IMPORTANT WORLD RECORDS
1) MAX runs in test B-Lara by breaking the
record of Mathew Hayden 380 runs to make
400 runs not out in test.
2) Muhammad Ali has been honored as [‘Hero
of the Ages’]
3) First captain Pakistan cricket team. Abdul
Hafiz Kardar
4) MAX aggregate runs in test Brain Lara
11,204 Runs
5) MAX number of centuries in test Sunil
Gawaskar (34)
6) MAX number of wickets in test Shane
Warne with 659 wickets in 135 matches
7) MAX centuries in ODI Sachin Tendulkar 37
8) The highest runs in ODI Sachin Tendulkar
above 13,000.
9) MAX test played by any player Steve
Waugh (158)
10) Highest number of ODI Wasim Akram
11) MAX wickets in ODI Wasim Akram 502
12) Fastest century in ODI Shahid Afridi 37
balls
13) Fastest fifty Test Jacques Kallis 24 balls
14) Fastest hundred In Test IVA Richards 56
balls
15) 1st Indian Batsman to score Triple Century
Virender Sehwag 309 in Multan
16) Only two batsman have scored triple
century twice
a. Don Bradman
b. Brain Lara
17) Youngest captain in Test Tate da Taibu
Zimbabwe
18) Highest batting average in test Don
Bradman (Australia )(99.4)
19) Highest batting average in ODI Michael
Bevin 55.4
20) Jahangir Khan has won the British Open 11
times.
21) Brazil won 5 times football world cup.
22) The highest no of World Open was won
by Jansher Khan is 8 times
23) ‘Hero of the Oval’ Fazal Mahamood was
dubbed as the in 1954 when he took
12 wickets to allow Pakistan to score their
first victory against the hosts on home soil.
24) TOP Male player in tennis is Roger Federer.
(Switzerland)
25) TOP Women player in tennis is Lindsay
Dave port. (US)
26) Brazilian Ronaldinho has overtaken David
Beckham as the world's highest paid player,
according to France Football magazine. He
enjoyed annual revenue of 23 million euros
($28.47 million) Beckham follows with a
total of 18 million, down from 25 million the
previous year.
27) Wayne Rooney, the 20 year old
Manchester United striker, won the PFA
Young Player of the Year award for the
second successive season.
28) Michael Schumacher claims his first win
since last July in the San Marino Grand Prix
at Ferrari's home Imola track.
Schumacher's career statistics 84 wins
and counting are so in credible they
will probably ever be beaten , with 7 world
titles in motor racing.
29) Ukraine's Vladimir Klitschko stopped
defending champion Chris Byrd of the
US to take his IBF heavyweight title in
Germany. Klitschko knocked Byrd down in
the fifth round.
30) Highest Scoring night watchman Jason
Gillespie. 207. Previous record of 105,
set by Tony Mann against India in 1977,
before Australian declared on 581-4.
‘Golden ball’ for FIFA World Cup 2006 final. The
ball for the final is called Teamgeist Berlin while
the black and white ball the traditional colors
of hosts Germany has been branded
Teamgeist (team spirit). Teamgeist Berlin has
been specifically designed for the two teams
playing in the World Cup final in Germany on 9th
July.
Olympics 2012 London
Cricket World Cup 2007 West Indies.
Common wealth Games 2010 will be held in
Delhi, India.
Common wealth Games 2006 Melbourne
20th Winter Olympics 2006 are being held in
Torino, Italy.
21st Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver,
Canada in 2010
Olympics 2004 Athens, Greece
Olympic 2008 Beijing, China
2006 Football world cup in Germany
Football world cup 2002 was hosted by Japan &
South Korea.
2010 Football world cup in S. Africa
Wimbledon is an annual tournament
Pakistan’s membership to Common wealth, a
53-nation body, has been restored On 22nd
May.
Asiam-ul-Haq the top lead of Pakistan ranks 212
in world.
Jahangir Khan of Pakistan won British Open
Squash 10 times.
South Africa hit a world record 438 for nine
in the highest-scoring One-day International in
history to beat Australia by one wicket and
win the series 3-2. Australian captain Ricky
Ponting scored 164 and South African Herschelle
Gibbs scored 175. Total of 872 runs were scored
beating the previous record of 693 when India
beat Pak in March 2004. Mick Lewis of Australia
became the bowler to concede most runs in an
innings with 113 runs and 0 wickets.
Pakistan won 1 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze a
total of 5 medals in the Common wealth.
Australia won the most medals with 84 Gold 69
Silver 68 Bronze, totaling 221 medals. England
was second With 36 Gold and 110 in total.
Canada was Third with 26 Gold and 86 total
medals. India was in the fourth place with 22
Gold 17 Silver and 11 Bronze, with a total of 50
medals.
Gold medalist Samaresh Jung of India has
been named as the winner of the ‘David
Dixon Award’ for the most outstanding
athlete of the 2006 Common wealth Games.
During the Games, Jung won two individual
gold in the Men’s 10m Air Pistol and Men’s
50m Pistol, as well as three team gold, one
team silver, and one in individual bronze. He
also set three new Games records.
Shujaud Din Malik became Pakistan’s first
Common wealth Games weightlifting gold
medallist on March 21st, 2006, breaking the
clean and jerk record on way to topping the
men’s 85 kilograms division.
England all-rounder Andrew Flintoff has been
named 2005's top cricketer in the 143rd
edition of Wisden, the sport's bible. The award
was instituted in 2003 and was previously
won by Australian duo Ricky Ponting and
Shane Warne --- with the leg-spinner the only
man to push Flintoff for the 2005 title.
Vice-captain Younis Khan hit 12 fours in an
unbeaten 73 as Pakistan completed an eight-
wicket win over Sri Lanka on day three of
the second Test at Kandy.
Series won by 1-0, a third consecutive victory
following home successes against England and
India. Mohammad Asif was named Man of the
Match and Series.
Grand Slam of Tennis includes Wimbledon,
Australian Open, US Open, and French Open
Pollock, South Africa’s leading test wicket
taker with 389 wickets at an average of
23.21, reaches the milestone along with team
mate Jacques Kallis to win 100 test caps for
South Africa.
Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard has
claimed the Professional Footballers'
Association Player of the Year award. It is
the first time the 25 year old has been
named player of the year by his peers,
although he was Young Player of the Year in
2001.
