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Sachin Tendulkar Profile

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Sachin Tendulkar India Player profile Full name Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar Born April 24, 1973, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra Current age 35 years 116 days Major teams India, Asia XI, Mumbai, Mumbai Indians, Yorkshire Nickname Tendlya, Little Master Batting style Right-hand bat Bowling style Right-arm offbreak, Legbreak googly Height 5 ft 5 in Education Sharadashram Vidyamandir School Batting | Bowling | Career Statistics | Profile | Notes | Timeline | Best Performances | Cricinfo Picks | Latest Articles | Photos + | Latest Photos Batting and fielding averages Mat Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St Tests 150 244 25 11877 248* 54.23 39 49 47 98 0 ODIs 417 407 38 16361 186* 44.33 19137 85.49 42 89 1785 166 122 0 T20Is 1 1 0 10 10 10.00 12 83.33 0 0 2 0 1 0 First-class 250 392 40 20640 248* 58.63 65 95 165 0 List A 504 492 52 19913 186* 45.25 53 107 157 0 Twenty20 12 12 1 386 69 35.09 296 130.40 0 3 56 7 8 0 Bowling averages Mat Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Econ SR 4w 5w 10 Tests 150 124 3862 2212 42 3/10 3/14 52.66 3.43 91.9 0 0 0 ODIs 417 265 8009 6795 154 5/32 5/32 44.12 5.09 52.0 4 2 0 T20Is 1 1 15 12 1 1/12 1/12 12.00 4.80 15.0 0 0 0 First-class 250 7221 4101 67 3/10 61.20 3.40 107.7 0 0 List A 504 10185 8423 201 5/32 5/32 41.90 4.96 50.6 4 2 0 Twenty20 12 4 57 65 2 1/12 1/12 32.50 6.84 28.5 0 0 0 Career statistics Test debut Pakistan v India at Karachi, Nov 15-20, 1989 scorecard Last Test Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (PSS), Aug 8-11, 2008 scorecard Test statistics ODI debut Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, Dec 18, 1989 scorecard Last ODI Australia v India at Brisbane, Mar 4, 2008 scorecard ODI statistics Only T20I South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 scorecard T20I statistics First-class debut 1988/89 Last First-class Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (PSS), Aug 8-11, 2008 scorecard List A debut 1989/90 Last List A Australia v India at Brisbane, Mar 4, 2008 scorecard Twenty20 debut South Africa v India at Johannesburg, Dec 1, 2006 scorecard Last Twenty20 Bangalore Royal Challengers v Mumbai Indians at Bangalore, May 28, 2008

Indian Team Wallpapers

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Virendra sewag

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Virender Sehwag pronunciation (help·info) (born 20 October 1978, in Delhi) also known as "Viru" is an Indian cricketer (batsman) and member of the Indian national cricket team since 1999 (one-dayers) and 2001 (Tests). He is an extremely attacking right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right-arm off-spin bowler. He is the record holder for the highest score made by an Indian in Test cricket in a single innings (319), the fastest triple century in Test cricket (reached 300 off only 278 balls) and is the only Indian to score a triple century in Test cricket. He is one of the only three players to have scored two triple hundreds in Tests, along with Don Bradman and Brian Lara.He was appointed as vice-captain of the Indian team under Rahul Dravid in October 2005, until poor form saw him replaced by V. V. S. Laxman in December 2006 as Test vice captain and January 2007 saw him dropped from the ODI team and later from the test team as well.[1] During his term as Vice-captain, Sehwag skippered the team in place of injured Dravid in 2 ODIs and 1 Test Match.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

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Mahendra Singh Dhoni or MS Dhoni pronunciation (help·info) (born July 7, 1981 in Ranchi, Jharkhand) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian Twenty20 and ODI team.[1] Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and CB Series of 2007-8.Dhoni is an aggressive right-handed batsman and wicket-keeper. Dhoni is one of the wicket-keepers who have come through the ranks of junior and India A cricket teams to represent the national team - Parthiv Patel, Ajay Ratra and Dinesh Karthik being the others. Dhoni, referred to as 'Mahi' by his friends, debuted in the Bihar cricket team during the 1998/99 cricket season and was selected to represent India-A for a tour to Kenya in 2004. Along with Gautam Gambhir, Dhoni made multiple centuries against the Pakistan-A team in a tri-nation series and was selected in the Indian national team later in that year.Dhoni scored 148 against Pakistan in his fifth ODI match in 2005 - then the highest score by an Indian wicketkeeper. Later in the year, he broke his own record as well as set the current world record for the highest score in the second innings in ODI matches as he scored 183* against Sri Lanka. Dhoni's success in the limited overs format secured him a place in the test team and coincidentally he made his maiden test century in his fifth Test match, when he scored 148 against Pakistan. Consistent performances in ODI cricket through the end of the 2005/06 season saw Dhoni ranked as the No. 1 batsman in the ICC ODI ratings briefly.

India One Day International Captians

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1 S Abid Ali England v India at Leeds, 1974
2 BS Bedi England v India at Leeds, 1974
3 FM Engineer England v India at Leeds, 1974
4 SM Gavaskar England v India at Leeds, 1974
5 S Madan Lal England v India at Leeds, 1974
6 SS Naik England v India at Leeds, 1974
7 BP Patel England v India at Leeds, 1974
8 ED Solkar England v India at Leeds, 1974
9 S Venkataraghavan England v India at Leeds, 1974
10 GR Viswanath England v India at Leeds, 1974
11 AL Wadekar England v India at Leeds, 1974
12 GK Bose England v India at The Oval, 1974
13 AV Mankad England v India at The Oval, 1974
14 M Amarnath England v India at Lord's, 1975
15 AD Gaekwad England v India at Lord's, 1975
16 KD Ghavri England v India at Lord's, 1975
17 SMH Kirmani New Zealand v India at Christchurch, 1975/76
18 PH Sharma New Zealand v India at Christchurch, 1975/76
19 DB Vengsarkar New Zealand v India at Christchurch, 1975/76
20 BS Chandrasekhar New Zealand v India at Auckland, 1975/76
21 P Krishnamurthy New Zealand v India at Auckland, 1975/76
22 R Sudhakar Rao New Zealand v India at Auckland, 1975/76
23 S Amarnath Pakistan v India at Quetta, 1978/79
24 CPS Chauhan Pakistan v India at Quetta, 1978/79
25 N Kapil Dev Pakistan v India at Quetta, 1978/79
26 Yashpal Sharma Pakistan v India at Sialkot, 1978/79
27 B Reddy Pakistan v India at Sahiwal, 1978/79
28 SC Khanna India v West Indies at Birmingham, 1979
29 KBJ Azad Australia v India at Melbourne, 1980/81
30 RMH Binny Australia v India at Melbourne, 1980/81
31 DR Doshi Australia v India at Melbourne, 1980/81
32 SM Patil Australia v India at Melbourne, 1980/81
33 TE Srinivasan Australia v India at Melbourne, 1980/81
34 B Yograj Singh India v New Zealand at Brisbane, 1980/81
35 Randhir Singh India v England at Ahmedabad, 1981/82
36 RJ Shastri India v England at Ahmedabad, 1981/82
37 K Srikkanth India v England at Ahmedabad, 1981/82
38 SV Nayak India v England at Jalandhar, 1981/82
39 J Arun Lal India v England at Cuttack, 1981/82
40 AO Malhotra India v England at Cuttack, 1981/82
41 GAHM Parkar England v India at Leeds, 1982
42 BS Sandhu Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, 1982/83
43 Maninder Singh Pakistan v India at Karachi, 1982/83
44 TAP Sekhar Pakistan v India at Karachi, 1982/83
45 C Sharma India v West Indies at Jamshedpur, 1983/84
46 RR Kulkarni India v West Indies at Guwahati, 1983/84
47 M Prabhakar India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, 1983/84
48 AK Patel India v Australia at New Delhi, 1984/85
49 RS Ghai India v England at Pune, 1984/85
50 KS More India v England at Pune, 1984/85
51 M Azharuddin India v England at Bangalore, 1984/85
52 S Viswanath India v England at Bangalore, 1984/85
53 LS Rajput India v England at Nagpur, 1984/85
54 L Sivaramakrishnan India v Pakistan at Melbourne, 1984/85
55 G Sharma Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (SSC), 1985
56 NS Yadav India v New Zealand at Brisbane, 1985/86
57 CS Pandit India v New Zealand at Sharjah, 1985/86
58 R Lamba India v Australia at Jaipur, 1986/87
59 RP Singh India v Australia at Hyderabad (Decc), 1986/87
60 B Arun India v Sri Lanka at Kanpur, 1986/87
61 NS Sidhu India v Australia at Chennai, 1987/88
62 Arshad Ayub India v West Indies at Nagpur, 1987/88
63 WV Raman India v West Indies at Kolkata, 1987/88
64 AK Sharma India v West Indies at Kolkata, 1987/88
65 SK Sharma India v West Indies at Kolkata, 1987/88
66 SV Manjrekar India v West Indies at Rajkot, 1987/88
67 ND Hirwani India v West Indies at Gwalior, 1987/88
68 VB Chandrasekhar India v New Zealand at Visakhapatnam, 1988/89
69 RGM Patel India v New Zealand at Vadodara, 1988/89
70 M Venkataramana India v New Zealand at Vadodara, 1988/89
71 RR Singh West Indies v India at Port of Spain, 1988/89
72 SA Ankola Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, 1989/90
73 V Razdan Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, 1989/90
74 SR Tendulkar Pakistan v India at Gujranwala, 1989/90
75 SLV Raju New Zealand v India at Dunedin, 1989/90
76 AS Wassan New Zealand v India at Dunedin, 1989/90
77 Gursharan Singh Australia v India at Hamilton, 1989/90
78 A Kumble India v Sri Lanka at Sharjah, 1989/90
79 SP Mukherjee India v Bangladesh at Chandigarh, 1990/91
80 VG Kambli India v Pakistan at Sharjah, 1991/92
81 J Srinath India v Pakistan at Sharjah, 1991/92
82 PK Amre India v South Africa at Kolkata, 1991/92
83 ST Banerjee India v West Indies at Perth, 1991/92
84 SC Ganguly India v West Indies at Brisbane, 1991/92
85 A Jadeja India v Sri Lanka at Mackay, 1991/92
86 V Yadav South Africa v India at Bloemfontein, 1992/93
87 RK Chauhan Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), 1993
88 NR Mongia India v Sri Lanka at Rajkot, 1993/94
89 BKV Prasad New Zealand v India at Christchurch, 1993/94
90 AC Bedade United Arab Emirates v India at Sharjah, 1993/94
91 Bhupinder Singh snr United Arab Emirates v India at Sharjah, 1993/94
92 AR Kapoor Australia v India at Dunedin, 1994/95
93 PS Vaidya Australia v India at Dunedin, 1994/95
94 U Chatterjee Bangladesh v India at Sharjah, 1994/95
95 R Dravid India v Sri Lanka at Singapore, 1995/96
96 V Rathour India v Pakistan at Sharjah, 1995/96
97 PL Mhambrey England v India at The Oval, 1996
98 SB Joshi India v Zimbabwe at Colombo (SSC), 1996
99 S Somasunder India v South Africa at Hyderabad (Decc), 1996/97
100 P Dharmani India v South Africa at Jaipur, 1996/97
101 SS Karim South Africa v India at Bloemfontein, 1996/97
102 D Ganesh Zimbabwe v India at Bulawayo, 1996/97
103 A Kuruvilla West Indies v India at Port of Spain, 1996/97
104 NA David West Indies v India at Port of Spain, 1996/97
105 NM Kulkarni Sri Lanka v India at Colombo (RPS), 1997
106 Harvinder Singh India v Pakistan at Toronto, 1997
107 DS Mohanty India v Pakistan at Toronto, 1997
108 SV Bahutule India v Sri Lanka at Guwahati, 1997/98
109 HH Kanitkar India v Sri Lanka at Indore, 1997/98
110 RL Sanghvi India v Pakistan at Dhaka, 1997/98
111 AB Agarkar India v Australia at Kochi, 1997/98
112 VVS Laxman India v Zimbabwe at Cuttack, 1997/98
113 Harbhajan Singh India v New Zealand at Sharjah, 1997/98
114 GK Khoda India v Bangladesh at Mohali, 1998
115 MSK Prasad India v Bangladesh at Mohali, 1998
116 N Chopra India v Kenya at Gwalior, 1998
117 JV Paranjpe India v Kenya at Gwalior, 1998
118 SS Raul India v Pakistan at Toronto, 1998
119 LR Shukla India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, 1998/99
120 GK Pandey India v Pakistan at Jaipur, 1998/99
121 AR Khurasiya India v Sri Lanka at Pune, 1998/99
122 S Ramesh India v Sri Lanka at Pune, 1998/99
123 V Sehwag India v Pakistan at Mohali, 1998/99
124 JJ Martin India v West Indies at Toronto, 1999
125 R Vijay Bharadwaj India v South Africa at Nairobi (Gym), 1999/00
126 T Kumaran India v New Zealand at Guwahati, 1999/00
127 DJ Gandhi India v New Zealand at Delhi, 1999/00
128 SS Dighe India v Pakistan at Brisbane, 1999/00
129 S Sriram India v South Africa at Nagpur, 1999/00
130 HK Badani Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, 2000
131 A Bhandari India v Pakistan at Dhaka, 2000
132 V Dahiya Kenya v India at Nairobi (Gym), 2000/01
133 Z Khan Kenya v India at Nairobi (Gym), 2000/01
134 Yuvraj Singh Kenya v India at Nairobi (Gym), 2000/01
135 RS Sodhi India v Zimbabwe at Cuttack, 2000/01
136 D Mongia India v Australia at Pune, 2000/01
137 A Nehra Zimbabwe v India at Harare, 2001
138 SS Das South Africa v India at Johannesburg, 2001/02
139 D Dasgupta South Africa v India at Johannesburg, 2001/02
140 A Ratra India v England at Kolkata, 2001/02
141 SB Bangar India v England at Chennai, 2001/02
142 M Kaif India v England at Kanpur, 2001/02
143 Sarandeep Singh India v England at Delhi, 2001/02
144 M Kartik India v Zimbabwe at Hyderabad (Decc), 2001/02
145 T Yohannan West Indies v India at Bridgetown, 2001/02
146 Jai P Yadav India v West Indies at Jamshedpur, 2002/03
147 L Balaji India v West Indies at Vadodara, 2002/03
148 PA Patel New Zealand v India at Queenstown, 2002/03
149 G Gambhir Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, 2003
150 AM Salvi Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, 2003
151 A Mishra India v South Africa at Dhaka, 2003
152 AV Kale Bangladesh v India at Dhaka, 2003
153 IK Pathan Australia v India at Melbourne, 2003/04
154 RS Gavaskar Australia v India at Brisbane, 2003/04
155 RR Powar Pakistan v India at Rawalpindi, 2003/04
156 KD Karthik England v India at Lord's, 2004
157 MS Dhoni Bangladesh v India at Chittagong (MAA), 2004/05
158 Joginder Sharma Bangladesh v India at Chittagong (MAA), 2004/05
159 SK Raina Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, 2005
160 Y Venugopal Rao Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, 2005
161 RP Singh Zimbabwe v India at Harare, 2005/06
162 S Sreesanth India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur, 2005/06
163 MM Patel India v England at Margao, 2005/06
164 VRV Singh India v England at Jamshedpur, 2005/06
165 RV Uthappa India v England at Indore, 2005/06
166 W Jaffer South Africa v India at Durban, 2006/07
167 PP Chawla Bangladesh v India at Dhaka (SBNS), 2007
168 RG Sharma Ireland v India at Belfast, 2007
169 I Sharma India v South Africa at Belfast, 2007
170 P Kumar India v Pakistan at Jaipur, 2007/08
171 MK Tiwary Australia v India at Brisbane, 2007/08
172 YK Pathan India v Pakistan at Dhaka (SBNS), 2008
173 MS Gony Hong Kong v India at Karachi, 2008
174 PP Ojha Bangladesh v India at Karachi, 2008
175 V Kohli Sri Lanka v India at Dambulla, 2008

Sachin Tendulkar

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkarpronunciation (help·info) (born April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), often referred to as The Little Master or The Master Blaster, is an Indian cricketer widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. In 2002, Wisden rated him as the second greatest Test batsman after Sir Donald Bradman, and the greatest One-day international batsman.He holds several highly regarded batting records and is the leading scorer of centuries in both Test cricket and One-day internationals. He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so. He is the most prolific run scorer in ODIs by a margin of over 4000 runs and has scored the most runs in international cricket as a whole. He crossed 16,000 runs in ODIs on February 5, 2008 while playing against Sri Lanka in Brisbane, Australia.At 13, Tendulkar was the best player in the Mumbai schools competition for Under 19s. At 14, Tendulkar made his first-class debut for the Mumbai cricket team and scored a century on debut. He made his international test debut in 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at age 16. He scored his first international century at just 17.He is the only cricketer to receive the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour and the only cricketer and one of the first sportsmen (along with Vishwanathan Anand) to receive the Padma Vibhushan (2008), the second highest civilian honour of India. He is the most sponsored player in world cricket and has a huge fan following even amongst foreign audiences. Tendulkar has made numerous commercial ventures including opening a chain of restaurants in India.

Latest Indian Cricket Team

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Ajit Agarkar
MS Dhoni
Rahul Dravid
Gautam Gambhir
Sourav Ganguly
Murali Kartik
Zaheer Khan
Anil Kumble
VVS Laxman
Irfan Pathan
Suresh Raina
Virender Sehwag
Sreesanth
Sachin Tendulkar
Yuvraj Singh

ICC Champions Trophy

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The ICC Champions Trophy is a One Day International cricket tournament, second in importance only to the Cricket World Cup. It was inaugurated as the ICC Knock Out tournament in 1998 and has been played every two years since, changing its name to the Champions Trophy in 2002. Originally, all ten full members of the International Cricket Council (ICC) took part, together with (for the first four competitions) two associate members. From 2008, this will be changed to the 8 highest-ranked ODI teams as placed 6 months out from the tournament.The Champions Trophy differs from the World Cup in a number of ways. The Champions Trophy takes place every two years, while the World Cup is held every four years. The matches in the Champions Trophy are held over a period of around two weeks, while the World Cup can last for over a month. Unlike the World Cup, no team plays another more than once in the Champions Trophy. For 2002 and 2004, twelve teams played a round robin tournament in four pools of three, with the top team in each pool moving forward to the semi-final). A team would play only four games (two in the pool, semi-final and final) to win the tournament. In 2006, eight teams played in two pools of four, with the top two teams in each pool playing in the semi-finals. Losing even a single match would potentially mean elimination from the tournament.The format used in the Knock Out tournaments differed from the formats used in the Champions Trophy. The competition was a straight knock out, with no pools and the loser in each game being eliminated. Only 8 games were played in 1998, and 10 games in 2000. The Australian team lost to India early on in both tournaments and was critical of the format, since a losing team was given no second chance.

IndianS Performance

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ODI World Cup

* 1975: Round 1
* 1979: Round 1
* 1983: Champions
* 1987: Semi Finals
* 1992: Round 1
* 1996: Semi Finals
* 1999: Super 6 (6th Place)
* 2003: Runners Up
* 2007: Round 1

Twenty20 World Cup

* 2007: Champions

ICC Champions Trophy

* 1998: Semi Finals
* 2000: Runners Up
* 2002: Joint Winner with Sri Lanka
* 2004: Round 1
* 2006: Group stage

Asia Cup

* 1984: Champions
* 1986: Boycott
* 1988: Champions
* 1990/1991: Champions
* 1995: Champions
* 1997: Runners Up
* 2000: 3rd Place
* 2004: Runners Up
* 2008: Runners Up

Indian Chapionships

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When playing one-day cricket, the Indian cricket team has in recent years worn a sky blue shirt and pants. At present, the shirt also contains a diagonal tricolour design which reflects the Flag of India and the name of their main sponsor, Sahara. The one-day cap is also sky blue with the BCCI logo on the front.

India national cricket team

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The Indian cricket team is an international cricket team representing India. It is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India, the cricket governing body in India. The Indian Cricket Team is currently the highest paid national sports team in the world (in terms of sponsorship).Though the first match in India was recorded in 1721, when a group of sailors gathered to play in Western India, India's national cricket team didn't play their first Test match until 25 June 1932 at Lord's. They became the sixth team to play Test cricket. Traditionally much stronger at home than abroad, India proved weaker than Australia and England, winning only 35 of the 196 matches they played in their first fifty years. The team gained strength near the end of the 50-year period with the emergence of players such as Sunil Gavaskar and Kapil Dev and the Indian spin quartet. The Indian team has continued to be highly ranked since then in Test cricket and One Day Internationals. The team won the Cricket World Cup in 1983 and was runners-up in 2003. It also won the first World Twenty20 in 2007. The current team contains many of the world's leading players, including Sachin Tendulkar, Rahul Dravid, Sourav Ganguly and Anil Kumble, who hold numerous cricketing world records.As of January 2008, the Indian team has played 414 Test matches, winning 22.46%, losing 32.13% and drawing 45.41% of its games. The team is ranked second in the ICC Test Championship rankings and fourth in the ICC ODI Championship rankings

One Day Cricket Team Rankings

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Twenty20 World Championship)

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The ICC World Twenty20 is the international championship of Twenty20 cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC).The tournament consists of 12 teams and is contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers. The championship is expected to be held around every two years.The inaugural event, the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 was staged in South Africa from September 11, 2007 to September 24, 2007. The inaugural champion of the ICC World Twenty20 is India who defeated Pakistan in the final at Johannesburg by five runs.The World Cricket League is a series of international one-day cricket tournaments for national teams without Test status, administered by the International Cricket Council. Any Associate or Affiliate member of the ICC may compete in the league system, which has promotion and relegation between each division.The series completed its first cycle in 2007, with teams allotted into divisions based on their performance in the qualification tournaments for the 2007 World Cup. As the two finalists of the World Cricket League Division One tournament, Kenya and Scotland, were rewarded with qualification for ICC World Twenty20 2007 alongside the ten test playing nations.

ICC (International Cricket Council)

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The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The ICC has 104 members: 10 Full Members that play official Test matches, 34 Associate Members, and 60 Affiliate Members. The ICC is responsible for the organization and governance of cricket's major international tournaments, most notably the Cricket World Cup. It also appoints the umpires and referees that officiate at all sanctioned Test matches, One Day International and Twenty20 Internationals. It promulgates the ICC Code of Conduct, which sets professional standards of discipline for international crickets, and also co-ordinates action against corruption and match-fixing through its Anti-Corruption and Security Unit (ACSU).The acting ICC President is Ray Mali following the death of Percy Sonn on May 27, 2007, after complications from recent surgery. The current CEO is Haroon Lorgat. It was announced on June 27, 2007, that David Morgan the chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board, would fill the role of ICC President from 2008, until 2010, when he will be replaced by Sharad Pawar, the current president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.

First-class matches

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At all levels, the rules of cricket are often modified. At international or first-class levels this is usually in order to make the game more commercially attractive. More or less formal domestic club cricket matches are usually played over one to two days, either two innings per side or one innings per side with limited overs. At lower levels the rules are often changed simply to make the game playable with limited resources, or to render it more convenient and enjoyable for the participants. Variants of the sport are played in areas as diverse as sandy beaches and ice floes. Families and teenagers play backyard cricket in suburban yards or driveways, and the teeming cities of India and Pakistan play host to countless games of "Gully Cricket" or "tapeball" on their streets(played in long narrow streets) with rules such as one bounce catch such rules and lack of space ensure the batsmen have to play cautiously . Tennis balls and homemade bats are often used, and a variety of objects may serve as wickets such as the batters legs, as in "French cricket", which did not in fact originate in France, and is usually played by small children. Sometimes the rules are also improvised: for instance it is sometimes agreed that fielders can catch the ball with one hand after one bounce and claim a wicket, or if only a few people are available then everyone may field while the players take it in turns to bat and bowl.In Kwik cricket, the bowler does not have to wait for the batsman to be ready before a delivery, leading to a faster, more exhausting game designed to appeal to children, which is often used in English schools' PE lessons. Another modification to increase the pace of the game is the "Tip and Run", "Tipity" Run, "Tipsy Run" or "Tippy-Go" rule, in which the batter must run when the ball touches the bat, even if it the contact is unintentional or minor. This rule, seen only in impromptu games, speeds the match up by disabling the batsman's ability to block the ball. Indoor cricket is played in a netted, indoor arena.

Twenty20 International Cricket

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Twenty20 Cricket was first played in English domestic cricket in 2003 to popularise first-class cricket and attract more spectators. It has since spread to many other countries. A Twenty20 match consists of 20 overs for each side, a "free hit" after an illegal no-ball is bowled, short boundaries, batting-friendly pitches, and other rules designed to attract spectators who would not attend the slower-paced one-day games or test matches. The first men's Twenty20 international was between Australia and New Zealand in 2005, the first women's Twenty20 international having been between England and New Zealand in 2004. From 2007 to 2015 the Twenty20 World Championship will be held every two years; the first was staged in South Africa in 2007, and was won by India. It has an abbreviation as T20.Twenty20 is a form of cricket, originally introduced in the United Kingdom for professional inter-county competition by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB), in 2003. Both teams have a single innings and bat for a maximum of 20 overs.A Twenty20 game is completed in about two and half hours, with each innings lasting around 75 minutes, thus bringing the game closer to the timespan of other popular team sports such as football. It was introduced to create a lively form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground and viewers on television and as such it has been very successful. The ECB did not intend that Twenty20 would replace other forms of cricket and these have continued alongside it.The game has spread around the cricket world. On most international tours there is a Twenty20 match and most Test-playing nations have a domestic cup competition. The inaugural World Twenty20 was played in South Africa in 2007 with India defeating Pakistan in the final.

One Day International Cricket

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Limited overs matches, also known as "one-day cricket", were introduced in the English domestic season of 1963 in response to demands for a shorter and more dramatic form of cricket. One-day, single-innings, matches often took place before this, but the innovation was the limiting of each side's innings to an agreed number of overs (nowadays usually 40 or 50). The idea was taken up in the international arena in 1971, during England's tour of Australia, when a match was played on the scheduled fifth day of the rained-off third Test. The one-day game has since become a crowd-pleaser and TV-audience-generator across the globe, hastened in part by the success of the inaugural World Cup in 1975. The abbreviations "ODI" (One Day International) or sometimes "LOI" (Limited Overs International) are used for international matches of this type. Innovations have included the introduction of coloured clothing, distinct tournaments, and "day-night" matches (where play extends into the night under floodlights); together with frequent nail-biting finishes and the impossibility of either side opting to play for a draw, these have seen ODI cricket gain many supporters.Limited overs cricket, also known as one-day cricket and in a slightly different context as List A cricket, is a version of the sport of cricket in which a match is generally completed in one day, whereas Test and first-class matches can take up to five days to complete. The name reflects the rule that in the match each team bowls a set maximum number of overs, usually between 20 and 50, although shorter and longer forms of limited overs cricket have been played. Important one-day matches, international and domestic, often have two days set aside, the second day being a "reserve" day to allow more chance of the game being completed if a result is not possible on the first day (for instance if play is prevented or interrupted by rain).

Test Cricket Match

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Test cricket is a form of international cricket started during the 1876/77 English cricket team's tour of Australia. The very first Test match began on 15 March 1877; Australia won by 45 runs. The Test cricket series between England and Australia is now called The Ashes. Since then, over 1,800 Test matches have been played and the number of Test playing nations has increased to ten with Bangladesh, the most recent nation elevated to Test status, making its debut in 2000. Test matches are two innings per side, and are nowadays restricted to a maximum of five days. In the past, Tests have been played over three, four, or six days, and some have been "Timeless" - played to a finish with no maximum duration. Tests that are not finished within the allotted time are drawn.Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket. It has long been considered the ultimate test of playing ability between cricketing nations. It remains the highest-regarded form of the game, although the comparatively new One Day International and Twenty20 formats are now more popular amongst some audiences.[citation needed] The name "Test" is thought to arise from the idea that the matches are a "test of strength and competency" between the sides involved. It seems to have been used first to describe an English team that toured Australia in 1861-62, although those matches are not considered Test matches today. The first ever official Test match commenced on the 15th of March 1877, contested by England and Australia at Melbourne Cricket Ground, where the Australians won by 45 runs. England won the second ever match (also at the MCG) by 4 wickets, thus drawing the series 1-1. This was not the first ever international cricket match however, which was played between Canada and the United States, on the 24th and 25th of September 1844.

History of cricket

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Cricket can be traced back to the 16th century but it may have originated much earlier than that. The most common theory of origin is that it was invented by children of the farming and metalworking communities in the Weald between Kent and Sussex during the medieval period. Written evidence exists of a game known as creag being played by Prince Edward, the son of Edward I (Longshanks), at Newenden, Kent in 1300 and there has been speculation, but no evidence, that this was a form of cricket. Creag utlized a small, hard ball, known as a "gillamachugger" which was similar to, yet smaller than, the ball used in cricket.In 1598, a court case referred to a sport called creckett being played at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford around 1550. This is the earliest definite mention.A number of words are thought to be possible sources for the term "cricket". The name may derive from a term for the cricket bat: old French criquet (meaning a kind of club) or Flemish krick(e) (meaning a stick) or in Old English crycc (meaning a crutch or staff). (The latter is problematic, since Old English 'cc' was palatal in pronunciation in the south and the west midlands, roughly ch, which is how crycc leads to crych and thence crutch; the 'k' sound would be possible in northern dialects, however.) Alternatively, the French criquet apparently derives from the Flemish word krickstoel, which is a long low stool on which one kneels in church and which resembles the long low wicket with two stumps used in early cricket. During the 17th century, numerous references indicate the growth of cricket in the south-east of England. By the end of the century, it had become an organised activity being played for high stakes and it is likely that the first professionals appeared in that period. We know that "a great cricket match" with eleven players a side was played for high stakes in Sussex in 1697 and this is the earliest reference we have to a cricket match of such importance.The game underwent major development in the 18th century and had become the national sport of England by the end of the century. Betting played a major part in that development with rich patrons forming their own "select XIs". Cricket was prominent in London as early as 1707 and large crowds flocked to matches on the Artillery Ground in Finsbury. The Hambledon Club was founded in the 1760s but the Hambledon parish team was already playing first-class matches in 1756. For the next 20 years until the formation of MCC and the opening of Lord's in 1787, Hambledon was the game's greatest club and its focal point. MCC quickly became the sport's premier club and the custodian of the Laws of Cricket. The 19th century saw underarm replaced by first roundarm and then overarm bowling. Both developments were controversial. Organisation of the game at county level led to the creation of the county clubs, starting with Sussex CCC in 1839, which ultimately formed the official County Championship in 1890. The first Australian cricket team to tour England was made of indigenous Australian players (1867), a significant event in the history of indigenous Australians as well as in that of cricket.The first Australian cricket team to tour England was made of indigenous Australian players (1867), a significant event in the history of indigenous Australians as well as in that of cricket.In 1844, the first ever international cricket match took place between the United States and Canada (although neither has ever been ranked as a Test-playing nation). Fifteen years later, a team of England players went on the first overseas tour (to North America) and 18 years after that another England team took part in the first-ever Test match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground against Australia. The legendary W G Grace started his long career in 1865. It can fairly be said that he revolutionised the sport and did much to ensure its massive popularity.The last two decades before the First World War have been called the "Golden Age of Cricket". It is a nostalgic name prompted by the collective sense of loss resulting from the war, but the period did produce some great players and memorable matches, especially as organised competition at county and Test level developed.The inter-war years were dominated by one player: Don Bradman, statistically the greatest batsman of all time. It was the determination of the England team to overcome his skill that brought about the infamous Bodyline series in 1932/33.Cricket entered a new era in 1963, when English counties introduced a variant form of cricket match that would be sure to produce a result: games with a restricted number of overs per side. This gained widespread popularity and resulted in the birth of One Day International (ODI) matches in 1971. The governing International Cricket Council quickly adopted the new form and held the first ODI Cricket World Cup in 1975. Since then, ODI matches have gained a large following.As of the early 2000s, however, the longer form of cricket is experiencing a growing resurgence in popularity but a new limited overs phenomenon, Twenty20, has made an immediate impact.

Don Of Cricket DONALD BRADMAN

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Sir Donald George Bradman, AC (27 August 1908 – 25 February 2001), often referred to as The Don, was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 has been claimed to be statistically the greatest achievement in any major sport.The story that the young Bradman practised alone with a cricket stump and a golf ball is part of Australian folklore.Bradman’s meteoric rise from bush cricket to the Australian Test team took just over two years. Before his 22nd birthday, he had set many records for high scoring, some of which still stand, and became Australia's sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression. During a 20-year playing career, Bradman consistently scored at a level that made him, in the words of former Australia captain Bill Woodfull, "worth three batsmen to Australia". A controversial set of tactics, known as Bodyline, was specifically devised by the England team to curb his scoring. As a captain and administrator Bradman was committed to attacking, entertaining cricket; he drew spectators in record numbers. He found the constant adulation anathema, however, and it affected how he dealt with others. The focus of attention on his individual performances strained relationships with some team-mates, administrators and journalists, who thought him aloof and wary. Following an enforced hiatus, due to the Second World War, he made a dramatic comeback, captaining an Australian team known as "The Invincibles" on a record-breaking unbeaten tour of England. A complex, highly-driven man, not given to close personal relationships, Bradman retained a pre-eminent position in the game by acting as an administrator, selector and writer for three decades following his retirement. Even after he became reclusive in his declining years his opinion was highly sought, and his status as a national icon was still recognised—more than 50 years after his retirement as a Test player, in 2001, the Australian Prime Minister John Howard called him the "greatest living Australian". Bradman's image has appeared on postage stamps and coins, and he was the first living Australian to have a museum dedicated to his life.

Full name Sir Donald George Bradman
Nickname The Don, The Boy from Bowral, Braddles
Born 27 August 1908(1908-08-27)
Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia
Died 25 February 2001 (aged 92)
Kensington Park, Adelaide, Australia
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Role Batsman
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm leg break

International information

Test debut (cap 124) 30 November 1928: v England
Last Test 18 August 1948: v England

Domestic team information

Years Team

1927–34 New South Wales
1935–49 South Australia

Career statistics

Tests FC

Matches 52 234
Runs scored 6,996 28,067
Batting average 99.94 95.14
100s/50s 29/13 117/69
Top score 334 452*
Balls bowled 160 2114
Wickets 2 36
Bowling average 36.00 37.97
Best bowling 1/8 3/35
Catches 32 131

Bowler and Bowling (cricket)

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A bowler delivers the ball toward the batsmen: during the bowling action the elbow may be held at any angle and may bend further, but may not straighten out. If the elbow straightens illegally then the square-leg umpire may call no-ball. The current laws allow a bowler to straighten his arm 15 degrees or less.The bowler's primary goal is usually to get the batsman out; the most common modes of dismissal (except run out) are credited to the bowler, who is said to have taken a wicket. Dismissing an accomplished batsman is more difficult than dismissing a non-batsman. The bowler's secondary task is usually to limit the numbers of runs scored. Occasionally the match situation makes it more important to limit runs than take wickets.There are many types of bowler, and many nuances of bowling techniques. Two categories are pace bowlers, who aim to bowl quicker than the batsman's reaction speed, and spin bowlers who bowl slower deliveries that bounce and curve in unpredictable ways.

Batsman and Batting (cricket)

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The batsman may play a "shot" or "stroke", attempting to hit the bowled ball with the flat surface of the bat. If the ball brushes the side of the bat it is called an "edge". There is no requirement for the batsman to play a shot, and there is no requirement to run if the ball is struck. The batsman automatically scores runs if he hits the ball to the boundary. Shots are named according to the style of swing and the direction aimed. As part of the team's strategy, the player may bat defensively, blocking the ball downwards, or aggressively, hitting the ball hard to empty spaces in order to score runs.Batsmen come in to bat in a batting order, decided by the team captain. The first two batsmen - the "openers" - usually face the most hostile bowling, from fresh fast bowlers with a new ball. The top batting positions are usually given to the most competent batsmen in the team, and the non-batsmen typically bat last. The batting order is not agreed beforehand, and if a wicket falls any player who has not batted yet may bat next.

Cricket World Cup

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The Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International (ODI) cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council (ICC), with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years. The tournament is world's third largest and most viewed sporting event. According to the ICC, it is the most important tournament and the pinnacle of achievement in the sport. The first Cricket World Cup contest was organised in England in 1975. A separate Women's Cricket World Cup has been held every four years since 1973.The finals of the Cricket World Cup are contested by all ten Test-playing and ODI-playing nations, together with other nations that qualify through the World Cup Qualifier. Australia has been the most successful of the five teams to have won the tournament, taking four titles. The West Indies have won twice, while India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka have each won once.The 2007 Cricket World Cup finals were held between 13 March and 28 April 2007, in the West Indies. The 2007 tournament had sixteen teams competing in a pool stage (played in round-robin format), then a "super 8" stage, followed by semi-finals and a final. Australia defeated Sri Lanka in the final to retain the championship.

Cricket Pitch Structure

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Basic of Cricket

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The aim of the batting team is to score as many runs as possible. A run is scored when both batsmen successfully move to their respective opposite ends of the pitch. (The batsmen will usually only attempt to score runs after the striker has hit the ball, but this is not required by the rules—the batsmen can attempt runs at any time after the ball has been bowled.) Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the playing area (this scores six runs if the ball crosses the boundary without having touched the ground, or four runs otherwise), or if the bowler commits some technical infringement like bowling the ball out of reach of the batsman.The aim of the bowler's team is to get each batsman out (this is called a "taking a wicket", or a "dismissal"). Dismissals are achieved in a variety of ways. The most direct way is for the bowler to bowl the ball so that the batsman misses it and it hits the stumps, dislodging a bail. While the batsmen are attempting a run, the fielders may dismiss either batsman by using the ball to knock the bails off the set of stumps to which the batsman is closest before he has grounded himself or his bat in the crease. Other ways for the fielding side to dismiss a batsman include catching the ball off the bat before it touches the ground, or having the batsman adjudged "leg before wicket" (abbreviated "L.B.W." or "lbw") if the ball strikes the batsman's body and would have gone on to hit the wicket. Once the batsmen are not attempting to score any more runs, the ball is "dead", and is bowled again (each attempt at bowling the ball is referred to as a "ball" or a "delivery"). The game is divided into overs of six (legal) balls. At the end of an over another bowler from the fielding side bowls from the opposite end of the pitch. The two umpires also change positions between overs (the umpire previously at square-leg becomes the bowler's umpire at what is now the bowling end, and vice versa). The fielders also usually change positions between overs.Once out, a batsman is replaced by the next batsman in the team's line-up. (The batting side can reorder their line-up at any time, but no batsman may bat twice in one innings.) The innings (singular) of the batting team ends when the tenth batsman is given out, leaving one batsman not out but without a partner. When this happens, the team is said to be "all out". (In limited overs cricket the innings ends either when the batting team is all out or a predetermined number of overs has been bowled.) At the end of an innings, the two teams exchange roles, and the side that has been fielding bats.A team's score is reported in terms of the number of runs scored and the number of batsmen that have been dismissed. For example, if five batsmen are out and the team has scored 224 runs, they are said to have scored 224 for the loss of 5 wickets (commonly shortened to "224 for five" and written 224/5 or, in Australia, "five for 224" and 5/224).The team that has scored more runs at the end of the completed match wins. Different varieties of the game have different definitions of "completion"; for instance there may be restrictions on the number of overs, the number of innings, and the number of balls in each innings.

Cricket Indians Heart Beat

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Cricket is a bat-and-ball sport contested by two teams, usually of eleven players each. A cricket match is played on a grass field, roughly oval in shape, in the centre of which is a flat strip of ground 22 yards (20.12 m) long, called a cricket pitch. A wicket, usually made of wood, is placed at each end of the pitch.The bowler, a player from the fielding team, bowls a hard, fist-sized cricket ball from the vicinity of one wicket towards the other. The ball usually bounces once before reaching the batsman, a player from the opposing team. In defence of the wicket, the batsman plays the ball with a wooden cricket bat. Meanwhile, the other members of the bowler's team stand in various positions around the field as fielders, players who retrieve the ball in an effort to stop the batsman scoring runs, and if possible to get him or her out. The batsman — if he or she does not get out — may run between the wickets, exchanging ends with a second batsman (the "non-striker"), who has been waiting near the bowler's wicket. Each completed exchange of ends scores one run. Runs are also scored if the batsman hits the ball to the boundary of the playing area. The match is won by the team that scores more runs.Cricket has been an established team sport for hundreds of years and more than 100 countries are affiliated to the International Cricket Council, cricket's international governing body. The sport's modern form originated in England, and is most popular in the present and former members of the Commonwealth. In many countries including Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, which are known collectively in cricketing parlance as the West Indies, cricket is the most popular sport. In Australia, while other sports are more popular in particular areas, cricket has been described as the "national sport" and has had a role in forming the national identity. It is also a major sport in England, New Zealand, South Africa and Zimbabwe. Many countries also have well-established amateur club competitions, including the Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and Argentina.The sport is followed with passion in many different parts of the world. It has even occasionally given rise to diplomatic outrage, notoriously the Basil D'Oliveira affair (which led to the banning of South Africa from sporting events) and the Bodyline Test series in the early 1930s (which led to a temporary deterioration in relations between Australia and the United Kingdom).