31 Mind Boggling Cricket Facts That’ll Make You Go Woah!

1. Sri Lanka has a sole Test win against the Aussies till date.

2. Sanath Jayasuriya has more ODI wickets than Shane Warne. 

3. Dhaka’s Sher-e-Bangla stadium and Bangabandhu stadium have hosted more ODIs than Lord’s. 

4. The highest number of runs scored in an over is not 36. It’s 77. 

This is how the over went - 0 4 4 4 6 6 4 6 1 4 1 0 6 6 6 6 6 0 0 4 0 1

But what many people don’t know is that the bowling team allowed the batting team to get close enough to the target and give them a chance to win so that they take risks and get out! 

5. Adam Gilchrist holds the record for playing the most number of Tests straight after debut.

He played 96 Test matches between 5^th November 1999 and 24^th January 2008 without dropping out from any of them. 

6. Ishant Sharma is responsible for all the three highest scores made by a batsman against India in the 21^stcentury. 

Alistair Cook – 294 Runs, Edgbaston 2011; Michael Clarke – 329 Runs, Sydney 2012; Brendon McCullum – 302 Runs, Wellington 2014. They were all dropped by Ishant Sharma early on in their innings. 

7. On 12^th January 1964, Indian spinner Bapu Nadkarni bowled 21 consecutive maiden overs vs England at Chennai. 

His figures were 32-27-5-0 which is an economy rate of 0.15 per over which is the lowest of all bowlers where 10 or more overs were bowled. 

8. Chris Martin and B.S Chandrasekhar have taken more Test wickets in their career than the test runs they scored. 

In 71 Tests, Martin has scored 123 runs, while he has 233 wickets to his credit, on the other hand Chandrasekhar has 167 runs to his name along with 242 wickets. 

9. Wilfred Rhodes took 4,204 wickets in First Class cricket.

No, it’s not a typo. He actually did take more than Four Thousand wickets. He also happened to score 39, 969 runs. 

10. Sir Jack Hobbs scored 199 centuries in his First Class career. 

11. In a World Cup Match, chasing 335, Sunil Gavaskar scored an unbeaten 36 off 174 balls.

In the Prudential World Cup of 1975, in the match between India and England, England set the target of 335 runs in 60 overs. Sunil Gavaskar batted throughout the innings and scored only 36 runs  of 174 balls. India managed to score only 132 runs in 60 overs with 7 wickets in hand. 

  

12. Jim Laker once took 19 wickets in a Test match. 

13. Saurav Ganguly is the only Indian player to score a century in the knock out stages of a World Cup. 

14. After Virat Kohli’s debut, India has chased down 300+ targets five times. 

And in 4 of these 5 matches, Virat Kohli scored a century. 

15. Mahela Jayawardene is the only batsman to have scored centuries in both the Semi-Final and Final of a World Cup.

16.  Sachin + Zaheer = (Almost) Kallis 

17. The player with the most number of not outs in Test cricket is not Rahul Dravid, but Courtney Walsh. 

He’s been unbeaten a total of 61 times in 185 innings. 

18. Saurav Ganguly is the only player to win four consecutive Man of the Match awards in ODIs. 

19. Dirk Nannes has represented both Australia and Netherlands in International Cricket. 

20. Shahid Afridi used a bat borrowed from Waqar Younis to score the fastest century in a ODI match. 

21. In 1989, along with Sachin Tendulkar, 23 other cricketers made their International debuts. The last one to retire before Sachin, was New Zealand's Chris Cairns, who retired in 2004. 

22. Inzamam Ul Haq took a wicket off the very first ball he bowled in International Cricket. 

 

23. Sir Don Bradman has just hit 6 sixes in his entire career. 

24. Virender Sehwag’s highest scores in T20, ODI and Tests are 119, 219 and 319 respectively.

119 was scored in an IPL game. 

25. Wasim Akram’s highest Test innings score of 257 is higher than that of Sachin Tendulkar's (who has 248 n.o. to his credit).

 26. The England Cricket Team is the only team in ODI history to lose a 60 over ODI Final (1979 World Cup), a 50 over ODI Final (1992 World Cup and 2004 Champions Trophy) and a 20 over ODI Final (2013 Champions Trophy) in ICC tournaments.

27. Lance Klusener, Abdur Razzaq, Shoaib Malik and Hashan Tillakaratne are the only players to have batted in 10 different batting positions in ODIs.

28. MS Dhoni and Suresh Raina have never scored an ODI ton outside of Asia.

29. Graeme Smith is the only player in the history of cricket to have captained a team for more than 100 Test matches.

30. Sachin Tendulkar got out for a duck only once in his Ranji career. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar got him.

31. Saeed Ajmal has never won a Man of the Match award in One Day International Cricket. 

7 investment lessons from Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is a qualified CA and has chosen trading in stocks as his profession. Many consider him as the Indian version of Warren Buffet.

He is also sometimes referred to as 'The Golden Hand' of Indian stock market. People believe that everything he touches (invests) turns to gold.

Such is his popularity that there are people who track his portfolio and invest in the same companies that he invests.

So, what's his secret of success? What are his investment strategies which have made him a billionaire? Let's see what we can learn from him.

Buy for long term

Though he is investing in the stock market, he is not a short term trader. He invests in stocks for the long term. And this strategy has paid off for him. Some of the stocks he owns have multiplied his wealth over the years.

Had he sold them the moment they appreciated by 10-20 per cent, we wouldn't have been talking about him now.

Belief in India's growth story

He is one of those guys who believes strongly in India's growth story. He says again and again that Indian economy will keep growing. So, be a part of it.

The only way you can be a part of a growing India is to invest in its stock market. If you are investing in debt instruments like fixed deposits or bonds, you will not be able to reap multifold returns by any means.

Search for value

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala believes in value oriented companies. He has his team who helps him in finding companies which offer value in the long term.

If the stock prices of these companies are higher now, he tends to wait a bit, but finally gets his hands on them.

Before buying a stock, he closely studies its management style, growth potential, competitive nature and many more factors.

One cannot create wealth through free advice

In an interview given to Mumbai Mirror, he has said that one cannot make wealth through borrowed advice.

You need to do your own research before making any investment. Free advice can actually cost you later.

If you blindly follow someone's free advice, you might not be paying them anything now but you will realise later when those investment turn out to be duds. That loss can be a lot more than the fees that you pay for an expert's advise.

Invest only in what you know

He invests only in companies whose business he can understand.

He does not opt for complex businesses.

'Keep it simple' is his strategy when it comes to investin

Consistency

If it's done once, it could be a lottery. But if it's done again and again, we call it consistency. This is what Rakesh Jhunjhunwala is known for.

He consistently invests in the stock market irrespective of the conditions. The quantum or strategy of investing can differ based on those conditions but he has never left his belief that stock market will always deliver for you if you do everything right.

Success comes from failure

It's not that he has not tasted failure. Some of his investments have also been duds.

He believes that success springs out of failures. If you fail, instead of crying over it you should know why you have failed. Did you not read the business well? Were the markets hit by some bad news?

These are some questions whose answers he wants you to search.

5 reasons you will most definitely fail your job interview

Can an inappropriate e-mail id cost you your dream job?

If you think 'you lack experience' is a silly reason to be rejected, you are wrong.

Lack of experience is actually a strong reason for rejection and you cannot count that against anyone.

If lack of experience was the reason why you couldn't make the cut you should rejoice because there are many others who are rejected for ridiculously silly reasons and some of them are rejected despite having experience.

While you cannot avoid being rejected for a few reasons such as lack of experience and qualification required for a particular job, there are other reasons that you can work on.

Listed below are five of the silliest reasons to get rejected:

1. Being badly dressed

The first impression of a prospective candidate is usually based on how s/he presents herself/himself.

Your hair should be neat and your clothing should be professional.

Wrinkled shirts, clothing with stains, not bothering to comb your hair, and/or not polishing your shoes are some of the worst things you could do for yourself.

You are going to meet a potential employer, not a friend.

Be serious in the way you dress to an interview.

2. A ludicrous e-mail ID

iamthebest@yahoo.com, shiningstar@gmail.com, princessdoll@yahoo.com.

Seriously?

Are these the email IDs you would provide to your potential employers to contact you?

Bad e-mail IDs are among the silliest and among the most common reasons why employers reject candidates.

Organisations definitely don't want to hire someone who expects to be contacted at iamahero@yahoo.com.

Employers look for serious candidates who have a professional e-mail address.

If you don't have a professional e-mail yet, create one with your complete name.

If it is already taken you may add an underscore, full stop, or a number at the end of your name, but using ridiculous email IDs will count negatively for you.

3. A badly written CV

You will never understand the gravity of good grammar and error-free CV until you are rejected on those grounds.

Most employers get frustrated when they see silly spelling errors, typos, and grammatical mistakes in a resume.

This is because it shows the applicant's carelessness and it is very unprofessional.

Even if you have good experience, fashioning a bad CV will work against you.

Alongside, silly fonts, long paragraphs, writing too much about yourself, and not focusing on the job will cause employers to reject you

4. Lack of research

There are many candidates who simply attend interviews without even knowing what the job entails or which domain the company works in.

The interviewer will definitely ask you questions about the company and when you fail to answer or just give general answers, it will show that you are not serious about it and you are likely applying to every job opening that you find.

Employers don't really want to hire candidates who are not motivated to particularly work for them because such candidates lack enthusiasm and passion.

5. Confidence issues

There are people who lack confidence and there are people who have confidence in excess. Both are bad for you.

Lack of confidence shows that you doubt your own skills.

It also directly relates to lack of people skills and communication skills, which is a huge disadvantage in today's world.

At the same time, being overconfident portrays you as pompous and someone who thinks too much about themselves.

No one likes such a candidate.

Avoid being cocky and arrogant while answering questions in the interview.

Don't try asking too many questions unless you are specifically encouraged to do so.

Don't make it seem like you are the interviewer.

It is highly recommended that you make a great first impression and be polite in a prospective job interview.

But before that, tailor your CV according to the job description and research the company well.

In your interview, be positive but not overconfident.

Taking care of such things will automatically increase your chances of being accepted. Good luck!

10 Harley Davidson Street 750 facts you totally must know

This beast of a motorcycle will be all yours for Rs 4.6 lakh. A quick scan to help you find if it is worth it.

The Harley Davidson Street 750 is an all new Harley-Davidson platform in 14 years.

It has been developed to appeal to urban riders and is now the entry-level motorcycle for the company in many markets (some markets have also got the Street 500 which will be launched in India next year).

The Street 750 is the first Harley Davidson bike ever to be manufactured outside of the US.

All Harley bikes sold in the world were being manufactured solely in the US while in some cases they are being assembled (like India via the CKD route).

The Street 750, however, is made in India for the Asian and European markets.

The instrument cluster doesn't have a tachometer while the display only shows odometer and tripmeters (A and B).

There is no fuel meter, time, distance to empty on the Street 750's console.

The Street 750 falls short on quality. The wiring is a complete mess and is exposed at multiple places.

Some wires don't even have wraps around them, like around the horn and the rear master cylinder, you can see yellow and red wires.

The 749cc, V-Twin engine is liquid-cooled and is called Revolution X. It's a new engine and a modern one at that.

Refinement is good and there is good amount of mid-range punch, enough to propel the bike from 0-100 km/hr in under 5 seconds.

The Street 750 doesn't sound like a typical Harley, there is no POTATO-POTATO here.

The Street 750 produces 65 Nm of torque at 4000 RPM while horse power output is expected to be between 55 to 60 BHP.

The gearbox is smooth but doesn't get into neutral so easily.

Mileage of the Street 750 is between 20-25 km/l

The Street 750 has a long wheelbase, it remains stable at speed and can do a top whack of 180 km/hr.

Ride quality is excellent and the suspension absorbs almost everything on the road.

Ground clearance is good enough to prevent any speed breaker from scraping the underbody.

The Street 750 is an easy to ride bike and is suited to short riders (not to tall riders). It's easy to manoeuvre in the city and the steering is light too. It's the lightest Harley currently with a weight of 218 kgs.

The Street 750 uses specially developed tyres for India, which are MRFs.

Made in India bikes which will be exported will use Michelin rubber.

Some components on the Street 750 are sub-par like the Endurance brakes. The brakes itself lack enough stopping power.

The Street 750 is heavily localised in India for an aggressive price tag.

It costs Rs 4.92 lakh in Mumbai and bookings are open, with deliveries commencing in September for those who book now.

A range of accessories are offered for this Harley

'The demand for a sequel to Andaz Apna Apna is unbelievable!'

Rajkumar Santoshi has no recollection of the day Andaz Apna Apna released!

"Has that film completed 20 years? Wow!" Santoshi exclaims incredulously.

"Its reach, appeal and impact are beyond anything I'd ever expected. I still remember when the producer Vinay Sinha had come to me with the idea of doing a film with Aamir Khan. Vinayji used to look after Aamir’s work. He convinced me to do film with him through my stomach. I remember he had brought delicious food for me. I had just done two back-to-back serious films, Ghayal and Damini. So we thought, why not a comedy? Little did we know Andaz Apna Apna would become such a laugh riot," he adds.

It was decided that Santoshi would script a laughathon about two warring buddies, human avatars of Tom and Jerry.

After Aamir came on board, Santoshi brought Salman into the picture.

"Both were big stars by then. They had no problems working together. During the shooting, they became better friends. There would be constant laughter on the sets,” Santoshi adds.

Santoshi clears the misconception of the humour in the film being improvised.

"Not at all! I don’t work that way. I direct my actors very closely," he says. "I work out all the scenes with dialogues well in advance. There is very little room for improvisation. All the jokes and gags in Andaz Apna Apna were worked out beforehand. People think Aamir and Salman decided to call themselves Amar and Prem to celebrate the movie Amar Prem. But their names had nothing to do with Shakti Samanta’s film. And Aamir's exclamations of ‘Aaila’ and Salman’s ‘Oui maa’ were also my idea.”

Santoshi says he used to give cues to the actors from behind the camera.

“Even during that sequence where Salman is fed julaab (laxative) and his love-confessions are repeatedly interrupted by his rumbling stomach, that ‘gud-gud-gud’ sound was being given by me from behind the camera. Salman didn’t know when the sound would come in. That added to the scene’s unpredictability,” he says.

There were many firsts in Andaz Apna Apna.

"I was doing comedy for the first time. Salman and Aamir came together for the first time. Until then, Paresh Rawal was a screen villain. We gave him a comic image. We revived the ‘Ajit-Robert’ jokes with Ajit’s son playing his father's carbon-copy. Raveena and Karisma Kapoor were brought together, and they exchanged names on screen. Raveena was named Karisma while Karisma was named Raveena,” Santoshi says.

Curiously, Andaz Apna Apna got a lukewarm response from the audience when it was released on April 11 ,1994.

“It was very badly marketed and distributed. Nobody knew the film was coming. We got a below-average opening. But over the years, it has acquired a cult status. People remember each and every dialogue of Andaz Apna Apna, just as they remember every dialogue of Mughal-e-Azam and Sholay,” says Santoshi.

Santoshi is now planning a sequel, thanks to public demand.

"I don’t believe in creating a franchise by doing sequels or building my own brand. But the demand for a sequel to Andaz Apna Apna is unbelievable. If I don’t do it, someone else will. I won’t allow that. I have ideas for two sequels. One of them is about Amar and Prem married and their life thereafter," Santoshi says.

However, it is unlikely that the sequel will bring back Aamir and Salman. “Firstly, the economic logistics of bringing Aamir and Salman together in the same film are mindboggling. Secondly, their working methods are very different, even though they’re good friends in real life,” he says.

Santoshi wants to make the sequel with younger actors. “The world has moved on in 20 years. I see a lot of filmmakers and actors doing an Andaz Apna Apna. I would like to see where the characters have gone after so long.

 

A volcanic eruption has raised an island in the seas to the far south of Tokyo, the Japanese coast guard and earthquake experts said.

Advisories from the coast guard and the Japan Meteorological Agency said the islet is about 200 meters (660 feet) in diameter. It is just off the coast of Nishinoshima, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, which is also known as the Bonin Islands.

Smoke billows from a new island off the coast of Nishinoshima, seen left above, a small, uninhabited island in the Ogasawara chain, far south of Tokyo on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2013. AP Photo

The approximately 30 islands are 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) south of Tokyo, and along with the rest of Japan are part of the seismically active Pacific "Ring of Fire."

The coast guard issued an advisory on Wednesday warning of heavy black smoke from the eruption. Television footage seen on Thursday showed heavy smoke, ash and rocks exploding from the crater, as steam billowed into the sky.

AP photo

A volcanologist with the coast guard, Hiroshi Ito, told the FNN news network that it was possible the new island might be eroded away.

"But it also could remain permanently," he said.

The last time the volcanoes in the area are known to have erupted was in the mid-1970s. Much of the volcanic activity occurs under the sea, which extends thousands of meters deep along the Izu-Ogasawara-Marianas Trench.

Japan's chief government spokesman welcomed the news of yet another bit, however tiny, of new territory.

"This has happened before and in some cases the islands disappeared," Yoshihide Suga said when asked if the government was planning on naming the new island.

"If it becomes a full-fledged island, we would be happy to have more territory."

The Japanese archipelago has thousands of islands. In some cases, they help anchor claims to wide expanses of ocean overlying potentially lucrative energy and mineral resources.

Japan has plans to build port facilities and transplant fast-growing coral fragments onto Okinotorishima, two rocky outcroppings even further south of Tokyo, to boost its claim in a territorial dispute with China.

Read more at: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/japan-volcano-volcanic-eruption-new-island-volcanoes-japan/1/325909.html