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Third highest wicket-taker for India in ODI’s behind Anil Kumble and Javagal Srinath with 288 wickets.Holds the record for fastest fifty in ODI’s for India. Scored 50 of just 21 balls against Zimbabwe in 2000. Please do note that Zimbabwean cricket was at its best at the time, and this was way back before the introduction of T–20 cricket.The fastest to reach 50 wickets in ODI’s. He got to 50 in 23 matches, which was a world record at the time. It was later broken by a certain Ajanta Mendis in 2008.The fastest to score 1000 runs and take 200 wickets in ODI’s. He got to this mark in 133 matches and beat the record of Shaun Pollock who had done it in 138 matches.One among 9 Indian batsmen to have had the chance to score a century at Lord’s stadium. Although it was for a losing cause, his innings was highly appreciated by the fans.Guess who?The one and only, Ajit Agarkar.

Let me go into the question details first. Let us say you want to understand Cricket. You go into a cricket ground and start observing. There will be people with painted faces. There will be people who are really boisterous and noisy. There will be people who are playing drums. There will be people who will advertise all sorts of brands. There will be rude people who will push you out. Fans of opposite teams will trash each other and discriminate.Can you say that the game of Cricket is just a bunch of crazy practices based on the observations above? I mean there are crazy divisions - with each group abusing each other and there are crazy things done (like throwing stuff on each other).These are Cricket followers. Not all they do is Cricket.Just as the Cricket lovers can practice a whole bunch of crazy things unrelated to the game of Cricket, Hindu practioners can practice a whole bunch of stupid, superstitious things unrelated to the religion itself. These practices include Sati, child marriage, caste based discrimination, etc. These evils have been been fought by a number of reformers in the system - from Raja Ram Mohan Roy to Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi.If you want to learn about Hinduism, here is my 1-minute introduction:Hinduism is about the exploration of truth. Hindu scholars of ancient era worked on exploring everything from math (inventing zero & numeric system) to sex (Kamasutra), nature (Vedas) and philosophy (Upanishads). We don't see science and religion as orthogonal entities.There is no one truth. There is no one path to attain that truth. You create your own path based on the frameworks, maps and guidelines used by the people before you.The entire goal is to attain eternal happiness.How would you explain the essence of Bhagavad Gita?

A lot has changed with the advancement of game over the years. Here are a few of those :Bat Size :This picture sums it up. Bary Richards is comparing his bat he used in 1970 with the one David Warner uses . This has made batting a lot easier than it used to be. Batsmen get away lot of time even after playing mistimed shots. To the top of it , numerous times top edges go for a six.2. Introduction of DRS :Who can forget this. A lot of such matches used to happen before where umpiring blunders changed the outcome of the game. Through DRS , the number of wrong decisions have certainly gone down if not been vanished completely.For that to happen players like MSD should be more in number.3. Quality of bowling:Earlier these were the best bowlers in the world who were not dependent on conditions to take wickets. The conditions did affect their game but there was not a huge gap between their home and away performance.Now these are the best bowlers. There is a massive gap between between their home and away performance. They are a class act as their numbers show but the World will give more respect to those who are not condition dependent. Though we still have people like Dale Steyn which is good to see.4. Role of fitness :Earlier there were a lot of players like Inzamam Ul-haq who never thought a lot about fitness and as it turned out it never affected their performance also.But now there are a lot of players like these. With the introduction of three formats, growing importance of fielding, more cricket being played all over the world fitness is now important part of cricketer's life.Smaller grounds , introduction of day-night tests, power-plays ,there are a lot of things that were not present 20–25 years back. Change is the law of nature and there is nothing wrong in that. But I personally think any of the change should not affect the contest between bat and ball because that is the heart of cricket.Thanks for reading !!!