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Subject: The Legends of Cricket
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royal28 13.09.09 - 08:30am
In this topic we will discuss about the legends of retired and unretired legends of cricket.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SHANE WARNE *
royal28 13.09.09 - 08:31am
Adam Craig Gilchrist (born 14 November 1971), nicknamed Gilly or Church,[1] is a former Australian international cricketer.[2] He is an aggressive left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who redefined the role for the Australian national team through his aggressive batting. He is considered to be one of the best wicket-keeper-batsmen in the history of the game.[3][4]
He holds the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket keeper in One Day International cricket and the most by an Australian in Test cricket.[5][6] His strike rate is amongst the highest in the history of both One-day and Test cricket and he currently holds the record for the second fastest century in Test cricket.[7] He is the only player to have hit 100 sixes in Test cricket.[8] His 17 Test and 16 ODI centuries are the most by a wicket-keeper.[9][10] He holds the unique record of scoring at least 50 runs in successive World Cup finals (in 1999, 2003 and 2007)[11] and is one of only three players to have won three titles.[12]
Gilchrist is renowned for walking when he considers himself to be out, sometimes contrary to the decision of the umpire.[13]
He made his first-class debut in 1992, his first One-Day International appearance in 1996 in India and his Test debut in 1999.[2] During his career, he played for Australia in 96 Test matches and over 270 One-day internationals. He was Australia's vice-captain in both forms of the game, captaining the team when regular captains Steve Waugh and Ricky Ponting were unavailable.[14][15]
Gilchrist retired from international cricket in March 2008.[16] However, he continues to play cricket for the Deccan Chargers in the Indian Premier League Twenty20 competition and replaced VVS Laxman as captain in 2009.[17] He led Deccan to the 2009 title. *
royal28 14.09.09 - 09:14am
George Bradley Hogg
D.O.B.
6-2-1971
Zimbabwe's Andy Flower in the 2003 World Cup. Flower leapt back, waited for the away-spin and then slumped, hideously bamboozled, as the ball fizzed straight through on to his stumps. Until that moment, Hogg's cricketing trajectory had been anything but straightforward. Like Stuart MacGill, he had spent years in the shadow of Shane Warne. He went to that World Cup hoping to pick Warne's brain, and unexpectedly found himself filling Warne's boots. His initial Test opportunity, at Delhi way back in 1996, also arose as Warne's stand-in. He made 1 and 4, took 1 for 69, and was promptly dumped for the next seven years and 78 games. No other Australian has waited so long between his first and second Tests; Alan Hurst.He was a great Chinaman
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royal28 15.09.09 - 09:19am
Brian Charles Lara, TC, OCC (born 2 May 1969, in Santa Cruz, Trinidad and Tobago) is a former West Indian cricketer, who is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.[1][2] He topped the Test batting rankings on several occasions and holds several cricketing records. He holds the record for the highest individual score in first-class cricket, with 501 not out for Warwickshire against Durham at Edgbaston in 1994, which is the only quintuple hundred in first-class cricket history.[3] He also holds the record for the highest individual score in a test innings after scoring 400 not out against England at Antigua in 2004.[4] Remarkably, he is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.[5] [6] Lara also holds the test record of scoring most number of runs in a single over in a Test match, when he scored 28 runs off an over by Robin Peterson of South Africa in 2003.[7]
Lara's match-winning performance of 153 not out against Australia in Bridgetown, Barbados in 1999 has been rated by Wisden as the second best batting performance in the history of Test cricket, next only to the 270 runs scored by Sir Donald Bradman in The Ashes test match of 1937.[8] Muttiah Muralitharan, rated as the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack,[9] and the highest wicket-taker in both Test cricket[10] and in One Day Internationals (ODIs),[11] has hailed Lara as his toughest opponent among all batsmen in the world.[12] Lara was awarded the Wisden Leading Cricketer in the World awards in 1994 and 1995[13] and is also one of only three cricketers to receive the prestigious BBC Overseas Sports Personality of the Year, the other two being Sir Garfield Sobers and Shane Warne.[14] Brian Lara is popularly nicknamed as The Prince of Trinidad or simply The Prince. *
royal28 16.09.09 - 08:19am
Stephen Rodger Waugh, AO (born 2 June 1965 in Canterbury, New South Wales) is a former Australian cricketer, and fraternal twin of former Australian cricketer Mark Waugh. Steve Waugh captained the Australian Test cricket team from 1999 to 2004. He is the most capped Test player in history with 168 appearances. He is known amongst friends as Tugga (as in tug of war), and amongst the public as Iceman for his ability to remain calm and cool in high-pressure situations throughout his career.[1] He is known for his philanthropic work, and he was named Australian of the Year in 2004.Waugh took over the captaincy of the one-day side in 199798, after captain Mark Taylor and vice-captain Ian Healy, the two oldest players in the team were dropped[62] following Australia's failure to qualify for the Australian tri-nations tournament in the 199697 season.[citation needed] Planning began for a more modern team for the 1999 Cricket World Cup,[62] with new wicket-keeper Adam Gilchrist chosen primarily on his batting skill in response to the use of Romesh Kaluwitharana by the successful 1996 Sri Lankan team.[citation needed] The new team made a difficult start, losing all four of its preliminary matches against South Africa[31][32] as Michael di Venuto, Tom Moody and Stuart Law were all tried as Mark Waugh's new opening partner.[63] Waugh himself struggled, scoring only 12 runs, including three ducks in his first six innings before scoring 45* in the last round-robin match to ensure Australia qualified for the finals ahead of New Zealand.[31][32]
However, with Gilchrist's elevation to opener in the finals series, Australia defeated the South Africans 21.[64] Waugh scored 53 and 71 in his two innings, and ended the series with 181 runs at 22.63. He bowled only four overs and took a solitary wicket in the series, which was his first ODI wicket in over a year.[31]
Stencil drawing depicting Steve Waugh
Waugh scored steadily in the 199798 Test season against New Zealand and South Africa, getting to 80 three times in six Tests without going on to a century and averaging 40.89; Australia won both series. He bowled more often than in the preceding few years and took six wickets at 17.33.
The southern hemisphere season ended with Waugh leading his first overseas tour, a four-match ODI tour of New Zealand. He scored 112 runs at 37.33 and took three wickets at 42.0
He was also involved with the Australian Football side during the Asian Cup, assisting the team as a psychological mentor.
Following retirement, Waugh established the Steve Waugh Foundation. The foundation is aimed at children who have a disease, an illness or an affliction that does not meet the set criteria of other charitable organisations
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royal28 17.09.09 - 09:24am
Damien Richard Martyn (born 21 October 1971 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a former Australian cricketer. He played for the national team sporadically in 1992-1994 before becoming a regular ODI player in 1999-2000 and a regular Test player in 2001 until his retirement in late 2006. He was primarily a right-handed middle-order as a batsman with a 'classical' technique, known in particular for his elegant strokemaking square of the wicket on the off-side and through the covers. Martyn was also an occasional medium-pacer and distinguished fieldsman primarily in the covers who was capable of creating spectacular run-outs. He also very occasionally kept wicket at first-class level. He was named man of the series in the Border Gavaskar Trophy in 2004, to help Australia defeat India on the subcontinent for the first time in more than 30 years, and was named in early 2005 as the Australian Test player of the Year at the annual Allan Border Medal presentations. *
royal28 19.09.09 - 09:01am
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Ricky Thomas Ponting is the skipper of AUSTRLIAN Cricket Team,His date of Birth is December 1971.He is the Captain of Australian Cricket club Tusmania.He has aanounced his retiement from T20 Cricket because of a big pressure after the defeat of Ashes 2-1 by England this year,But therefore he is leading the team in a very good and aggresive style *
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