Trivia

Who was the first player to take a ODI hat-trick?

Date: 21.03.2013

Jalal-ul-Din of Pakistan, against Australia at Hyderabad on 20 September 1982.

Who was the first player to take a ODI hat-trick?

Date: 21.03.2013

Jalal-ul-Din of Pakistan, against Australia at Hyderabad on 20 September 1982.

How many goals Michael Owen scored in his international career?

Date: 20.03.2013

Michael Owen played in 89 matches for England in which he scored 40 goals becoming the fourth highest scorer of all time for the country.

How many wickets Michael Holding collected in his Test career?

Date: 19.03.2013

Former West Indies pacer Michael Holding represented his team in 60 Tests in which he took 249 wickets.

How many wickets Courtney Walsh took in his ODI career?

Date: 16.03.2013

West Indian pacer Courtney Walsh played in 205 ODIs in which he took 227 wickets. His best bowling figures in an innings came against Sri Lanka in Sharjah where he took five wickets in just 27 deliveries while conceding one run.

Who has faced the most deliveries in Test cricket?

Date: 14.03.2013

Rahul Dravid.

Who has faced the most deliveries in Test cricket?

Date: 14.03.2013

Rahul Dravid.

Who is the only cricketer to have played for both England and Australia in the Ashes?

Date: 13.03.2013

The only cricketer to have played for both England and Australia in the Ashes is William Evans Midwinter. He was born in England but emigrated to Australia where he represented the country in the first ever Test. He later moved back to England and went on to play for them as well.

Who holds the record for the highest individual score by a Bangladeshi batsman in Tests?

Date: 12.03.2013

Mushfiqur Rahim, who recently scored 200 runs against Sri Lanka in the Galle Test, became the first batsman from Bangladesh to hit a Test double century which is the highest by any player from the nation.

Before Lionel Messi, who held the record for scoring in consecutive league matches?

Date: 11.03.2013

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi scored against Deportivo La Coruna in Spanish La Liga on March 9, 2013. It was the 17th consecutive La Liga game in which Messi had scored. He broke the record of Teodor Peterek of Poland. He had scored 22 goals in 16 consecutive league matches in the Polish First Division way back in 1937-38.

Against which country Brian Lara played his last Test?

Date: 09.03.2013

Brian Lara, who made his debut against Pakistan in December 1990, played his last game against the same nation in 2007. He was out for a duck in the first innings but scored 49 in the second dig. In both the innings he fell to Umar Gul.

Who holds the record for the fastest hat-trick in UEFA Champions League?

Date: 06.03.2013

During the 1995-96 season of UEFA Champions League, Mike Newell of England netted three goals in nine minutes for Blackburn against Rosenberg which is the fastest in the competition.