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Shoaib Akhtar is a Pakistani former cricketer who is regarded as one of the fastest bowlers in modern cricket. He made his Test debut in November 1997 and played his first One Day International four months later. He played on Pakistan's Cricket Team as an attacking fast bowler.

He has been involved in several controversies during his career, often accused of not being a team player but his presence was always felt by the opponents. Akhtar was sent home during the Test match series in Australia in 2005 for alleged poor attitude. A year later, he was embroiled in a drug scandal after testing positive to a banned substance. However, the ban imposed on him was lifted on court appeal.

In September 2007, Akhtar was banned for an indefinite period for his fight with Pakistan team mate and fast bowler Mohammad Asif. On 1 April 2008, Akhtar was banned for five years for publicly criticizing the Pakistan Cricket Board.

In October 2008, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan suspended the five-year ban and Akhtar was selected in the 15-man squad for the Twenty20 Quadrangular Tournament in Canada. Pakistani judge Rana Bhagwandas once stated that Akhtar is a legend of Pakistan cricket. Akhtar retired from international cricket after the 2011 World Cup.
Full name Shoaib Akhtar
Born 13 August 1975 (age 38) Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Nickname Rawalpindi Express
Height 5 ft 11.75 in (1.82 m)
Batting style Right hand bat
Bowling style Right arm fast
Role Bowler
National side Pakistan
Test debut (cap 150) 29 November 1997 v West Indies
Last Test 8 December 2007 v India
ODI debut (cap 123) 28 March 1998 v Zimbabwe
Last ODI 8 March 2011 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 14

Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj better known as Kapil Dev, is a former Indian cricketer. He captained the Indian cricket team which won the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Named by Wisden as the Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, Kapil Dev was one of the greatest all-rounders of all time. He was also India's national cricket coach for 10 months between October 1999 and August 2000.

Kapil was a right-arm pace bowler noted for his graceful action and potent outswinger, and was India's main strike bowler for most of his career. He also developed a fine inswinging yorker during the 1980s, which he used very effectively against tail-enders. As a batsman, he was a natural striker of the ball who could hook and drive effectively. A naturally aggressive player, he often helped India in difficult situations by taking the attack to the opposition. Nicknamed The Haryana Hurricane, he represented the Haryana cricket team in domestic cricket.

He retired in 1994, holding the world record for the most number of wickets taken in Test cricket, a record subsequently broken by Courtney Walsh in 2000. At the time, he was also India's highest wicket taker in both major forms of cricket, Tests and ODIs. He is the only player in the history of cricket to have taken more than 400 wickets (434 wickets) and scored more than 5,000 runs in Tests,[4] making him one of the greatest all-rounders to have played the game. On 8 March 2010, Kapil Dev was inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame

Full name Kapil Dev Ramlal Nikhanj
Born 6 January 1959 (age 55) Chandigarh, Punjab, India
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm fast medium
Role Bowling All-rounder
National side India
Test debut 16 October 1978 v Pakistan
Last Test 19 March 1994 v New Zealand
ODI debut 1 October 1978 v Pakistan
Last ODI 17 October 1994 v West Indies

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, is a former West Indian cricketer. Popularly known as Viv (or King Viv), he is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time and as one of the very finest players in the history of the sport. Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne.

In February 2002, Richards was judged by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack to have played the best ODI innings of all time. In December 2002, he was chosen by Wisden as the greatest One Day International (ODI) batsman of all time, as well as the third greatest Test batsman of all time, after Sir Don Bradman and Sachin Tendulkar.

Full name Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
Born 7 March 1952 (age 62) St. John's, Antigua and Barbuda
Nickname Master Blaster, Smokey, Smokin Joe, King Viv
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm medium/off-break
Role Batsman
National side West Indies
Test debut 22 November 1974 v India
Last Test 8 August 1991 v England
ODI debut 7 June 1975 v Sri Lanka
Last ODI 27 May 1991 v England

Sir Garfield St Aubrun Sobers also known as Gary or Garry Sobers, is a former cricketer who played for the West Indies between 1954 and 1974, and is widely considered one of cricket's greatest all-rounders. Born in Bridgetown, Barbados, Sobers made his first-class debut for the Barbados cricket team at the age of 16 in 1953, and his Test debut for the West Indies the following year.

Originally playing mainly as a bowler, he was soon promoted up the batting order. Against Pakistan in 1958, Sobers scored his maiden Test century, progressing to 365 not out and establishing a new record for the highest individual score in an innings, which was not broken until Brian Lara scored 375 in 1994. He was made captain of the West Indies in 1965, a role which he would hold until 1972.

He would also captain a Rest of the World XI during their 1970 tour of England. Overall, Sobers played 93 Tests for the West Indies, scoring 8032 runs at an average of 57.78, and taking 235 wickets at an average of 34.03. In his 383 first-class matches, he scored over 28,000 runs and took over 1000 wickets, having spent time with South Australia and Nottinghamshire towards the end of his career.

Sobers was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1975 for his services to cricket. He became a dual Barbadian-Australian citizen through marriage in 1980. By an act of Parliament in 1998, Sobers was named as one of the ten National Heroes of Barbados.

Full name Garfield St Aubrun Sobers
Born 28 July 1936 (age 77) Bridgetown, Barbados
Nickname Gary (or Garry)
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style left-handed batsman (LHB)
Bowling style left-arm fast medium (LFM) slow left-arm orthodox (SLA) slow left-arm chinaman (SLC)
Role all-rounder
National side West Indies
Test debut 30 March 1954 v England
Last Test 5 April 1974 v England
Only ODI 5 September 1973 v England

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer widely acknowledged as one of the
greatest batsmen of all time, popularly holding the title God of Cricket among his fans.
Some commentators, such as former West Indian batsman Brian Lara, have labelled Tendulkar
the greatest cricketer of all time. He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut
against Pakistan at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India
internationally forclose to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred
international centuries, the first batsman toscore a double century in a One Day International,
the only player to complete more than 30,000 runs in international cricket. and the 16th
player and first Indian to aggregate 50,000 runs or more in all forms of domestic
and international recognised cricket.
Born: April 24, 1973 (age 41), Mumbai
Height: 1.65 m
Spouse: Anjali Tendulkar (m. 1995)
Awards: Bharat Ratna, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Padma Shri, more
Children: Sara Tendulkar, Arjun Tendulkar
Movies: India vs. Pakistan: Stars of India
Test debut 15 November 1989 v Pakistan
Last Test 14 November 2013 v West Indies
ODI debut 18 December 1989 v Pakistan
Last ODI 18 March 2012 v Pakistan
ODI shirt no. 10
Only T20I (cap 11) 1 December 2006 v South Africa

Sir Donald George Bradman, often referred to as The Don, was an Australian cricketer, widely acknowledged as the greatest Test batsman of all time.[1] Bradman's career Test batting average of 99.94 is often cited as the greatest achievement by any sportsman 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 top scoring, some of which still stand, and became Australia's sporting idol at the height of the Great Depression. Full name Donald George Bradman
Born 27 August 1908 Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia
Died 25 February 2001 (aged 92) Kensington Park, South Australia, Australia
Nickname The Don, The Boy from Bowral, Braddles
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right-arm leg break
Role Batsman
National side Australia
Test debut 30 November 1928 v England
Last Test 18 August 1948 v England

Virat Kohli is an Indian cricketer. A middle-order batsman, who can also bowl right arm medium pace,Kohli captained the victorious Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup held in Malaysia,

and is the captain of the Royal Challengers Bangalore franchise in the Indian Premier League. He also represents Delhi in first-class cricket and played for the West Delhi Cricket Academy. In One Day International (ODI) cricket, Kohli holds the record for the fastest century by an Indian batsman,

and became the fastest to 17 hundreds in ODI by any batsman. He is the fourth batsman in ODIs after Sourav Ganguly (1997-2000), Sachin Tendulkar (1996-98) and Mahendra Singh Dhoni (2007?09) to hit 1000 or more ODI runs in three or more consecutive calendar years.

He also holds the record for most centuries in chases, with 11 centuries, behind only Sachin Tendulkar. He is the first batsman to make five successive scores of 50 or more in ODIs on two separate occasions. Full name Virat Kohli
Born 5 November 1988 (age 25) Delhi, India
Nickname Cheeku
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Batsman
National side India
Test debut 20 June 2011 v West Indies
ODI debut 18 August 2008 v Sri Lanka
ODI shirt no. 18
T20I debut 12 June 2010 v Zimbabwe

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly born 8 July 1972), affectionately known as Dada (meaning elder brother) is a former Indian cricketer and captain of the Indian national team.

Currently, he is a cricket commentator and President of the Editorial Board with Wisden India.[1] Born into an affluent Brahmin family, Ganguly was introduced into the world of cricket by his elder brother Snehasish.

He is regarded as one of India's most successful captains in modern times.[2] He started his career by playing in state and school teams. Currently, he is the 5th highest run scorer in One Day Internationals (ODIs)

and was the 3rd person in history to cross the 10,000 run landmark, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq. In 2002, the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack ranked him the sixth greatest ODI batsman of all time, next to Viv Richards, Sachin Tendulkar, Brian Lara, Dean Jones and Michael Bevan.
Full name Sourav Chandidas Gangopadhyay
Born 8 July 1972 (age 41) Behala, Calcutta, West Bengal, India
Nickname The Prince of Calcutta, The Maharaja, The God of the Off Side, Dada, The Warrior Prince
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Right arm medium
Role Batsman
Relations Snehasish Ganguly (brother), Dona Ganguly (wife)
National side India
Test debut 20 June 1996 v England
Last Test 6 November 2008 v Australia
ODI debut 11 January 1992 v West Indies
Last ODI 15 November 2007 v Pakistan

Dhoni is the captain of India in all three forms of the game. His Test and ODI records are the best among all Indian captains to date. He took over the ODI captaincy from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first ever bilateral ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and New Zealand.

Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, the CB Series of 2007?08, the 2010 Asia Cup, the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup and the 2013 ICC Champions Trophy. In the final of the 2011 World Cup, Dhoni scored 91 not out off 79 balls to take India to victory for which he was awarded the Man of the Match.

After taking up the Test captaincy in 2008, he led the team to series wins in New Zealand and West Indies, and the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in 2008, 2010 and 2013. In 2009, Dhoni also led the Indian team to number one position for the first time in the ICC Test rankings. In 2013, under his captaincy, India became the first team in more than 40 years to whitewash Australia in a Test series. In June 2013, when India defeated England in the final of the Champions Trophy in England, Dhoni became the first captain to win all the three ICC trophies. He has also captained the Chennai Super Kings to victory in the 2010 and 2011 seasons of Indian Premier League along with the 2010 Champions League Twenty20.
Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born 7 July 1981 (age 32) Ranchi, Bihar, India
Nickname Mahi, MS, MSD
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Role Wicket-keeper, India captain
National side India
Test debut (cap 251) 2 December 2005 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 14 February 2014 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 158) 23 December 2004 v Bangladesh
ODI shirt no. 7
T20I debut (cap 2) 1 December 2006 v South Africa

Yuvraj Singh is an Indian international cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bats left-handed in the middle-order and bowls slow left-arm orthodox. He is the son of former Indian fast bowler and Punjabi actor Yograj Singh. Yuvraj has been a member of the Indian cricket team in ODIs since 2000 and played his first Test match in 2003.

He was the vice-captain of the ODI team from late-2007 to late-2008. He was the Man of the Tournament in the 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, and one of the top performers at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, both of which India won. In a match against England at the 2007 World Twenty20, he famously hit six sixes in one over bowled by Stuart Broad

Born 12 December 1981 (age 32) Chandigarh, India
Nickname Yuvi
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Batting style Left-handed
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role All-rounder
Relations Yograj Singh (father)
National side India
Test debut 16 October 2003 v New Zealand
Last Test 5 December 2012 v England
ODI debut 3 October 2000 v Kenya
Last ODI 11 December 2013 v South Africa
T20I debut 13 September 2007 v Scotland