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ODI World Cup 2023: 600 sixes and counting
Cricket history: How does the current count of 600-plus sixes in a single ODI World Cup compare with previous editions? It's a long way from the previous record of 463 set in 2015.
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Angelo Mathews timed out and 10 other unusual World Cup dismissals
Sri Lanka's Angelo Mathews became the first cricketer to be given timed out in the 146-year history of international cricket. However, his was far from being the first unusual dismissal in cricket World Cup history.
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Five-wicket hauls at the men’s cricket World Cup
Between them, Sri Lanka's Dilshan Madushanka and India's Mohammed Shami pushed the number of five-fors to five in 2023, and to 69 in all World Cups.
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Cricket history: How ODI World Cup defending champions have fared since 1979
Ahead of the first IND vs ENG match in the 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup, a look at how defending champions have fared in the next edition of the ODI World Cup.
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ODI World Cup 2023: Shubman Gill and other Indian cricketers within inches of setting new world records
Most sixes in World Cup history, most ODI 100s, fastest 2,000 runs, and possibly the most ODI runs in a calendar year are among the records that could be broken by the end of ODI World Cup 2023.
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India vs Pakistan in ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup: History, records, win percentage
India has won 7/7 ODI World Cup matches against Pakistan since 1992. The stories behind that data.
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India vs Australia at ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup: A history of many firsts and world records
The Indian cricket team has faced Australia 12 times in the World Cup; Sachin Tendulkar was there for six of those matches. A look back at the highlights and history.
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Ahead of the ODI World Cup 2023, a look back at the Indian cricket team's track record
A decade by decade look at the ODI World Cup track record of India since 1975.
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The Indian track and field contingent at Asian Games 2023
Athletics contributed 20 of the 70 medals India won in the last edition, 2018 Asian Games. The 19th edition, Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, which began on Saturday, will see India’s largest representation in a single sport in track and field events: 68 (35 men and 33 women).
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What's new at Asian Games 2023: Open-water marathon swimming, breakdance, more esports
India has a good chance to convert medals in chess, cricket and Bridge, even as the Games will again include Asian sports from xiangqi Chinese chess to Go and Kurash wrestling from Central Asia.
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Indian cricket’s medal prospects at the Asian Games 2023
The Hangzhou Asian Games will not address the trophy drought, but it does promise something Indian cricket has never known — gold medals.
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2023 G20 Summit: History and impact of sports diplomacy
From Ping Pong Diplomacy to chess rivalries and using cricket and football tournaments to further international relations - sports diplomacy has a long and fairly successful history.
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The rise of Grandmaster R. Praggnanandhaa
R. Praggnanandhaa became the youngest International Master in the history of the game in 2016 - he was 10 years old then. By the time he was 12 years, he had become a Grandmaster.
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How did chess become this popular in India?
Manuel Aaron and Viswanathan Anand had a lot to do with it.
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Where will Indian cricket reach in 2047, 100 years after Independence?
8 predictions on what Indian cricket is going to look like in 2047 - with reasons why, and why the change will be significant.
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India’s largest sports library needs a turnaround
There is much more to a successful library than an incredible collection of books from around the world, going back 100-plus years.
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Cricket history | Don't knock Bazball yet: A short history of cricket innovations that worked
As the Fourth Test of Ashes 2023 nears its end, a look at cricketing shots, equipment, strategies and manoeuvres that were once new but are now widely adopted.
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Minors who represented India at cricket
Indian selectors have been reasonably adventurous when it comes to throwing young cricketers to the deep end of the pool. In all, 49 teenagers across genders have played Test cricket for India.
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1952-53: When India first toured the West Indies to play Test cricket
In 1948-49, the West Indies were the first team to play Test cricket in Independent India. The return tour, in 1952-53, was even more special, especially to the Indian contingent in the Caribbean, many of whom had never seen people from their homeland, whom they called East Indians.
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12 best books on Indian cricket
A carefully considered selection of books on Indian cricket, from the pathbreaking Stray Thoughts on Indian Cricket (1905) by J.M. Framjee Patel to A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport (2003), by Ramachandra Guha.
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The 1990s television revolution of Indian cricket and BCCI’s rise to riches
The 1990s saw live cricket replace soaps across the nation of Doordarshan-watching one-TV-set households. If the 1996 World Cup was a watershed moment for the BCCI to understood the volume of Indian TV audience, the IPL was its jackpot.
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Indian cricket on radio through the years
There's something comforting about listening to cricket commentary on the radio. Even today, during travel, if the internet signal isn't strong or while driving, the FM radio, younger sibling of the AIR, remains a go-to.
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How India watched cricket before and after television
Doordarshan had arrived in September 1959, months before Pakistan’s 1960-61 tour of India but Indians would see live telecast or highlights not until 1965, that too only in national capital Delhi.
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When was the first World Test Championship held?
Even the Asian Test Championship, started in 1998, was not the first ever multi-nation Test tournament. For that, we need to go way back to 1912, when the triangular tournament was held, and later forgotten.
