Famous cricket player of India: Kapil Dev

• As all players in the cricketing industry, Kapil Dev (1978-1994) also commenced his career from domestic cricket in the 75th year of the 19th century.
• He happens to be Indian by nationality hence the Indian cricket team.
• His consistency in bowling and batting took him to the international stage where he made his debut in Faisalabad against the Pakistani cricket team in 1978; his performance was pretty below average.
• However with time he gained experience and polished his skills to a great extent.
• He was selected as the captain for the 1983 ICC cricket world cup and which is the only world cup the Indians won.
• The victory in the pre World Cup series against West Indies was a great boost for the team.
• During the world tournament, Kapil Dev performed pretty consistently and which eventually gave his side the trophy. The Indian cricket team played their final match against the West Indian cricket team and were able to win, credit being given to the strong bowling squad.
• He played 225 One day internationals and scored 3783 runs in all. His highest total in an innings being 175*.
• He took 253 wickets and just has a single 5 wicket take, however there are numerous 4 wicket hauls.
• He was a part of the team for 3 world cups 1992 being the last one as he retired in 1994 where he played his last match against the West Indian side.
• Kapil Dev is still remarked as a match winning bowler and has showed great excellence in his game throughout his career.

Record holder players in 2011 ICC Cricket World cup

One Day International Cricket is thrilling and interesting. With the world cup 2011 just round the corner, some interesting facts and figures have grabbed my attention. While going through the list of bowlers and batsmen who have been the most successful in their fields in ODI cricket, I started noting the players who are amongst the chart toppers, and are playing in the 10^th world cup cricket 2011. Looking at the figures and record lists closely, one can easily predict the probable finalists of ICC cricket World Cup 2011.

Most wickets in cricket career-Bowling Records ODI: Muralitharan has taken 519 wickets for Sri lanka so far. He is the top ranked bowler in the world as far as career wicket taking record is concerned. Waseem Akram, Waqar Younis, Chaminda Vaas, Shaun Pollock, Glenn McGrath and Anil Kumble are next in line but none of these brilliant bowlers is playing now. The 8^th highest wicket taker in ODI, Brett Lee from Australia has taken 335 wickets so far. Next in line are Sanath Jayasuriya, Juvagal Srinath and Shane Warne all three of them retired now. The 12^th most successful bowler in ODI cricket is Shahid Afridi, the Pakistani captain in cricket world cup 2011. Saqlain Mustaq and Agarkar are next in line who are retired now, while the 15^th highest wicket taker in ODI cricket is Daniel Vettori, representing New Zealand. After A Donald and Ntini from South Africa, we have Abdul Razzaq from Pakistan cricket team as most successful bowler ever. He is the 18^th highest wicket taker in ODI in the world. Abdul Razzaq has taken 262 wickets. Following him closely is the 19^th highest wicket taker in ODI cricket, J Kallis from South Africa. Kallis has taken 259 wickets so far.  Great all rounder and the world cup winning captain Kapil Dev is the 20^th most successful bowler in ODI to date.

Most runs in cricket career-Batting Records ODI: Sachin Tendulkar tops the chart with 17629 runs so far. He is very much there in the Indian squad. Jayasuriya is second on this list of highest run scorers in Cricket ODI but he is not playing in this world cup. Ricky Ponting is on the list with 13082 runs in his career so far, making him the third highest run scorer in ODI cricket history ever. Inzimam ul Haq and Saurav Ganguly are next in line, both retired from cricket now. J Kallis from South Africa has scored 11002 runs so far and he is the 6^th highest run scorer in ODI cricket. Rahul Dravid, Brain Lara, Mohammad Yousuf, Adam Gilchrist, Muhammad Azharuddin, and Aravinda De silva are next in line. D Jayawardene is 13^th on the list of highest run scorers in the ODI cricket with 9119 runs on the board. Saeed Anwer from Pakistan is 14^th on the list of highest run scorer in career in the ODI cricket. On 15^th number we have Kumar Sangakkara of Sri lanka with 8699 runs.  S Chanderpaul from West Indies is 16^th on the list with 8664 runs. Desmond Haynes, Atapattu, Mark Waugh and H Gibbs are the next in line constituting the top 20 run scorers in the ODI cricket.

Now looking at the players who are amongst the top 20 bowlers or batsmen ever in the cricket ODI history, Sri lanka has the most experienced highly skilled batsmen and bowler. 3 best ever cricketers (Jayawardene, Sangakkara and Muralitharan) amongst the top few are in this list. Sri lanka thus stands a great chance this time around. Second in line is Australia, with one all time great batsman and one all time great bowler in the squad (Ponting and Lee). Pakistan can be considered as the third best team to be there in the final match. The Pakistani squad includes two all time best bowlers (Afridi and Razzaq).  South Africa is next in line with J Kallis being the only player appearing in both the lists. Kallis is undoubtedly one of the best all rounder ODI cricket has ever produced. Sachin Tendulkar brings hope to India. Looking at the current form of Indian cricket team, they stand a good chance. West Indies and New Zealand have one great player each (Chander Paul and Daniel Vettori) but lack of consistency in the team’s recent performance shows these teams have lesser chances to reach the finals. So the stats show that it will be any two amongst Sri lanka, Pakistan, Australia and India who will be playing the Cricket world cup 2011 final on 2^nd of April 2011 in Mumbai, India.

1987 Cricket World Cup-History and facts

Reliance world cup cricket 1987 was held jointly in Pakistan and India. It was the first world cup cricket which was held outside England, and which had 50 overs innings. 8 countries played this tournament. The top 8 test teams Australia, Pakistan, England, Zimbabwe, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, West Indies and India participated in the tournament. First round matches were played in 2 groups each with 4 teams.

1987 World Cup Cricket final match:

Final of 1987 world cup was played between England and Australia. Australia defeated England by 7 runs. Mahboob Shah and Ram Gupta were the final match umpires. David Boon was man of the match.

Best batting performances of World cup cricket 1987:

Highest score was of 360 runs by West Indies against Sri Lanka. Highest successful chase was 270 runs by Australia against India. Vivian Richards scored 181 runs which was the highest individual score. Gooch scored maximum aggregate score of the 1987 cricket world cup, which were 471 runs. 539 was the highest aggregate score in the match between India and Australia.

Maximum boundaries, centuries and fifties in World cup cricket 1987:

GA Gooch scored 45 fours. Richards scored 13 sixes. GF Marsh of Australia scored 2 centuries and DC Boon of Australia scored 5 fifties. ALF de Mel of Sri Lanka got the maximum ducks.

Bowling records of world cup cricket 1987:

CJ McDermott took 5 wickets in a match to set the record for 1987 cricket world cup. He took 18 wickets in this world cup which was the highest number of wickets taken in 1987 world cup cricket by any individual bowler.

Partnership records of world cup cricket 1987:

Desmond Haynes and Richards shared 182 runs partnership for 3^rd wicket. It was scored in the match against Sri Lanka.

Catches and Wicket Keeping records 1987 World cup cricket:

Kapil Dev of India took 5 catches. Kiran More of India and GC Dyer of Australia dismissed 11.

Interesting matches of the world cup cricket 1987:

Sri lanka lost to West Indies with a margin of 191 runs. India defeated New Zealand by 9 wickets.  Pakistan’s Abdul Qadir scored 14 runs in last over against West Indies to save the match. In another incident, Mike Gatting was caught while playing a not so good reverse sweep off Allen Border in the final match. This wicket turned the table in favor of Australia.

1983 Cricket World Cup-History and facts

The third world cup cricket was played in 1983. This world cup was again 60 overs per innings tournament which was played in England. India won this world cup by Defeating the two times world cup champions West Indies in the final. India scored only 183 runs and successfully defended it. Mohinder Amarnath was the man of the match. Dickie Bird and Meyer were the umpires in this final match.

Best batting performances of 1983 Cricket World Cup:

338 runs were scored by Pakistan cricket team against Srilanka. Highest successful chase was by West Indies, of 276 runs against Australia. Kapil Dev of India scored 175* as the highest individual innings by a batsman in 1983 cricket world cup, while David Gower scored 384 in aggregate. The highest total in a game was shared by Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It was a total of 626 runs.

Most centuries and fifties in Cricket world cup 1983:

8 players scored 1 centruy each to share this record. Imran Khan, Kapil Dev, Zaheer Abbas, Richards, Greenidge, Gower, Lamb and TM Chappell share this record. Zaheer Abbas from Pakistan and Imran Khan scored maximum 50s. CG Greenidge and HA Gomes scored a partnership of 195 runs against Zimbabwe for the 3^rd wicket.

Bowling Records of 1983 Cricket world cup:

RMH Binny took 18 wickets. Sri lankan ALF de MEL took maximum five wickets in one match to set the record of 1983 cricket world cup. New Zeland bowler MC Snedded conceded 105 runs in 12 overs.

Catches and Wicket Keeping records:

Kapil Dev of India took 8 ctaches and Dujon from West Indies dismissed 18 batsmen as a wicketkeeper.

Interesting matches of the 1983 Cricket world cup:

Australia beat India in the third world cup cricket with a margin of 162 runs. West Indies Defeat Zimbabwe with a 10 wicket margin.

Cricket records: Most wickets taken lbw in test cricket

As a cricket fan, you might know the list of most wickets taken in test matches. But not many people know about the most wickets taken lbw in test matches list. Knowing these lists helps you to know more about your favorite player and their records. A Kumble from India is at the first position on this list by taking 156 LBW wickets. He played 132 matches and got total 619 wickets. N Kapil Dev from India is holding the 6^th place on this list. Other bowlers like Muralitharan, SK Warne, and Wasim Akram are also on this list. It’s a dream of bowlers to get a place on these big lists with these famous players. If you are also interested in seeing who else made it on the list, let’s take a look at the list here.

Most wickets taken lbw in test cricket

Player		Wkts		LBW
A Kumble		619		156
M Muralitharan		800		150
SK Warne		708		138
Wasim Akram		414		119
GD McGrath		563		113
N Kapil Dev		434		111
Waqar Younis		373		110
WPUJC Vaas		355		100
SM Pollock		421		90
Sir RJ Hadlee		431		83

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