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Cricket Highlights of 17 October 2024:

Today’s Top News: Today’s Top Cricket News

1. Before IPL 2025, Hemang Badani was appointed the new head coach of Delhi Capitals and Venu Gopal Rao as the Director of Cricket.
2. ‘My respect for Kohli has increased’ Manjrekar praises veteran for abandoning preferred batting order
3. Steve Smith-Mitchell Starc made a special plan to prepare for BGT, will play for New South Wales in Sheffield Shield
4. PAK vs ENG, 2nd Test: Day 3: Pakistan gave a target of 297 runs to England, by the end of the day the team’s score was 36/2
5. Team India was all out for 46 in the first innings of the first Test against New Zealand, this is India’s third lowest total in the Test.
6. Virat Kohli (536) became the second player to play the most number of matches for India, leaving behind Mahendra Singh Dhoni (535).
7. Before the IPL 2025 mega auction, there is news that Delhi Capitals can retain Rishabh Pant at the highest price, but can snatch the captaincy from him.

Today’s Societyl Trends: Which cricket players and news dominated social media today?

#WTC25 #TestCricket #INDvsNZ #MattHenry #RishabhPant #Ashwin #Gambhir #ViratKohli #RohitSharma #Siraj #Bengaluru

#RCB’s49

#DelhiCapitals #HemangBadani

#PAKvsENG #SajidKhan

Cricket Records, on This Day: Records and statistics to be made today, October 17, 2024

Most matches for India in international cricket

• 664 – Sachin Tendulkar
  536 – Virat Kohli
  535 – MS Dhoni
  504 – Rahul Dravid
  485 – Rohit Sharma

Players with most number of dismissals in international cricket (active players)

• 40 – Ishant Sharma
  38 – Virat Kohli
  38 – Tim Southee
  36 – Tamim Iqbal
  33 – Rohit Sharma

India’s lowest score in test matches

• 36 vs Australia, Adelaide, 2020
  42 vs England, Lord’s, 1974
  46 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
  58 vs Australia, Brisbane, 1947
  58 vs England, Manchester, 1952
  66 vs South Africa, Durban, 1996
  67 vs Australia, Melbourne, 1948

India’s lowest score in home test matches

• 46 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
  75 vs West Indies, Delhi, 1987
  76 vs South Africa, Ahmedabad, 2008
  83 vs England, Chennai, 1977
  83 vs New Zealand, Mohali, 1999
  88 vs New Zealand, Brabourne, 1965
  89 vs New Zealand, Hyderabad, 1969

Players who have been out on zero the most number of times in an innings for India in Test matches

• 6 vs England, Manchester, 2014
  6 vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2024
  5 vs Australia, Adelaide, 1948
  5 vs England, Leeds, 1952
  5 vs New Zealand, Mohali, 1999
  5 vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024

Lowest score after winning the toss and batting first in test matches

• 36 – South Africa vs Australia, Melbourne, 1932
  42 – New Zealand vs Australia, Wellington, 1946
  45 – New Zealand vs South Africa, Cape Town, 2013
  46 – India vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
  52 – England vs Australia, The Oval, 1948

Lowest score against New Zealand in test matches

• 46, India, Bengaluru, 2024
  51, Zimbabwe, Napier, 2012
  58, England, Auckland, 2018
  59, Zimbabwe, Harare, 2005
  64, England, Wellington, 1978

Lowest score on home ground in WTC

• 46 – India vs New Zealand, Bengaluru, 2024
  55 – South Africa vs India, Cape Town, 2024
  67 – England vs Australia, Leeds, 2019
  87 – Bangladesh vs Pakistan, Mirpur, 2021
  97 – West Indies vs South Africa, Gros Islet, 2021
  100 – West Indies vs India, North Sound, 2019
  109 – India vs Australia, Indore, 2023

Players with the most number of ducks for India in international cricket in 2024

• 4 – Jasprit Bumrah (11 innings)
  4 – Virat Kohli (20 innings)
  3 – Sanju Samson (8 innings)
  3 – Ravindra Jadeja (15 innings)
  3 – Shubhman Gill (26 innings)

Most test wickets (active players)

• 530 – Nathan Lyon (242 innings)
  528* – R Ashwin (194 innings)
  383 – Tim Southee (194 innings)
  358 – Mitchell Starc (170 innings)
  317 – Trent Boult (149 innings)
  311 – Ishant Sharma (188 innings)
  304* – Ravindra Jadeja (141 innings)

Most wickets in international cricket (active players)

• 768 – Tim Southee (476 innings)
  756* – R Ashwin (373 innings)
  712 – Shakib Al Hasan (488 innings)
  678 – Mitchell Starc (360 innings)
  611 – Trent Boult (323 innings)
  578* – Ravindra Jadeja (401 innings)
  560 – Nathan Lyon (273 innings)

Cricket Highlights, On This Day: What happened in the history of cricket on 17 October?

Anil Kumble was born

Former Indian cricketer and former coach Anil Kumble was born on October 17, 1970 in Bengaluru.