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On This Day, (20 Nov 2009) Sachin Tendulkar conquered yet another milestone when he became the first batsman to complete 30,000 runs in international cricket. The master blaster reached the landmark when he clipped left-arm-pacer Chanaka Welegedara to square-leg for his 35th run after lunch on the fifth day at the Sardar Patel Stadium at […]
Finally, the moment came on 16 Nov 2013 which his fans did not want ever to happen, but happened, when Sachin Tendulkar retired from international cricket after playing his 200th and final Test. Here is the full text of his speech: All my friends, settle down let me talk, I’ll get more and more emotional. It is […]
On this day, Tendulkar had retired from all formats of international cricket and it is very special for Master Blaster Sachin Tendulkar, who is considered the God of cricket. He had said goodbye to cricket on 16 November 2013 at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. India had won the match by an innings and 126 […]
1. Sunil Gavaskar was out off the first ball of a Test match thrice in his career: Sunil Gavaskar was the first batsman to reach 10,000 Test runs and he ended his career scoring 34 Test centuries. But did you know he was out three times off the first ball of a Test? The bowlers to dismiss him were: Batsman Bowler […]
Sunday, October 22, 2017, Indian skipper Virat Kohli hit his 31st ODI hundred against New Zealand at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai to become the second-highest century-maker in the history of One-day International cricket. He came to the crease when India lost opener Shikhar Dhawan on score of 9 in the fourth over. Kohli looked out […]
Another feat achieved by the former Indian skipper MS Dhoni has he became the 14th batsman in the history of International Cricket to hit 100 international fifties combining all formats i.e. One day Internationals (ODIs), Test Cricket and Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is). He accomplished this landmark in the first ODI of the ongoing 5 match ODI […]
The 4th ODI against Sri Lanka will be ODI no. 300 for M S Dhoni when he steps in to play it; it will be special moment for the former skipper M S Dhoni. Moreover it could be record making ODI for Dhoni as he is just 1 stumping away from making world record of most […]
Indian middle order batsmen Cheteshwar Pujara entered his name in the list of 4000 test runs club. Pujara made his 50th Test more fertile by achieving the feet of becaming the 3rd joint-fastest Indian batsmen along with Rahul Dravid to reach 4000 test runs in 84 innings. Before the start of the match Pujara required […]
Finally an episode filled with lots of drama and twists and turns came to an end as Ravi Shastri is new head coach; and bolt from the blue Zaheer Khan being bowling coach and Rahul Dravid Foreign batting consultant. The news came exactly day after Cricket Advisory Committee (CAC) press conference in which Saurav Ganguly […]
No one had imagined that 1st double ton in Women’s ODI Cricket came 20 years ago by Belinda Clark’s Australian Women. She scored 229 not out against Denmark Women on 16 Dec 1997 in Mumbai. But in same year one record in Men’s ODI cricket was also set i.e. on 21 May 1997 Saeed Anwar […]