DYK? Under German law, freedom is considered a basic human instinct. So, escaping from prison doesn't add extra prison time or criminal charges. If caught, they are immediately returned to prison to finish serving their original sentence. #PrisonBreak

Earlier this year, on Jan 23 in Raipur, India successfully chased New Zealand's 208/6 and won by 28 balls to spare! Tonight in Wellington, India repeated it, chasing 199 and winning by 40 balls to spare! This is the quickest victory while chasing a big target! #IndvNZ #NZvInd

Fastest T20I 100s against Full Member sides Balls 30 - Abhishek Sharma (Ind) v Afg 33 - Fin Allen (NZ) v SAF 35 - David Miller (SAF) v Ban 35 - Rohit Sharma (Ind) v SL 35*- Abhishek Sharma (Ind) v NZ #IndvNZ #NZvInd

Fastest to 50 for India in T20Is 12 balls - Yuvraj Singh v Eng 14 balls - Abhishek Sharma v NZ 15 balls - Shivam Dube v NZ 15 balls* - Abhishek Sharma v NZ 16 balls - Hardik Pandya v SAF 16 balls - Abhishek Sharma v Afg #IndvNZ #NZvInd

Today, against New Zealand A at Lincoln, Devdutt Padikkal became the first Indian to miss a double century by one run in a first-class match AWAY from home (India). #IndAvNZA #ATest

Since Jan 2023, the overall H2H in T20Is: India 9, New Zealand 2 New Zealand's last win against India at HOME came on 10 Feb 2019 at Hamilton. Since then, from Jan 2020, it is India 8, New Zealand 0, and one tie Note: India's eight wins included two Super Overs #IndvNZ #NZvIND

Today, Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, 15y-211d, became the youngest male player to take the field in an international game in New Zealand. #IndvNZ #T20I Bangladeshi Md Sharif was 16y-6d in the Hamilton Test on 18 December 2001. Aaqib Javed (16y-185d) & S Tendulkar (16y-284d) follow them.

What an amazing day of pure, unadulterated cricket across international formats! It all began with India's emphatic chase in Christchurch, then South Africa's thumping win in PE, and finally finished with Sri Lanka's daring chase in Rawalpindi!

Bhuvneshwar Kumar last played for India in the rain-affected, truncated Napier T20I on 22-11-22, which ended in a tie. Yesterday in Bengaluru, he returned to the side after nearly 4y, while missing 104 games. But this one, too, a truncated game, as rain ensured no result! #INDvWI

Eight wickets down, Afghanistan needed to play out the last over of the match, the 142nd, to eke out a well-fought draw against Bangladesh at Abu Dhabi yesterday. However, Qais Ahmad had other ideas; he hit 2 sixes off Taijul Islam to finish with 49*! How cool is that? #AfgvBan

"When I was three, I wanted to be four; when I was four, I wanted to be the prime minister." - Jeffrey Archer (1940-2026) RIP🙏

Maximum GOLD medals for India in a single Asian Games event GOLD - Year (Venue) 28 - 2022 (Hangzhou) 17* - 2026 (Nagoya) 16 - 2018 (Jakarta) 15 - 1951 (New Delhi) 14 - 2010 (Guangzhou)

The only other time Team India won by over 50 balls to spare while chasing a target of 296+ was at Hobart on 28 Feb 2012, when they successfully chased Sri Lanka's 321 and won by 80 balls to spare. Virat Kohli in that game unbeaten 133 in 86 balls! #IndvWI

Team India, the #1 T20 team, was almost #RAMENED by the Japanese. Well done, Japan! #IndvJpn

An historic day for Japan tomorrow at Sano, when they take on Team India in their 63rd T20I match. India will be their 24th cricketing opponent, but the first from a full-member nation! Among the top Associate teams, Japan has played Hong Kong (5), PNG (3), & Oman/Nepal/UAE (1).

DYK? At least 12000 athletes will participate in the ongoing #AsianGames in Nagoya, Japan. The 2024 Paris Summer #Olympics featured only about 10,700 athletes because the IOC enforces much stricter entry standards to manage hosting costs, venues, and village capacity!

102* sixes - Rishabh Pant in 52* Tests, 90* inns in 5022* balls (a six every 49 balls) 100 sixes - Adam Gilchrist in 96 Tests, 137 inns in 6796 balls (a six every 68 balls) Only Ben Stokes (138) and Brendon McCullum (107) have hit more sixes in Tests! #IndvSL #SLvInd

As of today, 28 Test matches have been completed in two days out of the 2632 played so far. from 1877 to 1946: 15 (out of 275 Tests) from 1947 to 1999: none (out of 1233 Tests) from 2000 to date: 13 (out of 1124 Tests) #AusvBan #MackayTest

Indian bowlers with maximum Test wickets after the second Test match of their career... 24 - Narendra Hirwani (16+8) 18 - Axar Patel (7+11) 17 - MANAV SUTHAR (7+10) 13 - Shivlal Yadav/Venkatesh Prasad/R Ashwin 12 - L Sivaramakrishnan #IndvSL

DYK? Chasing 300+ at Galle is not easy! Only four times have FC sides made 300+ in the 4th innings here, and only once have they done so successfully! 471 - Southern Province (L) in 2004 366 - Jaffna Dist (L) in 2025 344/6 - Pakistan (W) in 2022 300 - Pakistan (L) in 2012 #IndvSL