Facts which are related to History and Facts of Indian Cricket

Facts which are related to History and Facts of Indian Cricket

• First Cricket tournament in India was played as The Bombay Triangular which Later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912-1936)
• First Cricket Club in India is the Oriental Cricket Club,1848
• First Cricket Test Match that India Played was Against England at Lord's June,25, 1932
• First ODI Match that India Played was  Against England at Leeds July 13, 1974
• First T20 Match that India Played was Against South Africa 1st December, 2006
• First Test Captain of India CK Nayudu, 1932 tour of England
• First ODI Captain of India Ajit Wadekar, 1974
• First ODI Won by India 1975 against East Africa under captaincy of S Venkataraghavan (This was the only ODI won by India in world cup before wining the 1983 world cup)
• First Test Won by India was Against England in Madras, 1951-52
  
  
• First Test Series Victory was Against Pakistan, 1952
• First Test Series Victory outside Indian Subcontinent was Against New Zealand, 1967-68
• First Indian Bowler to take wicket was Mohammad Nissar
• First Indian Cricketer to score a half century was Amar Singh
• First Indian Cricketer to score a century was Lala Amarnath in 1933 against England in South Bombay
• First Indian Cricketer to score a  double century in Test was Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56
• First Indian Cricketer to score a triple century in Test was Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004.
• First Indian Cricketer to score a century in ODI was Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.
• First Indian Cricketer to score a double century in ODI was Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010.
  
  
• First Hat-trick in Test match was taken by Harbhajan Singh against Austrlia in March 2001
  
  
• First Hat-trick in ODI match was taken by Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987
• First Indian Cricketer World Cup Championship Win At the 1983 Cricket World Cup
  
  
• First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Test Cricket was Sunil Gavaskar
• First Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODI Cricket was Sachin Tendulkar He achieved this feat on 4th March 1987 against Pakistan at Ahmedabad.
• First Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined was Sachin Tendulkar
• Indian Bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings was Anil Kumble, 10/74 against Pakistan in Delhi,1999
• First Batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket was Sachin Tendulkar
• Highest Test Score by India was 726/9 against Sri Lanka in Mumbai,2009
• Lowest Test Score by India was 42 against England in 1974
• Highest ODI Score by India was 418/5 against West Indies,2011 at Indore
• Lowest ODI Score by India was 54 against Sri Lanka in Sharjah, 2001
• Highest Winning margin in ODI for India 257 against Bermuda in West Indies,2007
• Highest Winning margin in Test Match for India was Innings and 239 runs against Bangladesh, Mirpur 2007
• Highest Score run by WicketKeeper in ODI was Mahendra Singh Dhoni , 183 againt Sri Lanka, 2005
• Most Wicket taker in Test Match Anil Kumble,619 in 132 matches
• Most Wicket taker in ODI Anil Kumble,334 in 269 matches
• Highest Individual Score in Test Match Virender Sehwag, 319 against South Africa, Chennai, 2008
• Highest Individual Score in ODI Match Virender Sehwag, 219 against West Indies, Indore 2011
• Most dismissals in Test career by wicketkeeper MS Dhoni
• Most catches in Test career (non-wicketkeeper) Rahul Dravid, 209 in 163 matches
• Highest wicket partnerships in Test Match Vinoo Mankad & Pankaj Roy, 413 aginst New Zeleand in 1956
• First Indian Cricketer to awarded Arjuna Award Salim Durani
• Most number of Man of the Match Awards In ODI 62 by Sachin Tendulkar
• Most Consecutive Man of the Match Award In ODI 4 by Sourav Ganguly
• Most number of Man of the Series Awards  In ODI 16 by Sachin Tendulkar
• First Indian Batsman to score two centuries in same test match Vijay Hazare against Autralia in Adelaid, 1947-48
• First Batsman to score pair of ducks in same test match Vijay Hazare against England in Kanpur, 1951-52
• First Bastsman to Score 1000 Runs Vijay Hazare
• First Indian player to score a century in three successive Test matches Vijay Hazare
• Only Player to achieve 4000 test run and 400 test Wickets Kapil Dev
• India's first ever foreign coach is John Wright
• First stadium to host a Test match in India is Gymkhana Ground in Bombay, 1933
• Wicket Taken on the first bowl of career in Test Match is Nilesh Kulkarni, against Sri Lanka, Colmbo, 1997
• Wicket Taken on the first bowl of career in ODI S Ramesh, against West Indies,1999
• Fastest Century in ODI V Shewag, 60 Balls against New Zeland, 2009
• Fastest Half Century in ODI Ajit Agarkar, 21 balls againt Zimbabwe, 2000
• Fastest Century in Test Match Kapil Dev and M Azharuddin, 74 balls
• First Batsman to Score Three Triple Centuries in First Class Match Ravindra Jadeja
• Fastest 50 Wicket taker in Test Match R Ashwin
• Fastest Test Century on debut Shikhar Dhawan, against Australia, 85 balls
• 6 sixes in an over Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007
• Fastest Half Century in T20 Yuvraj Singh, against England 2007 in 12 balls