SPORT FACT# 18

SPORT FACT# 18

The longest cricket match took place in 1939 between England and South Africa, after 14 days it ended with a tie.

The game started on 3 March 1939 and play continued on the 4th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th and the 14th. Play was scheduled for the 11th, but none was possible because of rain, giving 9 days of actual, and 10 days of scheduled play. By the evening of 14 March England were 316 and 654 for 5 chasing South Africa’s 530 and 481 needing just 42 more runs for victory. But England needed to leave Durban on the 15th to catch their boat home, so, despite being a ‘timeless’ Test, a draw was agreed. England’s 654 is the highest score ever recorded batting last (beating the next highest by over 200 runs) and is a record that is likely to never be beaten.

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Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer. He is a middle-order batsman, who can also open the batting. He can also bowl right arm medium pace. Kohli was the captain of the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia.

Born: November 5, 1988 (age 25), Delhi

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1939 - Ken Walter, South African cricket pace bowler

Kenneth Alexander Walter (5 November 1939 in Johannesburg, Transvaal – 13 September 2003 inSandton, Johannesburg) was a South African cricketer who played in two Tests in 1961.

"SpOrTs Quote"

 “A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.”– Mary Lou Retton

Anything like that

For sports fans, sports are the epitome of hard work work and dedication. To get to the pinnacle of their sport, even the most naturally gifted athletes have to give it their all.
Yes, we watch sports for the excitement, but even more so, we watch it for the drama. There’s nothing more exciting than seeing a team come back to win that 4th series game after being down 0-3, a comeback after fans have already started to leave the arena, or a fighter getting off the canvas to score a come from behind knock-out. Sports are about those incredible moments where sheer human will and desire overcomes the odds. These are the moments we remember.

SPORTS FACT#17

SPORTS FACT#17
The game of Tug-of-war was an Olympic sport from 1900-1920

SPORTS FACT#16

SPORTS FACT#16

STRANGE BUT TRUE:

No Olympic steeplechase silver medalist, male or female, has lived past the age of 41.

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1966 - Danny Everett, 4x400m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)

1974 - V V S Laxman, cricketer (Indian Test batsman v South Africa 1996- )
Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman, commonly known as V.V.S. Laxman, is a former Indian cricketer. Laxman represents Hyderabad in domestic cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket.

"If you get Dravid, great. If you get Sachin, brilliant. If you get Laxman, it's a miracle." Brett Lee repeats the words of wisdom of his former captain, Steve Waugh (27 September 2004)

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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
Michael Jordan 

Michael Jordan

Michael Jeffrey Jordan, also known by his initials, MJ, is an American former professional basketball player, entrepreneur, and majority owner and chairman of the Charlotte Bobcats.

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1895 - C K Nayudu, cricketer (brother of C S, India's 1st Test capt)
Cottari Kanakaiya Nayudu, also known as 'CK', was the first captain of the Indian cricket team in Test matches. He played first-class cricket regularly till 1958, and returned for one last time in 1963 at the age of 68. 

1959 - Ann Henricksson, St Paul MN, tennis star

Ann Henricksson was an American professional tennis player from 1981 to 1994. She played two fourth-round Grand Slam matches: in 1985, in the Australian Open and in 1990, at Wimbledon. Ann Henricksson won three WTA doubles tournaments. 

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1962 - Courtney Walsh, cricketer (WI pace bowler, hat-trick v Aust 1988)
 former international cricketer (fast bowler) who represented the West Indies from 1984 to 2001, captaining the West Indies in 22 Test matches. He is best known for a remarkable opening bowling partnership along with fellow West Indian Curtly Ambrose for several years and holding the record of most Test Wickets from 2000, after he broke the record of Kapil Dev. This record was later broken in 2004 by Shane warne.

Walsh was not as successful although he will be remembered for his best performance, 5 wickets for just 1 run against Sri Lanka in 1986. In first-class cricket, he took 5 wickets in an innings more than 100 times and 10 wickets in a match 20 times. Walsh's feats with the bat are rather less flattering, as indicated by an average of seven in both Test cricket and ODIs. He also holds the record for the most Test ducks (43), but also for the most "not outs" – 61 times. His highest score, coincidentally, was 30 in both forms of the game.

SPORT FACT #15

SPORT FACT# 15

The youngest golfer recorded to have shot a hole-in-one is Coby Orr (5 years) of Littleton, CO on the 103 yd fifth at the Riverside Golf Course, San Antonio, TX in 1975.

SPORT FACT#13
The five interlocking rings of the Olympic flag symbolize the five continents of the world (Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, and the Americas) "linked together in friendship." Olympics founder Pierre de Coubertin claimed that at least one of the rings' colors (blue, yellow, black, green, and red, along with the white background) was present in each country's national flag.

SPORT FACT#14

The longest Tennis point ever played lasted for 29 minutes and 643 shots!

On September 24, 1984 Vicki Nelson and Jean Hepner, at the time ranked 93 and 172 in the world, engaged in what is still the longest point played in a professional tennis match.

This whopper of a point lasted for 29 minutes and 643 exchanged shots between the two of them. The match itself lasted for 6 hours and 31 minutes which was the longest match ever played for over 20 years. It still hold the record for being the longest match completed on the same day.

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"There is no glory in practice, but without practice, there is no glory..."

"SpOrTs Quote"

"Don't practice until you get it right. Practice until you can't get it wrong"