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1 week ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Jonathan Selvaraj |Ravi Shastri |Paul Fein
35 The number of innings Sai Sudharsan needed to reach the 1500th run of his IPL career. It was during his knock of 48 against Sunrisers Hyderabad in Ahmedabad on 2 May 2025. Of the 73 batters who accomplished this milestone in the IPL, Sudharshan is the quickest to reach this tally in terms of fewest innings. He just took one innings less than Shaun Marsh, who did it in 36 innings in 2012. Meanwhile, during this knock, Sai Sudharsan also crossed 2000 runs of his T20 career.
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1 month ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Paul Fein |Ryan Fernando
1 Number of players to do the all-rounder’s double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in IPL history. Ravindra Jadeja achieved this on 28 March 2025 while playing for CSK against RCB in Chennai, becoming the only one to do so. The enormity of this achievement can be seen from the fact that of the 27 players who made 3000-plus runs in the IPL, only two have claimed fifty wickets (Shane Watson 3874+92 and Kieron Pollard 3412+69).
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2 months ago | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Lavanya Narayanan |Jonathan Selvaraj |Sunil Gavaskar
1027 The runs scored by Mumbai Indians’ Nat Sciver-Brunt. This is the most by any batter in WPL history. She thus became the first batter to aggregate 1000 runs in this elite T20 tournament. The data below shows how the record for leading run-getter in WPL has changed hands over the past three years, since 2023.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Ayon Sengupta |Jonathan Selvaraj
50The number of innings Shubman Gill needed to aggregate 2500 runs in his ODI career. He thus becomes the quickest among 204 players who have managed to cross the 2500-run mark in ODI cricket. He achieved this milestone during his 112 against England in Ahmedabad on 12 February 2025. Quickest to reach 2500 career runs in ODIsInnsMBatter (For)RunsAve.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Paul Fein
ICC Champions Trophy (1998-2017) – a statistical surveyThis 50-over tournament started in the late 1990s when one-day cricket was probably at its peak popularity. The ICC Champions Trophy, as we know it today, was called the ICC Knockout. The first edition was lapped up by both television viewers and the host nation Bangladesh purely for the exciting high-octave cricket it generated.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Dhruva Prasad |Pranay Rajiv |Sunil Gavaskar
35 The number of sixes accumulated by Yashasvi Jaiswal in 2024. This is the maximum hit by any batter in a calendar year. He passed the previous record of 33 sixes held by Kiwi Brendon McCullum in 2014. For the record, previously, the sixes most hit by an Indian were 22 by Virender Sehwag in 2008. The third table below details how this record changed hands since the start of the 20th century.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Paul Fein |Kavita Menon |Mohandas Menon |Vivek Krishnan
“The gulf between Sinner and everyone else in this tournament is a pretty big body of water.” — Jim Courier, former world No. 1. With the preternatural calmness of Björn Borg, the technical perfection of Novak Djokovic, and the endearing humility of Rafael Nadal, an Italian sensation with a surname that’s a misnomer has taken over men’s tennis. He has also become wildly popular, particularly in football-mad Italy.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Kavita Menon |Mohandas Menon |Vivek Krishnan |Pranay Rajiv
At the final winners’ ceremony of the 2024 MotoGP season, two-time world champion Francesco Bagnaia stood atop the podium — alongside Marc Marquez and Jorge Martin — after winning the Solidarity Grand Prix in Barcelona, Spain. The Italian anthem echoed along the main straight as teams and spectators watched the top three riders one last time this year.But there was a bright, wide smile spread across Martin’s face, despite standing on the third step. Everyone knew what it meant.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon |Vivek Krishnan |Pranay Rajiv |Viswanathan Anand
5 In the Pune Test against New Zealand, India’s two off-spinners, Washington Sundar and R. Ashwin, claimed all 10 wickets in the first innings. This marked the first instance of such a feat in Indian Test cricket. For the record, the first occurrence of all 10 wickets being taken by a single off-spinner in Test history was achieved by England’s Jim Laker, who accomplished this during the Ashes Test in Manchester in July 1956.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon
26 The number of Test matches Kiwi bowler Matt Henry required to reach his 100th Test wicket when he dismissed Kuldeep Yadav in the first Test in Bengaluru. In doing so, he became the joint second-quickest New Zealand bowler to reach this milestone. Henry is the 15th New Zealander overall to achieve this landmark and the 13th fast bowler from the country. Quickest to reach 100 Test wickets for New ZealandTest#BowlerAchieved onBallsRunsWktsAve.
