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XtraTime Web Desk: Cricket is a very funny game and it's also a game of uncertainty. Ahead of the start of any game no-one can predict who will win it as on there day any mediocre team can beat a World champion side and we have seen it many times. We don't see much Co-Incidences happen in World cricket but when they happen, it always bring back the memories from the past to cheerish.

Here, we take a look at 5 most interesting coincidences that have happened in cricket history:

Dhoni’s first Test and ODI centuries came against Pakistan with a score of 148

MS Dhoni, who had made a horrific start in his ODI career when he got out on a duck, but later he went on to score his maiden ODI century against Pakistan at Vizag in 2005. After getting a promotion to bat at No.3 he scored 148 runs. Surprisingly he also scored his maiden test ton against Pakistan in Faislabad. Though the more surprising thing is that he hit the same score of 148 as his maiden ton in Test as well.

India’s winning margin when Sachin, Sehwag, and Rohit scored their ODI double hundreds

India has won every time in an ODI game when an opener has scored a double century. And more surprisingly everytime the winning margin for India was 153 runs. Sachin Tendulkar in 2010 and Virender Sehwag in 2011 scored their maiden ODI double hundred. Everytime, Team India registered wins by a margin of 153 runs.

Then three years later when Rohit Sharma again scored a double hundred in 2014 against Sri Lanka at the Eden Gardens and this time again India emerged victorious by 153 runs.

Royal Challengers Bangalore on two ends of the spectrum in four years time

Royal Challengers Bangalore registered the highest-ever team total in IPL 2013. They managed to score 263 for 5 against the now-defunct Pune Warriors India to create history on April 23, 2013. However, four years later, the Virat Kohli-led yet again created an unwanted piece of history when they collapsed for the lowest-ever team total recorded in IPL history. The Bengaluru boys folded out for 49 against KKR in Kolkata on the same date in 2017.

Ganguly, Dhoni and Kohli, each has the highest ODI score of 183

It is a mere coincidence that each among the three, Sourav Ganguly, MS Dhoni, and Virat Kohli, have their highest ODI score as 183. However, what is even more interesting is that all three of them later went onto captain India in each of the three formats. As of now, three of them rank among India’s top-3 captains as per the no. of matches won for ‘Men in Blue’ as skipper of the team.

Alastair Cook + Michael Clarke = Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar, arguably one of the greatest batsmen to have ever held a bat, finished his Test career with an unimaginable tally of 15, 921 runs including 21 centuries. In December 2013, a month after Sachin’s retirement, there occurred a weird coincidence after the first innings of the Perth Ashes Test.
Both Michael Clarke and Alastair Cook were playing their 100th Test for their respective nations in Perth. After the first innings, Cook managed to take his tally of runs to 7955 with 25 hundred, while Clarke registered 7964 runs including 26 Test tons. If both of their tally of runs were added, it added to result in 15, 919 runs with 51 Test centuries, which was just two short of Sachin’s tally of runs in 200 Tests. So, it was virtually, Alastair Cook + Michael Clarke = Sachin Tendulkar.