Saturday, November 23, 2013

Interesting and Unknown Facts About Cricket


1. In past times Cricket was used to think as child's game and therefor not to be played by senior people. 

2. The longest cricket match was between England and South Africa in 1939. The match lasted for 14 days and it was an tie ! 

3. Shahid Afridi scored the fastest century by Waqar Younis's bat. He borrowed that from Waqar.
 
4. Bangladeshi cricketer Sohag Gazi is the only player in cricket history to score a century and take a hat-trick in in same test which was against New Zealand.
 
5. Australian player Charlie Bannerman scored the first century in test cricket in 1877. 

6. In Cricket all the laws and system have been changing except length of the pitch.
 
7. Warren Barren of Australia was the first player to century in both innings of a test match. 

8. The idea of 6 balls per over was first introduced in 1900.

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