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20 hours ago · Clive Lloyd - 11 wins. Clive Lloyd never suffered a single Test defeat against England while leading the Caribbean team. He led WI 18 times in the longest format against the English side. While he ...
5 days ago · Brian Lara is one of cricket’s greatest players. Holder of the world record for the highest Test score and the only player in history to breach the 500-run mark in a first-class innings, the left-hander bestrode the game in the years either side of the millennium.
4 days ago · Rohit is the only captain to have a 70-plus winning percentage as captain in both ODIs and T20Is with the number being 75.55 in ODIs. Take a look at captains with win percentage of over 70 in...
Lloyd led from the front with the first ever century in a World Cup final in 1975, while Kapil Dev's famous 175 not out was the first 150+ score in the tournament.
- Australia is the most successful team in the history of the ODI World Cup having clinched the title five times – 1987, 1999, 2003, 2007 and 2015
- Australia were so dominant from 1999 that they went on to win 34 matches in a row across the next three editions. Their streak was put to an end by...
- Sachin Tendulkar, the only batter with over 2000 runs, holds the record for the most runs in the history of World Cup amassing 2278 runs from 45 ma...
- The record for the most centuries in the World Cup is held jointly by Sachin Tendulkar and Rohit Sharma with 6 hundreds each. Tendulkar went centur...
- Glenn McGrath of Australia, with 71 wickets, leads the pack
- Lasith Malinga is one of the nine hat-trick takers in World Cups but what makes him a cut above the rest is that the Sri Lanka great is the only bo...
- Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987 and Mohammed Shami against Afghanistan in 2019 are the only two Indian bowlers with a World Cup hat-trick
- Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa is the only batter to hit 6 sixes in an over in an ODI World Cup match. He achieved the feat against Netherlands b...
- While there are many mind-blowing stats emerging from World Cup's 48-year-long history, Australia's one-sided domination, which saw them win 34 mat...
3 days ago · This is a list of West Indian Test cricketers. A Test match is an international cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap. Those players who won their first Test cap in the same Test match as other players who had such a win, are listed alphabetically by ...
3 days ago · At this point, sections of the crowd began rioting because of which the match referee Clive Lloyd decided to award the game to Sri Lanka. Tendulkar scored 523 runs at an average of 87.16 and was the leading run scorer in the tournament. [72]
2 days ago · Match referee Clive Lloyd adjudged the application of an energy sweet to the ball as a deliberate offence, although Dravid himself denied this was his intent. Lloyd emphasised that television footage caught Dravid putting a lozenge on the ball during the Zimbabwean innings on Tuesday night at the Gabba. [231]
