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