Biggest Coincidences in Cricket History: (Thread)

1. When Sachin Tendulkar (200*), Virender Sehwag (219) and Rohit Sharma (264) set ODI records for the highest individual scores, India won the match by exactly 153 runs on each occasion.

#SachinTendulkar #ViratKohli #RohitSharma

2. Sachin Tendulkar smashed his 58th international century against England. He scored 103 runs.

Virat Kohli smashed his 58th international century against England. And he scored 103 runs.

@sachin_rt @imVkohli

3. At the age of 26, Virat Kohli and Sachin Tendulkar both had 22 ODI hundreds

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4. Sachin Tendulkar 's 19th test century is against Sri Lanka and 5th double hundred is also against Sri Lanka.

Virat Kohli's 19th test century is against Sri Lanka and 5th double hundred is against Sri Lanka.

#SachinTendulkar #ViratKohli

5. First ODI double ton and first World Cup 200 were scored exactly 5 years apart!

Sachin Tendulkar scored 200 not out on February 24, 2010. Chris Gayle hit 215 in the 2015 World Cup on the same day.

6. Alec Stewart was born on April 8, 1963 (8-4-63) — the exact tally of runs he ended his Test career with, 8463..!!

7. Dhoni's first Test and ODI hundred both came in his 5th match, were both scores of 148 and both were scored against Pakistan. Cool coincidence indeed for Captain Cool..!!

#MSDhoni

8. When Australia’s Michael Clarke and England’s Alastair Cook completed their 100th Test match, the sum total of their runs was nearly equal to that of Sachin Tendulkar’s total Test runs and their combined tons exactly the same to that of Sachin.

#SachinTendulkar

9. This has to be the mother of all coincidences. On November 11, 2011, hosts South Africa needed 111 runs to win a Test match against Australia when the local time was 11:11 am. The scoreboard, thus, read 11:11 11/11/11.

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10. Dennis Lillee became the fastest to take 300 wickets in test cricket when he took his 300th wicket on 27 November, 1989 in his 56th test match. 36 years later Ashwin broke his record when he took his 300th test wicket in his 54th test match. The date was 27 November, 2017.

11. Bhuvneshwar Kumar's :

1st ODI wicket (bowled)

1st test wicket (bowled)

1st T20 wicket (bowled)

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12. Coincident Tendulkar & Kohli, is hard to believe. In the year 1999, Sachin had completed 1000 runs against Australia in the 19th over in the fifth test match in Melbourne.

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#ViratKohli

15 years later, Virat Kohli too completed 1000 runs against Australia in Melbourne in the fifth test match and that too in the 19th over. They both were 26 years old when they achieved this feat and they both were playing with an MRF bat.

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13. Ralph Lindsay took a hat-trick in the annual match between Oudtshoorn Defence & Port Elizabeth Defence in SA in 1957, dismissing Messrs Voges, Jones & Le Grange with successive balls. 6 years later, in the same fixture, Lindsay did it again removing the same 3 in same order.

14. Highest ODI Score of Three Indian Batsman as a Non Captain but all of them Captaining India.

#ViratKohli #MSDhoni #SouravGanguly

15. The series between Zimbabwe and Afghanistan 2018.

Look at the scorecard.

1st match
AFG 333–5
ZIM 179(all out)

AFG won by 154 runs

2nd match
ZIM 333–5
AFG 179(all out)

ZIM won by 154 runs

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16. Both Dravid and Pujara have reached their milestones of 3000 runs, 4000 runs and 5000 runs in Tests in SAME number of innings.

3000 runs in 67 innings

4000 runs in 84 innings

5000 runs in 108 innings

#rahuldravid

17. 15th January 2017- 1st 100 of the Year for Kohli against England

15th January 2018- 1st 100 of the Year for Kohli against South Africa

15th January 2019- 1st 100 of the Year for Kohli against Australia.

#ViratKohli @imVkohli

18. There is a common link that connects Sachin Tendulkar’s top 3 ODI scores of 175, 186* and 200. In all these matches, India’s Shavir Tarapore was the umpire.

#SachinTendulkar

19. England’s Tony Greig took 4/53 in the second innings of his debut Test match against Australia in 1972. Incidentally, his brother Ian Greig had the same figures of 4/53 in the first innings of his debut Test match against Pakistan in 1982.

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20. The first ever Test match between Australia & England was won by the hosts in Melbourne in 1877. Australia won by 45 runs. The Centenary Test match was played on the same ground between the same opponents in 1977. This time, Australia won by the exact same margin of 45 runs.

21. On 2 may 2010, he became first Indian to score a century in T20 international during his 101 off just 60 balls, hitting nine fours and five sixes against South Africa in a WT20 match. India ended up on 186 and won the match by 14 runs.

@ImRaina #SureshRaina
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Three years later exactly on the same day, Suresh Raina went to score his first IPL century. He scored 100 off 53 deliveries, hitting 7 fours and 6 sixes. Incidentally, CSK also made exactly 186 and won the match by 15 runs.

@ImRaina #SureshRaina

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22.  the 1978 First class season, former England cricketer David Steele scored 1182 runs in 31 completed innings and finished with an average 38.12. His younger brother John also scored exactly 1182 runs in 31 completed innings, to finish at an average of 38.12.

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23. India Vs Pakistan, Asia Cup 1986 & 2014

Pakistan won the toss and chose to field first in both matches

India’s openers Srikkanth and Rohit Sharma hit two sixes each

India scored 245 in both matches

Both Javed Miandad and Afridi hit three sixes each

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Both matches ended with a six

Pakistan won both matches by one wicket

Chetan Sharma dismissed Pakistan's number 10 batsman Zulqarnain for a first-ball duck. In the Asia Cup ODI, Ashwin dismissed Pakistan's No 10 Saeed Ajmal for a first ball duck.

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Indian bowlers Chetan Sharma and Ravindran Ashwin who bowled the last overs took three wickets each.

3 Indian batsmen hit half centuries in both matches (Srikkanth, Sunil Gavaskar & Dilip Vengsarkar in 1986; Rohit Sharma, Rayudu & R Jadeja in the Asia Cup match)

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There were two run-outs in Pakistan’s innings in both matches (Saleem Malik and Wasim Akram in Sharjah; Misbah-ul-Haq and Sohaib Maqsood in Mirpur).

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