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First Cricket Club in India: Calcutta now Kolkata (1792) Calcutta cricket club |
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First test match played in India: India v/s England in Eden Gardens,(Calcutta) (result draw) (5-8 Jan 1934) |
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First Indian Captain and the third in history to have led his team to victory after being enforced to follow on - against Steve Waugh's Australia in 2001-02: Sourav Ganguly |
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First Cricket Stadium: Eden Gardens in Kolkata |
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First Test Victory: Against England At Madras |
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Cricket tournament: The Bombay Triangular (1905–1911) which later became the Bombay Quadrangular (1912–1936) |
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First Indian Captain to win more than 21 test matches as a captain: Mahendra Singh Dhoni |
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Test match: Against England at Lord's, 25 June 1932 |
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Captain in Tests: C. K. Nayudu for the 1932 tour of England. |
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ODI captain: Ajit Wadekar. |
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Cricketer to score a century in a Test match: Lala Amarnath, 118 against England in December 1933 at Bombay Gymkhana grounds. |
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First Indian to score the highest runs in a World Cup: Sourav Ganguly 183 runs V/S Sri Lanka in 1999 World Cup Cricket. |
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Cricketer to score a double century in a Test match: Polly Umrigar, 223 against New Zealand at Hyderabad in 1955-56 |
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Cricketer to score a triple century in a Test match: Virender Sehwag, 309 against Pakistan in Multan in 2004. |
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Indian to score an ODI century: Kapil Dev, 175* against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. |
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Indian to score an ODI double century is Sachin Tendulkar, 200* against South Africa at Gwalior, 24 February 2010 (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat). |
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Hat-trick in an ODI: Chetan Sharma against New Zealand in 1987. |
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First World Cup Runners up captain: Sourav Ganguly (2003) |
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World Cup: At the 1983 World Cup when India beat West Indies in the Finals Under the captaincy of Kapil Dev |
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in Tests: Sunil Gavaskar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
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Batsman to complete 10,000 runs in ODIs: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
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Winner of the first T20 World Cup: India (in 2007). |
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Cricketer to score 100 centuries in Test and ODIs combined: Sachin Tendulkar (he was the first in the World to achieve this feat) |
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First bowler to take all 10 wickets in an innings: Anil Kumble (against Pakistan) |
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First batsman to score 50 centuries in Test Cricket: Sachin Tendulkar |
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First woman to score a double hundred in Test cricket: Mithali Raj [214* against New Zealand at Wellington, 2004] (she was first in the world to achieve this feat) |
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First Indian to score a T20 century: at Suresh Raina vs South Africa. |
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Six sixes in an Over: Yuvraj Singh in a T20 match vs England. |
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First Nation to win a World Cup Finale on its home ground: India (ICC 2011 Cricket World Cup) Final held at Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai. |
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Fastest Fifty in a T20I: 50 runs of 12 balls by Yuvraj Singh (vs England in the Inaugural World T20 Championship held in South Africa, 2007) |
