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Australia batsman Matthew Hayden announced his retirement from international cricket on Tuesday. Hayden had a special liking for the Indian bowling attack. No Australian batsman has scored more runs and hit more centuries than Hayden.
Gautam Gambhir was the star performer for India with the bat with more than 1000 runs in both Tests and ODIs, that included three centuries each in both formats.
South Africa on Sunday chased down the fourth innings victory target of 414 runs against Australia at Perth. This is now the second biggest successful chase in Test cricket.
A statistical summary of Rahul Dravid's recent run with the bat.
Ross Smith, an Australian cricket statistician, has done a lot of research on this subject. As per his figures, Australia's Shane Warne has been hit for maximum sixes -- 170, followed by Muttiah Muralitharan (158). Harbhajan Singh (111), Anil Kumble (109) and Daniel Vettori (102) are the other bowlers to concede 100 sixes off their bowling.
It is not Sachin Tendulkar, who emerges as the best batsman against Australia, but the charimastic all-rounder Ravi Shastri.
A look the Test career statistics of the 15-man squad selected to play Australia in the first two Tests.
The emergence of a young brigade, coupled with a spate of injuries, has put Sachin Tendulkar's performances under scrutiny.
The Hyderabadi's performance in Sri Lanka was far better that of Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid and Sourav Ganguly. He scored 215 runs in six innings @ 48.53, inclusive of two half-centuries.
Though Bradman only played Test cricket abroad in England during his 20-year career, the Australians would traditionally make a stopover in Colombo.
Players' statistics for the India vs Sri Lanka ODIs.
This was one of Tendulkar's worst performances in a Test series after which he has dropped the 23rd in the latest ICC Test rankings for batsmen.
Here is a list of players captaining Test teams despite being born in a different country.
Virender Sehwag smashed a brilliant 128, but the loss of four quick wickets saw India end Day 1 on 214 for 4, in the second Test against Sri Lanka in Galle.
India have played a total of 124 international games since January 1, 2006 -- 28 Tests, 86 One-Day Internationals and 10 Twenty20 internationals and Dhoni missed just six of them, which includes two Tests and four ODIs.
The seven-wicket victory over Bangladesh in the Asia Cup in Karachi on Saturday marked the first time that India's number of victories in One-Day Internationals exceeded its losses.
Suresh Raina's 66-ball hundred in the Asia Cup match against Hong Kong on Wednesday is the second fastest ODI hundred by an Indian batsman.
Salman Butt's hundred against India on Saturday was seventh of his ODI career. Interestingly five of them have come against India (and remaining two vs Bangladesh). Butt now shares the record of scoring most hundreds against India.
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