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ITS AN EASY GAME...
HERE, I'LL BE GIVING SOME CLUES OF A CRICKETER.
U GUYZZ GOTTA IDENTIFY THT PERSON.

NO POINTS SYSTEM ... (SORRY FOR THT.. :p)

PLEASE SOMEONE START THIS GAME NA

TNG (7)-----

-HE HAS SCORED THE 2ND HIGHEST RUNS IN IPL HISTORY. THAT WAS HIS FIRST 100
-HE IS AN OPENER FOR HIS PARTICULAR IPL TEAM.

IDENTIFY THE CRICKETER

Murali Vijay

Sachin Tendulkar

Easy one

Mine is crrct

Oops I thought 2 nd highest scorer in IPL History
Mine is Wrong

MI is correct..

Next One

TNG ( 8 )----

-HE HAS JOINED PUNE WARRIORS THIS YEAR.
-HE ISN'T BEEN ABLE TO PLAY FOR PWI DUE TO AN ANKLE INJURY.
-HE'S AN ENGLISH CRICKETER

IDENTIFY THE CRICKETER.

Luke Wright

Nope

1. A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !!!

2.SHAHID AFRIDI used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a One-Day International.!!

3. FOUR STUMPS !!!! -- An experimental game was played at Lords in 1963 to look at the effects of adjusting two features of cricket : the size of the wickets and the LBW rule,in order to create a wicket of width 11 inches rather than 9 inches,four stumps were used in that trial match..

4. The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications,is the length of the pitch..

5. Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day,in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire.This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar.!!

6. Which cricketer faced the first ball in One-Day Cricket??Geoff Boycott was the one who faced the first ball in One-Day cricket. Graham Mc-Kenzie was the bowler.

7. In a World Cup Match in 1975, Gavaskar batted throughout the 60 overs & scored only 36 runs . India lost to England by a huge margin of 203 runs.

8. In the first ever Test in 1877, Australia beat England by 45 runs. 100 yrs later,in the Centenary Test, the result was exactly the same.!!

9. It was a county match in 1946. After two overs had been bowled,Len Hutton,who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch.The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards lng instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch.

10. Which style of play is known as 'MANKAD'? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is calle 'MANKAD, It is named after VINOO MANKAD , an Indian bowler,who used this method controversially,in a test match.

Great Stats Apurba

Graeme Smith

Nope.

N.B.--HE'S A BOWLER

Thnx Saad

M.Marsh

M.Marsh

He's an English Bowler.

OOPS...SLIGHT CHANGES N THE QUESTION.... SORRY FOR THT..

(-HE'S PLAYIN FOR KXIP THIS YEAR.
- DUE TO AN ANKLE INJURY, HE'S UNABLE TO PLAY THE IPL THIS YEAR
-HE'S AN ENGLISH BOWLER)

S.Broad

1. India were all out for 54 in October 2000, their lowest ever total in One Day Internationals against Sri Lanka.

2. England's John Jameson, who was born in India, made his highest Test score( 82 ) against India.

3. Only four test series have ended 0-0 with all five matches being drawn. India was involved in three of them, including two in a row against Pakistan.

4. Paul Strang is the only Zimbabwean batsmen to score 100 runs and take 5 wickets in an inings of a test match

5. No less than five batsmen were run out during the New Zealand innings v Sri Lanka at Sharjah in March 1988- only eight wickets fell in all.

6. Steve Waugh made 87 consecutive ODI appearances for Australia, and was then dropped, only to be replaced by his twin brother Mark Waugh.

7. Mike gatting had his nose broken by a ball from Malcolm Marshall while batting v West Indies at Kingston in 1986. The ball unfortunately dropped from his nose on to the wicket.

8. There were no less than six ducks- plus one not out batsman, in the Pakistani innings v West Indies, at Cape Town in 1993.

9. Two spectators were killed and several injured when a stand collapsed during the India v England game at Nagpur in January 1985.

10. 25, 000 spectators turned up to watch England play its first ODI match at Chandigarh. Unfortunately a violent thunderstorm flooded the ground. In order to placate the crowd a 15 overs game was staged in unplayable conditions.

11. Mark Waugh was run out 4 times in five innings in One day International matches in 1992.

12. Desmond Haynes and Gordon Greenidge completed 15 century partnerships in ODI matches for West Indies.

Correct Saad

Good Stats Apurba