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Each game of cricket has a vital lesson to learn. From Sachin Tendulkar single-handedly carrying India, even as ‘Desert Strom’ raged on, into the finals of the 1998 Coca-Cola cup to the defining images of Brian Lara becoming the first man to score 400 runs in a single test, the game teaches how hard work and a lot of effort will eventually pay off.
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Sir Vivian Richards is the only cricketers and in fact, the only man in the world who played both World Cups of Cricket and Football. In 1974 he played the qualifying matches for the Football World Cup for Antigua and the in 1975 and 1979 he was the squad which played the Cricket World Cups for West Indies.
The fastest fifty of the T20I cricket was scored by the Yuvraj Singh against England during ICC World Twenty20 at Durban, on September 19, 2007 when he completed his 50 in just 12 Balls.
Aaron Finch created a world record by scoring 172 runs in a T20I match versus Zimbabwe, in 2018. Finch’s innings was laced with 16 boundaries and 10 sixes, as he romped to his highest individual score of 172 runs in T20 cricket, in just 76 balls.
From their debut series in year 2000 against India till their series in 2004 against the same opposition, Bangladesh have lost 16 consecutive test series they played. This is most consecutive series loss by a team in cricket history.
Virat Kohli is the ONLY BATSMAN WITH 50 PLUS CAREER AVERAGE IN T20 INTERNATIONALS. As of July 2021, Kohli has scored 3,159 runs with a super impressive average of 52.65 in 84 innings.
Brendon Mccullum, blasted the fastest ever test century in just 54 balls
In 2015 ICC World Cup Kumar Sangakkara became the only Cricketer in the world to score 4 successive centuries, his first
century came against Bangladesh where he scored 105, then against England he scored 117 unbeaten, and then against Australia he scored 104 and finally against Scotland he scored 124.
No other captain has achieved the feat of scoring double hundred in ODI. In the game vs West Indies in Dec’2011, Sehwag was leading the side in the absence of MS Dhoni.
The largest margin of victory in ODI cricket is recorded by India when they defeated Sri Lanka by 317 runs in a match played on January 15, 2023. India, batting first, posted a mammoth total of 390 runs, and then bowled out Sri Lanka for just 73 runs.
Tendulkar’s World Cup journey spans over 40 matches, during which he amassed an impressive tally of over 2000 runs