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 8 October 2024:
Today’s Top News: Today’s Top Cricket News
- IND vs BAN: Mahmudullah announces retirement from T20 cricket amid ongoing series
- According to the Telegraph report, if Team India qualifies for the final of Champions Trophy 2025, then the final match will be hosted in Dubai otherwise the match will be held in Lahore.
- (Exclusive) We do not compete with IPL, but complement it: LLC CEO Raman Raheja
- PAK vs ENG, 1st Test: Day 2: Pakistan scored 556 runs in the first innings, England’s score at the end of the day was 96/1
- It’s all a matter of confidence and trust: Sanath Jayasuriya is very happy to become full time head coach of Sri Lanka
- “Don’t make Travis Head open in BGT…”- Ian Chappell warns Australian team
Today’s Social Trends: Which cricket players and news dominated social media today?
#PAKvsENG #PakistanCricket #JoeRoot #OlliePope
The first match of the Test series between England and Pakistan is being played in an exciting manner. England captain Ollie Pope was out for a duck in the first innings, due to which he is making headlines. At the same time, Joe Root has become the highest run-scorer batsman in the World Test Championship.
#SachinTendulkar
Former Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar will be seen captaining India in the International Masters League.
Cricket Records, on This Day: Records and statistics to be made today, October 8, 2024
Fastest to 1000 Test runs for Pakistan (by matches)
- 11 – Saeed Ahmed
- 11 – Saud Shakeel
- 13 – Sadiq Mohammad
- 13 – Abdullah Shafiq
- 14 – Javed Miandad
- 14 – Saeed Anwar
- 14 – Taufiq Omar
- 14 – Yasir Hameed
- 15 – Mohsin Khan
- 15 – Azhar Ali
- 15 – Javed Burki
- 15 – Abid Ali
- 15 – Salman Ali Aga
Most runs in WTC
- 5005* – Joe Root (51.59 average)
3904 – Marnus Labuschagne (52.05 average)
3486 – Steve Smith (50.52 average)
3101 – Ben Stokes (37.81 average)
2755 – Babar Azam (51.98 average)
Most runs in international cricket in 2024
- 1290 – Kusal Mendis (39 innings)
1222 – Yashasvi Jaiswal (23 innings)
1210 – Kamindu Mendis (24 innings)
1165 – Pathum Nissanka (28 innings)
1018* – Joe Root (21 innings)
1012 – Ben Duckett (26 innings)
Cricket Highlights, On This Day: What happened in the history of cricket on 8 October?
1969: India had to face defeat against New Zealand in Nagpur due to the lethal bowling of Kiwi spinners.
India had a target of 277 runs with more than four sessions left in the game. But New Zealand took only 40 minutes to bowl out India on the fifth day. Spinner Hadley Howarth took 5/34 and Vic Pollard took 3/21 as India were bowled out for 109 in 55.5 overs.
Pakistani player Fawad Alam was born
Pakistan’s star middle order batsman Fawad Alam was born on October 8, 1985. This left-handed batsman started his career by getting out for zero on the first ball in the ODI against Sri Lanka. But then he scored 168 runs on his Test debut against Sri Lanka in 2009. However, it took ten years for Alam to return to the Test team in 2020 and in the meantime he missed 88 Test matches. He has played 19 Tests and 38 ODIs so far and scored 1011 and 966 runs respectively.
Start of the fourth edition of the World Cup
On October 8, 1987, the fourth edition of the World Cup started with the match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in Hyderabad. Pakistan won this match by 15 runs and Javed Miandad scored a century in the first innings. He scored 103 runs in 100 balls with the help of six fours and completed 4000 ODI runs in his career. Pakistan scored 267/6 and won the match by bowling out Sri Lanka for 252 runs.
Aakash Chopra and Lakshmipathy Balaji made their international debut.
On October 8, 2003, Aakash Chopra and Lakshmipathy Balaji made their debut in international cricket.