Lala Amarnath. Lala Amarnath Bharadwaj was an Indian cricketer. He was the first batsman ever to score a century for India in Test cricket. He was independent India's first cricket captain and captained India in the first Test series win against Pakistan in 1952.
In terms of innings, Pakistan's Babar Azam is the fastest (26) to reach the 1,000 run mark, surpassing India's Virat Kohli who achieved the feat in 27 innings.
Sachin Tendulkar is the first and the only cricketer in the history of cricket to have scored 100 international hundreds.
A century is a score of one hundred or more runs by a batsman in a single innings. This is regarded as a notable achievement. The first century in a T20I match was scored by Chris Gayle of the West Indies who made 117 against South Africa at the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 in 2007.
Top 10 players who have scored most runs in international T20 matches are as follows;
- Virat Kohli (India) Image source: Zee News.
- Rohit Sharma:
- Martin Guptil (NZ)
- Shoaib Malik (Pakistan):
- Brendon Mccullum (New Zealand)
- David Warner (Australia)
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- Mohammad Shahzad (Afghanistan)
^ Karun Nair became the second Indian batsman to score a triple century, the first being Virender Sehwag. Nair also became the first Indian and the third batsman overall to convert a maiden test century into a triple hundred.
Mithali Raj becomes first female to complete 2 decades in international cricket. She, thus, became the only female cricketer to have played ODI cricket for over two decades.
Smriti Mandhana is one of the finest women cricketers to have represented India in all formats in recent times. She is first Indian woman to achieve a double-hundred in a one-day game.
Players' salaries are as follows: Grade A – ₹50 lakh (US$70,000) per annum. Grade B – ₹30 lakh (US$42,000) per annum. Grade C – ₹10 lakh (US$14,000) per annum.
The Twitter user in question alleged that Mithali Raj doesn't know 'Tamil' but prefers Hindi, English and Telugu over her mother tongue. Mithali Raj also became only the 4th cricketer and the 1st in women's cricket to complete 20 years in international cricket.
Yes. Mithali Raj prefers to talk in her mother tongue, Tamil when she is at home. Even though she was born in Jodhpur and living in Hyderabad she likes to speak in Tamil.
How old is Mithali Raj?
37 years (December 3, 1982)
When was Mithali born?
December 3, 1982 (age 37 years)
Mithali Raj has become the first Indian cricketer to score 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals. She achieved the feat during India's seven-wicket win over Sri Lanka in the Women's Asia Cup T20 at Kaula Lumpur.
Smriti Mandhana scored the fastest fifty for India in Women's T20Is of just 24 balls against New Zealand in February 2019.
Sachin Tendulkar and Sourav Ganguly were the only Indians to score more than 1000 runs in World Cup history before Virat Kohli joined the elite list. Tendulkar is the leading run scorer in all World Cups - he has 2278 runs in 45 matches from 1992 to 2011. He also has the most World Cup hundreds - 6.
