Q, My question is not about statistics. Its about ICL vs IPL. BCCI-ICC pressurized Sri Lanka Cricket to reimpose ban on ICL players, umpires. Why cannot they pursuade SLC to scrap the broadcast contract with TEN Sports. Ten sports-Zee Sports combine also relay ICL matches. Why this bias against the players only? By the way, TEN Sports shows matched from Pakistan, South Africa and West Indies also.
A, we would appreciate if you throw us questions based on statistics rather than the ones that involve varied perspectives. Frankly, I'm no authority to speak about the raging war between the BCCI and the ICL, as well as the various stakeholders involved in each. In this case it's a broadcast company, which has struck deals with both bodies. International boards as well as the ICL get their due by getting adequate coverage, while the broadcast company gets its own chunk of the pie in return. What's the harm?
Q, how many wickets have been taken by WAsim Akram against INDIA?
A, Arguably the best left-arm fast bowler to have graced the game, Wasim Akram has had success bowling on all kinds of surfaces all round the world. No wonder then, that the former Pakistani captain lists high up in the wickets column against arch-enemies India. Akram scalped 45 Test victims in the 12 matches that he played against the Indians. Being the highest wicket-taker in the shorter format of the game, Wasim bhai bagged a good 60 wickets against India as well.
Q, which indian player played most oneday matches against england ?
A, Sachin Tendulkar - 34 matches. Anil Kumble and Sourav Ganguly come next with 28 and 26 appearances respectively.
Q, Will the batsman be given out caught if the ball hits pad first and then the bat?
A, Tanmoy Mookherjee: Of course.
Q, when was the first ever cricket played?
A, The first recorded cricket match took place at Coxheath in Kent in 1646. This match also produced the first record of betting on cricket.
Q, Highest runs in one day international in one year and by whom?
A, Sachin Tendulkar holds the world record of highest run-aggregate in a calendar year (from 1st January to 31st December). Tendulkar aggregated 1,894 runs in 34 matches in 1998 keeping an average of 65.13, with 9 centuries and 7 fifties.
Q, which batsmen scored consective hundred maximum time?
A, In ODIs, Pakistan Saeed Anwar scored hundreds in successive innings on no less than four occasions (including the one when he scored three hundreds on a trot). Sanath Jayasuriya and Brian Lara did so on three separate occasions apiece.
In Tests, Don Bradman scored back-to-back hundreds on as many as nine occasions- easily the best effort by any batsman so far.
Q, what is chinamen bowling ?
A, The term 'Chinaman' in cricket is used for a left-arm spinner, who usually turns the ball from off to leg to a right-hand batsman, which mirrors a right-arm leg-spinner's stock delivery. However, all left-arm bowlers who bowl this variety of spin bowling are not referred to as Chinaman bowlers, but called left-arm wrist spinners, of which Michael Bevan was a prime example.
Chinaman is reserved more for a left-arm spinner with a uniquely unorthodox action. Former South African spinner Paul Adams was known as a Chinaman bowler, although his stock delivery was a 'googly' to the left-hander, bowled with a leg-spinner's action.
Charlie 'Buck' Llewellyn, a late 19th century South African all-rounder, is said to have invented this particular variety of bowling.
Q, Who is having the record of maximum no of man of the match ?
A, Rajneesh replies: ODIs- Sachin Tendulkar (56) Tests- Jacques Kallis (19)
Q, When did Mahendra Singh Dhoni made his debut and versus which country ?
A, Rajneesh's stats gyan: ODIs- v Bangladesh at Chittagong in December 2004 Tests- v Sri Lanka at Chennai in December 2005
Q, how did shahid afridi get 8 runs in one shot in one of his matches?
A, Sorry, but I have no record of Afridi getting 8 runs off his one shot. But theoratically it is possible with the help of overthrow(s).
Q, who holds the record for the most number sixes in ODI\'S ?
A, West Indian Xavier Marshall recently broke the record for the most number of sixes by hammering . Marshall, who was banned from cricket immediately after the tournament for testing positive for drugs, broke hard-hitting Pakistani Shahid Afridi's record of 11 sixes, which he achieved in his debut innings against Sri Lanka in 1996.
Q, what is the best ever bowling figure in one dayers?
A, Sri Lankan left-armer Chaminda Vaas holds the record for the best figures in a one-day innings. Vaas needed just eight overs to achieve the feat, bagging 8-19 against Zimbabwe at the Sinhalese Cricket Club ground in Colombo in 2001.
Q, Who was the first cricketer in ODI to make 10 centuries and in which year?
A, West Indian Viv Richards was the first batsman to perform this feat - in 1987.
Q WHAT IS POWER PLAY AHD HOW IS IT USED BY THE BATTING TEAM IN CRICKET?
A, The Powerplays were introduced in 2006 in a bid to break the monotony of a one-day international game. A 50-over game, initially, came with the first 15 overs of field restrictions. Only two players are allowed outside the 30-yard circle.
To be suitably called the 'batsman's game', the time period for the field restrictions were increased to 20 overs, where a batting team could opt for two powerplays of five overs each, and can be used at any time of the game. This of course is after the first Powerplay, that is, the first 10 overs of compulsory field restrictions.
Q, what is the distance between two wickets ?
A, 22 yards, or 20.12 metres.
Q, who has scored the slowest one day century in terms of balls and time, also who has the distinction of scoring the slowest test century in tterms of balls and minutes (time)?
A, Rajneesh Gupta: The slowest ODI century on record was scored by Australia's David Boon, who took 166 balls to reach to three figure mark against India at Hobart in 1991-92 Benson & Hedges World Series match. West Indian Gordon Greenidge (v India at Birmingham in 1979 World Cup) and New Zealander Glenn Turner (v India at Manchester in the 1975 World Cup) might have taken more balls than Boon to reach their centuries, but no authentic figures are available for their innings. However their final scoring rate was much higher to David Boon, so we can assume that both of them would have taken more balls than Boon. Pakistan's Mudassar Nazar holds the record of scoring the slowest century taking 557 minutes (9 hours and 17 minutes) against England at Lahore in 1997-78.
Q, How many batsmen have scored consecutive centuries in their first two Test matches?
A, Six batsmen - Australia's Bill Ponsford, Doug Walters and Greg Blewett, West Indies' Alvin Kalicharran, and India's Mohammad Azharuddin and Sourav Ganguly have scored consecutive centuries in their first two Test matches. Azharuddin, in fact, went on to score a hundred in his third Test as well.
Q, which opening betsmen makes the record of make 0 in both 2 innings of test cricket?
A, There are 447 instances of a batsman bagging a pair in Test cricket. Openers have suffered this fate on 54 instances. Five players - South Africa's Louis Tancred, England's Mike Atherton, Sri Lanka's Marvan Atapattu, Zimbabwe's Andy Flower and West Indies' Chris Gayle have done so twice apiece.
Three players - New Zealand's Ken Rutherford, Pakistan's Saeed Anwar and Zimbabwe's Dirk Viljoen got a pair on their debut.
Recently Bangladesh's Javed Omar (v India) provided the first ever instance of an opener getting a 'King Pair' (dismissed off the very first ball faced in both innings).
Q, How many 5-wkt hauls Wasim Akram has against his name in ODIs?
A, Tanmoy Mookherjee: The Pakistani 'Sultan of Swing', the highest wicket-taker in the shorter version of the game with 502 scalps, Wasim Akram has dismissed half the batting side on 6 occasions, with 5-15 being his best figures in a game. He has also captured four wickets in an innings 17 times in his 356-match career.
Q, How many centuries has Sunil Gavaskar hit in international cricket?
A, Tanmoy Mookherjee: The 'little master' slammed 34 Test centuries but just one in One Day Internationals.
Q, Who has scored the most number of runs in World Cup cricket?
A, It is our very own Sachin Tendulkar. He has 1796 runs from 36 matches over five World Cups starting from the 1992 edition in Australia and New Zealand.
Q, Which is the highest last-wicket partnership in ODIs?
A, The last wicket partnership is an unbroken stand of 106 between Vivian Richards and Michael Holding for the West Indies versus England at Manchester, way back in 1984
Q, Is it true that Ravi Shastri once hit six sixes in an over in Sharjah?
A, Herschelle Gibbs is the only one to have achieved the feat in international cricket, during the World Cup this year. Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in a Ranji Trophy match playing for Mumbai against Baroda. Left-arm spinner Tilak Raj, who played for Delhi before moving to Baroda, was the bowler. Before Shastri, only Sir Gary Sobers had achieved the feat in first-class cricket.
