Bowling Trivia:

The best one-day bowling figure are 7 for 37 by Aaquib Javed of Pakistan, versus India at Sharjah. These 7 wickets included a hat trick of leg before wickets.

Jim Laker(England) has the best bowling figures in a test match. Against Australia he took 9 for 37 in the first innings, and 10 for 53 in the second innings giving him match figures of 19 for 90. The only other wicket, that of Burke, was taken by Tony Lock. No other bowler has ever taken all 10 wickets in an innings.

The best test bowling figures on debut are those of Narendra Hirwani(India). He took 16 for 136 versus the West Indies. He broke Bob Massie's record of 16 for 137.

Australian spinner Shane Warne's first test ball in England pitched outside the leg stump, and spun right across the bewildered batsman Mike Gatting of England, and took his off stump. This ball has been considered by some to be the ball of the century.

West Indian fast bowler Andersson Cummins, playing for the first time on South African soil (against Pakistan in a one-day international) took two wickets with his first two balls.

In his 20th test match Anil Kumble(India) needed 5 wickets to complete 100 test wickets, and thus tie Erapalli Prasana for the record fewest test matches taken by an Indian bowler to complete 100 wickets. In the 1st innings he took 4 wickets. In the second innings two catches were dropped off his bowling, but he never got that elusive wicket.

When India hosted Sri Lanka, and Kapil Dev was nearing Sir Richard Hadlee's world record 431 wickets in test cricket, the Indian skipper Mohammed Azharuddin asked Kumble to intentionally bowl outside the off stump so as to avoid taking too many wickets, and thus denying Kapil Dev the shot at the record in that match. Eventually Kapil succeeded in having Hashan Tilekratne(Sri Lanka) caught at forward short leg by Sanjay Manjrekar to secure his 432nd test victim.

The only bowler to have got Sir Donald Bradman(Australia) out hit wicket was the Indian, Lala Amarnath.

In the 1932-33 'Bodyline' series, Harold Larwood(England) was not the only bowler bowling 'Bodyline'. Bill Voce(England) also did the same.

Jeff Thompson(Australia) has bowled the fastest recorded ball in test cricket, clocked at 160.1 km/h (100.0 mph).

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