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10 interesting facts about cricketers
- Virat Kohli is the only player in the history of IPL who has never been auctioned in the league. He was signed by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2008 and since then he has been retained by the same franchise. So far he has played 252 matches, scoring 8004 runs and has registered 8 hundreds and 55 fifties by his name.
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- Sally Barton(England) is the oldest player to make an international debut. She made her debut when she was 66 years 334 days. She played her first game in Gibraltar’s T20 international against Estonia in May 2024.
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- Yuvraj Singh is not the only cricketer who has battled cancer. Matthew Wade and Micheal Clark from Australia too have battled the deadly disease. Clark was diagnosed with skin cancer in 2006 and Wade was diagnosed with Testicular cancer when he was 16.
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- Mohammad Siraj started playing with a seasoned ball when he was 21. Two years later he was bought in an IPL auction as well. Before that, he used to practice with a rubber ball only.
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- Alec Steward was born on 8.4.63 and he ended up scoring 8463 test runs in his career span. He used to play cricket for England as he featured in 133 Tests and 170 ODI matches.
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- ML Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri are the only two Indians to bat on all five days of a test.
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- Shahid Afridi used Sachin Tendulkar’s bat to hit his fastest ODI century. He scored a 37 ball hundred in a match against Sri Lanka on 4th October, 1996.
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- Virat Kohli gained his peak fitness through olympic lifting rather than through conventional weight lifting. He learnt the techniques through trainer Mr. Shankar Basu. He gives huge credit to his fitness and diet regime for his success as a batsman.
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- Pat Cummins lost a part of his middle finger of his bowling hand during his childhood. This finger is used a lot in bowling as it helps in generating swing. Despite his injury, he turned out to become the deadliest pacers in the history of cricket.
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- Rohit Sharma is the only Indian player to win two T20 World Cups. He was in the squad that lifted the 2007 ICC T20 World Cup. Then again in 2024 he grabbed the same title, but this time as the leader of the team.
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