It turned out to be a great decision as Sachin Tendulkar went on to score 82(49) runs in his first match as an opening batter in ODI cricket.
On this day in 2003, Sourav Ganguly scored an unbeaten 111 to knockout Kenya from the 2003 World Cup.
Virat Kohli was given the player of the match award for his exceptional batting performance in difficult circumstances, resurrecting the Indian innings.
Proteas went on to chase the target of 435 runs to smash the record for the highest successful chase in ODIs.
India posted 287 runs for the loss of 8 wickets with Navjot Singh Sidhu top scoring with 93 runs. In reply, Pakistan were restricted at 248 runs losing 9 wickets in 49 overs.
After scoring 175 runs with the bat, Ravindra Jadeja also shone with the ball registering figures of 5/41 and 4/46 in both innings respectively.
Despite trailing in the first innings, Rohit Sharma-led Indian team dominated the hosts in the second innings and went on to register a convincing win with young players like Shubman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Dhruv Jurel taking charge.
The low scoring Test ended only in two days as India went on to take a lead of 2-1 in a four-match Test series.
The star batter scored 200 runs in a match against South Africa in Gwalior on February 24, 2010.
Rohit Sharma-led Indian side wrapped up the Test match in just three days to take a lead of 2-0 in a four-match series.
For India, Rohit Sharma, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill shone with the bat while Ravindra Jadeja showed all-round performance as the hosts dominated England throughout the match and registered a one-sided victory.
AB de Villiers has a record for smashing the fastest ODI hundred, and is also the fastest South African batter to score 9000 runs in the 50-over format.
The Men in Blue scripted history after winning their first-ever bilateral series in South Africa.
Sachin Tendulkar couldn’t complete his hundred and he went back to the pavilion after scoring 88(266) runs.
Coming as defending champions, Sunrisers Eastern Cape had a dominant season in SA20 2024.
S Sreesanth has played 27 Tests, 53 ODIs and 10 T20I for the Indian team taking 169 wickets in all three formats combined.
Ronaldo has established himself as a global football icon over the years and has a massive fan following all over the world.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has played 21 Tests, 121 ODIs and 87 T20I matches for India taking 294 wickets in all three formats combined.
With the help of respective centuries by Gundappa Vishwanath, Aunshuman Gaekwad and Mohinder Amarnath, India declared on a mammoth total of 644 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the first innings.
After Ishan Porel, Anukul Roy, and Shiva Singh played a crucial role in bowling Australia out of 216 runs in 47.2 overs, Manjot Kalra came up with a match-winning hundred in the run chase.
During the 2014-15 season of the Ranji Trophy, Karnataka were able to successfully defend their title under Vinay Kumar captaincy, defeating Tamil Nadu in the final.
Mitchell Starc is the third-highest wicket-taker in World Cups with 65 wickets in 28 matches.
On this day in 2020, Rohit Sharma hit two sixes in as many balls in the Super Over in Hamilton to win the match for India.
On this day last year, Shamar Joseph, with an injured toe, bowled undoubtedly the best spell of his life to beat Australia at Gabba by 8 runs.
In Michael Hussey’s captaincy, Sydney Thunder emerged as champions of BBL 2015-16 edition after defeating Melbourne Stars in the final.
LeBron James is still the all-time leading-scorer in the history of the NBA with 41,355 points to his name, as of this writing.
Mike Tyson versus Larry Holmes is still regarded as one of the most iconic events in boxing history even after years of retirement of both great boxers.
After achieving the historic feat, Kobe Bryant said this was unexpected for him to achieve this milestone.
Indian skipper Sunil Gavaskar led from that front with a hundred, while Kapil Dev shone with his all-round performance of 84 runs and 11 wickets in the Test match against Pakistan.
Ab de Villiers completed his hundred in just 31 balls, and scored a fiery 149 runs off just 44 balls as South Africa defeated West Indies by 148 runs.
With over 450 runs scored in more than 40 overs at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, India defeated Afghanistan in the second super over in an high-octane thriller.
Notably, Novak Djokovic didn’t agree to take the COVID-19 vaccine when the disease was at its peak in 2020 and 2021.
The Men in Blue defeated the Lankan Lions by a huge margin of 317 runs to complete a 3-0 whitewash and register the biggest-ever victory by runs in the history of ODI cricket.
Mumbai continued their domination in the Ranji Trophy with 39th title to their name.
Lionel Messi is the all-time highest goal-scorer in the La Liga with 474 goals in 520 appearances for Barcelona, while his former Real Madrid rival Cristiano Ronaldo comes second.
Cristiano Ronaldo received 136 first-place votes and 935 points in a worldwide poll of national team captains and coaches to named as FIFA Player of the Year for 2008.
With over 13000 runs in Tests, and 10000+ runs in ODIs, Dravid comes third in the list of leading run scorers for India across all formats.
The decision to include Gautam Gambhir in their squad turned out to be a change of fate for KKR who were yet to win an IPL trophy
Josh Hazlewood made his international debut for Australia in an ODI against England in Southampton on June 22, 2010. Since then, he went on to play 72 Tests, 91 ODIs and 52 T20Is for Australia so far taking 484 wickets in all three formats combined.
Kapil Dev scored 5248 runs and scalped 434 wickets in 131 Tests along with 3783 runs and 253 wickets in 225 ODI matches in his international career.
Making his international debut in December 1990, Brian Lara took over two years to score his first Test ton.
The match lasted till five sessions, and 642 balls where India defeated South Africa by seven wickets, to level the two-match Test series 1-1.
The opening batter scored 107 and 182 respectively in a drawn Test match against the Windies in Kolkata, becoming the first batter in history to achieve the feat of scoring two centuries in a match thrice.
Corey Anderson smashed an unbeaten 131*(47) runs, hitting six fours and 14 sixes as New Zealand posted 283/4 in just 21 overs.
Joe Root made his debut in a Test match against India in Nagpur on December 13, 2012. Since then, he has played 152 Tests, 171 ODIs, and 32 T20Is in his international career.
Travis Head made his international debut in a T20I against India in Adelaide on January 26, 2016. Since then, he has played 53 Tests, 69 ODIs, and 38 T20Is.
The incident could have ended Muttiah Muralitharan’s legendary career. However, the off spinner decided to change the bowling end. After that, New Zealand umpire Steve Dunne didn’t call him for a no ball even once.
Alastair Cook has played 161 Tests, 92 ODIs and four T20Is in his international career amassing 15737 runs in all three formats combined.
India had the last laugh as they registered a historic eight-wicket win over Australia in a one-off Test.
Ricky Ponting has over 13000 runs each in Test and ODI format. Under Ponting’s captaincy, Australia won the ODI World Cup title in 2003 and 2007, and the Champions Trophy title in 2006 and 2009 respectively.
Having lost the first Test by 31 runs in Adelaide, Australia were now focused on making a comeback with a series-levelling win in Perth.
Quinton de Kock has played 54 Tests, 155 ODIs, and 92 T20I matches in his career so far amassing 12654 runs in all three formats combined.
Virender Sehwag was a top scorer for India with his fiery 146-run knock, while Tillakaratne Dilshan also smashed 160 runs as Sri Lanka gave Indian fans a mini heart attack that day.
India had to win the second ODI, to avoid the series loss against Sri Lanka at home, and then, the skipper Rohit Sharma took charge of the team’s fortunes his own hands.
From hitting six sixes in an over during the 2007 T20 World Cup to winning player of the tournament in India’s 2011 ODI World Cup triumph, Yuvraj had a memorable career in international cricket.
Tim Southee is now the highest wicket taker for New Zealand across all formats of the game.
The record of 51 Test centuries is an incredible milestone by Sachin Tendulkar, and many of the greatest batters are still far away from achieving this feat.
After warning Peter Kirsten about not stepping out of the crease during his bowling run-up in the first ODI, Kapil Dev ran him out via the mankad for the same mistake in the second ODI.
Jasprit Bumrah has delivered match-winning bowling spells on many occasions whenever his team was in a tricky situation.
Shikhar Dhawan made his international debut for India in an ODI match against Australia in Visakhapatnam on October 20, 2010.
Sehwag was on the verge of becoming the first-ever batter to score three triple hundreds in Test on December 4, 2009.
Mark Boucher made his international debut in a Test match against Pakistan in Sheikhupura on October 17, 1997.
Adelaide Strikers had a dominant season in the 2023-24 WBBL, where they directly qualified for the final after finishing at the top of the points table with 11 wins in 14 matches.
Mohammad Kaif has played many crucial knocks for India in the ODI format while batting in the middle-order.
Lionel Messi had a memorable season in 2020-21 where he won the Copa del Rey with Barcelona on April 17, 2021, while also leading Argentina to their 15th Copa America title on July 10, 2021.
Batting at 165* runs ahead of the 48th over, Ruturaj Gaikwad took charge against left-arm spinner Shiva Singh.
Phillip Hughes suffered a cerebral haemorrhage after getting hit by a bouncer and had to undergo a surgery.
With two runs to win on the last ball, Ashwin got runout trying to steal a double as West Indies prevented India from chasing the target.
Messi is still the highest goal-scorer in La Liga history with 474 goals after playing 520 matches for Barcelona.
The legendary cricketer has amassed 34357 runs from 200 Tests, 463 ODIs, and one T20I, along with 100 centuries.
After losing their first two games, Australia went on to win each and every game and defeated India in the final to lift their 6th ODI World Cup title.
India and Zimbabwe faced each other in match number seven of the C.A.B. Jubilee Tournament (Hero Cup) in 1993.
Aaron Finch is a ODI World Cup and T20 World Cup winner for Australia.
Sachin Tendulkar donned the Indian jersey for one last time during a Test match against West Indies at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on November 16, 2013.
Sachin Tendulkar didn’t have a great outing in his debut Test as the right-hander could only score 15 runs off 24 balls in his maiden Test innings for India.
The former Australian cricketer is celebrating his 53rd birthday on November 14, 2024.
Rohit Sharma became the first batter to reach the milestone of 250 by any batter in an ODI innings.
Glenn McGrath made his debut for Australia during a Test match against New Zealand in Perth on November 12, 1993.
This incident is also popular with the name of ‘the Nelson of all Nelsons.’
Sanju Samson is currently in the form of his life after he smashed his second consecutive century in the T20I format for India against South Africa in Durban.
Prithvi Shaw is celebrating his 25th birthday on November 9, 2024.
Brett Lee announced his retirement from international cricket in 2012 with 718 wickets in all three formats combined.
Glenn Maxwell was last known batter standing as the skipper Pat Cummins joined with Australia still needing 201 runs to win with just three wickets in hand.
A dead rubber match turned out to be interesting after Sri Lanka’s Angelo Matthews became the first-ever batter in cricket history to get timed out.
With 27134 runs and 80 centuries, Virat Kohli is just behind Sachin Tendulkar in the list of India’s leading run-scorer in all three formats combined.
Virender Sehwag got his hundred off 157 balls as the right-hander got out after scoring 105 runs off 173 balls with 19 boundaries.
VVS Laxman has scored 8781 runs from 134 Tests, and 2338 runs from 86 ODIs in 16 years of his international career.
Total 149 goals were scored in that game with all Stade Olympique de L’Emyrne scoring all the goals.
With over 14000 runs, Chris Gayle has 1056 sixes to his name in the T20 format.
Matthew Hayden was a part of Australia’s ODI World Cup winning campaign in 2003 and 2007 respectively.
The Indian skipper Virat Kohli played a captain’s knock of 157*(129) runs in the second ODI. This was Kohli’s 37th ton in the 50-over format
Following one-sided victories in the first two Test matches, India took down South Africa by an innings and 202 runs in the third Test.
Virender Sehwag played 104 Tests, 251 ODIs, and 19 T20Is for India, scoring 17253 runs in all three formats combined.
After the match and the subsequent first super over ended in a tie, KXIP went on to defeat MI in the second super over in the IPL 2020 season.
Anil Kumble is regarded as one of the best spinners to play for the Indian cricket team.
An attacking top-order batsman and a spearhead right-arm pacer, Jacques Kallis is regarded as one of the greatest all-rounders in cricket history.
Apart from his batting, Gautam Gambhir also excelled in captaincy, leading Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) to two IPL titles (2012 and 2014)
Amelia Kerr is the highest women’s individual scorer in ODI cricket with an unbeaten 232 for New Zealand versus Ireland in 2018.
After his impressive performances for Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL over the years, Rinku Singh made his India debut in 2023 in white-ball cricket, and he hasn’t looked back since.
Hardik Pandya has been among the top performers for India in big matches. He was a part of the Indian team that won the T20 World Cup in 2024.