The Cricket History Blog

 The former captain and batman / Wicket-Keeper MS Dhoni’s full name is Mahendra Singh Dhoni, he was born on 7 of July 1981 in Ranchi Bihar now called (Jharkhand ).  He is the best - captain of the Indian Team with 10,000 runs in the One Day Internationals too with the reputation of being the best finisher of the game.  Under his captaincy, the Indian Team won 3 ICC Trophy the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 by beating Pakistan in the final on 24 September the 2011 Cricket World Cup by beating Sri Lanka on 2 of April, the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy by beating England on 23 of June,   Under his captaincy, India has won Asia Cup Twice first in 2010 by beating Sri Lanka on 24 of June than in 2016 by beating Bangladesh on 6 of March.  MS Dhoni is considered one of the best Wicket-Keeper with 38 stumping in Test, 321 stumps in ODI, 57 stumps in T20I, and 205 stumps in T20s. BIO: MS Dhoni‘s father Pan Singh used to work in the local government enterprise in a junio...

  Virat Kohli ( The Dynamic Running Machine of Cricket) Virat Kohli is known as the King or Ruler of Cricket for his tremendous amount of effort in the field.  Virat Kohli has scored 12344 runs in ODI,4008 runs in T20, and 8074 runs in Test.  Virat has scored 43 centuries in ODI, 1 in T20, and 27 in Test. Virat has played 26 matches at ICC World Cups in which Virat has scored 1030 which includes 2 centuries and 6 half-centuries. Virat’s average run rate is 46.81.  All of these achievements are one side of the coin. But most people don’t know the other side of the coin which includes harsh struggle and deadly hard work. As Virat doesn’t belong to a cricket-family background his father was a criminal lawyer and his mother a housemaker. Virat once told in an interview that when he asked his coach how can I succeed his dream that his coach replied you have to show unique and siding performance if his competitor scored 100 runs then you have to score 200.  It was the...

Lala Amarnath (12 November 1908 – 3 August 2000)    ~ Cricket is the greatest game in the world because it encourages gentlemanly  behavior  in players and fair play."   He  was an Indian cricketer who played in Test matches for India. Amarnath is considered one of India's greatest batsmen of all time. He was the first Test centurion for India, and the first Indian batsman to score a Test century on foreign soil.   Amarnath was born in Lahore, British India (now in Pakistan), into a Punjabi Hindu  family. Talking  about his family  Lal Amarnath's wife Kailash Nath was from Jammu and Kashmir. His son Deepak Amarnath is a former Indian cricketer who has played first-class cricket.  He made his first-class debut for Northern India against Southern Punjab in the Ranji Trophy in 1926. He played for India in three Tests on their 1932 tour of England, scoring 62 on debut at Lord's. He scored India's first Test century in the second Test at...

 The history of cricket in India can be traced back to the 18th century. The first recorded match was played in 1721, between two villages in Sussex. However, the game gained popularity in India only after the arrival of the British in the 19th century. The first Indian cricket club was founded in Calcutta in 1848, and the first Indian cricket team toured England in 1886. The first recorded match in India was played in 1721, between the teams of the British East India Company and the local Parsees. The first Indian cricket club was founded in 1848, in Calcutta. The first Indian team to tour overseas was a Parsee team that toured England in 1886. The first Indian cricketers to play Test cricket were the Palwankar brothers, Shivram and Ganpat, who played for England against Australia at The Oval in 1907. The first Indian cricketer to play for England was KS Ranjitsinhji, who made his Test debut in 1896. The first Indian cricketer to play for Australia was Duleepsinhji, who made his T...