What are some interesting facts regarding the sport of cricket?

Question

Sports of cricket is an interesting and entertaining game I want to know are there any interesting facts regarding the sport of cricket, please specify all the unique and interesting facts related to the sports of cricket.

Answer 1

There are 11 players on a Cricket team. it started out in England as a kids game.# A match between Barbados and British Guyana in 1946 saw an over with 14 balls in which there were no wides or no balls ! The 8 ball over was in force and the extra six deliveries were due to umpiring miscounting !!! # SUNIL GAVASKAR was so ill tempered that his parents had to take him to a psychiatrist to check up if there was something wrong with him. # In a test match in Faisalabad in 1997-98 ,Mushtaq Ahmed was bowling to Pat Symcox . Symcox missed the ball, which went on to knock the middle stump . However, the heat had fused together the bails and they did not fall . Symcox went on to make 81,his second highest test score..!! # SHAHID AFRIDI used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a One-Day International.!! # FOUR STUMPS !!!! -- An experimental game was played at Lords in 1963 to look at the effects of adjusting two features of cricket : the size of the wickets and the LBW rule , in order to create a wicket of width 11 inches rather than 9 inches , four stumps were used in that trial match..# The only law of Cricket that has not had any changes or modifications, is the length of the pitch.. # Which style of play is known as 'MANKAD'? -- The running out of a non-striking batsman who leaves his crease before the bowler has released the ball is called 'MANKAD, It is named after VINOO MANKAD , an Indian bowler, who used this method controversially, in a test match. # It was a county match in 1946.After two overs had been bowled, Len Hutton, who was fielding at slips asked the umpires to check the length of the pitch. The check discovered that the pitch was 24 yards long instead of 22! Then the match was restarted on a correct pitch. # Sachin Tendulkar is the first batsman to be dismissed (run out) by using the television replays by the third umpire, Jonty Rhodes was the fielder. Next day, in the same test match,Jonty Rhodes was given run out by the umpir