1 .Sachin Tendulkar
He has all the records that every cricketer dreams of. He is called the master of cricket or rather “God of cricket“. Making his debut at the age of 16, he became the youngest player to debut for India in Tests at the age of 16 years and 205 days.

He is the only player to score a hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in One Day Internationals, the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. In 2002, Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack ranked him as the second greatest Test batsman of all time behind Don Bradman and the second greatest ODI batsman of all time behind Viv Richards.
He has won many awards in his cricket career. These include Arjuna Award, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Padma Shri and Padma Vibhushan Award. In addition, he is the youngest recipient ever and the first sportsperson to receive the Bharat Ratna Award, India’s highest civilian honour.

2. Kapil Dev
He is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team that won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev is one of the greatest sportsmen of all time. He also coached the India national cricket team for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.

Nicknamed the Haryana Storm, he represents the Haryana cricket team in domestic cricket. He held the world record for most wickets in Test cricket in 1994, which was later broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India’s highest wicket-taker in both the major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the only player in cricket history to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests, making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame on 8 March 2010.
3. Rahul Dravid
Rahul Dravid (born 11 January 1973) is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in cricket history. Successful as a wall, Dravid was named one of the top five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack in 2000 and received Player of the Year and Test Player of the Year honors at the inaugural ICC Awards ceremony in 2004. In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra.

As of October 2012, Dravid is the fourth highest run-scorer in Test cricket behind Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting and Jacques Kallis, and only the second Indian cricketer after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs in both Tests and ODIs. In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first and only player to score centuries in all ten Test playing nations. As of October 2012, he holds the record for most catches by a player (non-wicketkeeper) in Test cricket with 210.
Rahul Dravid along with Glenn McGrath was presented with the seventh annual Bradman Award in Sydney on 1 November 2012. Dravid was also awarded the Padma Bhushan Award, India’s third highest civilian honour.
4.Sourav Ganguly
Sourav Chandidas Ganguly (born 8 July 1972), nicknamed Dada is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team. Currently, he is a cricket commentator and the chairman of the editorial board at Wisden India.

He is regarded as one of the most successful Indian captains of modern times. He started his career playing for the state and school teams. Currently, he is the 5th highest run-getter in One Day Internationals (ODIs) behind Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam–ul–Haq and the 3rd man in history to cross the 10,000-mark. In 2002, Wisden Cricketers‘ Almanack ranked him as the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time, alongside Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan. Ganguly was awarded the Padma Shri, one of India’s highest civilian honours, in 2004.

When this game is so interesting, how could there not be interesting facts about it. So, in this article, I will share interesting facts about cricket and see how many of them you already know and which are new to you. Therefore, we will not talk much about cricket, because everyone is familiar with this bat and ball game. what are we waiting for? Let us know the facts related to this game.

1. Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar’s bat to score the fastest century in ODI.
   Let’s start interesting facts about cricket with this case, which happened in 1996. 104 of Afridi’s 40 balls made him a “batsman”, a tribute to his teammate Waqar Younis given to him by none other than cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.
2. Chris Gale is the only batsman to hit a six off the first ball in a Test match.
   Chris Gale broke the 137-year-old Test cricket record by scoring the first ball in a Test six in 2012 against Bangladesh.
3. Abbas Ali Baig was the first Indian cricketer to kiss during a test match.
   The title of this interesting cricket fact might have caught your attention. Yes, actually Abbas Ali Baig was kissed on the cheek by a girl when Baig scored his half-century in the third test match against Australia.
4. Vinod Kambli’s test average is better than his childhood friend  Sachin Tendulkar.
   Yes, you read that right that  Kambli’s has an average test score of 54.20 and his childhood friend Sachin has an average of 53.78 after 200 tests. Did this interesting fact about cricket shock you?
5. Three times in his career, Sunil Gavaskar was sent off for the first ball in a test match.
   Bowlers who fired Sunil Gavaskar were: Jeff Arnold (Adgbaston 1974), Malcolm Marshall (Kolkata 1984) and Imran Khan (Jaipur 1987).
6. M.L. Jayasimha and Ravi Shastri are the only Indians to bat all five days of the test.
   Jayasimha hit all five days of the 1960 Test. While Ravi spent five days in the test in 1984.
7. Saif Ali Khan’s grandfather is Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, the only cricketer to have played Test cricket for India and England.
   He played Test cricket for England in 1932 and 1934. And he is the only cricketer who has played for both countries.
8. Lala Amarnath is the only bowler to take Don Bradman out of a hit wicket in Test cricket.
   This incident occurred during the 1948 Brisbane Test.
9. Leslie Hilton is the only cricketer to be hanged for murder.
   Leslie was a West Indian bowler. He killed his wife and was hanged for the murder.
10. India won the 1983 World Cup and three years later, in 1986, won its first test at Lord’s.
    Those were the moments when Team India shone. This victory in a row made the whole of India proud.
11. India is the only country to have won the World Cup by 60, 50 and 20 points.
    This interesting cricket fact really made us proud of our team. Is not it?
12. Alec Stewart was born on 08/04/63 and scored 8463 test runs.
    Alec Stewart was a batsman and former English captain. He finished his career with 8463. Numbers can be interesting and this interesting fact about cricket proves it.
13. Virat Kohli is the first player to win the Top-3 ICC Awards in one year.
    How can there not be a single fact about our King KOHLI in our cricket interesting facts? Virat won 3 ICC in 2008.
14. Wilfred Rhodes of England played Test cricket until he was 52!
    Rhodes played until the age of 52, that is, almost half a century of his age.
15. Allan Border has played 153 tests in a row.
    Border debuted during the 1978 Ashes in Australia.
16. The length of the field for cricket.
    The length of the cricket field has not changed to date. More than 150 years have passed. All the same 22 meters.
17. Australia beat England in the first Cricket Test and also in the Centenary Test in 1977 by 45 runs.
    This is actually a very interesting fact about cricket. In 1877 Australia defeated England and the same thing happened again in 1977 with the same place and the same score.
18. All four test innings in one day.
    In the 2000 Lord’s Test between England and the West Indies, all four Test innings were played on the same day. The same thing happened 11 years later during the Cape Town Test between South Africa and Australia.
19. Only one person saw Jim Laker and Anil Kumble take 10 wickets in an innings.
    Do you know who this person was? Come let’s find out about this interesting cricket fact. This is Richard Stokes.
20. Sourav Ganguly is the only player to win the Man of the Match award four times in a row in ODIs.
    India won the five-match ODI series 4–1 against Pakistan and Ganguly was named Man of the Match in all four matches. Sourav’s career as a cricketer.
21. Sachin + Zaheer = (almost) Kallis
    We know that Sachin is the highest scorer in ODIs and Tests. While Zaheer is the 5th bowler to take most wickets in Tests. But wait, if I tell you that there is cricket, how is it a combination of the two? Yes, it’s Jacques Kallis.
22. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to score a century in both semi-final and final of the World Cup.
    How can someone be so good at scoring hundreds in both matches. Shouldn’t we just be aghast while reading this interesting cricket fact?
23. Since Virat Kohli’s debut, India have chased down the 300+ target five times.
    Virat Kohli scored a century in 4 of these 5 matches. Isn’t this an interesting cricket fact?
24. Sourav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knockout stages of the World Cup.
    The same thing happened in the 1975 Prudential World Cup match between India and England.
25. Chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls in a World Cup match.
    It was a brilliant score from one of the best captains of the Indian cricket team.
26. MS. Dhoni has never scored an ODI century outside Asia.
    These interesting cricket facts are very unknown. But it is true that Dhoni has never scored an ODI century.
27. Sachin Tendulkar was dismissed only once in his Ranji career. Met Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
    19-year-old Bhuvneshwar Kumar became the first player to dismiss Sachin Tendulkar in the Ranji Trophy.