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3 weeks 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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1 month ago | 
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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2 months ago | 
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.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
businessbenchmark.news | Mohandas Menon
By Mohandas MenonKOCHI: Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu is rapidly emerging as a key warehousing hub for Kerala, driven by logistical constraints and geographical challenges faced within the state. Proximity to Kerala, strong road and rail connectivity, and access to ports in Chennai, Ennore, Tuticorin, and Kochi make Coimbatore a vital logistics centre for South India. Kerala’s unique geography, marked by a long coastline and the Western Ghats, poses logistical challenges.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
sportstar.thehindu.com | Mohandas Menon
0 The number of Indian players, before the start of the T20I series against Bangladesh, to perform the all-round feat of scoring 70-plus runs and claim two wickets in the same T20I match. In the second T20I in Delhi, Nitish Reddy became the first Indian player to do so. This happened in only the second match of his career.
