On this Day

On this day, a complete brief of Cricket Records, Incidents and Birth of players

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10 June 2012 

Tino Best Played an excellent inning batting at No.11

On 10 June 2012 Tino Best scored 95 runs that too batting at Number 11 against England in England, he played strokes all over the ground and helped his team to past 400 runs first time in England on the other hand his partner Dinesh Ramdin scored century after three years. But Windows ended up losing the series by 2-0.

11 June 1999

Saqlain Mushtaq did hatrick against Zimbabwe in World Cup

On 11 June 1999 Suqlain Mushtaq scored hatrick against Zimbabwe in a super sixer game of world cup  and Pakistan Defeated Zimbabwe by 148 runs interestingly those three batsmans neither had a good average nor a good status in the world of Cricket, Here is average of those three batsmans Henzy Olanga 4.36, Adam Hickle 2.25, Morry Emba Nago 4.71. Yet a World Cup hatrick is a World Cup hatrick whether it's scored against bowlers or batsmans, moreover it was second hatrick in World Cup. 

13 June 1999

Harshal Gibbs not only dropped a catch but also dropped The World Cup

One of the most famous super sixer World Cup match was played between Australia and South Africa, South Africa won the toss and decide to bat first the scored 272 in 50 overs, Australian team suffered alot as they lost 3 Wickets for 48 Runs and Steve Waugh had came on crease, Steve was batting on 56 runs when Harshal Gibbs dropped his catch in quickness to celebrate Steve then scored 120 not out and Steve even asked Gibbs how are you feeling after dropping world cup? Moreover if Australia had lost the match they would have been out of the world cup but by winning they not only saved themselves from getting out but also came ahead of South Africa in points. After four days semi final was played between these two teams the match ended up as tie because of a little mistake of Alan Donald but Australia had good run rate and qualified for the final against Pakistan. 

1907 Date not confirmed

Northamptonshire's whole team got all out on just 12

English county team Northamptonshire had to face such an embracement  that became a part of history and even now it is written in record book, the season was a bad dream for Northamptonshire, Just three weeks before they got all out on 60 in 1st inning and on 39 runs in 2nd inning against Kent but things got even worsen for them as in first inning Northamptonshire could only manage to score 40 runs and in second inning just 12 Runs that's still lowest score in County Cricket as well as third lowest total over all.

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