Wednesday, June 3, 2015

INTERESTING FACTS OF IPL 8 !!

Here are some interesting facts about Ipl 2015 :
  • Deepak Hooda has made loss of around 2.5 lakh rupees to his own team RR. 44 kookaburra balls were lost during IPL practice by him.

  • Sarfaraz Khan was 10 years old and was in his 4th standard when ‪IPL‬ began. Now (29/04/2015) he's playing for ‪RCB‬ alongside Gayle, ABD, Kohli etc


  • Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa

  • 8 IPL seasons
  • 4 Different Teams
  • But they both have been in the same team all 8 seasons. 
2008: MI
2009 & 2010: RCB
2011 to  2013: PWI
2014 & 2015:  KKR

Seven seasons! 
Chennai Super Kings have been in the payoffs for all the seasons! 

But that's not the amazing fact!

CSK is the only team that has not gone under any jersey design changes in the last 7 seasons. Their jersey has been same from 2008, the only team to do so.


For the first time, IPL is graced by the four female commentators.

Anjum Chopra (Former Indian cricketer)
Isa Guha (Former English Cricketer)
Lisa Sthaleker (Former Australian Cricketer)
Melanie Jones (Former Australian Cricketer)

At Ahmedabad; 24th April, 2015.
IPL 8: Match 22 - Rajasthan Royals vs Royal Challengers Bengaluru

This match was indeed remarkable.
It featured the oldest Indian player as well as the youngest Indian player of IPL 8, for the first time against each other.

Pravin Tambe (43 yrs 198 days old) and espncricinfo.comSarfaraz Khan (17 yrs 179 days old) have an age difference of a whopping 26 years!
More interestingly, the average age of RR's stand in captain Steven Smith and RCB captain Virat Kohli also turns out to be 26 years!

And coincidentally, all this happened on cricketing God Sachin's birthday!

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