personal! @BCCI."

Irfan Pathan: "Most emotional retirement of world cricket but Sachin Tendulkar isn't retiring from our heart,#ThankYouSachin."

Suresh Raina: No words. Just respect. Inspiration. Motivation. Greatest. Now fittingly Bharat Ratna Sachin Tendulkar # Thank you Sachin

Matthew Hoggard: Was lucky to have played against the little master luckier to get him out Made even better that he was my 50th test wicket #ThankYouSachin.

Sachin's emotional farewell speech

Sachin bid farewell to his 24 year long cricketing career with this awesome emotional and stirring speech. His speech left the stadium filled with cheers, roars and applause and left everyone with emotional mindset in the end. Sachin himself got emotional, his wife Anjali and the huge fans at the staduim could not stop themselves being emotional. Sachin's career was a sweet piece of cake the world cricket has ever tasted and his farewell speech added a cherry on top of it.
HD  video from starsports.com

Full text from espncricinfo.com

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Sir Donald Bradman : Interesting facts and records

Sir Donald Bradman has been one of the brilliant cricketing star, the world cricket has ever encountered. His highly professional playing ability in the beginning era of the cricket itself has been a matter of great enthusiasm shown by him. He has remained in the heart of many cricket lovers and has defined the cricket batting in a new way (despite his career was disturbed by World War II, but his playing ability has never been disturbed). Today I am presenting some of the notable facts about THE DON. Lets find it out...

fact 1 : In cricketing history he has been best known with his nickname "THE DON" because of his dominating batting performance against almost all bowlers.

fact 2 : Despite being a great batsman, Bradman has taken two test wickets in his career. And his victims were Caribbean player Ivan Barrow(LBW) and English batsman Wally Hammond (bowled).

fact 3 : Don'e be amazed my friends, Bradman being a terrific batsman and being taken two wickets, he has also added another experience hi his career. Bradman played as wicket-keeper on January 18, 1939 playing for South Australia against New South Wales. During that match he scored 135* which was his 6th century.

fact 4 :  He scored his first century (115*) at the age of 12 when playing for Bowral school against Mittagong school.

fact 5 : Something unusual to hear for this great batsman, Don hit just 6 sixes in his test career (five of those versus England and one versus India ). Besides has two fives and massive 618 fours.

fact 6 : He has Against India, Don scored at a massive average of 178.75 in six innings.

fact 7 : In 1949, he was given the knighthood (a kind of great honor) after he retired from cricket. From that day onward he has been called as "Sir Donald Bradman"

fact 8 :  Bradman has scored at an impressive average of 99.94 in test cricket. Had he scored four more runs in his last match he would have an average of 100. He was out for a duck in his last match on a second delivery (googly) bowled by Eric Hollies.

fact 9 : Bradman's Dream Team XI was revealed after his death on February 25, 2001. Master blaster Sachin Tendulkar made it to his squad. His Dream Team consisted of

Arthur Robert Morris (AUS), Barry Anderson Richards (RSA), Donald George Bradman (AUS), Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (IND), Garfield St. Auburn Sobers (WI), Donald Tallon (AUS), Raymond Russell Lindwall (AUS), Alec Victor Bedser (ENG), Dennis Keith Lillee (AUS), William Joseph O'Reilly (AUS) and Clarence Victor Grimmett (AUS).

fact 10 : His highest score without scoring a triple century is 299*. On February 1, 1932 (versus South Africa) he run outs his last batsman while going for his 300th run.

fact 11 : On seeing Sachin Teldulkar playing on TV, Bradman said to his wife that this young lad plays the way he does. His wife responded in affirmative to him.

fact 12 : He scored 26% of his team's runs in his Test career

fact 13 : The ABC postal address in all capital cities of Australia is Post Office Box 9994, Bradman's Test batting average

fact 14 : Bradman scored century in every 2.8 innings

fact 15 : Bradman run scoring time has been found quicker: in innings where he scored 50 or more he scored at a rate of 42 runs per hour, 100 or more at 44 runs/hour, and in innings over 200 he increased his rate to 49 runs/hour.

fact 16 : He has never been stumped and been dismissed on 90s in tests.

fact 17 : In Bradman's 70 Test dismissals, 39 were caught (59%) including 10 by the wicket-keeper and 23 bowled (33%). He was LBW 6 times, run out once and hit wicket once

fact 18 : Bradman's average in test matches reached 50 with his 3rd innings, and stayed above 50 for the rest of his career.

fact 19 : Bradman is the only Australian cricketer who has twice scored a century and a duck in the same Test.

fact 20 : Don Bradman used bats produced by Yorkshire firm William Sykes & Sons throughout his career (from 1929) until the Second World War when the company was taken over by Slazengers. His autographed bat named as "Bradman Autographed Bat" is still produced by Slazengers.

fact 21 : Current test records still held by Bradman

• Highest Individual Test Batting Average (minimum 15 innings) 99.94
• Highest Test Batting Average for a 5-Test Series 201.50 (v South Africa, Australia, 1931-32)
• Equal top-scorer of triple centuries (with Lara) 2
• 5th wicket partnership (with Sid Barnes 1946-47) 405
• 6th wicket partnership (with Jack Fingleton 1936-37) 346
• Only Test batsman to score more than 5,000 runs v an opponent (5,028 v England)
• 7 times scored 500 or more runs in a Test series (Equal with Lara)
• Six times scored centuries in an interval (once pre lunch, twice lunch-tea, three times tea-stumps)
• Scored the most runs in a single day’s play 309 v England, Leeds, 1930

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Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar is one of the worshiped cricketer batsman the world has ever encountered. His talent and humanly behavior has made him rightful person to be famed as the great cricketer. Over times Sachin has made the viewers and his fans so happy with his great performance. If one compares cricket as an art, then undoubtedly Sachin is one of the fine and and most talented artist. Today I will be sharing some of the interesting facts about Sachin. Some of this may be common whilst some may be what biological fellas call as "museum specimen". Lets find out some!!!

Sachin Tendulkar

fact 1 : Tendulkar has been named after the famous Indian music composer Sachin Dev Burman (a.k.a SD Burman) as his father was a great fan of  SD Burman himself and his songs.

fact 2 : Sachin along with his pal Vinod Kambli has set a world record of 664 runs partership for Shraddhashram school in inter-school tournament in 1988. This something unachievable partnership took the duo's name in Wisden Book of Cricket Records.

fact 3 : Sachin wanted to became a fast bowler in his youth days. He once took the trial in Aussie fast bowler Dennis Lillie's MRF Pace Foundation. It was Lillie who told the young lad to focus in his batting as he seemed to have a great career there. Beside Tendulkar, it was Sourav Ganguly who was rejected being a fast bowler.

fact 4 : Sachin is ambidextrous, he bats with his right hand but signs autograph, plays tennis  with his left hand.

fact 5 : Sachin is the first cricketer to be given out by TV umpire (3rd umpire) while he was run out (by fielding GOD Jhonty Rhodes)  playing against South Africa in Durban in 1992.

fact 6 : Tendulkar got his first ODI century after playing 78 matches and five years in international cricket. On September 9, 1994 he scored his first triple digit score (117) in ODI.

fact 7 : He was given a pair of pads by his cricket legend Sunil Gavaskar when he was a school boy. He made his career test debut against Pakistan in 1989 (aged 15) wearing those pads.

fact 8: Tendulkar was without a bat contract before the start of 1996 world cups. At the end of tournament a famous tyre manufacturer MRF sponsored his willow.

fact 9 : Sachin has most number of stadium (ground) appearances than any cricketer.

fact 10 : He was out on a duck in his ODI debut against Pakistan.

fact 11 : Tendulkar is a true patriot beside being a great cricketer. The inner side of his cricket kit pack contains a tri-color (a.k.a Indian national flag). Beside he always has a tri-color patched on his helmet on the game he represents India.

fact 12 : Sachin has an interesting record of scoring 5 test centuries before he turned 20. This  has been a world record till date.

fact 13 : Returned from a four-month tour of Australia after the 1992 World Cup and turned up immediately to play for Kirti College in April 1992.

fact 14 : Till 2008 he didn't scored a century against Australia in their home ground.

fact 15 : he is the only batsman to have a record of "century of century".

fact 16 : he always puts up his left pad first and then the right before leaving to bat.

fact 17 : Tendulkar along with Brian Lara are the fastest to cross the landmark of 10,000 test runs. Both of them have completed it playing 195 innings

fact 18 : Tendulkar has the record of hitting most ODI centuries in a calender year. (9 centuries in 1998)

fact 19 : He is the only player to be in ICC top 10 ranking for ten years.

fact 20 : he holds record of

• highest run scorer in ODI
• highest century in ODI
• maximum number of man of matches
• and last but not the least "most number of nineties" in ODI. 

Top best catches in cricket (videos)

It is not only batting and bowling that spices up the cricketing game. Beside these two processes a third one known as "fielding" fills the thrill in the game. When we talk about fielding, amazing catches always counts. Catches taken with great acrobatic style simply creates a great entertainment filled fall of wickets. At times, we have encountered many great, and jaw dropping catches in cricket, today I am gonna present some of the great catches in cricket (in no particular order). Check this out!

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Paul Collingwood

Collingwood has been one of the terrific fielders in cricket. He is really acrobatic and active when it comes to fielding. In this video, Collingwood takes the amazing catch of Matthew Hayden one handedly. Hayden could not believe his eyes coz what he witnessed was a great and nearly impossible catch.

Yuvraj Singh

Yuvi has always been athletic in fielding. It was Champions Trophy semi finals at Colombo in 2002. Yuvraj took the two great catches and the send the proteas duo to pavilion.

Ricky Ponting

Ponting is an amazing fielder cricket has witnessed, we have seen a great spectacular catches of by him, in this video Ponting takes a great diving catch of English batsman Jon Lewis.

Herschelle Gibbs

Gibbs has always been considered as the best replacement to South Africa's fielding talent, Jhonty Rhodes. In this video, he takes the amazing flying catch of Chennai Super Kings batsman, from the first version of IPL.

AB de Villiers

This catch from AB de Villiers is greatly taken at the slip position. The interesting part is AB takes it at a very quick reaction time and one handedly.

Mohammad Kaif

A great running catch from India's fielding genius Mohammad Kaif in Natwest series against England in 2002 at The Oval.

Suresh Raina

Raina takes the amazing catch of Younis Khan at the Asia Cup 2012. Perfectly timed and brilliantly taken in the end.

Tilakratne Dilshan

Dilshan is one of the terrific fielder among the Asian cricketers. In this video Dilshan shows his great acrobatic fielding to take the wicket of Kiwi batsman Scott Styris.

Jhonty Rhodes

Rhodes has always been as a top  artist in the art of cricket fielding. He is best fielder cricket has ever encountered. In this video, Rhodes takes a breath taking catch of Robert Croft of England in the 1999 world cup.

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