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Cricketers of India

Anil Kumble

Anil Kumble (born 17 October 1970 in Bangalore, Karnataka) is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian Test cricket team. He is a right-arm leg spin (legbreak googly) bowler and a right-hand batsman. He is considered as one of the greatest spinners of all time. Kumble was appointed the captain of the Indian Test cricket team on 8 November 2007. He was awarded the Padma Shri, India’s 4th highest civilian honour, by the Government of India in 2005. [… Next …]

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Yusuf Pathan

Yusuf Khan Pathan (born 17 November 1982) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a powerful and aggressive right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer. Though younger than Yusuf, it was Irfan who entered the Indian team first. Following his impressive performances in the 2007 Deodhar Trophy and the Inter-state domestic Twenty20 competition held in April 2007, Pathan was made a part of the Indian squad for the inaugural Twenty20 World Championship, held in South Africa in September 2007. [… Next …]

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Ishant Sharma

Ishant Sharma (born 2 September 1988) is an Indian cricketer. He is a right arm fast at pace around 145 km/h (90 mph). He has a high arm delivery action and is able to move the ball in both directions.He’s not a swinger of the ball but depends a lot on pace and movement of the seam. At the age of 18, Sharma was called to join the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa in 2006–07. However, after receiving the call and organising travel arrangements, it was decided not to send him on the tour. [… Next …]

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Cricketers of India

Gautam Gambhir

Gautam Gambhir (born 14 October 1981, in Delhi) is an Indian cricketer, a batsman. He has been a member of the Indian national cricket team since 2003 (ODIs) and 2004 (Tests). Gambhir had been a prolific run-scorer in domestic cricket with an average of over 50 but his two successive double-hundreds in 2002 (one of them against the visiting Zimbabweans) made him a strong contender for India’s opening slot. He became only the fourth Indian batsman to score a double century in a tour game at home; the previous three being Sunil Gavaskar, Dilip Vengsarkar and Sachin Tendulkar. [… Next …]

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Suresh Raina

Suresh Kumar Raina (born 27 November 1986) is an Indian cricketer from Gaziabad, UttarPradesh. His family comes from a town of Rainawari, in Jammu & Kashmir. Raina has been a member of the Indian cricket team for ODIs since July 2008, and was included in the Test squad in early 2006, but did not make his debut until July 2010. Domestically, he plays for Uttar Pradesh in the Ranji Trophy and Central Zone in the Duleep Trophy. He is a left-handed batsman and an occasional off spinner. [… Next …]

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Cricketers of India

Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi

Mansoor Ali Khan or Mansur Ali Khan, sometimes M.A.K. Pataudi (5 January 1941, Bhopal – 22 September 2011, New Delhi), nicknamed Tiger Pataudi, was an Indian cricketer and former captain of the Indian cricket team. He was the ninth and last Nawab of Pataudi until 1971, when India abolished royal entitlements through the 26th Amendment to the Constitution of India. Mohamed Mansur Ali Khan was the son of Iftikhar Ali Khan, eighth Nawab of Pataudi and his wife Sajida Sultan, second daughter of the last ruling Nawab of Bhopal. [… Next …]