Cricket Highlights: Know key stats, social trends and latest news from today’s match. Historical events of this day and which cricketer’s birthday is today.
Cricket Highlights of 17 October 2024:
Today’s Top News: Today’s Top Cricket News
- Before IPL 2025, Hemang Badani was appointed the new head coach of Delhi Capitals and Venu Gopal Rao as the Director of Cricket.
- ‘My respect for Kohli has increased’ Manjrekar praises veteran for abandoning preferred batting order
- Steve Smith-Mitchell Starc made a special plan to prepare for BGT, will play for New South Wales in Sheffield Shield
- PAK vs ENG, 2nd Test: Day 3: Pakistan gave a target of 297 runs to England, by the end of the day the team’s score was 36/2
- Team India was all out for 46 in the first innings of the first Test against New Zealand, this is India’s third lowest total in the Test.
- Virat Kohli (536) became the second player to play the most number of matches for India, leaving behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni (535).
- Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, there is news that Delhi Capitals can retain Rishabh Pant at the highest price, but can snatch the captaincy from him.
Today’s Societyl Trends: Which cricket players and news dominated social media today?
#WTC25 #TestCricket #INDvsNZ #MattHenry #RishabhPant #Ashwin #Gambhir #ViratKohli #RohitSharma #Siraj #Bengaluru
#RCB’s49
#DelhiCapitals #HemangBadani
#PAKvsENG #SajidKhan
Cricket Records, on This Day: Records and figures to be made today, October 17, 2024
Most matches for India in international cricket
- 664 – Sachin Tendulkar
536 – Virat Kohli
535 – MS Dhoni
504 – Rahul Dravid
485 – Rohit Sharma
Players with most number of dismissals in international cricket (active players)
- 40 – Ishant Sharma
38 – Virat Kohli
38 – Tim Southee
36 – Tamim Iqbal
33 – Rohit Sharma
India’s lowest score in test matches
- 36 vs Australia, Adelaide, 2020
42 vs England, Lord’s, 1974
46 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
58 vs Australia, Brisbane, 1947
58 vs England, Manchester, 1952
66 vs South Africa, Durban, 1996
67 vs Australia, Melbourne, 1948
India’s lowest score in home test matches
- 46 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
75 vs West Indies, Delhi, 1987
76 vs South Africa, Ahmedabad, 2008
83 vs England, Chennai, 1977
83 vs New Zealand, Mohali, 1999
88 vs New Zealand, Brabourne, 1965
89 vs New Zealand, Hyderabad, 1969
Players who have been out on zero the most number of times in an innings for India in Test matches
- 6 vs England, Manchester, 2014
6 vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2024
5 vs Australia, Adelaide, 1948
5 vs England, Leeds, 1952
5 vs New Zealand, Mohali, 1999
5 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
Lowest score after winning the toss and batting first in test matches
- 36 – South Africa vs Australia, Melbourne, 1932
42 – New Zealand vs Australia, Wellington, 1946
45 – New Zealand vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2013
46 – India vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
52 – England vs Australia, The Oval, 1948
Lowest score against New Zealand in test matches
- 46, India, Bengaluru, 2024
51, Zimbabwe, Napier, 2012
58, England, Auckland, 2018
59, Zimbabwe, Harare, 2005
64, England, Wellington, 1978
Lowest score on home ground in WTC
- 46 – India vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
55 – South Africa vs India, Cape Town, 2024
67 – England vs Australia, Leeds, 2019
87 – Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Mirpur, 2021
97 – West Indies vs South Africa, Gros Islet, 2021
100 – West Indies vs India, North Sound, 2019
109 – India vs Australia, Indore, 2023
Players with the most number of ducks for India in international cricket in 2024
- 4 – Jasprit Bumrah (11 innings)
4 – Virat Kohli (20 innings)
3 – Sanju Samson (8 innings)
3 – Ravindra Jadeja (15 innings)
3 – Shubhman Gill (26 innings)
Most test wickets (active players)
- 530 – Nathan Lyon (242 innings)
528* – R Ashwin (194 innings)
383 – Tim Southee (194 innings)
358 – Mitchell Starc (170 innings)
317 – Trent Boult (149 innings)
311 – Ishant Sharma (188 innings)
304* – Ravindra Jadeja (141 innings)
Most wickets in international cricket (active players)
- 768 – Tim Southee (476 innings)
756* – R Ashwin (373 innings)
712 – Shakib Al Hasan (488 innings)
678 – Mitchell Starc (360 innings)
611 – Trent Boult (323 innings)
578* – Ravindra Jadeja (401 innings)
560 – Nathan Lyon (273 innings)
Cricket Highlights, On This Day: What happened in the history of cricket on 17 October?
Anil Kumble was born
Former Indian cricketer and former coach Anil Kumble was born on October 17, 1970 in Bengaluru.