Hidden Facts in Cricket

1:Saeed Ajmal never won Man of the Match Award in ODI 
Even after playing 113 ODI matches and got 5 wickets two times he never got man of the match award achievement in One day matches.
Note:One time he was awarded with man of the series award when  Pakistan won the series against South Africa in 2013-14 but man of the series award is something different than man of the match award








2:Former Cricketer Graeme Smith is the only Player who remained captain for 100 test matches more than anyone in the Cricket history
Graeme Smith played 117 test matches and remained captain for 100 test matches
He played his first test match against Australia in 2002 and last test in 2014 with the same team.In his captaincy South Africa came just one time below top 5 positions in icc rankings in 2007.
Currently South Africa is facing the same situation in rankings but they are improving there rankings with every possible step
3:Sir Don Bradman just played six 6's in his career

His actual name is Donald George Bradman but he was usually known with this name "The Don" in that time this meant one of the greatest Australian Cricket.
Can you believe he played 52 matches and the thing which makes him an Brilliant batsmen is his "99.94" average.

But still he hit only six 6's in his career

4:Only the Player Inzamam Ul Haq took 

wicket on the first ball he bowled in 

international Cricket

5:Dirk Nannes was an Australian Born 
player who played for both Australia and  
Netherland


He didn't become successful in International cricket career as he played only 1 one day international.
His tour of T20 format was comparatively better than other formats because of his aggressive cricket nature.
N
ow he has completely retired from all kind of cricket formats

6:Saurav Ganguly only player in the cricket history to have four consecutive man of the match award in cricket history

He made this record in 2007 in the series against

Sri Lanka.
7:Sanath Jayasuriya has more One Day International wickets than Shane Warne
Sanath Jayasuriya Former Sri Lankan opener Batsman (All rounder) played 445 odi's and took 323 wicket in his whole odi career and on the other
hand Shane warne just played 194 ODI's and took only 293 wickets.
Sanath Jayasuriya not only holds the record of more wickets than shane warne but there are many other cricket legends having wickets less than Sanath Jayasuriya