Saturday, December 12, 2009

Albie Morkel

His bowling was absolutely absorbing in his aboriginal seasons in aboriginal chic cricket, as he access assimilate the arena with six for 36 for Easterns adjoin Griqualand West, but in the 2004/05 division he was accepted to booty added of the bowling accomplishment for the Titans, but alone took 20 wickets at a bowling boilerplate of 40.65. However, that coincided with an advance in his batting, as he fabricated his aboriginal bifold aeon of his career, with 204 not out adjoin Western Province Boland.

During the 2008 Summertime division Albie played for Durham County Candid Club in the North East of England forth with adolescent South African Shaun Pollock mainly in the Twenty20 Cup competition.

His statistics on his all-embracing admission bout to New Zealand were not actual impressive, as he got two wickets at the amount of 48 runs apiece, but he did get bristles wickets absolutely cheaply on Zimbabwe's bout of South Africa in the summertime of runs an over. Nevertheless, Morkel was best for the Africa band to comedy Asia in the 2005 Afro-Asian Cup, but withdrew due to injury. He appeared about for Africa the afterward series, in 2007, and fabricated history in the additional bold back he opened the bowling with his brother Morne, the aboriginal time two brothers accept done so in ODI cricket.

Albie has been added acknowledged in the Twenty20 architecture of the game. He fabricated his Twenty20 admission adjoin New Zealand in October 2005. He was a arresting affiliate of the South African aggregation in the countdown ICC World Twenty20 in 2007 captivated in South Africa area he fabricated several important contributions with the bat including a man-of-the-match achievement adjoin England in Cape Town.

His afresh anchored two man-of-the-match accolades adjoin Australia in the accepted Commonwealth Alternation 2009 bottomward under, as able-bodied as the Man of the Alternation approval for the One Day Internationals.

He was answer to the Test ancillary for the third Test of the home alternation adjoin Australia in 2008/09, ironically replacing his brother Morne in the side.

Friday, December 11, 2009

Shadab Jakati

Shabab Bashir Jakati (born 27 November 1980 in Vasco da Gama, Goa) is an Indian aboriginal chic cricketer. He is a awkward batsman and a apathetic larboard arm accepted bowler. He represents Goa in aboriginal chic candid and Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League. He has additionally represented the Goa candid aggregation at Under-16 and Under-22 level.He was awarded the Man of The Bout Award for the 26th Bout (Chennai Super Kings Vs Delhi Daredevils ) of IPL-2, his admission IPL bout for the abstracts of 4 for 24.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Jacob Oram

He is one of 36 New Zealand Analysis cricketers to accept denticulate 1,000 runs and one of aloof six New Zealanders to accept accomplished the bifold of 1,000 ODI runs and 100 wickets.

In 2003–04, he fell aloof abbreviate of a beginning Analysis hundred, with 97 adjoin Pakistan, brought up his aboriginal Analysis hundred in his abutting Analysis match, adjoin South Africa, with 119 not out,and denticulate 90 in the afterward Test. His additional Analysis hundred was 126 not out adjoin Australia in Brisbane, adjoin both Shane Warne and Glenn McGrath. His 3rd Analysis hundred was afresh South Africa, with a career accomplished of 133.

On 28 January 2007, in Perth, Oram burst an best 101 off 72 assurance in an ODI adjoin Australia. It was at the time the fastest anytime ODI aeon by a New Zealander, and additionally the fastest anytime fabricated adjoin Australia. His 137 run affiliation with Brendon McCullum was, at the time, the accomplished anytime for the New Zealand 6th wicket, admitting this almanac was burst the afterward month.

He afflicted his larboard arena feel in an ODI above-mentioned to the World Cup, and, on February 28, with the clash aloof weeks away, he appear that he would be accommodating to accept it amputated in adjustment to comedy cricket. However, Oram after antiseptic his affirmation as actuality in a amusing ambience and the animadversion advised to back his able admiration to participate.

Oram is on the Lords Honours Board for his Analysis aeon adjoin England in 2008.

On 2 September 2009, Oram took a hat ambush adjoin Sri Lanka in a Twenty20 International in Colombo. He took to Angelo Mathews, Malinga Bandara and Nuwan Kulasekara.

On the 13th of October 2009, Oram appear his retirement from analysis cricket.

Parthiv Patel

Patel started arena candid for his academy in 1996, moulding his appearance of Ian Healy and Adam Gilchrist, he was called for Gujarat U-14s in 1998 . Patel aboriginal bent the eyes of candid journalists in December 2000 back arena for Gujarat U-16s in the West Zone alliance adjoin Maharashtra, back as a wicket-keeper and an aperture batsman he denticulate centuries in both innings of the match, with 101 (of 196) and 201 not out (of 297) afterwards actuality affected to chase on to save the match. He was afterwards called as the captain of West Zone U-19s at the age of 15, arch them in a bout adjoin the England U-19s.[4] He was afterwards called to the Indian U-19s, actuality accomplished by Roger Binny whilst accessory Vidya Nagar High School. He led the civic U-17 ancillary to achievement in the 2001 Asia Cup, and was awarded a six-week scholarship to the Australian Candid Academy in Adelaide and was again called the U-19 captain for the 2002 World Cup in New Zealand. He was again called in the 2002 India A aggregation to bout South Africa aloof canicule afterwards his seventeenth altogether accomplished by Yashpal Sharma admitting accepting never represented Gujarat at chief akin in the Ranji Trophy. He was again called as the additional wicket-keeper abaft Ajay Ratra for the chief Indian team's bout to England

He fabricated his Test admission in 2002 in the 2nd Test adjoin England at Nottingham afterwards Ratra was injured, acceptable the youngest wicket-keeper in Test history at 17 years 152 days, eclipsing the antecedent almanac of Pakistan's Hanif Mohammad (which stood at 17 years 300 canicule back 1952), admitting still not accepting played in any calm capital matches He was absolved for a avoid in the aboriginal innings but batted for over an hour on the aftermost day to advice anticipate an English victory.

In aboriginal 2006, Patel was recalled for the bout of Pakistan as the assets wicketkeeper for Mahendra Singh Dhoni, but did not play

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Following his acceptable one-day anatomy adjoin Sri Lanka, Dhoni replaced Dinesh Karthik in December 2005 as the Indian Analysis wicket-keeper. Dhoni denticulate 30 runs in his admission bout that was bedridden by rain. Dhoni came to the bulge back the aggregation was disturbing at 109/5 and as wickets kept falling about him, he played an advancing innings and was the aftermost man dismissed. Dhoni fabricated his beginning half-century in the additional Analysis and his quick scoring amount (half aeon came off 51 balls) aided India to set a ambition of 436 and the Sri Lankans were bowled out for 247.

India toured Pakistan in January/February 2006 and Dhoni denticulate his beginning aeon in the additional Analysis at Faisalabad. India were larboard in a bound atom as Dhoni was abutting by Irfan Pathan with the aggregation still 107 abroad from alienated follow-on. Dhoni played his archetypal advancing innings as he denticulate his beginning analysis aeon in aloof 93 assurance afterwards scoring his aboriginal fifty in aloof 34 deliveries.

Dhoni followed his beginning analysis aeon with some actual batting performances over the abutting three matches, one adjoin Pakistan that India absent and two adjoin England that had India captivation a 1-0 advance activity into the analysis match. Dhoni was the top scorer in India's aboriginal innings in the third analysis at Wankhede Stadium as his 64 aided India column a admirable 279 in acknowledgment to England's 400. However Dhoni and the Indian fielders alone too abounding catches and absent abounding adjournment affairs including a key ambiguous befalling of Andrew Flintoff (14). Dhoni bootless to aggregate the Harbhajan Singh commitment abundantly as Flintoff went on to accomplish 36 added runs as England set a ambition of 313 for the home team, a ambition that India were never in the reckoning. A batting collapse saw the aggregation actuality absolved for 100 and Dhoni denticulate aloof 5 runs and faced criticism for his wicket-keeping lapses as able-bodied as his attempt selections.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Andrew Flintoff

In February 2006, afterward England captain Michael Vaughan and vice-captain Marcus Trescothick acceptable bare for the aboriginal Test bout adjoin India, Flintoff was called captain of the England aggregation and after appear that he would be blockage in India for the absolute Test series, although he and his wife were assured their additional child. His wife gave bearing to a son, Corey, anon afore the additional Test on 9 March.

On the field, Flintoff was apparent as a abundant success during the fatigued alternation with India, with a 212-run achievement in Mumbai. His contributions with both bat and brawl ensured that he was called as the amateur of the series, with abounding commentators seeing Flintoff as addition who not alone formed more good beneath the albatross but was additionally beheld as a abundant access of an amateur side, which included abounding debutants, such as Alastair Cook, Owais Shah and Monty Panesar. Flintoff accumulated four fifties in the series, and took 11 wickets, on acrimonious surfaces for seamers. Flintoff connected to captain England during the seven ODIs in India, although he was adequate for two matches.

However, afterward a ceremony of his abiding abate botheration in May 2006, he absent both the ODI alternation adjoin Sri Lanka, and the aboriginal Test adjoin Pakistan. It was after appear in July that Flintoff's rehabiltation had not been acceptable to annihilate the injury, and that added anaplasty would be required. He was appropriately disqualified out for the absolute alternation adjoin Pakistan. Despite abrasion concerns, Flintoff was after called for the ICC Champions Trophy, area he played as a specialist batsman, not as an all-rounder.

Michael Hussey

Hussey initially played for his built-in Western Australian Warriors, and his career absolute of 6471 runs ranks eighth in the account of that state's run-makers in the Sheffield Shield. He again confused to England, area in July 2001 he denticulate an best 329 (a Northamptonshire club record) at Wantage Road in his side's 633 for six declared on the way to a 10-wicket victory. He afterwards captained Northamptonshire. In August 2003 he surpassed his own Northamptonshire record, back he denticulate 331 not out adjoin Somerset at Taunton.

When Hussey was arena for the second-string civic team, Allan Border already jokingly appropriate he get bout convenance by blockage in the nets for a abounding six hours; to his astonishment, Hussey went on to do aloof that.[3] Hussey started out as a right-handed batsman but angry himself into a left-hander as he is abundantly aggressive by Border.

Hussey becoming a Candid Australia arrangement in 2004–05 afterwards absolute in the ING Cup. Statistically, Hussey's all-embracing career has been actual successful, with his career batting boilerplate in tests actuality 55.29 as of April 2009 (and amid 2006 and 2008 aerial amid 75 and 85) and in ODIs 54.72. His Analysis boilerplate is amid the accomplished of abreast batsmen. He is currently additional on the account of best averages anytime in ODI cricket.

He is a actual casual average clip bowler, bowling alone 28 overs in his Analysis career, 23 of them in 2008. He is brought into the advance usually to accord the clip bowlers a rest, although he was already brought on in India to stop Ricky Ponting accepting a one-match ban for a apathetic over rate. On December 28, 2008, Day 3 of the Boxing Day test, he got his aboriginal analysis wicket, Paul Harris bent by Mitchell Johnson. He concluded with abstracts of 1/22. He has taken two wickets in one-day internationals.

He was allotment of Australia's 2007 ICC World Twenty20 band which was agape out in the semi-finals. He played in all of Australia's matches, scoring 65 runs with a best of 37 afore abasing a hamstring, which prevented his accord in Australia's bout of India that followed.