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Friday, February 25, 2011

andrew strauss personal life

Andrew John Strauss, MBE born 2 March 1977 is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is captain of England. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. Strauss is also known for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers.
He made his first-class debut in 1998, and his One Day International ODI debut in Sri Lanka in 2003. He quickly rose to fame on his Test match debut replacing the injured Michael Vaughan at Lords against New Zealand in 2004 scores of 112 and 83 run outn in an England victory, and the man of the match award, he became only the fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his debut and was close to becoming the first Englishman to score centuries in both innings of his debut Strauss again nearly scored two centuries 126 and 94 not out and was named man of the match in his first overseas Test match, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in December 2004Strauss suffered a drop in form during 2007, and as a result he was left out of the Test squad for England's tour of Sri Lanka, and announced that he was taking a break from cricket.After a poor tour for England, Strauss was recalled into the squad for the 2008 tour of New Zealand, and subsequently reestablished himself in the side with a career-best 177 in the third and final Test of that series, and a further three centuries in 2008.
Having deputised for Michael Vaughan as England captain in 2006, Strauss was appointed on a permanent basis for the 2008/09 tour of the West Indies following Kevin Pietersen's resignation.He enjoyed success with three centuries, and retained the captaincy into 2009. Strauss captained the England team to a 2–1 victory in the 2009 Ashes, scoring a series total of 474 runs, more than any other player on either side, 161 in England's first victory in an Ashes Test at Lord's in 75 years
Contents
* 1 Personal life
* 2 Playing career
o 2.1 Domestic career
o 2.2 International career
+ 2.2.1 Debut year 2003–04
+ 2.2.2 Road to The Ashes (2004–05
+ 2.2.3 The Ashes 2005
+ 2.2.4 Facing Asian teams and early captaincy 2005–06
+ 2.2.5 Decline in form 2006–07
+ 2.2.6 Omission from team and revival in New Zealand
+ 2.2.7 New Zealand and South Africa tour England
+ 2.2.8 2008 Tour of India
+ 2.2.9 Captaincy
+ 2.2.10 The Ashes 2009
+ 2.2.11 2009-10 and 2010
+ 2.2.12 The Ashes 2010-11
* 3 Test centuries
o 3.1 Test Records Against Each Opponents
* 4 Test analysis by year
* 5 One Day International centuries
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links
Personal life

andrew strauss

Shane Bond playing style

Shane Edward Bond born 7 June 1975 in Christchurch, New Zealandwas a New Zealand cricketer, described as "New Zealand's best fast bowler since Sir Richard HadleeHe has represented New Zealand in Test, ODI and Twenty20 International cricket as well as playing for Canterbury in New Zealand domestic cricket and Warwickshire in English domestic cricket. Bond is a right-arm fast bowler.
Bond's career was plagued with injuries, chiefly recurring stress fractures of the back. He had surgery in 2004 to try to prevent further injurybut it was only partially successful. In recent years he has suffered back problems, knee injuries and an abdominal tear. These problems, in conjunction with a late start to his fully professional cricket career, have limited his appearances in both international and domestic cricket. Since his debut in the 2001/02 season, he only managed to appear in 18 Test matches for New Zealand. Bond retired from Test cricket in December 2009 at the age of 34
His international career also suffered a hiatus of 18 months,[3] due to Bond's involvement with the Delhi Giants in, the 'rebel' Indian Cricket League during March 2008, which caused the New Zealand cricket board to terminate his central contract in January 2008.However, in June 2009 Bond severed ties with the rebel league and declared himself available to be selected for the national side once again. January 2010, Bond was selected to play in the 3rd season of the Indian Premier League for the Kolkata Knight Riders. As of 13 May 2010 he has since retired from all forms of the game and is not planning to continue in the 4th season of Indian Premier League
Contents
* 1 Playing style
* 2 Domestic career
* 3 International career
o 3.1 2001/02 tour of Australia
o 3.2 2002 tour of the West Indies
o 3.3 2003 World Cup
o 3.4 Major injury woes
o 3.5 Return against India
o 3.6 Defection to ICL
o 3.7 Hampshire
o 3.8 Return to official ranks
o 3.9 Return to International Cricket
* 4 Achievements and Awards
o 4.1 Test 5-Wicket Hauls
o 4.2 One Day International 5 Wicket Innings
* 5 Retirement from Test Cricket
* 6 Retirement
* 7 IPL
* 8 Personal life
* 9 Back as Coach
* 10 Autobiography
* 11 References
* 12 External links
Playing style
Bond was a fast bowler capable of regularly bowling at speeds in excess of 145 km/h. He was first recorded breaking the 150 km/h barrier in the 2001/02 season. In contrast to some other fully fast bowlers, Bond combines pace with control and accuracy, assets which have seen him find success in all forms of the game.
Limiting the statistics to players who have bowled at least 1000 balls, he holds the record for the best strike rate 27.5 in ODI'sand has the third best average 19.32 In Tests, limiting the statistics to player who have bowled at least 2000 balls, his Test strike rate, 38.9 currently ranks fourth in the all-time listand his average 22.39 currently sits at second amongst current players.Amongst current players who have bowled over 2000 balls in Tests, only Muttiah Muralitharan has a better average. Bond's Test and ODI bowling averages are superior to that of both Stuart Clark and Dale Steyn, who are currently the leading fast bowlers of Australia and South Africa respectively.
Bond usually bats quite far down the batting order, at number nine or later, but he is capable of slogging some quick runs towards the end of an innings.
Domestic career

Shane Bond

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

sachin tendulkar early career

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar About this sound pronunciation help·info Marathi: सचिन रमेश तेंडुलकर; born 24 April 1973 is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run-scorer and century maker in Test and one-day international cricket.He is the only male player to score a double century in the history of ODI cricket. In 2002, just 12 years into his career, Wisden ranked him the second greatest Test batsman of all time, behind Donald Bradman, and the second greatest one-day-international ODI of all time, behind Viv Richard In September 2007, the Australian leg spinner Shane Warne rated Tendulkar as the greatest player he has played with or against
Tendulkar is the first and the only player in Test Cricket history to score fifty centuries, and the first to score fifty centuries in all international cricket combined; he now has 97 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, 13,000 and 14,000 runs in that form of the game, having also been the third batsman and first Indian to pass 11,000 runs in Test cricket 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 11 Test centuries against Australia, tying with Sir Jack Hobbs of England more than 70 years previously Tendulkar passed 30,000 runs in international cricket on 20 November 2009. He also holds the world record for playing highest number of Test and ODI matches.Tendulkar 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 He won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards.
Contents
* 1 Early years and personal life
* 2 Philanthropy
* 3 Early domestic career
* 4 International career
o 4.1 Early career
o 4.2 Rise through the ranks
o 4.3 Captaincy
o 4.4 Injuries and apparent decline
o 4.5 Return to old form and consistency
o 4.6 2007/08 tour of Australia
o 4.7 Home series against South Africa
o 4.8 Sri Lanka Series
o 4.9 Return to form and breaking the record
o 4.10 ODI and Test Series against England
o 4.11 Sri Lanka ODIs
o 4.12 New Zealand Series
o 4.13 Compaq Cup in Sri Lanka
o 4.14 ICC Champions Trophy 2009
o 4.15 India-Australia ODI Series
o 4.16 Sri Lanka Series
o 4.17 Bangladesh Test Series
o 4.18 Series against South Africa in 2010
* 5 Indian Premier League
* 6 Style of play
* 7 Controversies
o 7.1 Mike Denness incident
o 7.2 Controversy over Ferrari customs waiver
* 8 Fan following
* 9 Business interests
o 9.1 Product and brand endorsements
* 10 Biographies
* 11 Career achievements
o 11.1 Individual honours and appreciations
* 12 See also
* 13 Notes
* 14 References
* 15 Further reading
* 16 External links
Early years and personal life
Tendulkar was born in Bombay Mumbai His mother, Rajni, working in insurance, and his father, Ramesh Tendulkar, a Marathi novelist, named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar's elder brother Ajit encouraged him to play cricket. Tendulkar has two other siblings: a brother Nitin, and sister Savita.
endulkar attended Sharadashram Vidyamandir High Schoolwhere he began his cricketing career under the guidance of his coach and mentor, Ramakant Achrekar. During his school days he attended the MRF Pace Foundation to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who took a world record 355 Test wickets, was unimpressed, suggesting that Tendulkar focus on his batting instead

sachin tendulkar

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

daniel vettori bowller best

Daniel Luca Vettori born 27 January 1979 is a cricketer for the New Zealand cricket team, where he is the current captain. He is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is the youngest player to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18. Vettori is a bowling all-rounder who bowls slow left-arm orthodox spin; he is known for his accuracy, flight and guile rather than prodigious turn. He has a Test batting average of around 30 making him one of the more consistent and better batsmen in the New Zealand cricket team. In the fourth season of Indian Premier League, he was contracted by Royal Challengers Bangalore for US$550,000.
He was born in Auckland and brought up in Hamilton, attending Marian School and later St. Paul's Collegiate School. When available, he plays provincial cricket for Northern Districts and is also an international member of Indian Premier League team the Delhi DareDevils. Vettori also represents the Queensland Bulls in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. He is among a very small minority of international sports stars to wear prescription spectacles while playing sport and is the first cricketer of Italian descent to represent New Zealand.
Contents
* 1 Bowling Records
* 2 Captaincy
* 3 Batting
* 4 Achievements
o 4.1 Test Centuries
o 4.2 Test 5-Wicket Hauls
o 4.3 One Day International 5-Wicket Hauls
* 5 Personal life
* 6 Biography
* 7 Notes
* 8 External links
Bowling Records
A graph showing Vettori's Test career bowling statistics and how they have varied over time.
He took his 300th Test wicket in Sri Lanka in 2009, becoming only the second New Zealand bowler after Richard Hadlee to pass that mark and he is currently New Zealand's leading ODI wicket-taker
Vettori has three 10 wicket hauls in Test cricket, against Sri Lanka, Australia and Bangladesh. His best innings figures were achieved at Auckland in 1999–2000 against Australia where he took 7/87. He finished with career best match figures in that game, taking 12/149. They are the second best ever by a New Zealander, with only Richard Hadlee having taken more in a match. With another 12 wicket effort, against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the only New Zealander to have taken a dozen wickets in a Test on two occasions.
He is the bowler to have most frequently dismissed Shane Warne in Tests, getting him out nine times, most notably for 99 in a Test at Perth. Ironically, in the 1st Test against Pakistan in 2009–10 season, Vettori was himself dismissed for 99, while chasing a world record in centuries batting from position number 8.
Captaincy