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🗳️ THE VERDICT

Best World Cup all-round performance?

🔥 Lance Klusener – 281 runs + 17 wickets, 1999
🔥 Shakib Al Hasan – 606 runs + 11 wickets, 2019
🔥 Yuvraj Singh – 362 runs + 15 wickets, 2011
🔥 Ben Stokes – 465 runs + 7 wickets, 2019

Who gets your vote? 👇

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⚔️ THE DUEL

Brian Lara 🏝️ vs Kumar Sangakkara 🇱🇰

Tests:
🏏 Runs: 11,953 vs 12,400
📊 Average: 52.88 vs 57.40
💯 100s: 34 vs 38
🔥 Highest: 400* vs 319

Two left-handed legends. One choice.

Who wins this duel? 👇

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📜 HISTORY LEDGER

🇮🇳 INDIA’S FIRST TEST SERIES WIN IN AUSTRALIA

2018–19.

India won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2–1 — winning in Adelaide and Melbourne, before a rain-affected draw in Sydney.

A historic first-ever Test series triumph in Australia. 🇮🇳

#INDvsAUS

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🏏 GUESS THE PLAYER

• Scored a century on Test debut
• Played 100+ Tests
• Finished with 10,000+ international runs
• Captained my country’s team

Who am I? 🤔

Reply with your guess! 👇

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The Ledger 📊

India’s Test record under four iconic captains:

👑 Virat Kohli — 68 Tests | 40 wins | 17 losses | 11 draws | 58.82% win

🧤 MS Dhoni — 60 Tests | 27 wins | 18 losses | 15 draws | 45.00% win

⚔️ Sourav Ganguly — 49 Tests | 21 wins | 13 losses | 15 draws | 42.86% win

🏆 Kapil Dev — 34 Tests | 4 wins | 7 losses | 23 draws | 11.76% win

Who had the greatest Test captaincy record? 🇮🇳

#Cricket #IndianCricket

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The Call 🗳️

Who is the greatest Indian Test captain? 🇮🇳

👑 Virat Kohli
🏆 Kapil Dev
⚔️ Sourav Ganguly
🧤 MS Dhoni

Four eras. Four leaders. One choice.

Cast your vote 👇
#Cricket #IndianCricket

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The Duel ⚔️

Two Test greats. Almost identical run totals.

🇿🇦 Jacques Kallis
13,289 runs | Avg 55.37 | 45 100s | 58 50s

🇮🇳 Rahul Dravid
13,288 runs | Avg 52.31 | 36 100s | 63 50s

One run separates them. 🤯

Who had the greater Test batting career?

#Cricket #TheDuel

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The History Ledger 📜

1971 changed Indian cricket forever. 🇮🇳

Under Ajit Wadekar, India achieved something unprecedented:

🏝️ First-ever Test series win in the West Indies
🏴 First-ever Test series win in England
🏆 Two consecutive overseas series triumphs

A landmark year for Indian cricket.

#Cricket #IndianCricket

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Who Am I? 🕵️

🇮🇳 I played 100+ ODIs for India
🏏 I scored 5,000+ ODI runs
💯 I have an ODI century against Australia
🏆 I was part of India’s 2011 World Cup-winning squad

Who am I?

Reply with your guess 👇
#Cricket #IndianCricket

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WEEKEND DISCUSSION STAT 📊

🏆 6 different champions.

The Men’s T20 World Cup has been won by just six teams:

🇮🇳 India
🇵🇰 Pakistan
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England
🏝️ West Indies
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka
🇦🇺 Australia

Will we see a 7th different champion in the future?

Who do you think could break through? 👀

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THE CROWD CALL 🗳️

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Who is England’s greatest Test all-rounder?

🔥 Ian Botham
⚡ Andrew Flintoff
💪 Ben Stokes
🏏 Tony Greig

Four generations. Four iconic all-rounders.

Who gets your vote? 👇

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THE DUEL ⚔️

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 FLINTOFF vs STOKES 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Andrew Flintoff
🏏 79 Tests | 3,845 runs
💯 5 hundreds | 26 fifties
🎯 226 wickets
🔥 2005 Ashes: 402 runs & 24 wickets

Ben Stokes
🏏 122 Tests | 7,273 runs
💯 14 hundreds | 37 fifties
🎯 252 wickets
🔥 2019 Ashes: 441 runs & 8 wickets

Two generations. Two iconic England all-rounders.

Who had the greater impact for England in Test cricket? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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THE HISTORY LEDGER 📜

🏆 2011: A historic first

India became the first team in Men’s Cricket World Cup history to win the title on home soil.

🇮🇳 India beat Sri Lanka by 6 wickets in the final at Wankhede, Mumbai.

MS Dhoni’s 91* sealed India’s second World Cup title.

A night that changed World Cup history. 🏏

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GUESS WHO? 🕵️

🏏 Scored 465 runs in a World Cup
🔥 Made 5 fifties
🎯 Took 7 wickets
🏆 Played a defining role in his team’s World Cup triumph
⭐ Scored an unbeaten 84 in the final

Who am I?

Answer in the replies 👇

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Big Weekend Stat 📊

India’s 302-run win over Sri Lanka in the 2023 World Cup was:

🇮🇳 India’s biggest-ever World Cup win by runs
🌍 The 2nd-biggest World Cup win by runs at the time

IND 357/8
SL 55 all out

A demolition at the Wankhede. 🇮🇳

#CWC23 #Cricket

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Crowd Choice 🗳️

Which was the greatest Indian chase in a World Cup?

🇮🇳 Gambhir — 97 vs SL, 2011 Final
🇮🇳 Yuvraj — 57* vs AUS, 2011 QF
🇮🇳 Tendulkar — 98 vs PAK, 2003
🇮🇳 Kohli — 85 vs AUS, 2023

Which innings gets your vote? 👇

#Cricket #CWC

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Did You Know? 🤯

Virat Kohli became only the second batter in men’s ODI history to reach 15,000 runs — after Sachin Tendulkar.

Even more remarkable: Kohli reached the milestone in just 315 innings, becoming the fastest to 15,000 ODI runs. 🇮🇳

#Cricket #ViratKohli

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Top 5: Highest individual scores by ODI captains 📊

1️⃣ Shubman Gill — 223* 🇮🇳
2️⃣ Virender Sehwag — 219 🇮🇳
3️⃣ Rohit Sharma — 208* 🇮🇳
4️⃣ Sanath Jayasuriya — 189 🇱🇰
5️⃣ Sachin Tendulkar — 186* 🇮🇳

Gill has now taken the record. 👑

#Cricket #ODI

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Rare Stat 📊

Shubman Gill’s 223* vs West Indies is:

🏏 The highest individual score by a captain in men’s ODIs
🏏 The highest individual score in a successful ODI run chase

223* off 133 balls while chasing 406. 🤯

#INDvsWI #Cricket

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📊 The Ledger

Virat Kohli 🇮🇳

15,080 ODI runs in 303 innings
🏏 Avg: 59.14
⚡ SR: 94.30
💯 55 centuries
🔥 79 fifties

He became only the second batter to reach 15,000 ODI runs — and the fastest to the milestone.

Another landmark in the record book. 📖