With Australia having a lead of almost 350 and with a day to go in the final test match at the Sydney Cricket Ground, there is no predicting when the Australian team would declare. Steve Smith would want to play it safe and set a target that is way beyond the reach of Indian batting […]
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Virat Kohli becomes highest run scorer in Australia in a test series
Virat Kohli – the vibrant, newly appointed captain of the Indian cricket team has scaled another step upwards the ladder of glory when he reached 500 runs mark in the series against Australia on Thursday. Kohli achieved this feat during fourth and last being played in Sydney in Australia. Kohli had already scored 499 […]
Stat Attack: Most runs scored by an Indian in a Test series against Australia
Virat Kohli on January 8,2015 scored the most number of runs by an Indian batsman in a home or an away Test series against Australia. He surpassed Rahul Dravid’s record of 619 runs in the 2003-04 series in Australia which India drew (1-1) and retained the Border-Gavaskar Trophy that they won at home in 2000-01. […]
Australia vs India – 4th Test, Sydney, Day 3: Statistical Highlights
Indian Captain Virat Kohli’s dream run continued at Syndey, as he smashed yet another Ton against the hosts in this series and kept breaking records. On an eventful day, Indian batsmen gave an era to occurrence of few stats & records. Here are the Statistical Highlights during 3rd Day’s play: –> Rohit Sharma scored his […]
Virat Kohli becomes second fastest Indian to reach 10 Test centuries
The rookie skipper of India, Virat Kohli on the 3rd day of the fourth Test at Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) became the 2nd fastest Indian batsman to collect 10 centuries. He reached this mile in his 58th innings whereas Virender Sehwag got to 10 centuries in 55 innings. Virat Kohli also became the first batsman to score […]
Do Stuart Binny deserve a chance in the World Cup squad?
Indian Cricket Team announced the 15 men squad today for the 2015 World Cup. The surprise to everyone was that Stuart Binny was picked and Yuvraj Singh, even after 3 centuries was ignored. Well, for me, exclusion of Yuvraj Singh and inclusion of Stuart Binny wasn’t a huge surprise. The social media has gone mad […]
Kumar Sangakkara better than Sachin, Ponting and Kallis?
Kumar Sangakkara, Sri Lanka’s vetertan batsman recently became the fastest man to score 12000 runs in Test Cricket. He overtook the likes of Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, Jacques Kallis and Rahul Dravid. Along with that, Sangakkara also scored his 11th doube ton in Test match cricket which is just one short of the the greatest […]
Players with most number of 200+ scores in a Test inning
Don Bradman is considered to be the best batsmen in cricket and people thought there would be no batsmen in the world that can ever overtake his records. But slowly, his records began to break; be it of number of centuries or any other. But one record that people were very sure that none could reach […]
Top 5 Matches from World Cup Cricket History
The ICC World Cup, 2015 is knocking at the door. While the entire globe awaits teh tournamnet, we pick up the top 5 matches of World Cup History. Let’s dig deep into this. 1. 1983 World Cup Final (India vs. West Indies): 25th June, 1983, the proud day for Indians. That day India first won the […]
MS Dhoni’s appointment as captain in all three formats didn’t convince me: Kiran More
Former Indian cricketer Kiran More at first was not feeling too positive about Mahendra Singh Dhoni captaining the India team in all three formats that is test, One Day International, and T-20. Kiran More, who first selected Dhoni in 2004, played the role of the national selection committee, Kiran More told mid-day that he did not think Mahendra […]