Do you know these Facts :)

• Virender Sehwag holds a unique record of scoring 150+ runs in nine of his previous 10 centuries which even Sir Donald Bradman didn’t hold.

• The first International match was played between USA and Canada in New York in 1844 which Canada won by 23 runs.
• Len Hutton is the only player to be given out obstructing the field in Test Cricket History.

• The first ever Australian team to tour England was a group of Aborgines lead by an Englishman Charles Lawrence. Each player wore different coloured caps so that people could identify them with ease. Apart from Cricket they also showed off their talent in a number of unique sports like backward race, boomerang throwing and Cricket ball dodging.
• The shepards in England used to play Cricket in front of tree stumps and hence the term ” Stumps ” originated. As the game progressed, the game was played in front of wicket gates and hence the term ” Wickets ” originated.

• India’s Lala Amarnath is the only Bowler to have got Sir Donald Bradman out hit wicket.

• The Sawai Man Singh Stadium in Jaipur holds the record for registering a first ball duck on debut when Sunil Gavaskar was caught by Javed Miandad off Imran Khan in the first ever Test match here in 1987.

• M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match. Only two others have achieved this, Englishmen Geoff Boycott and Alan Lamb, and Australia’s Kim Hughes.

• Legendary Spinner B.S.Chandrasekar is the only player to have scored fewer runs than the number of wickets that he picked up (242 Wickets and 177 runs).

• The only player to have hit a Cricket ball from one county to other was C.K.Nayudu playing at Edgbaston and hitting the ball into the nearby river Rhea which is the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire.

• On the day of the 1983 World Cup Finals between India and West Indies, Sir Garfield Sobers was approached by a fan for an autograph. But he simple denied him stating that the day belonged to the Indians.

• The cartoon character Donald Duck is named after Sir Donald Bradman after he scored a duck in 1932 when touring North America. Walt Disney was a Cricket fan and was also a member of Hollywood Cricket Club.

Quick Facts about Cricket

• 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
• Currently, US Cricket is governed by the USA Cricket Association http://www.usaca.org and the USA Junior Cricket Association. http://www.usjrcricket.org
• Cricket is being used not only in a sporting capacity, but also as a tool for character development in Los Angeles and Miami.

38 Facts about Sachin Tendulkar :)

1. Sachin Tendulkar wanted to become a fast bowler, but when he was rejected by Dennis Lillee’s MRF Pace Foundation in 1987. Lillee told the young Tendulkar to focus on his batting. The other youngster turned away by Lillee along with Tendulkar was Sourav Ganguly.

2. Sachin Tendulkar fielded for Pakistan as a substitute during a one-day practice match against India at the Brabourne Stadium in 1988.

3. Sachin Tendulkar and Vinod Kambli set a world record partnership of 664 runs in the Harris Shield, an inter-school tournament in Mumbai. Tendulkar scored an unbeaten 326 runs and reportedly the mammoth stand literally drove the opposition to tears.

4. Sachin Tendulkar at the age of 19 became the youngest Indian to play in county cricket.

5. Sachin Tendulkar had to wait for 79 matches for his first ODI century and by that time he had scored seven Test hundreds.

6. Sachin Tendulkar was the first batsman to be given out by the Third-umpire. In 1992, on the second day of the Durban Test, a Jonty Rhodes throw caught Tendulkar short of the crease.  After watching TV replays he was adjudged out.

7. Sachin Tendulkar made his Test debut in 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi. In the same match, Pakistani pacer Waqar Younis also played his first Test match ever.

8. Sachin Tendulkar went to Sharadashram Vidyamandir School only after coach Ramakant Achrekar saw his batting potential. Achrekar was the cricket coach of  Sharadashram Vidyamandir School. Before enrolling at Shardashram, Tendulkar went to New England School of Indian Education Society in East Bandra

9. The first brand which Sachin Tendulkar endorsed was the health drink ‘Boost.’ He was seen alongside Kapil Dev in many of their ad films, the start of which happened in 1990.

10. English fast bowler Allan Mulally playing in his debut Test against India complained that Sachin Tendulkar was batting with a bat broader than the normal willow. That’s how much Tendulkar had psyched the bowler with his brilliant batting.
11. Sachin Tendulkar started off with centuries in his debut matches in the Ranji, Duleep and Irani Trophy. No other domestic cricketer has been able to break this record till now.

12. Sachin Tendulkar was done in by a sharp bouncer from Zimbabwe’s Henry Olonga in a league match at Sharjah in 1998. In the final match against the same opposition, Tendulkar had his revenge as he smashed the bowler all around the ground and belted an unbeaten 118 runs.

13. Sachin Tendulkar is a big fan of tennis legend John McEnroe. In his formative years, McEnroe was Tendulkar’s idol. The young Sachin pleaded his parents to get a similar headband and wristbands like McEnroe. Also take one look at his childhood snaps and the McEnroe styled shock of hair on his head tells everything.

14. Sachin Tendulkar was named after the great musician SD Burman. Sachin’s father’s, Ramesh Tendulkar was a big fan of SD’s music.

15. Sachin Tendulkar was led onto the field on his Ranji debut by his then captain, Ravi Shastri.

16. Sachin Tendulkar was gifted a Ferrari 360 Modena by F1 champion Michael Schumacher in 2002. Ferrari presented the car to Sachin in honour of him equalling Don Bradman’s record of 29 Test centuries.

17. Sachin Tendulkar spoke to his favourite music star, Mark Knopfler, the lead guitarist of the rock band, Dire Straits for the very first time during a programme he was doing for the ESPN network. It was Sachin’s birthday and it turned out to be a happy surprise for him.

18. Sachin Tendulkar went to watch the movie Roja in 1995 with a beard and disguise.  And it all went wrong when his glasses fell off and the crowd in the cinema hall recognised him.

19. Sachin Tendulkar returned from a four-month tour of Australia after the 1992 World Cup and immediately turned up to represent Kirti College in April 1992. That’s some commitment from a cricketer who was already a superstar by then.

20. Sachin Tendulkar uses a very heavy bat at the crease, weighing 3.2lbs. Only South Africa's Lance Klusener used a heavier bat in world cricket.
21. Sachin Tendulkar was without a bat contract until the start of the 1996 Cricket World Cup. At the end of the tournament a famous tyre manufacturer sponsored his willow.

22. Sachin Tendulkar was a big bully in the school. Whenever his friend introduced him to a new kid in the school, Tendulkar would invariably ask, “Will I be able to beat him?’ He was famous for picking up a fight.

23. Sachin Tendulkar asked his friend to dip the tennis ball in a bucket of water and hurl at him so that he could find out whether he was hitting ball from the middle of his bat.

24. Sachin Tendulkar has been granted the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award and Padma Shri by Indian government. He is the only Indian cricketer to get all of them.

25. Sachin Tendulkar played for Yorkshire what was so special about it? Well, he was the county side’s first overseas professional ever. He averaged 46.52 with the bat in his stint with the county team.

26. Sachin Tendulkar's wife Anjali does not eat or drink whenever the Master is at the crease.

27. Sachin Tendulkar was most fascinated by band-aids. A hint of a wound and he would plaster it all over the injury.

28. Sachin Tendulkar loves collecting perfumes and watches.

29. Sachin Tendulkar batted in his debut Test against Pakistan wearing the pads gifted to him by Sunil Gavaskar

30. In 1992 Sachin became the youngest cricketer to reach a 1000 runs in Test cricket
31. Ashley Giles was the first bowler to get him stumped out in Test cricket in 2002

32. Sachin’s record of five test centuries before he turned 20 is a current world record.

33. Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests

34. Sachin Tendulkar has the most number of Stadium Appearances: 90 different Grounds

35. Sachin Tendulkar with Sourav Ganguly hold the world record for the maximum number of runs scored by the opening partnership. They have put together 6,271 runs in 128 matches.

36. He has 20 century partnerships for opening pair with Sourav Ganguly is a world record.

37. Tendulkar has scored most Centuries in a calendar year: 9 ODI centuries in 1998.

38. In 1998 he made 1,894 ODI runs, a record for ODI runs by any batsman in a calendar year.