Players

  Rohit Sharma equaled the record for the fastest T20I ton in 35 balls in the second match of a series during Sri Lanka’s tour of India held at Indore on 22 December 2017. Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bowl first. Dananjaya Dampened Ironically, after four overs, India were only 26/0, giving […]

  Yuvraj Singh played his last season of the IPL in 2019. It was the end of a long journey that had begun in 2008 with Kings XI Punjab, a team he was representing for three years up to the 2010 season. He was bought by Pune Warriors franchise in the 2011 season. After being […]

In the first five years of his Test career, Virat Kohli had no double centuries. In the last 5 years, he has scored as many as 7 double centuries – 6 at home and 1 away. He made his first double century against the West Indies in mid-2016. A year and a half later, by […]

  The IPL 2019 season had eight teams competing: Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Capitals, Rajasthan Royals, Mumbai Indians, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kings XI Punjab. Chennai Super Kings MS Dhoni (captain), Ambati Rayudu, Chaitanya Bishnoi, David Willey, Deepak Chahar, Dhruv Shorey, Dwayne Bravo, Faf du Plessis, Harbhajan Singh, Imran Tahir, […]

  Rohit Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The right-hander started to show glimpses of his talent since early childhood and was seen as someone who could carve his name in history among the legends of cricket. Since his teenage days, Rohit Sharma was often touted as the most talented player […]

  Rohit Sharma, fondly known as the Hitman in cricket, is the only player to have more than one ODI double centuries. He holds the record for the highest score – 264 – in ODIs. Rohit Sharma also scored a double century in Tests. In all these double century innings, India ended up winning the […]

  After the departure of the likes of Inzamam ul Haq, Younis Khan, Mohd Yousuf and Misbah ul Haq, there was a vacuum in the Pakistan batting lineup, with no batsman capable of playing an anchor role and take charge in a crisis. In Babar Azam, Pakistan have finally found a batsman with a good […]

  Virat Kohli has been a prolific run-getter and a leader for India in all three formats of the game. With more than 20 thousand runs across formats with 70 centuries so far, he is likely to get close to Sachin Tendulkar in terms of runs scored across formats.  He is also likely to close […]

  Over the course of the last decade and a half, Mahendra Singh Dhoni has become a household name. In the last 15 years or so, every time a discussion on Indian cricket has come up, the Ranchi-born cricketer has hogged all spotlight. Before Dhoni’s arrival, India was trying a plethora of wicket-keeper-batsmen since 2000. […]

  A total of 34 players have scored a century in the IPL history until 2019. Only 12 players have more than 1 century and only 2 of them have more or equal to 5 centuries. Virat Kohli is one of them with 5 centuries scored so far in the IPL whereas the “Universe Boss” […]

In the cricketing world, hitting a century (scoring 100 or more runs) is considered the best achievement for a batsman. Scoring a ton gets difficult when playing an ODI (one-day international) as you get 50 overs (300 balls). The job gets even more difficult if you are not an opening batsman as you don’t get […]

In 224 ODI matches, Rohit Sharma has scored 9115 runs at an average of 49.27 with 29 centuries and 43 half-centuries. He is hot on the heels of Virat Kohli who has 43 ODI centuries and by the end of his career, could set a record for most ODI centuries, getting ahead of both Kohli […]

  Sachin Tendulkar holds the record for the highest number of international centuries in cricket with 51 Test centuries and 49 ODI tons. If there is any player who can break Tendulkar’s record, it is definitely Virat Kohli who has 70 already and, being of 30 years of age, has many more years of international […]

  Virat Kohli made his Test debut in 2011 and until August 2020, he has scored 27 Test centuries. He has played 86 Tests so far and amassed 7,240 runs at an average of 53.62 with 22 fifties along with 27 hundreds. In this article, we are going to take a closer look at his […]

  Be it any grade or form of cricket, school level or district level, zonal or divisional tournaments or even a domestic team taking part in the Ranji Trophy, Syed Mushtaq Ali and Vijay Hazare Trophy, there is something about Mumbai and its cricket. In fact, Mumbai cricket has always hogged quite a bit of […]