Do you know this?? - Trivia

Marvan Atapattu of Sri Lanka, who later went on to captain the side, scored 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0 in his first six Test innings.

Former Pakistan pacer Aaqib Javed is the youngest player to take a ODI hat-trick. He achieved the feat against India at the age of 19 in 1991.

Graham Gooch and Mike Gatting who played their last Test in February 1995, played 197 Tests between them and scored over 13,000 runs.

Of the 17 ODI hundreds scored by legendary WI opener Desmond Haynes, 11 were unbeaten and 16 came in winning causes.

Richie Benaud, who retired in 1964, holds the proud record of having never captained Australia to a series defeat.

India and England had an impromptu rest day on day two of the Madras Test in 1952, following the death of King George VI.

Don Bradman played his last innings in Australia against India and retired hurt for 57 after he tore a muscle under his left ribs.

Albert Trott is the only man in the history of the game to have cleared the pavilion at Lord's. He hit Monty Noble out of the ground.

In the third Test at Kingsmead in 1957, Hugh Tayfield bowled 137 balls without conceding a run during England's first innings vs South Africa.

In 1980, Sunil Gavaskar (166) and Kapil Dev (84 and match figures of 11 for 136) gave India their first series victory over Pakistan in 27 years.

Australia's Joe Darling hit the ball out of the Adelaide Oval to reach his century in the first Test against England in 1898.

If Kapil Dev had not been dropped for one Test against England in 1984-85, his Test career would have consisted of 132 consecutive matches.

England captain Mike Denness dropped himself for the fourth Test of the Ashes series in 1975 after making just 65 runs in the last six innings.

England captain Mike Denness dropped himself for the fourth Test of the Ashes series in 1975 after making just 65 runs in the last six innings.

In 1979, Gavaskar scored 182 in the 2nd innings of the 3rd Test against WI to become the only batsman to hit a century in each innings of a Test three times.

England cricketer Jack Hobbs, who scored 83 in his first Test knock, went on to become the first batsman to score 5000 Test runs.

VVS Laxman hit 44 boundaries in his knock of 281 against Australia in the Kolkata Test at the Eden Gardens in 2001.

Only one Indian test cricketer - Rusi Surti - played Sheffield Shield cricket in Australia. He played for Queensland.

B 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.

M.L. Jaisimha and Ravi Shastri have both batted on all five days of a Test Match.

The only bowler to have got the great Aussie Sir Donald Bradman out hit wicket was India's Lala Amarnath.

Southpaw Vinod Kambli, who scored two consecutive double hundreds in Test cricket, hit the first Ranji Trophy ball he faced for a six.

Indian spinner Maninder Singh was the last man to be dismissed in the famous tied Test against Australia in Chennai in 1986.

India played its first one-day international match against England at Headingley in 1974, under the captaincy of Ajit Wadekar.