A Six Measuring 556 mile:
Do you know that, once a ball was hit for six which was only recovered 556 miles away? Yes, you read it right 556 miles away. It was hit by Jimmy Sinclair at the old Wanderers’ Ground in Johannesburg. A six from Jimmy Sinclair landed on a train bound for Port Elizabeth and was only recovered at Port Elizabeth which was 556 miles away from Johannesburg.
Umpiring Blunder:
A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wide or no balls! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting.
Youngest Test Cricketers:
Hasan Raza of Pakistan. He was only 14 years and 277 days old when made his debut against Zimbabwe at Faislabad. Mushtaq Mohammad was 15 years & 124 days old. Another sub-continent cricketer – Mohammad Sharif from Bangladesh played his first test match at an early age of 15 years and 189 days. Notably, all of these top three have been batsmen.
No Man of the Match Award for the Magician:
Top class spinner Saeed Ajmal has never won a man of the match award in an ODI till now. The magician has got 182 wickets on his name in 110 ODIs but still missing the MOM Award.
Sunil Gavaskar was out off the very first ball of a Test match thrice in his cricketing career:
Sunil Gavaskar is the first batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs and score 34 Test centuries, but on three occasions he was out on the first ball of the Test. Bowlers to dismiss him were Geoff Arnold (Edgbaston, 1974), Malcolm Marshall (Kolkata, 1984) and Imran Khan (Jaipur, 1987).
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