Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Pronunciation (Help Info) (Marathi
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Pronunciation (Help Info) (Marathi
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Pronunciation (Help Info) (Marathi
Tendulkar is the first player to score fifty centuries in all international cricket
combined, he now has 94 centuries in international cricket. On 17 October
2008, when he surpassed Brian Lara's record for the most runs scored in Test
Cricket, he also became the first batsman to score 12,000 runs in that form
of the game,[17] having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass
11,000 runs in Test cricket.[18] He was also the first player to score 10,000
runs in one-day internationals, and also the first player to cross every
subsequent 1000-run mark that has been crossed in ODI cricket history and
200 runs in a one-day international match. In the fourth Test of the Border-
Gavaskar Trophy against Australia, Tendulkar surpassed Australia's Allan
Border to become the player to cross the 50-run mark the most number of
times in Test cricket history, and also the second ever player to score 10 Test
centuries against Australia, after only Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than
70 years previously.[19] Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket
on 20 November 2009, and has been honoured with the Padma Vibhushan
award, India's second highest civilian award, and the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna award, India's highest sporting honor. Tendulkar became the first
sportsperson and the first personality without an aviation background to be
awarded the honorary rank of Group Captain by the Indian Air Force.[20]
Anil Kumble
Anil Kumble has been an Indian Cricket player and Captain of the Indian
Test Cricket team. A right handed batsman, Kumble specialized in Right
Arm Leg Spin (Legbreak Googly) bowling. He has taken the third biggest
number of wickets in the history of Test Cricket, having taken more than 300
wickets in Test matches.
Early Life
Anil was born on 17th of October 1970 at Bangalore, Karnataka. Fondly
known as Jumbo, as a kid he joined a Cricket Club named Young Cricketers.
He was a very brilliant student and finished his Bachelor in Mechanical
Engineering from Rashtreeya Vidyalaya College of Engineering, Bangalore
in the year 1991-92.
He started playing First Class Cricket for Karnataka team with a match
against Hyderabad in the year 1989, and managed to grab 4 wickets in the
match.
Virender Sehwag
Virender Sehwag pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: ववीरत द समेहववाग) (born 20
October 1978, in Delhi, India), affectionately known as Viru, is one of the
leading batsmen in the Indian cricket team. Sehwag is an aggressive right-
handed opening batsman and an occasional right-arm off-spin bowler. He
played his first One Day International in 1999 and joined the Indian Test
cricket team in 2001. In April 2009, Sehwag became the only Indian to be
honored as the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World for his performance
in 2008,[3] subsequently becoming the first player of any nationality to retain
the award for 2009.[4]
Beginning his career as a left-arm fast-medium swing bowler, Pathan broke into the
national team soon after turning 19, and evoked comparisons with Pakistan's Wasim
Akram, regarded as one of the finest left-arm pacemen of all time, with his promising
performances and prodigious swing. He cemented his position in the team and was
named by the International Cricket Council as the 2004 Emerging Player of the Year. In
late-2004 he took 18 wickets in two Tests against Bangladesh, but the start of 2005 he
performed poorly and conceded runs at a high rate, leading to a brief exile from the one-
day international (ODI) team.
Immediately thereafter, Australian Greg Chappell, one of the leading batsmen of his time,
became India's coach and identified Pathan's batting potential. The bowler improved his
batting skills to become a bowling all-rounder, and he opened the batting on occasions in
ODIs and scored 93 in a Test match in the role after an illness to Virender Sehwag. He
made three scores beyond 80 in the space of four Test innings. For the first nine months
of Chappell's stint at the helm, Pathan performed strongly with both bat and ball, scoring
runs regularly and frequently taking top-order wickets. He rose to No. 2 in the ICC's ODI
rankings for all-rounders and was also in the top five in the Test rankings. This led critics
to compare him to former Indian pace bowling allrounder Kapil Dev.[1] In early 2006,
Pathan became the first and only bowler to take a Test hat-trick in the first over of the
match. However, the productive run did not last and after the start of 2006, Pathan began
to steadily lose pace and swing, and his wicket-taking dwindled. Although Pathan's
batting continued to be productive, he was not regarded as a specialist and was dropped
from the team in both Tests and ODIs by the end of 2006, and by 2007 was no longer in
the squad.
He returned to international cricket in September 2007 for the inaugural World Twenty20,
where he took three wickets and was man of the match as India beat Pakistan in the final.
This earned him a recall into the ODI team, where he was a regular for most of the next
12 months before being dropped as his economy rate continued to trend upwards. In late-
2007 Pathan was recalled into the Test team and hit his maiden Test century, but could not
maintain his place in the team as his bowling was not effective enough with only two
pacemen needed. He continues to perform with both bat and ball at domestic level,
although his sedate pace is frequently criticised as being irrelevant at international level.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: महमे न्द सससिंह
धधोनवी) (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Bihar) (now in Jharkhand) is an Indian
cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team.
He first played for India U-19 against the England U-19 team in 2004-05,
claiming 13 wickets from two Under-19 Tests at a bowling average of just
above 12. He also played in the 2005-06 home series against Australia U-19,
where they won the five-match limited overs series 4-1, taking eight wickets.
In the 2005-06 Challenger Trophy, Chawla was selected to play for India B.
Although he only bowled three of a possible ten overs in the first match of
the series, conceding 21, he picked up two wickets in the next match against
India A, and as India B reached the final against the Seniors, he took the
wicket of Sachin Tendulkar - bowled with a googly - in an effort described
by Cricinfo as "impressive"[1]. He also dismissed Yuvraj Singh and
Mahendra Singh Dhoni, to end with three for 49, but the Seniors still won by
three wickets. Two weeks later, he made his first class debut for Central
Zone against South Zone in the Duleep Trophy, and scored 60 in a 92-run
eighth-wicket stand with Harvinder Singh. He also finished with match
bowling figures of 27.2-3-100-6, admittedly only getting one of the top five
batsman once. He has been known by Kiran More since the age of 15 and at
only 17 has potentially got a great cricketing future in front of him. He
proved himself again when he took 4 wickets in 8 overs conceding only 8
runs in the U-19 World Cup final of 2006. He also made 25 (n.o.) runs.
Harbhajan Singh
Harbhajan Singh pronunciation (help·info) (Punjabi: ਹਰਭਜਨ ਸਸਸਿੰ ਘ, born:
3 July 1980 in Jalandhar, Punjab, India) is an Indian cricketer. A specialist
bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner
behind Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan.
Harbhajan made his Test and One Day International (ODI) debuts in early
1998. His career was initially beset by investigations into the legality of his
bowling action and disciplinary incidents that raised the ire of cricket
authorities. However in 2001, with leading leg spinner Anil Kumble injured,
Harbhajan's career was resuscitated after Indian captain Sourav Ganguly
called for his inclusion in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy team. In that series
victory over Australia, Harbhajan established himself as the team's leading
spinner by taking 32 wickets, becoming the first Indian bowler to take a hat
trick in Test cricket.[1]
A finger injury in mid 2003 sidelined him for much of the following year,
allowing Kumble to regain his position as the first choice spinner. Harbhajan
reclaimed a regular position in the team upon his return in late 2004, but
often found himself watching from the sidelines in Test matches outside the
Indian subcontinent with typically only one spinner, Kumble, being used.
Throughout 2006 and into early 2007, Harbhajan's accumulation of wickets
fell and his bowling average increased, and he was increasingly criticised for
bowling defensively with less loop. Following India's first-round elimination
from the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Harbhajan was replaced by other spinners
in the national squad for both formats. He regained a regular position in the
team in late 2007, but became the subject of more controversy. In early
2008, he was given a ban by the International Cricket Council (ICC) for
racially vilifying Andrew Symonds. The ban was revoked upon appeal, but
in April, Harbhajan was banned from the 2008 Indian Premier League and
suspended from the ODI team by the Board of Control for Cricket in India
(BCCI) for slapping Sreesanth after a match.
He was conferred the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, in
2009.