Monday 2 January 2017

Amazing match & India victory

There's an uncanny similarity between the Indo-Pak match at the Australasia Cup of 1986 and Asia Cup 2014

Pakistan vs India
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10. India won the 1983 World Cup and won their first ever Test at Lord’s three years later in 1986.

India won their second World Cup 28 years later in 2011 and remarkably won their second ever Test at Lord’s three years later in 2014.

Lord's 1986 and 2014
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11. India is the only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over World Cup

India World Cup 2011
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Average better than sachin


 Vinod Kambli's Test match average is better than his childhood friend Sachin Tendulkar

Vinod Kambli Sachin Tendulkar
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Vinod Kambli played only 17 Test matches which included two back to back double tons. Kambli’s Test average is 54.20 while his childhood friend Sachin Tendulkar averages 53.78 after 200 Tests.

 Sunil Gavaskar was out off the first ball of a Test match thrice in his careerSunil Gavaskar

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Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs and he ended his career scoring 34 Test centuries. But did you know he was out three times off the first ball of a Test? The bowlers to dismiss him were: Geoff Arnold (Edgbaston, 1974), Malcolm Marshall (Kolkata, 1984) and Imran Khan (Jaipur, 1987).
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Shahid Afridi was flown in to play for the Pakistan team from West Indies to Nairobi in 1996 and didn't have a proper bat. That's when Waqar Younis gave 'Young Afridi' Sachin Tendulkar’s bat. Afridi hit 11 sixes and six boundaries with the bat and scored a 37-ball century against Sri Lanka which was the then fastest ODI century. The record, broken later by Corey Anderson (36 balls), now belongs to South Africa's AB de Villiers (31 balls).

Chris Gayle is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball of a Test match