Cricket is a record making and record breaking game.Looks simple but great game having lot of unbelievable happenings.
Some lesser known amazing facts about cricket are here .
: Kapil Dev has appeared in three Hindi films - Mujhse Shaadi Karogi, Aryan: Unbreakable and in Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii.
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: West Indies' Leslie Hylton is the only cricketer to be hanged for murder.
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: Sehwag has scored more centuries than half centuries in Test cricket.
: Sourav Ganguly is a deeply religious person and observes a fast every Tuesday.
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: Sachin Tendulkar’s first car was a Maruti-800.
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: Sachin Tendulkar fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne Stadium in 1988.
: Navjot Singh Sidhu's wife's name is Navjot Sidhu.
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: Cricket has appeared in the Olympics only twice. The first time was in 1896 in Athens, then in 1900 at the Paris Olympic.
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: Indian cricket team is the only team to be dismissed twice in a single day of a test match.
:Cameron Cuffy is a former West Indies player. He has the distinction of winning a man of the match award in a One Day International without scoring a run, taking a wicket or holding a catch.
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:The record for the most consecutive scores of 0 is jointly held by RG Holland of Australia and AB Agarkar of India, with 5 in a row in one day international.
: Vijay Rajindernath was one of the four wicket keepers that India tried out against Pakistan in the 1952–53. He still holds the Test match record for the most stumpings in a complete career without a catch.Four stumpping in his only test match.
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: Because of extremely hot weather, drinks intervals were allowed every two overs in the Australia vs. New Zealand match at Melbourne in January 1988.
:In Test cricket only two father-son pairs have taken 100 Test wickets or more each. Lance & Chris Cairns for New Zealand and Peter & Shaun Pollock for South Africa.
:After scoring 277 runs vs. Australia at the SCG in 1993, Brian Lara of West-Indies named his own daughter Sydney.
:Former English cricketer Bernard Bosanquet a bowler from Middlesex, invented the googly.
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:Sachin of India was given a pair of pads by his cricket hero Sunil Gavaskar, when he was a schoolboy. He made his Test debut for India against Pakistan aged just 16-years old in 1989, wearing those pads.
:West Indies fast bowler Courtney Walsh was nicknamed Duracell for his ability to bowl extremely long spells.
:Throughout history most of the cricket rules suffered modifications. The only rule that did not change over time is the length of the pitch.
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Edit 1:Kapil Dev has also appeared in hindi movie ‘Iqbal’.