The Most Consecutive test match wins

Australian cricket team holds the record of most consecutive test match wins ever by a team.Cricket Australia has reached this honour 2 times.Both of these times they won 16 matches in a row which was not attained by any International cricket team ever.They reached this status during the time periods 1999-2001 and 2005-2008.
West Indies holds [...]

Cricket History in India

Cricket is now the most popular game in India eventhough cricket is not the national game of india.BCCI (Board of Control Of Cricket In India) as the name suggests is the regulating body of cricket in India which is also the richest cricket board in the world.Cricket in India has got rich history.There are lots [...]

The Making Of a Cricket Ball

Cricket Balls are manufactured from the core of a cork and the scientific name of the cork is called Quercus Suber which consists mainly of suberin.The core of the cork which is extracted is first layered and then it is covered by a leather case with a bit aroused sewn seem.The Cricket ball is a [...]

Shane Warne-The Spin Magician

Shane Warne (Full Name:Shane Keith Warne)  the former cricket player of Australia is well renowned as the spinner magician.He was selected as one of the five wisden cricketers of the century in the year 2000.
Warne started his carrier in the year 1992 in a test match and he got a record of 708 wickets which [...]

The Painting got the nickname of Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid the indian cricketer who is remarkable for his defensive play and also the good thinker of the game.Rahul Dravid got the nickname “The Wall” for this defensive play.The nick name of Rahul Dravid “The wall” has been sold for $115,800 in an art auction that took place in Mumbai.The name “The Wall” is [...]

Cricketers who scored most number of triple centuries

Brian Lara of West Indies,Virender Sehwag of India and Don Bradman of Australia are the 3 cricketers who scored the most number of triple centuries.They all scored 2 triple centuries each.
Brian Lara played 232 innings and scored of about 11953 runs.He scored the highest ever individual score of 400* in an inning and he retired [...]

Extra test and Twenty-20 for India in New Zealand

New Zealand Cricket board has accepted the request of the BCCI (Board of Control Of Cricket In India) for an extra test and Twenty-20 to compensate for the lost of money of about $25 million for not taking part in the ICC champions trophy in Pakistan which was cancelled due to the recent terrorist attack [...]

Umpire Steve Bucknor Announced His Retirement

The Umpire Steve Bucknor (Full Name:Stephen Anthony Bucknor) declared that he would be retiring this coming March.
He told that the third test between South Africa and Australia in Cape Town from March 19 to 23 and the two ODIs between West Indies and England in Barbados on March 27 and 29 will be his last [...]

The fastest Century by Shahid Afridi

Records are made to be broken but the record made by shahid Afridi of Pakistan who scored the fastest 100 (Scored 102) with 11 sixes and 6 fours of just 37 balls in oct 04 1996 at Nairobi (Nairobi Gymkhana Club) against srilanka is still holding the first slot.Unfortunately he got out soon in that [...]

Cricket fielding positions

Cricket is a game of thinking and tactics which has got equal importance that of physical turmoil.As for a bowling team is concerned cricket field positions has got greater importance in the cricket field.

The fielding position shown in the above picture is based upon the right-handed batsman.The fielding position for a left-handed batsman is the [...]

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