Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Highest Partnership by runs in IPL 2011 - IPL Cricket Records

IPL Cricket Records 2011

Date: 17th May 2011
Venue: Dharamsala

Kings Eleven Punjab in a must win situation against the table toppers Royal Challengers Bangalore scored a mammoth total of 232 in 20 overs. In this process, Adam Gilchrist and Shaun Marsh scored 206 for 2nd wicket's partnership. 

Their individual scores were as follows:-
Adam Gilchrist 106 runs (55 balls, 9 sixes, 8 fours)
Shaun Marsh 79 runs (49 balls, 5 sixes, 7 fours)

In reply, Royal Challengers were bowled out for 121, thus Kings Eleven winning this match by 111 runs.

This is the highest partnership by runs in IPL 2011.

The second highest partnership by runs in IPL 2011 was of 152 runs between Jacques Kallis and Gautam Gambhir playing for Kolkata Knight Riders against Rajasthan Royals.

Monday, May 9, 2011

Most Catches in an IPL innings

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Currently the IPL is on song. After the conclusion of the World Cup 2011, IPL fever has begun and will continue till 28th May. So let us have a look at a record from the IPL books. This time it is most number of catches in an IPL innings.


Three players top the chart. They are as follows:-
Sachin Tendulkar took 4 catches playing for Mumbai against Kolkata in 2008.
David Warner took 4 catches playing for Delhi against Rajasthan in 2010.
Jacques Kallis took 4 catches playing for Kolkata against Deccan Chargers in 2011.


As far as most catches in a series is concerned, the record is still with AB de Villiers. He took 13 catches playing for Delhi in the IPL 2009.

Cricket Records - Most Runs In Test Matches

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This time we have cricket records of Most Runs scored in Test career. Surviving for a long test career requires patience, perseverance, hard work and every single quality that is essential to be a good cricketer. Sachin Tendulkar heads the list of highest runs in test career. 
Sachin Tendulkar has scored more than 14,000 runs in Test cricket. He is followed by Ricky Ponting who has 12,000 plus runs. They are followed by Brian Lara (11,953) and Rahul Dravid who has scored 11,500 plus runs.

I have not mentioned the exact runs of Sachin, Ponting and Dravid as they are still playing International test cricket and their stats will change with every match they play.


Sunday, October 10, 2010

Cricket Records - Most Runs In Test Matches

Cricket Records

This time we have cricket records of Most Runs scored in Test career. Surviving for a long test career requires patience, perseverance, hard work and every single quality that is essential to be a good cricketer. Sachin Tendulkar heads the list of highest runs in test career. 
Sachin Tendulkar has scored more than 14,000 runs in Test cricket. He is followed by Ricky Ponting who has 12,000 plus runs. They are followed by Brian Lara (11,953) and Rahul Dravid who has scored 11,500 plus runs.

I have not mentioned the exact runs of Sachin, Ponting and Dravid as they are still playing International test cricket and their stats will change with every match they play.


Cricket Records - Most Test Matches Played By An Australian

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Test cricket is a real test of your character. Playing for 5 long days with match swining either ends isn't as easy as an ODI or T20 match. Test cricket is all about survival, defence, aggression, strategies, session plays and much more.

Let us have a look at Australian cricketers who have played most number of Test matches till date.

On the top of the chart is Steve Waugh with 168 test matches, followed by Allan Border (156), Ricky Ponting (148), Shane Warne (145), Mark Waugh (128), Glenn Mcgrath (124), Ian Healy (119), David Boon (107), Justin Langer (105), Mark Tayor (104), Matthew Hayden (103), Adam Gilchrist (96) and so on.

Kindly note that the above records are till 10th October 2010 with India Vs Australia Test Series 2010. So Ricky Ponting will climb up that chart with more test matches to follow.


Saturday, August 28, 2010

Most Consecutive Wins In T20 International Cricket

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T20 is a format of cricket which is very hard to predict in terms of the results it can generate. Let us have a look at the teams who have won most consecutive T20 international matches.

The teams at the top are South Africa & Pakistan with 7 consecutive T20 wins. South Africa managed this 7 victories on the trot from 27 Mar 2009 to 16 Jun 2009 where they defeated teams like Australia (twice), England, India, Scotland, New Zealand and West Indies.

Pakistan managed 7 consecutive wins from 13 Jun 2009 to 13 Nov 2009 beating teams like New Zealand (thrice), Srilanka (twice), South Africa & Ireland.


Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Hat Tricks in ODI cricket


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Three wickets in three consecutive balls is a dream for every bowler.. Isn't it??? We call it a hat trick in cricket!!!

Let us find out few records of hat tricks in ODI cricket:

Jalal-ud-Din was the first bowler to take a hat trick in ODI history. Playing for Pakistan he claimed the Australian wickets of RW Marsh, B Yardley and GF Lawson. This match was played on 20th September 1980 at Hyderabad (Pakistan).

In total, 26 bowlers have claimed hat tricks in ODI history. 


Sunday, August 8, 2010

Highest partnerships for any wicket in ODI Cricket

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Cricket is all about partnerships... How well the batsmen build partnership goes on to build the innings base...
Let us have a look at the highest partnerships records for any wicket in one day international cricket..

Highest partnerships for any wicket in ODI Cricket is of 331 runs for the second wicket between Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid (India) against New Zealand at Hyderabad [8th Nov 1999]

The second highest partnership is of 318 runs between Saurav Ganguly and Rahul Dravid against Srilanka at Tauton in the 1999 World Cup [26 May 1999]

The special thing to note about is that if we have a look at the top 15 best partnerships in ODI cricket,  8 of them are by the Indian batsmen.



Sunday, August 1, 2010

Highest Innings Totals in T20 International Cricket


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T20 Cricket has been the favourite form of cricket recently because of its short version and bang bang sixes...!!! Let us check out the highest scores in T20 international  cricket. Srilanka heads the list with a score of 260 runs in 20 overs against Kenya at Johannesburg on 14th Sep 2007. 

South Africa has scored the 2nd highest innings total in T20 with 241 runs against England at Centurion on 15 Nov 2009. 

Australia stands on 3rd position with 221 runs against England at Sydney on 9th Jan 2007 whereas India stands on 4th position with 218 runs against England at Durban on 19 Sep 2007.




Saturday, July 31, 2010

Most Wickets In World Cups

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This time lets have a look at bowlers who took most wickets in ODI world cups. The bowler who leads the list is Australian Glenn Mcgrath who played 39 World cup matches and took 71 wickets. He is followed by Pakistan's Wasim Akram on 2nd position with 55 wicktes in 38 matches.

Muralitharan (53 wickets), Chaminda Vaas (49 wickets) and Javagal Srinath (44 wickets) are placed on 3rd, 4th and 5th position respectively.

Next world cup is scheduled to be played in the Indian Subcontinent in 2011:-


Friday, July 30, 2010

Largest Victory Margin By Runs In One Day Internationals


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The biggest victory in ODI matches (by runs) was registered by New Zealand when they were playing against Ireland on 1st July 2008. They scored 403 runs and defeated Ireland by a huge margin of 290 runs.

The second best victory by runs was registered by India against Bermuda in 2007 ICC world cup at Port Of Spain on 19th March 2007. India scored 414 runs defeating Bermuda by a run margin of 257 runs.



Thursday, July 29, 2010

Most Runs In An Over Of Test Cricket

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Since the introduction of T20 cricket we are now habituated of watching fireworks in batting. But how about scoring 20 odd runs in an over in test cricket? It sounds interesting! Well Brian Lara scored 28 runs off RJ Peterson's over at Johannesburg when West Indies were playing against South Africa in 2003-04. The runs scored in that over were 4,6,6,4,4,4.

Second best was of Shahid Afridi when he scored 27 runs against Harbhajan Singh at Lahore, 2005-06. The over was 6,6,6,6,2,1.



Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Sachin's 48th century in Tests - Total reaches 94 International Tons

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Can something stop this guy? I think nothing can do that!!! He is piling centuries one after the other and we can't see a single batsman anywhere near to his cricket records in both the forms of international cricket viz. test and one dayers.

Sachin Tendulkar, the legendary Indian batsman reaches his 48th century mark today against Srilanka in the 2nd test. His innings is a fighting one when India was facing a danger of following on against the huge first innings total of Srilanka. Sachin's total international centuries are now 94 (with 46 tons in one day internationals).




Stumped on 99 in test cricket!


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The recent India Vs Srilanka test series saw Virendar Sehwag getting stumped out on 99 while he tried go down the wicket and hit Suraj Randiv for a big shot. Unfortunately he was stumped on 99!

This is the third time in the test cricket history that a batsman is stumped out on 99... just one short of a ton!

Pakistani batsman Maqsood Ahmed, New Zealand's John Wright and India's Virendar Sehwag are the three unlucky batsman who have achieved his unwanted feat in test cricket.