1.Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar is the true genius and the maestro of cricket. He is referred to as “God of Cricket”. His perfect shots and timings were very interesting to watch. When Sachin Tendulkar strikes the ball, it’s music to the ears. Sachin is a gift to Indian cricket team. Sachin is undoubtedly the hero of Indian nation. His classic shots and consistency is much there to get proud off. His simple attitude and dedication towards game make him everyone’s favorite hero, not only Indians but all over the world. Last match was only an example to prove that he is the true match winner and consistent batsmen that India could ever get. Its been disappointing that he was ‘retired hurt’ due to ankle sprain. It was sure that he would have crossed the record of Saeed Anwar highest score in ODI ie 194. Lets hope that one day or another he will beat that record. Sachin is in a terrific form nowadays. . It is said that Sachin is the most energetic player in Indian squad even now than all the newcomers. He is punctual in practice and be in a calm nature full time. This has actually paid for this super batsmen in fields. He played a wonderful innings in last test match which was considered as a lost innings. But he changed that ‘lost’ innings to a great victory setting up new records in cricket.
BIOGRAPHY
Sachin Tendulkar was born on 24th April 1973 in Mumbai in India. He is the number one player of India and the master of International Cricket. His father Ramesh Tendulkar is a Marathi novelist. He has two brothers and a sister. He got married to Anjali Mehta, a Gujarati doctor. They have two children Sarah and Arjun. He started his cricket career from his coach Ramakant Achrekar at the age of 15. While at school, he was involved in a great partnership of 664 runs in a Harris Shield game with his childhood friend and team mate Vinod Kambli. In 1988-1989 period, he scored 100 not-out in his first first-class match for Bombay against Gujarat. He is an all-rounder in ODI and TEST matches. Sachin played his first International match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. He scored his first ODI century against Australia in Sri-Lanka at Colombo in 1994. In the same year he scored 179 against the West Indies. In August 1996, he was made captain of his country’s team. He played his first world cup match and had done well in Cricket World Cups. He was the leading run scorer at the 1996 Cricket World Cup and he made 673 runs in 11 matches in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Sachin was also elected Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1997 and was ranked by the objective scoring method of the Wisden 100 as the second best test batsman and best ODI batsman of all time. Tendulkar made history in December 2005 when he scored his record-breaking 35th century in Test play against Sri Lanka. He is the first player to score 10,000 runs in One-day internationals and he has scored most centuries in Test and One day matches. He got several highly regarded batting records and is the leading scorer of centuries in both Test cricket and One-day internationals. He has holds the record of highest number of centuries in both Test and ODI cricket ie 41 in 43 respectively. Sachin Tendulakar has won the ‘Man of the Match’ award 8 times in World Cup, he is only the cricketer to received India’s highest sports award-’Rajiv Ganghi Khel Ratna’ and also won the Padmashree Award in 1999. Tendulkar is the most commercial sponsored player in World Cricket and had done many advertisements for many products. He is the only player who are still playing in international cricket from the 1980s. Right now he is the senior cricket player and fully experienced player in India.
Details of his career statistics
Batting Statistics
Matches Innings Runs Not Outs Avg. SR 100’s 50’s
Test 156 256 12429 27 54.28 54 41 51
ODI 423 413 16460 38 43.89 85.39 42 90
T20 1 1 10 0 10 3.33 0 0
Bowling Statistics
Matches Innings Runs Wickets BBI Avg. Econ 5W
Test 156 3880 2227 42 3/10 53.02 3.45 0
ODI 423 266 8015 154 5/32 44.2 5.1 2
Fielding Statistics
Catches Stumping’s Runouts
Test 100 0 3
ODI 129 0 20
T20 1 0 0
Captaincy
Matches Won Lost Tie No Result Win percentage
Test 25 4 9 0 12 16%
ODI 73 23 43 1 6 31.51
Career Span
Test: 1989-2008 ODI: 1989-2009
Test Debut:
India Vs Pakistan at National Stadium, Karachi - Nov 15, 1989
Last played:
India Vs England at Punjab Cricket Association Stadium, Mohali -
Chandigarh - Dec 19, 2008
ODI Debut:
India Vs Pakistan at Jinnah Stadium, Gujranwala - Dec 18, 1989
Last played:
India Vs New Zealand at McLean Park, Napier - Mar 03, 2009
T20 Debut:
India Vs South Africa at New Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg - Dec
01, 2006
2.SHAHID AFRIDI
Shahid Afridi is one of the greatest cricket player of Pakistan Cricket Team. Afridi was named as the most popular Cricketer in Pakistan. He is a right handed batsman and a right arm medium pace bowler. He has recently gained the ‘Man of the Match series award’ at the second T20 world cup 2009. Pakistan have good bowling attack and powerful batting lineup with players like Shahid Afridi which is best for T20 cricket. Shahid Afridi was hit an unbeaten 54 runs from 40 balls in this match.In broadly speaking, He is one of the strong positive minded cricketer and a powerful hitter of the ball.
BIOGRAPY
Afridi was born on 1st March, 1980 in Khyber Agency. Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi was his original name and popularly known as Shahid Afridi.He was started playing cricket from the age of 11-12 and playing cricket seriously in 1993 -94. He has represented Pakistan since 1996 in international cricket. His batting ability is very popular and he has regularly achieved a highest score in ODI series, Test cricket and Twenty 20 Match. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya in Nairobi and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia at Karachi. He made his T 20 debut on 28 August 2006 against England. He is a great gift of his country.He is known for his aggressive batting style, and holds the highest career strike rate in the history of international cricket. In 1996, he had bought into the ODI team as a leg spinner as a replacement for the injured Mashtag Ahmen and then he had gained notability as a hitter and became opening with Saeed Anwar.He had earned the record for scoring the fastest century in one-day internationals, scored in only his second match and his first ODI innings. He also shares with Brian Lara the record for the third-fastest century in ODIs In 2007, he has an ODI strike rate of 109.38 runs per 100 balls,the highest in the game’s history. He has scored over 4500 ODI runs at a strike rate of more than 107 runs per 100 balls and has taken over 160 ODI wickets. Afridi was also known as Pakistan’s very aggressive batsman and he has earned him the nick name ‘Boom Boom Afridi’ for his fastest one day International century just in 37 balls. In March 2005, he made a half-century from 26 balls and took 3 second-innings wickets in Pakistan’s series-drawing Test victory against India.In the 2007 World Twenty 20,he performed very bad with bat but brilliantly with the ball and earned the ‘Man of the Series’ award, though he failed to take a wicket in the final and was out for a golden duck.He had represented the Deccan Chargers team under the captaincy of VVS Lakshman,an Indian Cricket Player in the Indian Premier League of 2008. He has singed in the price was $675,000 and played thirty matches for the DC team.Shahid Afridi scored 367 runs, which included 32 boundaries and 21 sixes with a strike rate of 171.49. By taking 35 wickets, the bowling average of Shahid Afridi was 20.05 at an economy rate of 6.81. Afridi was only third player in ODI history to achieve the combination of 5000 runs and 200 wickets. The other players being Sri Lankan batsman Sanath Jayasuriya and South African Jacques Kallis. Afridi has recently gained the ‘ Man of the Match series award’ at the second T20 world cup 2009 .In broadly speaking, he is the best all rounder in the Pakistani team as he is aggressive and like to attack whether be bowling or batting.
3.SOURAV GANGULY
Now, we can see India’s famous cricketer Soruav Ganguly in a new role. This former Indian cricket captain Sourav Ganguly has been signed an agreement with ESPN Star Sports as a commentator for the ICC World Twenty 20, which started on 5th June, 2009 in England. So he will be part of an ESPN STAR Sports commentary panel including Wasim Akram, Sanjay Manjrekar, Alan Wilkins, Harsha Bhogle, Nasser Hussain, David Lloyd, Ian Chappell, Simon Doull, Kepler Wessels, Ian Bishop, Ranil Abeynaike and Athar Ali Khan. He will start his new innings as a commentator with Ian Chappell from the semi final of Twenty 20 World cup and it is the first time that Sourav Ganguly will be seen in the role of a TV analyst.
BIOGRAPHY
Ganguly was born in 1972 in Calcutta as the youngest son of richest business man Chandidas and Nirupa Ganguly. His full name is Sourav Chandidas Ganguly and nick name is Maharaja. He is also famous in various names including ‘Prince of Kolkata’, ‘Dada’ and ‘Bengal Tiger’. His brother Snehasish Chandidas Ganguly is also a former Indian first class cricketer. He is married to a classical dancer named Dona and they have a daughter. As a young boy, Sourav’s first interest was in football and he played football for his school team for four year.But later he was shifted to cricket and joined a cricket coaching club. He started his international career at 19 years old during the tour to Australia in 1991-92. Ganguly is an aggressive left-handed batsman and is also an effective medium pace bowler. His One Day International debut for India against West Indies in 1992 was not good for him and he scored only three runs in this match. Ganguly was started his test career in 1996. In the final of the Independence Cup in 1998 against Pakistan, he was scored 124 runs and India successfully scored 315 of 48 overs and he won the man of the match award. In 1999 World cup, he scored his highest score of 183 runs against Sri Lanka. His partnership of 318 with Rahul Dravid is the highest ever in the World Cup and is the second highest in all ODI cricket. Ganguly was selected the captain of the Indian cricket team in February, 2000. Under his leadership India had won many test matches and his excellent performance lead India to world cup final in 2003. In 2004, Ganguly was dismissed from his captaincy and Rahul Dravid was selected as the captain. In 2007, he was named in the squad for the world cup.He was the leading scorer for India in their first round defeat against Bangladesh. In 2000 to 2005, Ganguly became India’s most successful Test captain. In the year 2007, he had scored 1106 Test runs at an average of 61.44 and become the second highest run-scorer in Test matches of that year after Jacques Kallis. He is the fifth highest run scorer in 2007 in ODIs, where he scored 1240 runs at 44.28. On 7th October 2008 he was retired from International Cricket, ending a greateful career spreading nearly 17 years. After that, this all rounder appeared as a player in IPL matches. He is also the captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders IPL team owned by the famous Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan. Now we can see this Bengal Tiger in the role of a cricket commentator in coming days.
AWARDS AND HONORS
Ganguly was achieved many awards and honors in his cricket Career. He was won ‘Man of the Series’ in India in England Test series in 1996, Sri Lanka in India Test series in 1997/98 and Pakistan in India Test series in 2007.He was also won the ‘The Man of the Match Series’ award 7 times in ODI Cricket.Ganguly was gained the ‘Man of the Match’ award 6 times in test cricket and also won the same award 31 times in ODI Cricket. His another achievements are he was made 183 runs against Sri Lanka in World Cup 1999, which, at that time, was the highest ODI Score by an Indian, beating Kapil Dev’s Record of 175 .Ganguly was the Man of the Series in the Pepsi Cup 1999 for scoring 278 runs and taking 6 wickets in total. Saurav Ganguly has the distinction of being one of the few players in the World to Score a century and take 4 wickets in the same match. He was along with Tendulkar forms the 4th best opening pair in the history of one-day cricket and was scored a century on debut at Lords in 1996, and went on to score a century in the very next match as well. He was named “Sport star Person of the Year 1998″ and won the “Arjuna Award”in the same year. He is also one of the 3 players in the world to achieve amazing total of 10,000 runs, 100 wickets and 100 catches in ODI cricket history, the others being Sachin Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.
CAREER STATISTICS
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 113 311 242 426
Runs scored 7,212 11,363 14,933 15,278
Batting average 42.17 41.02 43.92 41.51
100s/50s 16/35 22/72 31/85 31/94
Top score 239 183 239 183
Balls bowled 3,117 4,561 10,968 7,949
Wickets 32 100 164 168
Bowling average 52.53 38.49 36.82 38.41
5 wickets in innings 0 2 4 2
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 3/28 5/16 6/46 5/16
Catches/stumpings 71% 100% 166% 129%
4.Adam Gilchrist
Player profile
Full name Adam Craig Gilchrist
Born November 14, 1971, Bellingen, New South Wales
Current age 35 years
Major teams Australia, ICC World XI, New South Wales, Western Australia
Nickname Gilly
Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style Left-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak
Fielding position Wicketkeeper
Height 1.85 m
Biography
Adam Gilchrist entered the international cricketing scene as a wicket keeper/batsman with the Australian One Day International side against South Africa on 25th October 1996 in Faridabad. He was bowled by Alan Donald for 18, then effected his first dismissal by catching Hanse Cronje off Paul Reiffel for a duck. South Africa won the match by 2 wickets. In 1998, Steve Waugh elevated Adam to the pivotal position of opening batsman. In his second game, Adam scored 100 against South Africa and since then, has played a significant part in redefining the role of an opening batsman in One Day Internationals.
Adam was crucial in the team's winning performance in the 1999 and 2003 World Cups. Adam has taken a world record of over 400 dismissals in one day internationals and scored over 8600 runs at a phenomenal strike rate of almost 97 runs per 100 balls faced.
On 5th-9th November 1999, Adam replaced Ian Healy as wicketkeeper in the Australian test side in Brisbane against Pakistan. He was immediately into stride, taking his first dismissal by catching Mohammad Wasim off Damien Fleming for 18. Adam then scored 81 before being bowled by Shoaib Aktar. Since that time, Adam has taken almost 370 dismissals in test matches and scored almost 5300 runs at an incredible strike of over 82 runs per 100 balls faced. Adam reached the 100 and 200 dismissal milestones faster than any other wicket keeper in test history and he is one of only two players to had averaged greater than 60 going through 3000 test runs.
Adam is the only wicketkeeper in Australia to have captained the Australian Test and One Day teams and is acknowledged for his leadership and outstanding contribution to the Australian team in both forms of the game.
Many critics believe that Adam is the greatest wicketkeeper/batsman to have played the game. But more than his statistics, it is the manner and spirit in which Adam plays the game that makes him one of the world's most exciting and popular cricketers. He already holds the record for the most sixes hit in Test cricket (97) and plays Test cricket in much the same way as he plays One-Day Internationals.
In 2004 Adam was selected in Richie Benaud's All Time Greatest Team. He joined Sir Donald Bradman, Dennis Lillee and Shane Warne who were also chosen in this illustrious team. Adam said that he was humbled to be chosen in the team in front of so many other outstanding players and by a person who himself is acknowledged as one of the finest to have played the game.
Career Statistics
| ADAM GILCHRIST - TEST MATCHES |
| Test: 96* (inc. 4th test v Ind) |
| Innings: 136 |
| Runs: 5556 |
| Average: 47.89 |
| Strike Rate: 81.97 |
| Dismissals: 414 (377 catches, 37 stumpings) |
| Gilchrist�s centuries |
| 1 | 149*(163) | v Pakistan | 99/00 | Hobart |
| 2 | 122(112) | v India | 00/01 | Mumbai |
| 3 | 152(143) | v England | 2001 | Birmingham |
| 4 | 118(158) | v New Zealand | 01/02 | Brisbane |
| 5 | 204*(213) | v South Africa | 01/02 | Johannesburg |
| 6 | 138*(108) | v South Africa | 01/02 | Cape Town |
| 7 | 133(121) | v England | 02/03 | Sydney |
| 8 | 101*(104) | v West Indies | 02/03 | Port of Spain |
| 9 | 113*(94) | v Zimbabwe | 03/04 | Perth |
| 10 | 144(185) | v Sri Lanka | 03/04 | Kandy |
| 11 | 104(109) | v India | 03/04 | Bangalore |
| 12 | 126(151) | v New Zealand | 04/05 | Brisbane |
| 13 | 113(120) | v Pakistan | 04/05 | Sydney |
| 14 | 121(126) | v New Zealand | 04/05 | Christchurch |
| 15 | 162(146) | v New Zealand | 05/06 | Wellington |
| 16 | 144(212) | v Bangladesh | 2006 | Fatullah |
| 17 | 102*(59) | v England | 06/07 | Perth |
One Day Internationals (as at 07/03/2008)
| M | I | NO | R | HS | AV | SR | 100 | 50 | CT | ST/TOT |
| 287 | 279 | 11 | 9619 | 172 | 35.89 | 96.95 | 16 | 55 | 417 | 55/472 |
Twenty20 (as at 22/10/2007)
| M | I | NO | R | HS | AV | SR | 100 | 50 | CT | ST/TOT |
| 13 | 12 | 1 | 272 | 48 | 22.66 | 146.25 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0/17 |
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