CRICKET TRIVIA

• In a Trophy Final in Karachi in 1958 the scorecard read:
  1st Innings : Abdul Aziz, retired hurt, 0
  2nd Innings : Abdul Aziz, did not bat, dead, 0

• The first ever test match was held between England and Australia, at Melbourne, from the 15th to the 19th of March, 1877. Australia won by 45 runs. Exactly 100 years later (15th-19th March, 1977) a match between England and Australia was held at Melbourne to commemorate the 100 years of test cricket. Remarkably Australia won....... by 45 runs!!!

• The first one-day international was also held between England and Australia at Melbourne in 1971. Actually the first four days of a test match had been rained out, so on the final day the first ever one-day international was organized. Australia won the match.

• The first two twins to play in the same test match were not Steve and Mark Waugh of Australia, but Rosemary and Elizabeth Signal of New Zealand, versus England in 1984; in women's cricket!!

• The shortest ever test was between Sri Lanka and India in Colombo, in 1996. All but 50 minutes of the match was rained out.

• In the 1996 world cup West Indies bowled out Kenya for 166. Kenya came back to bowl out West Indies for 93, and take home a very memorable victory.

• Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, the youngest ever test captain, and a very fine batsman played for a long time with a glass eye.

• Charles Bannermann ..... name ring a bell?? Well the Australian is the man who faced the first ball in test cricket. He also scored the first test century, in the same innings (168*). He also holds the distinction along with David Houghton of Zimbabwe to have scored a century on his country's debut in test cricket.

• The record holder for the maximum ducks (zeroes) in test cricket is Courtney Walsh of the West Indies (25). He overtook Danny Morrison's (New Zealand) record of 24.

• Wilfred Rhodes (England) has batted at all 11 positions in test cricket. His feat was emulated by Vinoo Mankad (India).

• Mohammed Azharuddin (India) is the only batsman to have scored three centuries in his first three test matches.

• Bhausahib Nimbalkar (India) was on 443*, with one day to go in a first-class match, just 9 short of the then world record 452* held by Bradman, but was unable to play on the final day, because he had to go and get married.

• Sir Donald Bradman is the only cricketer to have scored two triple centuries in tests. He also scored 14 double centuries, and was once left 299*. Martin Crowe of New Zealand is the only person to have been out for 299.

• Marvan Attapatu (Sri Lanka) had scores of 0,0,1,0,0,0 in his first three test matches. No prizes for guessing what he scored in his first one-dayer..... yes 0 !!!!