Submitted By :

Abhishek Sasan

MBA Ist year

Cricket “ A Gentleman’s Game “

Interesting Facts (Batting) in Cricket

Charles Bannerman Scored 165* the first test Century in the match played between Australia and England at Melbourne Cricket Ground in 15-19 March 1887

First test century partnership was put on by W.G.Grace and A.P.Lucas batting for England against Australia , played at the Kennington Oval in 1880

W.G.Grace was the first batsman to Score 100 first class centuries in 1895

The First ODI Century was Scored by Denis Amiss (103) against Australia at Old Trafford in 1972

The First ODI Double Century was Scored by Sachin Tendulkar against South Africa at Gwalior in 2010

Interesting Facts(Bowling) in Cricket

Billy Midwinter was the first Bowler to take a five wicket haul in test cricket against Australia in 1877 Billy Voce was the first Bowler to take a five wicket haul in ODI Cricket

Courtney Walsh holds the best(economy rate) five wicket haul 5/1 against Sri Lanka in ODI Cricket in 1986 Jim Laker with a 10 wicket haul against Australia at Old Trafford in 1956 Courtney Walsh became the first bowler to take 500 wickets in the history test Cricket

Achievements by Indians India achieved its first ever Test victory in 1951-52 against England

Poly Umrigar scored 233 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955/56 and became the first Indian to score a Double Century Kapil Dev 175* knock against Zimbabwe at Tunbridge Wells in 1983 India became the world champion in 1983 after defeating the defending champion West Indies by 43 runs at Lord’s,London

Anil kumble with a 10 wicket haul against Pakistan at Ferozeshah kotla in 1999 and becoming the second bowler to do so in the history of test cricket

Sunil Gavaskar is the first Indian with four seasons of 1000+ runs 

Bats Used in Cricket

Laver & WoodBradbury

Bellingham & Smith AS Sports

Knighted Cricketers

Sir Francis Lacey(1859- 1946)

Sir Gary Sobers(1936-present)

Sir Don Bradman(1908-2001)

Sir MaharajKumar(1905-1965)

Sir Vivian Richards(1952-present)

Sir Ian Botham(1955-present)

Do you Know ?

Karsan Ghavri introduced bouncer during the 1978-79 series against West Indies in which he took record making 27 wickets , most by a left arm fast bowler

How Cricket Changed ?

18th Century Cricket Early 19th century Cricket

Late 19th century Cricket

20th Century Cricket

Kerry Packer’s Contribution to Cricket

Kerry Francis Packer was best known for founding World Series Cricket. As top players from several countries rushed to join World Series most notablyTony Greig , Clive Lloyd , Greg Chappell ,Ian Chappell ,Imran Khan , Dennis Lillee , Michael Holding, Andy Roberts .

Technologies Used in Cricket

Hawk Eye

Wagon Wheel

Worm Graph

Hot spot

Hawk-Eye

Wagon Wheel

Worm Graph

Hot Spot

All time Great (Top 5 Batsman)

All Time Great (Top 5 Bowler )

All time Great (Top 5 fielders)

Is the Greatest ?

Is Mansur Pataudi the Greatest ?

Full name : Mansur Ali Khan Pataudi 

Nickname : Nawab of Pataudi Major teams : India, Oxford University,Sussex

Match Played

Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50

Test 46 83 2793 203* 34.91 6 16

First Class

310 449 15425 203* 33.67 33 75

Played Won Lost Drawn

Test 40 9 11 20

Is Sunil Gavaskar the Greatest ?

Full Name : Sunil Manohar Gavaskar

Nickname : Sunny

Major teams :  India, Mumbai, Somerset

Match Played

Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50

Test 125 214 10122 236* 51.12 34 45

ODI 108 102 3092 103* 35.13 1 27

Played Won Lost Drawn

Test 47 9 7 31

Is Kapil Dev the Greatest ?

Full name :  Kapildev Ramlal Nikhanj

Nickname : The Haryana Hurricane

Major teams: India, Haryana,Northamptonshire,Worcestershire

Match Played

Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50

Test 131 184 5248 163 31.05 8 27

ODI 225 198 3783 175* 23.79 1 14

Played Won Lost Drawn

Test 34 4 7 23

Is Sachin Tendulkar the Greatest ?

Full name : Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar

Nickname : Tendlya,Little Master

Major teams:   India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians,Yorkshire

Match Played

Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50

Test 169 276 13837 248* 56.02 48 56

ODI 442 431 17598 200* 45.12 46 93

Played Won Lost Drawn

Test 25 4 9 12

Is Sourav Ganguly the Greatest ?

Full name : Sourav Chandidas Ganguly

Nickname : Dada

Major eams: India,Bengal,Glamorgan,Lancashire,Northamptonshire

Match Played

Inns Runs HS Avg 100 50

Test 113 188 7212 239 42.17 16 35

ODI 311 300 11363 183 41.01 22 72

Played Won Lost Drawn

Test 49 21 13 15