12 interesting facts about cricket
- Cricket is a bat-and-ball team sport that is first documented as being played in southern England in the 16th century.
- The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications, is the length of the pitch..
- A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !!!
- By the end of the 18th century, cricket had developed to the point where it had become the national sport of England.
- Sunil Gavaskar was so ill tempered that his parents had to take him to a psychiatrist to check up if there was something wrong with him.
- In a World Cup Match in 1975, Gavaskar batted throughout the 60 overs & scored only 36 runs. India lost to England by a huge margin of 203 runs.
- Today, the game's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), has 104 member countries.
- Four stumps!!!! -- An experimental game was played at Lords in 1963 to look at the effects of adjusting two features of cricket: the size of the wickets and the LBW rule, in order to create a wicket of width 11 inches rather than 9 inches, four stumps were used in that trial match...
- In the first ever Test in 1877, Australia beat England by 45 runs. 100 yrs later, in the Centenary Test, the result was exactly the same!!
- Which style of play is known as mankad? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is calle mankad, It is named after Vinoo Mankad, an Indian bowler, who used this method controversially, in a test match.
- It was a county match in 1946. After two overs had been bowled, Len Hutton, who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch. The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards lng instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch.
- Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day, in the same test match, Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpire. This time the fielder was none other than Sachin Tendulkar!!
