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By Ashwat Ramani
Frank Woolley (England)
is the only player to have played under 14 Test
Captains namely Archie MacLaren, Henry Leveson
Gower, Frederick Fane, Johnny Douglas, CB Fry,
Lionel Tennyson, Frank Mann, Arthur Gilligan,
Arthur Carr, Percy Chapman, Jack White, Harold
Gilligan, Douglas Jardine and Bob Wyatt in his
64-Test career between 1909 and 1934.
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England's Archie MacLaren
became the 1st person to get out on the 1st ball
of a Test Match, against Australia at Melbourne
in 1894-95, The bowler was Arthur Coningham.
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The first official women's
Tests were played in Australasia in 1934-35.
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The only time when Cricket was played in the
Olympics was in 1900, when A team called the
Devon and Somerset Wanderers, representing Great
Britain, beat a French team in the one and only
Olympic cricket final, in Paris.
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Jalaluddin (Pak) became the 1st bowler ever to
take a hat-trick in ODIs. He achieved this
against Australia at Hyderabad (Pak) on
20.9.1982. His victims were Rodney Marsh, Bruce
Yardley and Geoff Lawson.
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