Thursday, April 28, 2005

 

Youngest non-pakistani


This is hilarious:

1983
Siva's debut. The mysterious Indian legspinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan was the fifth-youngest player in Test history - and the youngest non-Pakistani - at 17 years 118 days when he made his debut against West Indies in Antigua. He went wicketless here, but when he reappeared against England two years later, Siva bamboozled his way to three consecutive six-fors. A star was born, or so it seemed, but Siva faded again and took only seven wickets in his last six Tests.

I love how the Cricinfo writer differentiates age records with Pakistani and non-Pakistani records. I was going through the age related records on cricinfo and every possible record was a pakistani and one by Ashraful( youngest to score a century, I think) who is from Bangladesh. Hailing from India, I know most birthdays on record in the Indian sub-continent are false, and proud that the birthday on my records is a real one.

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