Cricket Highlights of 24 October 2024:

Today’s Top News: Today’s Top Cricket News

1. IND vs NZ, 2nd Test: Day 1: New Zealand was all out for 259 in the first innings, by the end of the first day, Team India has scored 16 runs at the loss of one wicket.
2. ‘No more Bazball’ Mohammad Rizwan taunting England’s poor batting in the Rawalpindi test match
3. Ravichandran Ashwin (531 wickets) has overtaken Nathan Lyon to become the seventh highest wicket taker in Tests.
4. Washington Sundar (7/59) set the record for the best bowling figures in Test matches in Pune.
5. Rohit Sharma (11) recorded the fourth most wickets as an Indian captain in international cricket.
6. BGT 2024-25: Josh Hazlewood may not be able to take part in some matches in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy
7. BAN vs SA: South Africa defeated Bangladesh by 7 wickets at home, won the test match in Asia after 10 years
8. Indian women’s team defeated New Zealand by 59 runs in the first ODI

Today’s Social Trends: Which cricket players and news dominated social media today?

#INDvsNZ #Pune #RohitSharma #TimSouthee #Gambhir #Ashwin #KLRahul #Sundar

#PAKvsENG #SajidKhan

#IPL2025 #Thala

Cricket Records, on This Day: Records and figures to be made today, October 24, 2024

1. Most wickets in WTC

• 189 – Ravichandran Ashwin (74 innings)*
• 187 – Nathan Lyon (78 innings)
• 175 – Pat Cummins (78 innings)
• 147 – Mitchell Starc (73 innings)
• 134 – Stuart Broad (63 innings)

2. Most wickets in test cricket

• 800 – Muttiah Muralitharan (133 matches)
• 708 – Shane Warne (145 matches)
• 704 – James Anderson (188 matches)
• 619 – Anil Kumble (132 matches)
• 604 – Stuart Broad (167 matches)
• 563 – Glenn McGrath (124 matches)
• 531 – Ravichandran Ashwin (101 matches)*
• 530 – Nathan Lyon (129 matches)

3. Most Test wickets (active players)

• 531 – Ravichandran Ashwin (101 matches)*
• 530 – Nathan Lyon (129 matches)
• 384 – Tim Southee (104 matches)
• 358 – Mitchell Starc (89 matches)
• 317 – Trent Boult (78 matches)

4. Best bowling figures for India vs New Zealand in Tests

• 8/72 – Srinivas Venkataraghavan, Delhi, 1965
• 8/76 – Erapalli Prasanna, Auckland, 1975
• 7/59 – Ravichandran Ashwin, Indore, 2017
• 7/59 – Washington Sundar, Pune, 2024
• 7/ 128 – Subhash Gupte, Hyderabad, 1955

5. Best performance in test matches in Pune

• 7/59 – Washington Sundar vs New Zealand, 2024
• 6/35 – Steve O’Keefe vs India, 2017
• 6/35 – Steve O’Keefe vs India, 2017
• 4/32 – Umesh Yadav vs Australia, 2017
• 4/53 – Nathan Lyon vs India, 2017
• 4/69 – Ravichandran Ashwin vs South Africa, 2019
• 4/119 – Ravichandran Ashwin vs Australia, 2017

6. Most outs for zero as an Indian captain in international cricket

• 16 – Virat Kohli (250 innings)
• 13 – Sourav Ganguly (217 innings)
• 11 – MS Dhoni (330 innings)
• 11 – Rohit Sharma (143 innings)
• 10 – Kapil Dev (115 innings)

7. Bowlers who have dismissed Rohit Sharma most number of times in international cricket

• 14 – Kagiso Rabada
  14 – Tim Southee
  10 – Angelo Matthews
  9 – Nathan Lyon
  8 – Trent Boult
  7 – Pat Cummins
  7 – Morne Morkel

8. Best bowling figures for India in WTC

• 7/42 – Ravindra Jadeja vs Australia, Delhi, 2023
  7/59 – Washington Sundar vs New Zealand, Pune, 2024
  7/61 – Shardul Thakur vs South Africa, Johannesburg, 2022
  7/71 – Ravichandran Ashwin vs West Indies, Roseau, 2023
  7/145 – Ravichandran Ashwin vs South Africa, Visakhapatnam, 2019