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Over the years, bowling has evolved in T20 cricket with the Indian Premier League (IPL) being a big part of it. It is arguably the best T20 league in the world and quite a few bowlers have honed their skills in this cash-rich T20 tournament. In this article, we are going to take a […]
1. Sachin Tendulkar India’s Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the most ODIs played. In 463 matches he played, he scored 18426 runs at 44.83 and took 154 wickets at 44.48. It all began when India and Pakistan met in the second match of a series at Gujranwala on India’s tour of Pakistan in December […]
1. Rohit Sharma (IND) The list is headed by Rohit Sharma with 1427 runs in 28 matches at 57.30, 7 tons and 6 fifties, including the highest score of 159 and a strike rate of 89.92. The highlight of Sharma’s performance was his spectacular show during the ICC World Cup in England when he […]
T20 cricket is a batsman-friendly format and bowlers are given severe treatment almost throughout the whole innings. However, partnerships are important for the batting team to consolidate their big hitting and put up a huge score. In the IPL (Indian Premier League), teams hunt in pairs and packs and the crowd is delighted by […]
One of the most prolific batsmen of the era who piled up records as if was his God-given mission, he made his international debut in 1989 in a Test match when he was only 16 years old against his team’s arch-rivals Pakistan at the historic National Stadium in Karachi. Up against him was a […]
Sachin Tendulkar, the batting maestro, had a career of about 24 years long which started in November 1989 and ended in November 2013. Throughout his career, he scored 34357 international runs, more than 6000 runs lead over the batsman second to him. Sachin scored 100 centuries in 664 international matches across formats, a 29-century […]
Before one-day cricket came to the fore, there had been hardly any spotlight on the strike rates or on the speed of batsmen’s scoring. All that mattered was accumulating runs. In fact, in the initial years of ODI cricket, strike rates weren’t as important they are today. However, nowadays, it is considered one of […]
In this article, we are going to talk about the batsmen with the most number of fours in the history of the IPL. The list contains 10 players, with 8 of them being Indians, whereas Warner and Gayle being the only foreign players included in the list. 1. Shikhar Dhawan – 524 Fours in […]
Scoring 100+ runs in an innings is always a special moment for a batsman. However, doing so in a T20 match is something much more special. This is because in this format the team gets just 120 balls (20 overs) to face. At the start of the T20 format, not many would have thought […]
Test Cricket is the oldest and longest format of cricket. Moreover, it is also considered the hardest because it tests both mental toughness and physical strength of players for as long as up to five straight days. However, it is also considered a slower game that does not get as many interested spectators as […]
T20 is the newest format of cricket with many of us fortunate enough to have witnessed the first T20 World Cup. The tournament was a massive success and people instantly fell in love with the game’s shorter format. It won’t be wrong to say that this World Cup has changed the face of international […]
The limited-overs cricket brought results in every game and was to feed into the aggressive nature of players. It was unthinkable when Kapil Dev scored 175 not out in a brutal innings and then Sir Viv Richards upped that with 189 not out of his own. However, once Sachin Tendulkar scored the first double […]
It’s been nearly five decades since ODI cricket started. However, only 61 players in the history of ODI cricket have aggregated 6000 runs or more. While there are as many as 44 players who needed less than 200 ODIs to get to the landmark, only six cricketers got there in less than 150 ODIs. […]
The inception of T20I cricket has raised the bar for batsmanship across the globe. With small boundaries and bigger bats, batsmen certainly rule the roost in the T20 format. West Indian opener Chris Gayle became the first player to notch up a hundred in the T20 format. Indian opener Rohit Sharma holds the record […]
Cricket is a game of data and stats. We, fans, cherish cricketing milestones. In ODIs, scoring 5000 runs in considered a great achievement. In this article, we are going to talk about the top 10 batsmen in ODI history to reach 5000 runs in the minimum number of innings. On our list, there are […]