Adam Gilchrist

Adam Gilchrist, Gilchrist Biography & profile, Australian Wicket Keeper, The great All rounder, Gili Australian Cricketer, Cricket Australia

NAME
Adam Gilchrist
Australia1999-

ROLELeft Hand Bat, Wicket Keeper

BORNSunday, 14th November 1971.
New South Wales, Western Australia, Australia

TEST DEBUT
Friday, 5th November 1999
1st Test v. Pakistan at Brisbane Cricket Ground (Aged: 27)

TEST CAREER

Matches:87

Runs:
5188

Ave:
48.48

Wkts:0 Ave: n/a

Catches:
328

Stumpings:36

Last Test:2006 2nd Test v. England at Adelaide

Adam Gilchrist Profile

Adam Gilchrist entered the international cricketing scene as a wicket keeper/batsman with the Australian One Day International side in 1996/97. 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 300+ dismissals in one day internationals and scored over 6000 runs at a phenomenal strike rate of 93 runs per 100 balls faced.

In November 1999, Adam replaced Ian Healy as wicketkeeper in the Australian test side. Since that time, Adam has taken over 200 dismissals in test matches and scored over 3000 runs at an incredible strike of nearly 84 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 have 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.

Ajantha Mendis

Ajantha Mendis - Sri Lanka Player Profile

Saturday, July 26, 2008

Full name Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis
Born March 11, 1985, Moratuwa
Current age 23 years 137 days
Major teams Sri Lanka, Kolkata Knight Riders, Sri Lanka Army, Wayamba
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak




Career statistics
ODI debut West Indies v Sri Lanka at Port of Spain, Apr 10, 2008

Last ODI India v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Jul 6, 2008
First-class debut Lankan Cricket Club v Sri Lanka Army at Welisara, Nov 17-19, 2006
Last First-class Sri Lanka Army v Moratuwa Sports Club at Panagoda, Mar 21-23, 2008
List A debut Sri Lanka Army v Lankan Cricket Club at Colombo (RPS), Nov 8, 2006
Last List A India v Sri Lanka at Karachi, Jul 6, 2008

Twenty20 debut Sri Lanka Army v Ragama Cricket Club at Colombo (CCC), Feb 28, 2007
Last Twenty20 Kolkata Knight Riders v Kings XI Punjab at Kolkata, May 25, 2008

Profile
Although classified as a right-arm, slow-medium bowler, Ajantha Mendis is a spinner who bowls a mixture of googlies, offbreaks, top-spinners, flippers and legbreaks. Batsmen have been confounded by the variety of deliveries he has up his sleeve and are at a loss to figure out what his stock delivery is. Mendis was a prolific wicket-taker for Sri Lanka Army in the 2007-08 season and had taken 46 wickets at an average of 10.56 and strike-rate of 31 from six matches. His performances did not go unnoticed for Mendis was called up to the Sri Lanka squad for the tour of West Indies in April 2008. After impressing on debut in the Caribbean, Mendis only grew in stature - in particular, because of his 'flicker', which he releases with an unusual snap of his fingers. In a short span Mendis has flummoxed some international batsmen who've played spin pretty well in their careers. Just ask the Indians, who were clueless against him in the Asia Cup final, where Mendis netted 6 for 13 in his eighth one-day international. His 17 wickets in the tournament duly earned him the Man-of-the-Series award and soon after earned a call-up to the Test squad to face India at home.

Centorian Player Brain Lara

Brain Lara Profile, Biography of Lara, West Indies Player,West indies Team profile for world cup 2007

Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Full nameBrian Charles Lara

CountryWest Indies

Born
May 2, 1969, Cantaro, Santa Cruz, Trinidad

Current age
37 years 230 days

Major teams
West Indies, ICC World XI, Northern Transvaal, Trinidad & Tobago, Warwickshire

Batting styleLeft-hand bat

Bowling styleLegbreak googly

Brain Lara Profile

Lara holds several world records for high scoring. He has the highest individual score in both first-class cricket (501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham in 1994) and Test cricket (400 not out for the West Indies against England in 2004). He also holds the record for the highest total number of runs in a Test career, after overtaking Allan Border in November 2005. He is the only man to have reclaimed the Test record score, having scored 375 against England in 1994, a record that stood until Matthew Hayden's 380 against Zimbabwe in 2003. His 400 not out also made him the second player after Don Bradman to score two Test triple-centuries, and the second after Bill Ponsford to score two first-class quadruple-centuries. He has scored nine double centuries in Test cricket, second only to Bradman's twelve.Lara captained the West Indies from 1997 to 1999. He was reappointed as captain against the touring Australians in 2003, and struck 110 in his first Test match back in charge, showing signs of him returning to his best. In September 2004, West Indies won the ICC Champions Trophy in England under his captaincy.

In March 2005, Lara declined selection for the West Indies team because of a dispute over his personal Cable & Wireless sponsorship deal, which clashed with the Cricket Board's main sponsor, Digicel. Six other players were involved in this dispute, including stars Christopher Gayle, Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Dwayne Bravo. Lara says[citation needed] he declined selection in a stand of solidarity, when these players were dropped because of their sponsorship deals. The issue was resolved after the first Test of the series against the touring South African team.
Lara returned to the team for the second Test (and scored a huge first innings score of 196), but in the process lost his captaincy indefinitely to the newly-appointed Shivnarine Chanderpaul. In the next Test, against the same opponents, he scored a 176 in the first innings. After a one day series against South Africa, he scored his first Test century against the visiting Pakistanis in the first Test at Kensington Oval, Bridgetown, Barbados.

On April 26, 2006 Lara was reappointed the captain of the West Indies cricket team for the third time. This followed the resignation of Shivnarine Chanderpaul, who had been captain for thirteen months - in which the West Indies won just one of the 14 Test matches they had competed. In May 2006, Lara led the West Indies to successful One-Day series victories against Zimbabwe and India. Lara's team played Australia in the final for the ICC Champions Trophy and lost.

On 16 December 2006 he became the first player for the West Indies to pass 10000 One Day International runs and along with Sachin Tendulkar one of only two players to do so in both forms of the game

Trivia

In a 1994 Bradman Foundation charity match, Lara was dismissed by Australian women's cricket team all-rounder,

At the time that Lara made his historic 501 not out against Durham, he was sponsored by one of Levis' rivals.

Lara loves carnivals, Chinese and Italian food, and is known to be a practical joker

Leg spinner shane Warne

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Saturday, December 30, 2006

Full nameShane Keith Warne
BornSeptember 13, 1969, Ferntree Gully, Victoria

Current age
37 years 107 days
Major teamsAustralia, Hampshire, ICC World XI, Victoria
NicknameWarney
Playing roleBowler
Batting styleRight-hand bat

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Test debut :Australia v India at Sydney - Jan 2-6, 1992
Last Test :Australia v England at Melbourne - Dec 26-28, 2006
First-class span :1990/91 - 2006/07
List A span :1991/92 - 2006
Twenty20 span :2004 - 2005

Awards

Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1994
One-Day International Player of the Year - 2000
Selected as one of five Wisden cricketers of the century, 2000
Test Player of the Year - 2006

Shane Warne profile

At first there were nerves and chubbiness. Then came wild soaring legbreaks, followed by fame and flippers. For a long while there were women, then a bookmaker, then diet pills, then more women - and headlines, always headlines. Now he has come out the other end, his bluff and bluster and mischief and innocence somehow intact. The man who in 2000 was rated among the five greatest cricketers of the 20th century was, in 2005, bowling better than ever. When Warne likened his life to a soap opera he was selling himself short. His story is part fairytale, part pantomime, part hospital drama, part adult's-only romp, part glittering awards ceremony. He has taken a Test hat-trick, won the Man-of-the-Match prize in a World Cup final and been the subject of seven books. He was the first cricketer to reach 650 Test wickets. He has swatted more runs than any other Test player without making a hundred, and is probably the wiliest captain Australia never had. His ball that gazoodled Mike Gatting in 1993, bouncing outside leg stump and cuffing off, is unanimously esteemed the most famous in history. He revived legspin, thought to be extinct, and is now pre-eminent in a game so transformed that we sometimes wonder where the next champion fast bowlers will come from.
For all that, Warne's greatest feats are perhaps those of the last couple of years. Returning from a 12-month hiatus for swallowing forbidden diuretics, he swept aside 26 Sri Lankan batsmen in three Tests, and the following year scalped a world record 96 victims - a stunning 24 more than in his show-stopping 1993 - and still missed out on the Allan Border Medal. Forty of those were Englishmen in what sometimes appeared to be a lone stand in a thrilling Ashes series. Nowadays he is helped by his stockpile of straight balls: a zooter, slider, toppie and back-spinner, one that drifts in, one that slopes out, and another that doesn't budge. Yet he seldom gets his wrong'un right and rarely lands his flipper. More than ever he relies on his two oldest friends: excruciating accuracy and an exquisite legbreak. Except that he now controls the degree of spin - and mixes it - at will. Like the great classical painters, he has stumbled upon the art of simplicity. His bowling has never been simpler, nor more effective, nor lovelier to look at.
Maybe, as with Posh Spice or Kylie Minogue, Warne is more famous than he is loved. Maybe we don't fully appreciate his genius; maybe, like Bradman's, it will become ever more apparent with the passing of decades. One thing's for sure, though. We'll weep when he's gone.

Rocking Ricky Pointing

Rickey Pointing Profile, Rickey Pointing’s Biography

Thursday, November 08, 2007

Ricky Ponting

Test captain and ODI captain

Dec 19, 1974

State of Origin:

TAS

Test cap No.

366

ODI cap No.

123

Test Debut:

Dec 08, 1995

One Day Debut:

Feb 15, 1995

He led Australia to victory in the 2003 World Cup when the side won all 11 matches that it played in the tournament. He is also named Player of the Series in Australia's 3-1 Test win in the West Indies in early 2003 after scoring 523 runs at an average of 130.75 including three hundreds and his maiden double hundred, 206 at Port of Spain. He has topped Australia's averages in the 1999/2000 Ansett Australia series against India with 375 runs in three Tests at 125.00 with two hundreds. Ricky Ponting has made an unbeaten 140 against India to lead Australia to a 125-run win in the final of the 2003 World Cup.

An Overview Of an Australian Team

Australian Cricket Team Profile

Friday, November 17, 2006

The Australian Cricket Team is the Champion of One Day Cricket as well as current ICC Test Champions. Australia has won 376 of the 671 ODI (One Day Internationals) till March12, 2006, the day when history was created in ODI version of game of cricket. In this ODI international at New Wanderer Stadium at Johannesburg, the world champions scored a record historic total of 434 runs in 50 overs only to be broken by South Africa who scored 438 runs with just a ball to spare. Today, Australia is considered the most professional and formidable cricket team in the world. The Australian Cricket Team has produced a number of legendary cricketers including Sir Don Bradman, Dennis Lillee, Tom Moody, David Boon, Allan Border, Mark Taylor, Steve Waugh and many more. Today, Australian Cricket Team plays some of the outstanding players the game of cricket ever produced, including Ricky Ponting, Shane Warne, Adam Gilchrist, Glenn McGrath and Brett Lee. The Australian Cricket Team has performed exceptionally well in most of the world cup matches and their track record is simply superb. They were runners-up in 1975 and 1996 world cups, and were winners of ICC Cricket World Cup in 1987, 1999 and 2003.

Australia’s cricket team has belief in the concept that cricket as a sport can only have appeal to fans and participants when the values of the game are firmly established at both the local and the international levels. This includes telling each player about the codes and policies that enforce these values and helping to promote the positive aspects of cricket.

History
The Australian Cricket Team, along with the English Cricket Team is the oldest Cricket Team in the world. Having played their first match in 1877, the Australian Cricket Team has so far played 682 Tests and 625 ODIs.

Performance

The Australian Cricket Team has been a formidable side from a long time. Always one of the better sides in world cricket, the Australians have performed exceptionally well over the years. The current World Champions, Australia has won the World Cup thrice and is on the verge of a hat trick, having won the championship in 1999 and 2003. They had previously won it in 1987. They are currently rated number one in all the cricket ratings in the world, official and unofficial, in both forms of the game.
Players
One of the major strengths of the Australian Cricket Team is that the players who represent the team are perhaps some of the finest in the world. With Ricky Ponting, a brilliant batsman himself, leading the side, is it of little surprise that they perform son well. Other world class batsman like Mathew Hayden, Michael Clark and Adam Gilchrist form the backbone of the team, while Brett Lee, Glen McGrath and Shane Warne demolish the opposition with their accurate bowling. In the recent years the team has done particularly well under coach John Buchanan.

Thus it can be seen that the Australian Cricket Team is a very strong side and stands a very good chance to win the 2007 Cricket World Cup. The team is known for its professionalism, dedication and a complete commitment to hard work. With all this and a pool of talented players, the team can only be expected to perform better in the years to come. Cricketscorelive.com brings to you the Australian Cricket Team Profile and other Cricket Team Profiles.

Ponting, Ricky
Bracken, Nathan
Hayden, Matthew
Haddin, Brad
Hussey, Mike
Hopes, James
Katich, Simon
Lee, Brett
Lewis, Michael
McGrath, Glenn
Tait, Shaun
Watson, ShaneGilchrist, Adam
Clarke, Michael
Gillespie, Jason
Hodge, Brad
Kasprowicz, Michael
Jaques, Phil
Langer, Justin
MacGill, Stuart
Martyn, Damien
Symonds, AndrewWarne, Shane
White, CameronStuart Clark

Dashing MS Dhoni

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Monday, January 08, 2007

Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Born July 7, 1981, Ranchi

Current age 29 years 277 days

Major teams India, Asia XI, Bihar, Chennai Super Kings,Jharkhand

Also known as Mahi

Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Fielding position Wicketkeeper

His hobbies and interests include:

Hearing music, ghazals and songs by Lata Mangeshkar and Kishore Kumar
Loves to ride bikes
Enjoys playing computer games and badminton
Not interested in:

English songs
Working out at gyms
Special qualities:

Thinks positive
Highly confident about himself
Is aggressive on the field
His Idol:
Adam Gilchrist

Cricketing profile

Mahendra Singh Dhoni started his first class career in the year 1999-2000. His one day international debut came after playing five years of first class cricket on the 23rd of December 2004 against Bangladesh. The venue of the match was in Chittagong, Bangladesh. Unfortunately, he was run out on the first ball he faced. It wasnt a great debut for him where batting is concerned. Luck wasnt on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day. Not only a good wicketkeeper but Dhoni proved himself to be a first class batsman too. He is one of the few finest wicketkeeper batsman India has seen after a very long time.

On the 31st of October, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur. Adam Gilchrist was the former record holder with 172 runs.

Before he started playing cricket, he was a football goalkeeper. Its said he drinks around four litres of milk everyday but he denied it by saying that has been exaggerated a bit. He said he loves milk and drinks around a litre on a daily basis.

On the 2nd of December 2005, Dhoni made his Test cricket debut against Srilanka which was played in Chennai, India.

Personal profile

Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father's home town. His father's name is Pan Singh and mother's name is Devki Devi.