Here are 4 cricket facts that are certain to blow away your mind:
MS Dhoni has hit Sunil Narine for only 1 four in IPL and no sixer
MS Dhoni has played all 15 seasons of the IPL and KKR spinner Sunil Narine has been in the IPL since 2012. Hence, both have battled against each other plenty of times.
However, despite being one of the best players of spin bowling, MS Dhoni has hit Sunil Narine for only 1 four and no six in the IPL.
Narine vs Dhoni: 15 innings, 74 balls, 39 runs, 1 wicket, strike rate of 52.
This shows that Narine has kept Dhoni quiet, but has dismissed him only once. This means that Dhoni has mostly batted cautiously and didn’t take any risk against Narine. This is still quite a stunning fact because of the longevity of their careers and Dhoni’s six-hitting reputation against spinners.
Kedar Jadhav has the 3rd best strike rate among Indians in ODIs
Kedar Jadhav played 73 ODIs for India between 2014 and 2020, scoring 1389 runs at an average of 42 and strike rate of 101 with 2 centuries and 6 fifties. Jadhav was also part of the Indian team in the 2017 Champions Trophy and 2019 World Cup.
What would surprise you is that Kedar Jadhav has the 3rd best ODI strike rate of 101 among Indian batters who have played in at least 50 ODI innings. Only Hardik Pandya and Virender Sehwag are ahead of him.
Only Brendon McCullum has hit a century for KKR in the IPL
Another simply surprising fact in the IPL is that there has only been one century hit by a KKR batsman in 15 seasons of IPL – that by Brendon McCullum, 158* in the very first match of the IPL way back in 2008.
KKR has boasted some of the finest T20 batters – Gayle, Gambhir, Lynn, Uthappa – but surprisingly none of them hit an IPL century when at KKR.
India had 7 captains in international cricket in 2022
India broke all their previous records as they had as many as 7 captains in the year 2022. Because of injury and rest to Rohit Sharma, the regular captain, India had to use other players as well at different times in different formats.
India started the year with Rohit Sharma as the white-ball captain and Virat Kohli as the Test skipper. Kohli stepped down and Rohit took over as all-format captain. Before that, KL Rahul also led the side for one Test in South Africa in January.
After that, because of injuries to both Rohit and KL Rahul, Pant captained in T20I series against South Africa at home and Jasprit Bumrah led the side in the Edgbaston Test. Shikhar Dhawan captained in a few ODIs when Rohit was rested while Hardik Pandya was the newest interim T20I skipper in Rohit’s absence.
