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In cricket there are many shocking moments during the game that happen, we will cover the top 5 surprising facts from international cricket in this article. These facts are going to revolve around cricket legends such as Virat Kohli, Jasprity Bumrah, Muttiah Murlitharan, Sachin Tendulkar, Rishabh Pant, and Rohit Sharma.
5 Shocking facts of legendary cricketers
1- In the recent T20 World Cup 2024, India defeated South Africa in the last over by 7 runs which was bowled by Hardik Pandya and Surya Kumar Yadav caught the eye of the world when he took the catch of the decade on long off and dismissed David Miller. David had the potential to chase the whole score in the final over but the effort of Surya was out of the world which led India to lift the RT20 World Cup after 17 years.
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In that final match, India was in the position where South Africa just needed 30 runs off 30 balls and Heinrich Klassen was going all hard on the Indian bowlers. In that critical situation where India’s win probability dropped to a mere 3 %, Rishabh Pant pulled off an attention-seeking act to slow the game and break the momentum of the opponent batters.
He called physiotherapists from the dugout to check his hamstring and the batters’ momentum got a small break there where they just wanted to play as much as possible because their bat was going with the line of the ball and leading them to a comfortable win. Soon after the break, Hardik Pandya returned with the ball and took the most wanted wicket of Klassen for India who could have finished the game sooner than the 20 overs ended. That’s the shocking fact from the T20 World Cup 2024 that helped India lift the World Cup.
2- At the Lord’s stadium which is known as the ‘Mecca Of Cricket’, every cricketer dreams of scoring and delivering on that ground. The unachievable record holders of cricket – Virat Kohli who has scored 80 international centuries and Sachin Tendulkar who holds the record of scoring a ton of centuries, have a shocking fact of never scoring a century or a half-century at this stadium.
Even their teammate Mohammed Shami who is a right-arm medium pacer, played along with Virat has scored a half-century, and Ajit Agarkar the right-arm fast bowler played along with Sachin and scored a ton at Lord’s.
3- At the age of 22, the ranking of current promising cricketer Yashaswi Jaiswal in Test cricket by the ICC stood at 5 while Virat Kohli at that age was ranked no.2 in the ODI rankings by the ICC. However, Sachin Tendulkar known as the ‘God Of Cricket’ at the age of 22 was ranked no.1 in Test and ODI format.
4- Jasprit Bumrah, the shining star of the Indian Cricket team has outshone many legendary bowlers in international cricket in his span of career. Recently in the T20 World Cup 2024, he was awarded the Player of the tournament which was the first time when a bowler received this award in the World Cup.
Since 2019 in test cricket, Pat Cummins (30 sixes), Tim Southee(29 sixes), Mark Wood (25 sixes), and Mithcell Starc ( 22 sixes) these pacers have conceded this amount of sixes till now. Whereas Jasprit Bumrah has only conceded 2 sixes since then.
5- Muttiah Murlitharan, the first cricketer to cross the 800 international wicket mark. He was the fastest bowler to reach 400, 500, 600, 700 and 800 wickets. To reach till 700 wickets from 650, he only took 5 matches to complete it.
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