INTERESTING RECORDS BEFORE 2000 TEST MATCH...

Cricket is one of the most popular game of this era...it is also known as the game of gentlemen...
the ongoing test match between india & england is the 2000 test match of the cricketing world....

cricket start 134 years ago...the first match played b/w england & australlia on 15 march 1877 at MCG...aussies won that match by a 45 runs...

at first only australlia & england were the part of cricket but in 1889 SA also became the test nation ...Westindies 1928 , new zealand 1930 , india 1932 & after seprating from india Pakistan in 1952 also became the test nation....srilanka in 1982 , where as zimbabwe in 1992 & bangladesh in 2000 became part of test cricket...

some said after the new version of t20 in cricket test cricket will be no more charm in it & ICC must have to think about the future of test cricket but  the  cricket real taste is test cricket where every players skills temperament check.....

in test cricket most test matches played by england 911 in that they won 322 , draw 328 they lost 261..

australia on second they played 730 341 they won in 192 they had been defeated ..
westindies on third they played 473 153 they won in 156 they lost..
india  on fourth they played 451 110 won in 139 they lost..
NZL on fifth they played 364 in 64 they won in 147 they lost...
Pak on sixth they played 358 in 108 they won in 100 they lost..
where as SA won 125  & 124 they got the taste of  on the loosing side..
 srilanka in 201 test matches 61 they won in 71 they on loosing side..
zimbabwe in 83 matches just won 8 lost 48
bangladesh in 68 matches won 3 lost many 59..

talking about individual performances Sir Don Bradman has the highest avg in all 99.99 he also made 309 runs in just one day of test match he made 12 double centuries he is the only person who is holding this record..

Little master sachin tendulkar in 177 test matches 14692 runs he has made with the help of 51 centuries ..

brain lara only man on this planet made 400 in test macth against england in 2004.. four Batsmen brain lara, sehwag , sir don bradman , chris gayle , each players made two time   tripple century   in their career .. fastest century in test cricket made by legendary viv richards .. by facing just 56 balls against england in 1986..

Srilankan magician off spinner muralitharan got the 800 test wicket in their life ...

jim laker got the 19 wickets in just one test match...

hope u all like that....& i hope that test cricket will be live forever because this is the real form of cricket..

Shahid Afridi vs New Zealand 27 runs in one over

5 Fours by Abdul Razzaq vs McGrath in one over

LIE DETECTOR TESTS A MOCKERY: BUTT

Pakistan's banned former captain Salman Butt has described as a 'mockery' the proposal by former Australia captain Steve Waugh to use lie detector tests in international cricket to root out corruption from the sport.

"It's a non-serious proposal. In fact it's a mockery," Butt told The Express Tribune newspaper.
"If a machine is going to detect corruption, then all corruption-related issues would've been resolved. What's the use of investigative agencies then, he added.
Butt, who is facing a criminal case in a London court following a minimum five-year ban by the ICC in the spot-fixing scandal, said he doubted the accuracy of lie detectors and stressed that the mere idea was "against the concept of right and wrong".
"It's about the lives of the cricketers. Machines cannot announce verdicts on a player's career. It seems Waugh is working as an advertising agent for some lie-detector company," the former Test captain and opener said.
Butt didn't appear in person in a London court earlier this week where a preliminary hearing was held to decide if the crown prosecution office had a criminal case against Butt and his teammates, Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir.
The court ruled there was a strong case to proceed against the banned trio.
The Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) cricket committee recently floated the idea that lie detectors have the potential to fight corruption in cricket and stressed that the proposal should be widely debated.