History of ODI

One-day cricket began between English county teams on 2 May 1962. Leicestershire beat Derbyshire and Northamptonshire beat Nottinghamshire over 65 overs in the "Midlands Knock-Out Cup", which Northamptonshire went on to win a week later. The following year, the first full-scale one-day competition between first-class teams was played, the knock-out Gillette Cup, won by Sussex. League one-day cricket also began in England, when the John Player Sunday League was started in 1969. Both these competitions have continued every season since inauguration, though the sponsorship has changed. The knock-out cup is now the Friends Provident Trophy. The league is not exclusive to Sundays, with the competition now over 40 overs. It is now called the Natwest Pro40.

The first Limited Overs International (LOI) or One-Day International (ODI) match was played in Melbourne in 1971, and the quadrennial cricket World Cup began in 1975. Many of the "packaging" innovations, such as coloured clothing, were as a result of World Series Cricket, a "rebel" series set up outside the cricketing establishment by Australian entrepreneur Kerry Packer.

TRIPLE CENTURY

Triple century is achieved 23 occasions by 20 different batsman from six of ten test-cricket playing nations. No player from Bangladesh,New Zealand, South Africa or Zimbabwe has scored 300 although Martin Growe of New Zealand was dismissed for 299 in a match against Sri Lanks in 1991. Brian Lara, Donald Bradman and Virender Sehwag are the only batsman to reach 300 more then once

First triple century - Andy Sandham of England against West INdies in 1930

Quickest by time - Wally Hammond of Enhland against New Zealand in 1932-33(4 hours 48 minutes)

Fastes triple century- Virenderr Sehwag against South Africa (278 balls)

Highest - Brian Lara against England in 2004 (400 not out)

Sourav ganguly after ipl 3

T20 FACTS

The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup.[
On 17 February 2005 Australia defeated New Zealand in the first men's full international Twenty20 match, played at Eden Park in Auckland.

T20 RECORDS

Highest individual score - Brendon McCullum (Kolkata) 158* (73) (2008 IPL)
Highest team total - by Sri Lanka 260/6 (20 overs) vs Kenya 88/10 (19.3 overs) (2007 ICC World Twenty20)
Most sixes in an innings - Graham Napier (Essex) 16 (2008 Twenty20 Cup)
Most sixes in career - Ross Taylor 103
Fastest hundred - Andrew Symonds (Kent) 34 balls (2004 Twenty20 Cup)
Fastest fifty - Yuvraj Singh 12 balls (2007 ICC World Twenty20) against England
Most hundreds - Brendon McCullum (Otago Volts , Kolkata Knight Riders and New Zealand) 3
Best innings bowling figures (International) - Umar Gul (Pakistan) 5/6 (2009 T20)
Best innings bowling figures (Domestic) - Sohail Tanvir (Rajasthan Royals) 6/14 (2008 IPL)
Most runs in one over - Yuvraj Singh 36, 6 balls 6 sixes (2007 ICC World Twenty20) against England's Stuart Broad

Sachin tendulkar trivia

How many brother and sister does sachin have ? Name them if you can?

Fourth season of ipl

On 21 march 2010, it was announced that 2 new teams from pune and kochi will be added to the Ipl fromnext season. This increases ipl franchises from 8 to 10 and number of matches to 94 if same format is used.

The base price was $225 million while pune was bought by Sahara Adventure Sports group for $ 370 million and Kochi franchise was bought by Renedezvous soports world limited for $333.3 million . Pune was named "Sahara Pune Warriors".

AMAZING FACTS ABOUT IPL 3

1-Maximum number of ducks = Manoj tiwari (3)
2-Highest strike by a batsman = KA POLLARD
3- Max catches = Andrew symonds 12
4- Most dismissal by a wicket keper = Adam Gilchrist (9 catches, 5 stumpings)
5-Best economy virender sehwag (4.05)