| Ask any cricket enthusiast and he will be able to recall | | | | a sudden even international players from different |
| the national and world records held by cricket players | | | | countries have major fan followings ion different |
| who then held the reign during the time period till the | | | | countries across the globe. One can simply visit a |
| existence of the cricket records. However, the | | | | website dedicated to the game of cricket and search |
| downside of cricket records is that it is temporary in | | | | out all necessary information about a player from the |
| nature. The emergence of new players with talent | | | | cricket statistics and player and match information that |
| creates new cricket records and raises the | | | | is present online. A player holding multiple cricket |
| benchmark for performance. It is also true; however, | | | | records immediately gains popularity even among the |
| that once a record has been created it imprints the | | | | internet surfers, thereby increasing the number of |
| name of the player in the minds of his fans forever. | | | | profile visits that he gets from the visitors to the site. A |
| The creation of new records can also not diminish the | | | | player with more cricket records is therefore also |
| precedence set by earlier cricket records. Cricket | | | | preferred by not only the regular fans but also the |
| records have the ability to drive a player's | | | | online fans on the World Wide Web. Even the recently |
| performance by setting a benchmark for him. The | | | | concluded 2007 world cup had set its own cricket |
| player then strives to excel, creates a new record for | | | | records that laid precedence for following matches. |
| himself and achieves that prestigious position in the | | | | The Indian team emerged as the ones with the highest |
| world of cricket. The high level of international | | | | team total of 413 against Bermuda in the 19th match |
| popularity that the game of cricket has gained over | | | | of the 2007 World Cup. In this particular match India |
| the years has further raised the importance of cricket | | | | also tied a type of cricket records with South Africa |
| records. Now a player holding any kind of cricket | | | | and scored the most sixes (18) in a match. The cricket |
| records can instantly come into the limelight, thanks to | | | | records created by India will ensure that the team is |
| the high level of media and public interest in the game. | | | | remembered for the record creation in spite of the |
| Cricket records can also give a player the competitive | | | | team's dismissal in the league stage itself. The creation |
| edge when it concerns questions of being selected in | | | | of cricket records also has a major contribution in the |
| a national team or even for playing at an international | | | | life of a player who can be the fans idol one day and |
| level. The internet revolution that took over the globe a | | | | the fallen hero the next day itself. The past reference |
| decade ago has also made its own contribution to the | | | | of his cricket records make the fans give him a |
| game of cricket. Now the physical barriers of country | | | | chance time and again as the fans realize that if he |
| have been transcended through the internet and all of | | | | has outperformed others once, he may yet do it again. |