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Rajneesh Gupta

Cricket statistician Rajneesh Gupta offers his insight into the gentleman's game like no one else!. You can e-mail the author at rgcricket@gmail.com

Stories by Rajneesh Gupta

India's biggest wins over Pakistan

India's biggest wins over Pakistan

Rediff.com   10 Jun 2008

The victory margin of 140 runs in Tuesday's ODI is the biggest for India in all matches versus Pakistan.

Marsh, Tanvir emerge on top

Marsh, Tanvir emerge on top

Rediff.com   29 May 2008

Australia's Shaun Marsh and Pakistan's Sohail Tanvir emerged with the most runs and wickets respectively at the end of the league stage in the Indian Premier League. A statistical outlook of the tournament thus far.

Tendulkar: facts and figures

Tendulkar: facts and figures

Rediff.com   23 Apr 2008

A look at Sachin Tendulkar's career on the occassion of his 35th birthday on April 24, Thursday.

Tendulkar's milestones in ODIs

Tendulkar's milestones in ODIs

Rediff.com   23 Apr 2008

Sachin Tendulkar's records and milestones in ODIs and Twenty20 cricket.

Tendulkar's milestones in Test cricket

Tendulkar's milestones in Test cricket

Rediff.com   23 Apr 2008

Tendulkar is the highest run scoring Indian with 11,782 Test runs and the second highest in the world, after Brian Lara.

India's worst performances in Tests

India's worst performances in Tests

Rediff.com   3 Apr 2008

From the highs of Chennai Test, Indian batting plummetted to the unforeseen depths in the second Test at Ahmedabad.

A prolific run-producing Test

A prolific run-producing Test

Rediff.com   30 Mar 2008

South Africa aggregated 871 runs in their two innings in the Chennai Test, which is the second best performance by a visiting side on Indian soil.

Dravid joins 10,000-run club

Dravid joins 10,000-run club

Rediff.com   29 Mar 2008

Rahul Dravid on Saturday became third Indian and only the sixth batsman in Test chronicles to aggregate 10,000 runs in a career.

Fastest triple centuries in Test cricket

Fastest triple centuries in Test cricket

Rediff.com   28 Mar 2008

Virender Sehwag reached his triple century on Friday off 278 balls which makes it the fastest triple century in terms of balls faced.

Tendulkar breaks Bradman's world record

Tendulkar breaks Bradman's world record

Rediff.com   5 Mar 2008

Tendulkar became only the second batsman after Sir Don Bradman to make 5000 or more runs against a particular opponent in all forms of international cricket.

Tendulkar breaks Aussie jinx

Tendulkar breaks Aussie jinx

Rediff.com   2 Mar 2008

The master batsman was unable to score a hundred on Australian soil in his 37 previous innings, but delivered the knock-out punch when it mattered the most.

Tendulkar on the backfoot

Tendulkar on the backfoot

Rediff.com   25 Feb 2008

The ongoing CB tri-series is turning out to be worst of Sachin Tendulkar's distinguished ODI career.

Stats highlights: India-Aus Test series

Stats highlights: India-Aus Test series

Rediff.com   29 Jan 2008

A detailed statistical analysis of the four-match series.

Statistics: Kumble reaches 600-mark

Statistics: Kumble reaches 600-mark

Rediff.com   17 Jan 2008

Anil Kumble on Thursday became the third bowler in Test history to complete 600 wickets when he had Andrew Symonds caught by Rahul Dravid.

Highest run-scoring games producing a result

Highest run-scoring games producing a result

Rediff.com   7 Jan 2008

It is the first time since 1990 that both sides aggregated more than 1600 runs in a result-oriented game. Interestingly India was involved in that game too.

India Bucknored!

India Bucknored!

Rediff.com   6 Jan 2008

ICC might now look at the possibility of adding new mode of dismissal in the rule books - Bucknored. This is the mode that genuinely describes Rahul Dravid's dismissal on Sunday.

Vettori is highest wicket-taker in ODIs in 2007

Vettori is highest wicket-taker in ODIs in 2007

Rediff.com   31 Dec 2007

Daniel Vettori's five-wicket haul (5/7) against Bangladesh in the third ODI took the spinner's career total to 207, surpassing Chris Harris as New Zealand's highest wicket-taker in one-day internationals.

India's largest defeats in Tests

India's largest defeats in Tests

Rediff.com   29 Dec 2007

It was the sixth time India was losing a Test by 300 runs margin.

Ton-up Indians in Tests

Ton-up Indians in Tests

Rediff.com   23 Dec 2007

Sourav Ganguly on Wednesday will become only the seventh Indian to complete a century of Test matches and he will be the oldest among Indians to accomplish this feat.

Ganguly in facts and figures

Ganguly in facts and figures

Rediff.com   21 Dec 2007

Records and statistics of former India captain Sourav Ganguly.