India is a country where cricket is more than a sport. Here cricketers are worshipped and looked up to for inspiration and motivation. Cricket is found playing in every gully and, every child wants to be a cricketer. It is a game that unites the country and has produced excellent cricketers through ages and, those cricketers, individually as well as collectively in the team have always given the best to the country.
The cricketing history of this country has seen the rise of excellent cricketers who have given the best. Be it Mahendra Singh Dhoni, who won all the three ICC trophies, or Virat Kohli, who has scored tons of runs, or be it the bowlers. In recent times we are also witnessing the rise of young Indian cricketers especially, fast bowlers and some excellent run makers.
If it's the youngsters or the senior cricketer players, every player has some unique record to their name. But some of the gems of Indian cricket have some exceptional records to their name etched in the history of world cricket by passing over the giants of world cricket.
Let's have a look at such Ten unique and surprising records by 10 Indian cricketers, who have always been the best in the business because the list is never-ending:
1. Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahi, our Captain Cool who never fails to amaze us by his precise decisions has some unique records to his name and one such record is, he has the best record for bowling the maximum number of times, in 9 international matches while being a wicketkeeper.
2. Virat Kohli
The current captain and the run machine of Team India, who always comes as a savior when the team needs to score tons of runs, also has unique records to his name. Virat Kohli is the first Test skipper in the history of world cricket to score three hundred in his first three innings done during the Test series against Australia.
3. Virender Sehwag
Viru Paaji, who recently through his social media is entertaining the citizens through the social media platform after retiring from cricket, has his name etched in the history of cricket too. He is the only cricketer to score more than 7500 runs in both One-Day Internationals and Test matches as an opening batsman. Not only this but also, he is the only batsman to score a triple century in Tests and a double hundred in ODIs.
4. Irfan Pathan
He is the only bowler to claim a hat-trick in the first over of a Test match by taking the wickets of Salman Butt, Younis Khan, and Mohammad Yousuf in a game against Pakistan in Karachi in 2006.
5. Sachin Tendulkar
Our ‘God of Cricket’ is the first player to complete the rare triple, that is, 15,921 runs; 100 wickets; 100 catches in One Day Internationals.
6. Ravichandran Ashwin
The talented all-rounder has an excellent record of bagging 200 wickets in Test cricket with the least number of deliveries, 10291.
7. Shikhar Dhawan
The always cheered-up batsman and fielder holds the record of being the fastest scorer in Test debut in cricketing history with just 85 balls.
8. Rohit Sharma
The excellent batsman, Rohit Sharma has a stunning record to his name with the most number of double centuries in ODIs.
9. Rahul Dravid
The Wall of India, who always came to the rescue when the team needed, has a unique record to his name with the most number of catches in the Test format, which is 210.
10. Ajinkya Rahane
A talented fielder and batsmen, He has the world record of being the first non-keeper cricketer to take eight catches in a Test match against Sri Lanka in 2015.
