Cricket Best Moment

Monday, 29 April 2013

Popeye

Which cricketer is nicknamed "Popeye"? This was a nickname bestowed on the Pakistan allrounder Abdul Razzaq, who some years ago was advised to eat lots of spinach, because it was healthy, and liked it so much he insisted on it being provide...d at almost every meal. His team-mates teasingly called him "Popeye", after the cartoon hero whose muscles improve whenever he gulps down a tin of the green stuff. During the 2004-05 Australian tour Razzaq had a bout of sickness that was initially blamed on eating too much spinach, although it's more likely that he had picked up a virus. "You can't get sick from eating safe and healthy food," he told the pakpassion website in 2008. "What happened was that I got a bit of food poisoning and that made me sick, that's all there is to it."

Kapil Dev Youngest Bowler to Take 199 wickets in Test Cricket

The youngest man to take 100 wickets in Tests, is Kapil Dev, who was 25 days past his 21st birthday when he got there during India's match against Pakistan in Calcutta in January 1980. Kapil reached the mark three weeks quicker than New Zea...land's Daniel Vettori, who reached 100 in March 2000. The only other man to take 100 Test wickets before his 22nd birthday is Harbhajan Singh (who reached three figures in May 2002). Kapil also remains the fastest to 100 in terms of time - he got there in 473 days, with Mitchell Johnson and Graeme Swann (both 617 days) the only others to reach 100 in less than two years.

Alastair Cooked reached 7000 Test Runs at Younger Age than Anyone Else

Alastair Cook reached 7000 Test runs at a younger age than anyone else - even Sachin Tendulkar? Alastair Cook reached 7000 runs last December, in his 86th Test, about a fortnight short of his 28th birthday. Sachin Tendulkar was seven months... older when he reached 7000, in his 85th Test, in November 2001. The only others to reach 7000 Test runs before turning 30 are Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis, who were both 29. Cook currently has 7117 runs in 87 Tests: Tendulkar, the only man so far to reach 8000 before his 30th birthday, got there in May 2002, in his 96th match, a month after turning 29.

Fastest 1000 Runs in Test Cricket

West Indies Batsman Everton Weekes needed only 12 innings to reach 1000 Runs in Test Cricket along with the Herbert Sutcliffe of England. Both jointly held the World Record. Great Sir Don Bradman Took 13 innings to reach the 1000 runs.

Saqlain Mushtaq Fastest bowler who took 100 wickets in ODI

Pakistan offspinner Saqlain Mushtaq the fastest man, who took his 100th wicket in his 53rd ODI, back in May 1997. This record still belongs to his name till date. The first off spinner who introduced "Doorsa". A great off spinner unluckily sidelined for some reasons.

Laurie Fishlock

Question: Who made his Test debut against India but hurt his hand on the tour of Australia that followed, didn't play another Test for ten years till he was recalled to face India, and then broke a finger on the tour of Australia that followed?

Answer: The answer to this rather complicated question is the Surrey and England batsman Laurie Fishlock, who played his first two Tests against India in 1936, then went to Australia with Gubby Allen's side that winter but suffered a hand injury. He didn't play another Test until he was recalled for the final match of England's first post-war series, against India in 1946 on his home ground, at The Oval. Fishlock was 39 by then, but had been having a fine season. He only scored 8 on his recall - but was still taken to Australia that winter. Early in the tour he badly broke a finger, and played only in the fifth Test, his last England appearance.

Notrious Moments in Cricket History

The Famous Cricket Incident between Dennis Lillee and Javed Miandad clash, Australia v Pakistan, Perth, November 17, 1981. Miandad nearly hit to Lille with bat.

Javed Miandad vs Kiran More

Javed Miandad acrobatically imitates the over-enthusiastic Kiran More, 16th Match: India v Pakistan, Benson & Hedges World Cup, Sydney, March 4, 1992. It was funny moment recorded in India v Pakistan matches.