Top 10 Fact About Cricket

#1 The LBW rule was introduced for the first time in 1779

#2 Cricket is called long ball, goal pind, throw away, house competition in Hindi

#3 In a World Cup match, India had to score 335 runs and Sunil Gavaskar came to the opening and scored only 36 runs in 174 balls

#4 Saurabh Ganguly is the only Indian to have won the "Man of the Match" title four times in a row

#5 Virender Sehwag's highest score is 119 in T20, 219 in ODI, 319 in Test

#6 Chris Gayle is the only player to hit a six off the very first ball in a Test Adam Gilchrist has made a record of playing 96 consecutive Tests.

#7 Sunil Gavaskar was dismissed on the first ball of a Test match 3 times in his career Indian cricketer Lala Amarnath is the only bowler to have hit wicket with Don Bradman in a Test match.

#8 Ravi Shastri and M.L. Jaisimha are the only Indian cricketers to have batted on all five days in a Test match

#9 Irfan Pathan of India is the only bowler to have taken a hat-trick in the very first over of a Test match

#10 The first run in international cricket was scored by Australia batsman Charles Bannerman