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- Cricket is a 165 years old sport in India, it was first played in India in 1848
- India is the only country to win the 60-Over, 50-Over and 20-Over World Cup
- Cricket is the second most popular sport in the world and is played in over 130 countries.
- Cricket was played in the US as early as 1700 in the Cheseapeake Area
- Cricket was played in a primitive form beginning in 1200 CE
- The official laws of cricket were first created in 1744, by the Marylebone Cricket Club in London, England
- Cricket was the forerunner of the game rounders, of which developed townball, of which developed New York Baseball.
- Cricket is America's first bat and ball sport and was quite popular all across the country during the 19th century
- Between 1834 and 1914 over 1000 cricket clubs were formed in 46 states
- 19th century American cricket became primarily a middle/working class sport
- 1859- US Cricket Team played the Canada Cricket Team in the FIRST International sporting event
- The only bowler to have got Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) out hit wicket was the Indian, Lala Amarnath.
- In 1952, versus England at Leeds, India were reduced to 0 for 4.
- Only 5 Indian batsmen - Gundappa Vishwanath, Mohammed Azharuddin and Saurav Ganguly, Sehwag, Shikhar dhawan have scored centuries on debut for India, and then scored centuries again in their careers
- Wilfred Rhodes (England) has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad (INDIA).
- Against England, at Lord's in 1990, India needed 24 runs to avoid the follow-on, with 1-wicket in hand. After playing the first 2 balls of the over defensively Kapil Dev hit off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for 4 consecutive sixes (the only time this has ever been done), to avoid the follow-on. Next ball number 11 batsman Narendra Hirwani was dismissed by Angus Fraser.
- The best test bowling figures on debut are those of Narendra Hirwani(India). He took 16 for 136 versus the West Indies. He broke Bob Massie's record of 16 for 137.
- When India hosted Sri Lanka, and Kapil Dev was nearing Sir Richard Hadlee's world record 431 wickets in test cricket, the Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin asked Kumble to intentionally bowl outside the off stump so as to avoid taking too many wickets, and thus allowing Kapil Dev the shot at the record in that match. Eventually Kapil succeeded in having Hashan Tilekratne(Sri Lanka) caught at forward short leg by Sanjay Manjrekar to secure his 432nd test victim.
- The only wicket keeper to have stumped Sir Donald Bradman (Australia) was Prabir Sen of INDIA
- MS Dhoni holds the world record for 6 dismissals by a wicket keeper in a one-dayer. V/s England at leeds in 2007
