Ravindra Jadeja created history, became the second Indian bowler to do so
Ravindra Jadeja (Photo Source: Getty Images) Ravindra Jadeja also took five wickets in New Zealand’s second innings, completing a stellar performance by taking 10 wickets (10/120) in the third and final Test of the series at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Sunday. This became Jadeja’s second best performance in his Test career, after taking five wickets in New Zealand’s first innings. His best performance came against Australia in Delhi in 2023 where he recorded figures of 10/110. This is the first time in Ravindra Jadeja’s career that Jadeja has taken five wickets in both the innings. His five-wicket haul in the first innings gave India an early lead and his brilliant bowling in the second innings kept the New Zealand lineup under constant pressure. Along with this, he also achieved a special achievement against New Zealand. Let us tell you that Jadeja has become the second Indian bowler to take five wickets in both the innings of the same Test. Before Jadeja, this feat was achieved by R Ashwin. Ashwin achieved this remarkable feat twice. First he achieved this feat against Australia in Chennai (2013), then he achieved this feat against South Africa in Nagpur (2015). With this performance, Jadeja has now joined the special list of Indian bowlers who have taken 10 wickets most number of times in Test cricket. There itself Jadeja is the third highest wicket taker in this WTC cycle. Ashwin is at the first place in the wicket-taking list with 62 wickets, while Australian fast bowler Josh Hazlewood is at the second place with 51 wickets. Indian bowler who took most 10 wickets in test cricket Anil Kumble- 8 R. Ashwin – 8* Harbhajan Singh- 5 Ravindra Jadeja- 3* Kapil Dev – 2 Irfan Pathan – 2
Rishabh Pant created a stir, became the first player in the world to do so in the history of Test cricket.
Rishabh Pant has hit 66 sixes so far in Test cricket. Rishabh Pant (Photo Source: In the third and last Test against New Zealand in Mumbai, Indian batsman Rishabh Pant batted brilliantly and made some more records in his name. Pant not only became the fastest Indian to score a half-century in Test cricket against the Kiwi team, he also achieved a feat in the history of Test cricket which no one has been able to do till date. Rishabh Pant came to bat at a time when the team was in trouble after losing four wickets for 84 runs. Pant, who became India’s troubleshooter in those difficult times, scored his 13th Test half-century. In this match, he completed his fifty in 36 balls and created a new record. This is the fastest half-century by any Indian against New Zealand. Indian who scored the fastest half century against New Zealand- Rishabh Pant- 36Yashasvi Jaiswal- 41Harbhajan Singh-42Sarfaraz Khan- 42 Rishabh Pant made this unique record in his name By hitting two sixes in this innings, Rishabh Pant achieved a feat which no one has been able to do till date. With this, Pant has hit 66 sixes in Test cricket, which is more than the number of innings played by him (65). Rishabh Pant has played 38 test matches so far, in which he has got a chance to bat 65 times. He is the only batsman in the list of batsmen who have played at least 50 innings whose sixes are more than his innings. Pant was out in the first innings against New Zealand after scoring 60 runs in 59 balls with the help of 8 fours and 2 sixes. With this, he has become India’s number-1 batsman in the history of Test cricket as a wicketkeeper who has played the most number of innings of more than 50 runs with a strike rate of more than 100. In this list, he has left behind former captain MS Dhoni. Whereas in world cricket, now only Adam Gilchrist is ahead of Pant. Most 50+ scores by a wicketkeeper with 100+ strike rate in Tests 8 – Adam Gilchrist 5 – Rishabh Pant* 4 – MS Dhoni 4 – Jonny Bairstow 4 – Sarfaraz Ahmed 3 – Quinton de Kock 3 – Niroshan Dickwella 3 – Matt Pryor
INDW vs NZW 3rd ODI: Smriti Mandhana shines in India’s victory, creates history by scoring a century
Mandhana has become the female cricketer to score the maximum number of 8 centuries for India. Smriti Mandhana (Pic Source-BCCI/X) Smriti Mandhana creates history: The last ODI match of the three-match series between the Indian women’s cricket team and New Zealand was played today at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. Where Team India defeated New Zealand by 6 wickets. With this, the host team has also won the series by 2-1. However, during the match, Indian batsman Smriti Mandhana made a big record. He created history by scoring a brilliant century in the third ODI against New Zealand. She has become the female cricketer to score the maximum number of 8 centuries for India. She has left behind Mithali Raj, who had scored 7 centuries in 232 ODI matches. Mandhana has achieved this feat only in her 88th match. Smriti Mandhana (88 matches) – 8 centuriesMithali Raj (232 matches) – 7 centuriesHarmanpreet Kaur (135 matches) – 6 centuries A historic hundred🙌pic.twitter.com/bacFaAOtIe — CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 29, 2024 match status Talking about the match, New Zealand women’s team won the toss and decided to bat first. However, his decision did not prove correct and he lost his 5 wickets at the score of 88. After this, Brooke Halliday played an inning of 86 runs in 96 balls, taking the team to the score of 232 runs. Apart from them, Georgia Plimmer contributed 39 runs, Isabella Gage contributed 25 runs and Lee Tahuhu contributed 24 runs. For India, Deepti Sharma took maximum three wickets, while Priya Mishra got 2 wickets. In response, the Indian team achieved the target by losing four wickets in the 45th over. Smriti Mandhana played an inning of 100 runs in 122 balls, which included 10 fours. Their captain Harmanpreet Kaur scored unbeaten 59 runs. Whereas Yastika Bhatia contributed 35 runs and Jemimah Rodrigues contributed 22 runs. Earlier, in the first match of the series, the Indian team had won by 59 runs, while in the second ODI match, the Kiwi team had won by 76 runs.
IND vs NZ: Yashasvi Jaiswal created history, became the first Indian batsman to achieve this brilliant feat
Yashasvi Jaiswal has become the first Indian batsman to hit at least 30 sixes in a calendar year in Tests. Yashasvi Jaiswal (Image Credit- Twitter Team India’s best opening batsman Yashasvi Jaiswal has made an incredible achievement in the second test match played against New Zealand. Yashasvi Jaiswal has become the first Indian batsman to hit at least 30 sixes in a calendar year in Tests. There are only two players in this list who have achieved this amazing feat. Before Yashasvi Jaiswal, this record was held by former New Zealand player Brendon McCullum. Let us tell you that Team India needed 359 runs in the second test match to register victory against New Zealand. The spinners were getting a lot of help on the Pune pitch and Mitchell Santner of New Zealand bowled lethally and took a total of 13 wickets and played an important role in his team’s victory. Talking about Yashasvi Jaiswal, he scored 77 runs in the second innings with the help of 9 fours and three sixes. During this innings, the excellent opening batsman did not spare any New Zealand bowler and hit hard against all of them. Yashasvi Jaiswal has hit 32 sixes so far in one calendar year. New Zealand won the second test against Team India Let us tell you that Brendon McCullum had hit 33 sixes in a calendar year in 2014, while at third place in this list is England Test team captain Ben Stokes, who had hit 26 sixes in 2022. At the fourth place in this list is former Australian wicketkeeper batsman Adam Gilchrist, who hit 22 sixes in 2005, while Virender Sehwag hit 22 sixes in a calendar year in 2008. Talking about the match, New Zealand had scored 259 runs after losing all the wickets in its first innings, in response to which Team India was all out for 156 runs. New Zealand was all out for 255 runs in its second innings. Team India could not achieve the target of 359 runs and New Zealand won the second test. Not only this, New Zealand has taken a 2-0 lead in the three-match Test series. Now the third and final Test between these two teams is starting from November 1 at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. List of teams that have won the most matches away from home in WTC- Players who have won “Player of the Tournament” in every edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup- List of batsmen who have hit most sixes in Test cricket- Players who have been out for a duck most times in international cricket (active) Take a look at India’s lowest total in Test cricket- Players who have won Player of the Match the most number of times in Tests- Which Indian batsman has the highest average in Tests against New Zealand? Fastest bowler to take 50 T20I wickets for India Take a look at the performance of Team India in every edition of Women’s T20 World Cup- IPL: You will be shocked to know the net worth of…
New Zealand created big history..! In the last 295 months, only these three teams in India have been able to do such a feat.
New Zealand defeated India by 113 runs in the second test match. New Zealand Team (Photo Source: Getty Images) In the second test match against India, New Zealand registered a spectacular victory by 113 runs. After this victory, the Kiwi team has also captured the series by 2-0. Let us tell you, New Zealand played the first Test match in India in 1955-56, but in the year 2024, the team won the first Test series on Indian soil. New Zealand has also ended the Indian team’s reign at home after 4331 days. Team India had not lost a single Test series at home for the last 12 years. New Zealand has created another history after winning in Pune, let us tell you- New Zealand becomes the third team to win a Test series in India after 2004 The New Zealand team has become the third team to win a Test series in India in the last 295 months. Before New Zealand, this feat was done by Australia in 2004 and England in 2012. ONLY 3 TEAMS WON A TEST SERIES IN INDIA IN THE LAST 295 MONTHS: Australia – 2004. England – 2012. New Zealand – 2024*. pic.twitter.com/zlUMYBtXqp — Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) October 26, 2024 Tom Latham said this after the victory against India New Zealand captain Tom Latham is very happy after winning the Test series against India. The team had earlier suffered a humiliating 2-0 defeat in Sri Lanka, and the intention with which the team had come to India has been successful. Latham also praised Mitchell Santner’s bowling. It’s really a very special feeling. Proud to be in this position. The entire team put in effort and everyone worked together. When you come here you want to be at your best. It was really important to score runs early. Mitchell Santner was brilliant. He has been in the group for a long time and finally he got his chance and the way he bowled – credit to him. The way Glenn Phillips played this morning was really important. We knew that India would perform brilliantly. We didn’t know that they would perform so well, but we managed to get through the middle session. It took a long time to take the last two wickets but when Tim took the catch we were really happy.
IND vs NZ, 2nd Test: Day 1 Stats Review: Sundar created history in Pune, Ashwin left Nathan Lyon behind in this matter
By the end of the first day of the game, Team India has scored 16 runs at the loss of one wicket. R Ashwin & Washington Sundar (Photo Source: Getty Images) IND vs NZ, 2nd Test: Day 1 Stats Review: The second Test match between India and New Zealand is being played in Pune from 24th October. By the end of the first day of play, Team India has scored 16 runs at the loss of one wicket, trailing by 243 runs. New Zealand captain Tom Latham won the toss and decided to bat first. The team had a good start, but the team was all out for 259 runs in the first innings. Devon Conway (76) and Rachin Ravindra (65) played important half-centuries. In the first innings for India, Washington Sundar took seven wickets for 59 runs in 23.1 overs. Sundar took the wickets of Rachin Ravindra, Tom Blundell (3), Daryl Mitchell (18), Glenn Phillips (9), Tim Southee (5), Ajaz Patel (4) and Mitchell Santner (33). At the same time, Ravichandran Ashwin took three wickets for 64 runs in a spell of 24 overs. Today, on the first day of the game, some big records and figures have been made and broken, let us tell you- IND vs NZ, 2nd Test: Day 1 Stats Review: Players made these records on the first day of the game 1 – Ravichandran Ashwin (189 wickets) became the bowler with the highest wicket taker in the World Test Championship. 7 – Ravichandran Ashwin (531 wickets) has overtaken Nathan Lyon to become the seventh highest wicket taker in Tests. 1 – Ravichandran Ashwin (531 wickets) has overtaken Nathan Lyon to become the bowler taking the most wickets in Tests among active players. 1 – Washington Sundar (7/59) recorded the best bowling figures in Test matches in Pune. 2 – Washington Sundar (7/59) produced the second best bowling performance for India in the World Test Championship. 4 – Rohit Sharma (11) recorded the fourth most wickets as an Indian captain in international cricket. 1 – Tim Southee (14) has dismissed Rohit Sharma for the joint-most number of dismissals in international cricket.
Zimbabwe created history in T20 cricket, made the biggest score in history
Zimbabwe scored 344 runs at the loss of four wickets in 20 overs. Zimbabwe (Image Credit- Twitter Zimbabwe cricket team has created history in T20 International cricket. Let us tell you that today Zimbabwe faced Zambia in the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup South Africa Sub Regional Qualifier B. In this match, Zimbabwe scored 344 runs at the loss of four wickets in 20 overs on the basis of an unbeaten inning of 133* runs played by captain Sikandar Raza with the help of 7 fours and 15 sixes in 43 balls. This has now become the highest score in T20 International cricket history. Before Zimbabwe, Nepal had scored 314 runs against Mongolia in the year 2023. So the third highest score in T20 cricket is in the name of India, which recently scored 297 runs against Bangladesh. Some clean hitting from @SRazaB24 & ZIM shattered records at Nairobi.pic.twitter.com/7L2lugHq71 — CricTracker (@Cricketracker) October 23, 2024 Zimbabwe vs Zambia T20 match status On the other hand, if we tell you the condition of this match, Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to bat first. Batting first, Zimbabwe scored 344 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in 20 overs. For the team, openers Brian Bennett (50) and Tadiwanashe Marumani (62) gave a strong start to the team by adding 98 runs for the first wicket. Also, Ryan Burl scored 25 runs, Sikandar Raza remained unbeaten on 133* and Clive Madane remained unbeaten on 53*. So when Zambia set out to chase the mountain-like target of 345 runs set by Zimbabwe, it was all out for just 54 runs in 14.4 overs. Andre Jarju played the best inning of 12 runs for the team. Apart from this, no other player could play a big innings. In the match, Richard Ngarwa and Brendon Mavuta got 3-3 wickets for Zimbabwe. Apart from this, Veasley Madhavire got 2 successes and Ryan Burl got 1 success. Due to this brilliant bowling, Zambia had to face defeat by 290 runs in the match. This is Zimbabwe’s biggest win in terms of runs in T20 cricket.
Vidhu Vinod Chopra’s son Agni Chopra created history, achieved this great feat in a spectacular match of Ranji Trophy 2024-25.
Agni Chopra was also awarded the Player of the Match award against Arunachal Pradesh for his excellent batting. Agni Chopra (Pic Source-X) Agni Chopra, son of famous filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, has achieved a spectacular feat while playing for Mizoram against Arunachal Pradesh in Round 2 of the Ranji Trophy Plate League 2024-25. Let us tell you that Agni Chopra had scored 110 runs in the first innings of this match. Not only this, in the second innings also, this young player batted strongly and played a match-winning inning of 238* runs with the help of 33 fours and 5 sixes. During this innings, Agni Chopra did not spare any bowler of Arunachal Pradesh and hit hard against all of them. This match was played at Gujarat College Ground in Ahmedabad in which Mizoram won by 267 runs. Not only this, Agni Chopra has become the first batsman to score four centuries in his first four first class matches. In this match, Mizoram had scored 247 runs in its first innings due to Agni Chopra’s 110 runs. In reply, Arunachal Pradesh team was all out for 252 runs. After this Mizoram declared its second innings at 404 runs for two wickets. Arunachal Pradesh failed to bat brilliantly in the second innings and the team was all out for 132 runs. I don’t want to be in a team where I can be picked up on a phone call: Agni Chopra According to NDTVSports, Agni Chopra had said, ‘Maybe I am not that good that is why I have not been selected in the Indian Premier League auction. I should always be selected because of my game. I don’t want my father to call someone and I join the team. All I want is to perform brilliantly and earn my place in the team. If my father has to call me and include me in the team, then I would not want to play like this at all. It feels good that I am continuously performing well and the Mizoram team is also supporting me a lot. There are many excellent players in this team who have performed well in domestic cricket so far. Let us tell you that, Agni Chopra was also awarded the Player of the Match award against Arunachal Pradesh due to his excellent batting. List of teams that have won the most matches away from home in WTC- Players who have won “Player of the Tournament” in every edition of the Women’s T20 World Cup- List of batsmen who have hit most sixes in Test cricket- Players who have been out for a duck most times in international cricket (active) Take a look at India’s lowest total in Test cricket- Players who have won Player of the Match the most number of times in Tests- Which Indian batsman has the highest average in Tests against New Zealand? Fastest bowler to take 50 T20I wickets for India Take a look at the performance of Team India in every edition of Women’s T20 World Cup- IPL: You will…
Abdul Samad created history by scoring a century in Ranji Trophy, became the first player to do so
Samad became the first player from Jammu and Kashmir to score two centuries in a Ranji Trophy match. Abdul Samad (Photo Source: Abdul Samad Scored Century in Both Ranji Innings: Abdul Samad, who played for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL, created history in Ranji Trophy. Abdul, playing for Jammu and Kashmir in the ongoing Ranji Trophy, scored his second century of the match against Odisha on Monday. With this, he became the first player from Jammu and Kashmir to score two centuries in the same Ranji Trophy match. Abdul Samad scored 127 runs in 117 balls in the first innings of the match being played at Barabati Stadium, Cuttack. In this innings he hit 9 sixes and 6 fours. Thanks to this innings of Samad, Jammu and Kashmir had scored 270 runs in the first innings. However, in reply Odisha had scored 272 runs. After Jammu and Kashmir team missed the lead in the first innings, Samad batted brilliantly in the second innings also. After the early dismissal of the top order batsmen, Samad scored his second century of the match in just 105 balls. During this he hit 5 fours and 6 sixes. Before this, no batsman from Jammu and Kashmir had scored two centuries in any first class cricket match. Samad scored unbeaten 108 runs in 108 balls and Jammu and Kashmir gave a target of 269 runs to Odisha. Abdul Samad has performed brilliantly so far in first class matches. Talking about Abdul Samad’s career, his performance in domestic cricket so far has been excellent. Samad’s aggressive batting ability was first noticed by Sunrisers Hyderabad and included him in their franchise in 2020. Abdul Samad played 50 matches for SRH in five seasons between 2020-2024 and scored more than 550 runs with the help of 36 sixes. Abdul Samad has scored 1640 runs in 24 first class matches of domestic cricket at an average of 38. He has scored 538 runs at an average of 23 in 23 List A matches and 1339 runs at an average of 26 in 83 T20 matches. His strike rate in T20 has been 146.
IND vs NZ: New Zealand created history in Bengaluru, won the test match in India after 36 years
IND vs NZ First Test Report: The first match of the three-match Test series between India and New Zealand was played at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. In this match, New Zealand created history by defeating Team India by 8 wickets. With this victory, the Kiwi team has taken a 1-0 lead in the three-match series. The play on the fifth day of the match started late due to rain but after that the weather got favor with the team. In the end he achieved the target easily. In this match, Indian captain Rohit Sharma won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be completely wrong. Batting first, India was out after scoring only 46 runs, in response New Zealand scored 402 and took a lead of 356 runs. India had given an easy target to New Zealand by scoring 462 runs in the second innings with the help of Sarfaraz Khan’s (150) first Test century and Rishabh Pant’s 99 runs. Play was ended early on the fourth day of the match due to bad light. Play started late on the fifth day also. On the very second ball of the day, Jasprit Bumrah gave a big success to India by dismissing Kiwi team captain Tom Latham LBW. However, Conway and Will Young got their team out of this problem. The Indian bowlers troubled both the batsmen a lot but later the Kiwi batsmen were seen scoring runs easily. Due to the partnership of just 35 runs between these two, New Zealand came back into the match. Bumrah raised India’s hopes by dismissing Conway, but Young again got the support of Ravindra and together they decided India’s defeat. With this, New Zealand was successful in winning a Test match in India after 36 years. Earlier, the Kiwi team had defeated India in Test at home in the series played in 1988-89. Ravindra remained unbeaten after scoring 39 runs. Whereas Will Young returned unbeaten on 47 runs. The second Test of the series between the two teams is to be played in Pune from October 24.