16th August, 2002

Name: Amay Shitoot
Question: Sir, I want to ask that "Who was the first bowler to take hat-trick in One Day cricket ?" Thank You
Answer 1: Pakistani Jalaluddin against Australia at Hyderabad on 20th September 1982 was the first bowler to take a hat-trick in ODIs.

Name: Ankit Agarwal
Question: Gus Logie was once awarded the Man of the Match for his fielding. He had neither performed exceptionally well with either the bat or the ball. Has anyone else also been awarded a Man of the Match for neither batting / bowling? I think Bob willis was once awarded the M.O.M. for his captaincy. Please list all such incidents. Thanks.
Answer 2:

Reader's query:
Name: Chirag
Query: This is actually a sort of correction to your answer about MoM awards for reasons other than batting/bowling. If I remember correctly, Jonty Rhodes won the award during a match against the West Indies, here in India (don't remember the tournament). I believe he held 4 or 5 catches. Could you clarify this please?
Answer: hi Chirag
Jonty Rhodes won the man the match award against the West Indies at the Brabourne Stadium on 14-11-1993 not only for his five catches but also for his 40 (off 42 balls). Had he not scored these runs, the award would have gone to Daryll Cullinan who made 70 (retd hurt) in 81 balls.

Name: Rajesh Ramakrishnan
Query: This is to add to the Aug,16 answer.Wasn't Sunil Gavaskar also awarded the man-of -the-match for fielding in the Rothman's Cup match against Pakistan in 1986-87? Hi Rajesh.
Answer: It was Imran Khan (6-14 in 10 overs) who won the man of the match award in the Rothmans Trophy on 22-3-1985 at Sharjah, although Gavaskar held four catches and India won the match.

Name: Srinivas Nippani
Question: Is Pravin Amre still playing first class cricket? If so, for whom? How many teams has he played for since he left Railways and Central Zone?
Answer 3: Pravin Amre since his first debut in 1986-87 has appeared for Mumbai - then Bombay (in 1986-87), Railways (from 1987-88 to 1989-90), Rajasthan (1990-91 to 1995-96), Bengal (1996-97 to 1997-98), Mumbai (1998-99) and Goa (2000-01).

He did not play for any teams in 2001-02. In 1999-00, Amre also had the distinction of playing for Border in South Africa.

Name: Prashanth
Question: How many players, so far, have scored hundreds against all Test playing nations in Tests, and how many in one day internationals?
Answer 4: No batsman has scored a hundred against all Test playing nations in both Tests and ODIs.

Name: Ronnie Dey
Question: Mr.Memon, Hardly do we come across batsmen who are better second innings players than first innings players in Tests.

How many international cricketers have better second innings Test averages than their first innings?
Answer 5: There are many such players. However two of Test cricket's top run-getters - Allan Border and Sunil Gavaskar have better Test averages in the second innings than the first. Their records are given below.

Allan Border - 156 matches
	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
1st inns	154	13	6803	205	48.25	16	39	7
2nd inns	111	31	4371	163	54.64	11	24	4
Total	265	44	11174	205	50.56	27	63	11

Sunil Gavaskar - 125 matches
	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Ave	100	50	0
1st inns	124	3	6159	236*	50.90	23	23	8
2nd inns	90	13	3963	221	51.47	11	22	4
Total	214	16	10122	236*	51.12	34	45	12

Name: Prasanna Desikan
Question: Which Indian opening pair have the highest average of partnership for the opening wicket and which Indian pair had the maximum number of century partnerships.
Answer 6: Among the opening pairs who have aggregated over 500 runs for the first wicket, the Merchant-Mushtaq Ali partnership has the best average of 83.43. See list below.

Batsmen	Runs	For	HM	NO	Ave	HP	100	50
VM Merchant & Mushtaq Ali	584	Ind	7	0	83.43	203	2	3
MH Mankad & Pank Roy	868	Ind	16	1	57.87	413	3	1
CPS Chauhan & SM Gavaskar	3010	Ind	59	3	53.75	213	10	10
M Prabhakar & NS Sidhu	731	Ind	17	1	45.69	171	2	3
NJ Contractor & ML Jaisimha	590	Ind	14	1	45.38	121	1	3

The opening pair of Sunil Gavaskar and Chetan Chauhan were involved in maximum 10 hundred-plus partnerships for the first wicket (see their record above).

Name: Mihir J Question: I have always wondered about umpiring decisions concerning 2 batsmen..a)David Boon and b)Javed Miandad..Mohan can you please give me statistics about how many times have these to batsmen been given out LBW in thier respective countries during thier careers in both TESTS and ODIS..that is..how many times has David Boon been given out LBW in Australia and Miandad in Pakistan? thanks in advance
Answer 7: David Boon's lbws in Tests
Overall 25 (15%)
At home 14 (14%)
Abroad 11 (15%)

David Boon's lbws in ODIs
Overall 14 (9%)
At home 7 (8%)
Abroad 7 (10%)

Javed Miandad's lbws in Tests
Overall 33 (20%)
At home 8 (11%)
Abroad 25 (26%)

Javed Miandad's lbws in ODIs
Overall 29 (16%)
At home 7 (17%)
Abroad 22 (16%)

Name: Ramesh
Question: Can you inform me how many times Tendulkar has been a part of a winning team in a ODI tournament final.
Answer 8: Since his first in 1991 (the Asia Cup tournament win) Tendulkar has been a part of 12 tournament titles for India.

Name: Ram Narain
Question: How many Indian cricketers have appeared in a Test match without appearing in a Ranji Trophy match.
Answer 9: In the last 50 years or so - only three cricketers have this distinction. They are Budhi Kunderan, Vivek Razdan and now recently young Parthiv Patel. In fact many players, who played for India before 1934, will qualify for this list since Ranji Trophy tournament began only in 1934.

Name: Rajiv Sinha
Question: Who is the oldest to make a Test match century.
Answer 10: Englishman Jack Hobbs was 46 years 82 days when he made 142 against Australia at Melbourne in March 1929.

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