Ground: | St George's Park, Port Elizabeth |
Scorecard: | South Africa v Sri Lanka |
Player: | KA Maharaj |
Event: | Sri Lanka in South Africa 2016/17 |
DateLine: 28th December 2016
Mumbai, Dec. 28 : Sri Lanka's Rangana Herath's wicket, which was grabbed by Keshav Maharaj in the 50th over on Tuesday at St George's Park, Port Elizabeth was the 9999th LBW dismissal of Test cricket.
 
The magical figure of 4-times nine, which was achieved in the 2243rd Test of the 140 years of Test cricket, has close connection with South Africa's 27 year-old-slow left arm bowler, according to his father, Athma Maharaj. 
Speaking exclusively over his mobile from South Africa after the early end of day's early (bad-light), he says, "this (9999) is a magical figure because sometime back I met an Indian astrologer and he asked me for my birth date. When I gave him that the year, month and day using the numbers always added up to 9 using the permutations after establishing that, he said to me it (the number nine is closely related to Lord Hanuman". 
"Coincidentally my son's date of birth numbers include 9 as well also add up to figure 9. We are both devotees of Lord Hanuman". . 
"Yes I am extremely proud for him to hold that achievement today. 10000th LBW decision would be a milestone. Hope someone can get it on Wednesday", the dad signed off. 
The 10,000th LBW in Test could have been achieved earlier on Wednesday, but no Pakistani or Australian batsman was out in this fashion at the Boxing Day Test being in played at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on 3rd day of the match on Wednesday.
(Article: The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author only.
Copyright © 2016 Bipin Dani)
LATEST SCORES
CURRENT EVENTS
- Afghanistan and South Africa in United Arab Emirates 2024/25
- Australia in Great Britain 2024
- Bangladesh in India 2024/25
- Canada International Twenty20 Tri-series 2024
- Cyprus Women in Serbia 2024
- Denmark Quadrangular International Women's Twenty20 Series 2024
- England Women in Ireland 2024
- ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League Two 2023/24 to 2027
- ICC Women's World Twenty20 2024/25
- ICC World Test Championship 2023 to 2025
- Ireland and South Africa in United Arab Emirates 2024
- Namibia Women's International T20 Series 2024/25
- New Zealand in Sri Lanka 2024/25
- New Zealand Women in Australia 2024/25
- Rwanda Women in Kenya 2024/25
- South Africa Women in Pakistan 2024/25
View all Current Events CLICK HERE