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5. Can you believe that Shahid Afridi has twice as much runs and wickets in ODIs than the legendary Imran Khan? Afridi has picked up 398 wickets in One Day International cricket in comparison to Imran Khan’s 182 ODI wickets, and has scored 8064 ODI runs from his strong wooden bat with a robust strike rate of 117 whereas Imran Khan’s 3709 runs has a strike rate of 72.65. Though Imran Khan has played half matches than Shahid Afridi.

Bowling Stats

Name Format M Inn Wkts Econ SR Avg 5W
S Afridi ODI 398 372 395 4.6 44.7 34.5 9
I Khan ODI 175 153 182 3.9 40.9 26.6 1

Batting Stats

Name  Format Mat Inns NO Runs HS SR Avg 100 50
S Afridi ODIs  398 369 27 8064 124 117 23.57 6 39
I Khan ODIs  175 151 40 3709 102* 72.65 33.41 1 19

 

6. Sachin Tendulkar 15 Nov 1989 to 16 Nov 2013: Tendulkar debuted in 1989, along with 23 other cricketers around the world. Not surprisingly each one of them retired before the little master, however what’s unbelievable is that the last one to retire was Chris Cairns of New Zealand who retired in 2004, ten years before Sachin Tendulkar ultimately retired from international cricket.

7.  India is the only team to win 60, 50 and 20 over Cricket World Cup:

India is the only team to win 60, 50 and 20 over Cricket World Cup

Yes India is only team to Win 1983 World Cup (60 overs) as earlier ODI match was of 60 overs than cut down to 50 overs. ICC Twenty20 World Cup 2007 and ICC World Cup 2011 of 50 overs all three India have won

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