OMG Cricket Facts 1. Saeed Ajmal has never won a Man of the Match award in One Day International Cricket. 2. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him. 3. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs. 4.The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments. 5. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs. 6. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh. 7. On 12th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai. 8.Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored. 9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets and also scored 39,969 runs in First Class cricket. 10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career. 11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls. 12. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup. 13. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi- Final and Final of a World Cup. 14. Shahid Afridi is the only player with 400 + sixes in history of Cricket. 15. Misbah ul Haq is the oldest captain ever to score a fastest century.
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