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Thursday 18 May 2017

Vinod Kambli

Vinod Ganpat Kambli is a former Indian cricketer, who played for India as a middle-order batsman, as well as for Mumbai and Boland, South Africa. He is a childhood friend of the Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar. Despite having the Highest career batting average for an Indian test cricketer of 54 and he played his last test when he was just 23 years.He was not even considered for Test cricket and only considered for one day cricket. Currently, he appears as a cricket expert and commentator on various television channels. He has also appeared on various reality shows and done few serials and Bollywood films as an actor. He played a supporting role in the Kannada film Bettanagere.



Name: Vinod Ganpat Kambli
Birth Date:       18 January 1972
Nickname:        -
Country:           India
Batting-Style:   Left-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right arm off break
Role:                Batsman
Jersey No:        -

ODI Career
- Matches : 104
- Runs Scored : 2477
- Best Run : 106
- 100s/50s : 2/14
- Balls Bowled : 4
- Best Bowling : 1/7
- Wickets : 1
- Catches/stumpings : 15

Test Career
- Matches : 17
- Runs Scored : 1084
- Best Run : 227
- 100s/50s : 4/3
- Balls Bowled : -
- Best Bowling : -
- Wickets : -
- Catches/stumpings : 7

Rahul Dravid

Rahul Dravid is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket. Born in a Marathi family and brought up in Bangalore, he started playing cricket at the age of 12 and later represented Karnataka at the under-15, under-17, and under-19 levels. Hailed as The Wall, Dravid was named one of the best five cricketers of the year by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2000 and received the Player of the Year and the Test Player of the Year awards at the inaugural ICC awards ceremony in 2004. In December 2011, he became the first non-Australian cricketer to deliver the Bradman Oration in Canberra.

As of December 2016, Dravid is the fourth-highest run scorer in Test cricket, after Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting, and Jacques Kallis, and is only the second Indian cricketer, after Tendulkar to score 10,000 runs both in Tests and in ODIs. In 2004, after completing his century against Bangladesh in Chittagong, he became the first and the only player till date to score a century in all the ten Test-playing countries. As of October 2012, he holds the record for the most number of catches taken by a player (non-wicket-keeper) in Test cricket, with 210. Dravid holds a unique record of never getting out for a Golden duck in the 286 Test innings which he has played.

In August 2011, after receiving a surprise call in the ODI series against England, Dravid declared his retirement from ODIs as well as Twenty20 International (T20I), and in March 2012, he announced his retirement from international and first-class cricket. He appeared in the 2012 Indian Premier League as captain of the Rajasthan Royals.

Rahul Dravid, along with Glenn McGrath were honored during the seventh annual Bradman Awards function in Sydney on 1 November 2012. Dravid has also been honored with the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan award, India's fourth and third highest civilian awards respectively.


Name: Rahul Sharad Dravid
Birth Date:       11 January 1973
Nickname:       The Wall | Jammy | Mr. Dependable
Country:           India
Batting-Style:  Right-handed
Bowling Style: Right arm off spin
Role:                Batsman, occasional wicketkeeper, Coach
Jersey No:        19 & 5

ODI Career
- Matches : 344
- Runs Scored : 10889
- Best Run : 153
- 100s/50s : 12/83
- Balls Bowled : 186
- Best Bowling : 2/43
- Wickets : 4
- Catches/stumpings : 196/14

Test Career
- Matches : 164
- Runs Scored : 13288
- Best Run : 270
- 100s/50s : 36/63
- Balls Bowled : 120
- Best Bowling : 1/18
- Wickets : 1
- Catches/stumpings : 210/0


Inzamam-ul-Haq

Inzamam-ul-Haq is also known as Inzy, is a former Pakistani cricketer. He is widely regarded as one of the most dangerous batsmen in the history of cricket. He is the leading run scorer for Pakistan in One-Day Cricket and the third-highest run scorer for Pakistan in Test cricket, after Younis Khan and Javed Miandad. He was the captain of the Pakistan national cricket team from 2003–07 and is considered to be one of the best leaders in Pakistan Cricket history. Inzamam is currently serving as the chief selector of Pakistan cricket team.

Inzamam rose to fame in the semi-final of the 1992 Cricket World Cup. He remained one of the team's leading batsmen throughout the decade in both Test and ODI cricket. In 2003, he was appointed a captain of the team. His tenure as captain ended after Pakistan's early exit from the 2007 Cricket World Cup. On 5th October 2007, Inzamam retired from international cricket following the second Test match against South Africa, falling three runs short of Javed Miandad as Pakistan's leading run scorer in Test cricket. Following his retirement, he joined the Indian Cricket League, captaining the Hyderabad Heroes in the inaugural edition of the Twenty20 competition. In the ICL's second edition, he captained the Lahore Badshahs, a team composed entirely of Pakistani cricketers.


Name: Inzamam-ul-Haq
Birth Date:       03 March 1970
Nickname:       Inzy
Country:          Pakistan
Batting-Style:  Right-handed
Bowling Style: Slow left-arm orthodox
Role:                Batsman
Jersey No:        8

ODI Career
- Matches : 378
- Runs Scored : 11739
- Best Run : 127*
- 100s/50s : 10/83
- Balls Bowled : 58
- Best Bowling : 1/0
- Wickets : 3
- Catches/stumpings : 113

Test Career
- Matches : 120
- Runs Scored : 8830
- Best Run : 329
- 100s/50s : 25/46
- Balls Bowled : 9
- Best Bowling : 0/8
- Wickets : 0
- Catches/stumpings : 81