DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Krish Srikkanth added an extra 'k' to his name so that it became nine letters : nine in numerology
being associated with heaven
and strength.

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Bhagwat Chandrashekhar is the only cricketer to have scored fewer runs in his test career than the number of wickets he took. (242 wickets
and 177 runs)

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
The reason why former India skipper Bishen Singh Bedi took up cricket at age twelve : to slim down.

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Playing at Edbaston, CK Nayudu once hit the ball into the River Rhea; the river is the boundary between Warwickshire and Worcestershire, so he is perhaps the only batsman to have sent a cricket ball from one county to another!

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Sachin Tendulkar was the first player in international cricket to be given out by the third umpire (via a tv replay)
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Dibyashish Roy

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match. Only two others have achieved this, Englishmen Geoff Boycott and Alan Lamb, and Australia's Kim Hughes

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Sachin Tendulkar is the only Indian to have slammed centuries on debut in Ranji, Duleep and Irani trophies. What a genius!

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
Only one Indian test cricketer has played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia. He is Rusi Surti who played for Queensland

DID YOU KNOW . . . ?
On the day of the India-Windies final in the '83 World Cup a spectator asked Sir Garfield Sobers for an autograph. Sobers denied it saying that day was India's day ...
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Dibyashish Roy
 

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