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Chris Gayle
CHRISTOPHER HENRY "Chris" GAYLE (born 21
September 1979) is a Jamaican cricketer who plays international cricket for
the West Indies. He captained the
West Indies' Test side from 2007 to 2010. He plays
domestic cricket for Jamaica, and
also represents theRoyal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League, the Sydney Thunder in the Big Bash League and the Dhaka Gladiators in the Bangladesh Premier League. He has also
represented Worcestershire, the Western Warriors, Barisal Burners and the Kolkata Knight Riders in his career. He was also selected
for team Uva Next for the inaugural Sri Lanka Premier League in 2012.
He is one
of only four players who have scored two triple
centuries at Test level: 317
against South Africa in 2005, and 333 against Sri Lanka in 2010. He is known as a big hitter,
often hitting sixes; in 2012 he became the first player to hit a six off the
first ball of a Test match. Playing for Royal
Challengers Bangalore, he scored a 30-ball century, the fastest across any
format, that became the highest individual T20 score (175). It eclipsed the previous mark set by Brendan McCullum of Kolkata
Knight Riders. At the launch of the Caribbean Premier League he was announced as the first
franchise player for the league.
Gayle started his cricket
career with the famous Lucas Cricket Club in Kingston, Jamaica. Gayle
claimed "If it was not for Lucas I don't know where I would be today.
Maybe on the streets." Lucas
Cricket Club's nursery has been named in honour of Gayle.
Gayle played for the West
Indies at youth international level prior to making his first-class debut aged 19 for Jamaica. He played his first One Day International eleven months later, and his first Test match six months after that. Gayle, who normally opens the
innings when he plays for the West Indies, is a destructive batsman who is most
effective playing square of the wicket. In July 2001, Gayle (175), together
with Daren Ganga (89) established the record for opening partnerships at Queens Sports Club, Bulawayo when they put on 214 together against Zimbabwe.
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Adam Gilchrist
ADAM CRAIG GILCHRIST, (born
14 November 1971), nicknamed "Gilly" or "Churchy" is a
former Australian cricketer who has captained Kings XI
Punjab and Middlesex. He is an attacking
left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper, who
redefined the role for the Australian national team through his aggressive
batting. He is considered to be one of the greatest wicket-keeper–batsmen in
the history of the game. He
holds the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket keeper in One
Day International(ODI) cricket and the most by an Australian in Test
cricket. His strike
rate is amongst the highest in the history of both ODI and Test cricket;
his century against England at Perth in December 2006 is the
second-fastest century in all Test cricket. He
is the only player to have hit 100 sixes in Test cricket. His
17 Test and 16 ODI centuries are the most by a wicket-keeper. He
holds the unique record of scoring at least 50 runs in successive World Cup
finals (in 1999, 2003 and 2007) and is one of only three
players to have won three titles.
Gilchrist is renowned for walking when he considers
himself to be out, sometimes contrary to the decision of the umpire. He
made his first-class debut in 1992, his first One-Day International
appearance in 1996 in India and his Test debut in 1999. During
his career, he played for Australia in 96 Test matches and over 270 One-day
internationals. He was Australia's vice-captain in both forms of the
game, captaining the team when regular captains Steve Waugh and Ricky
Ponting were unavailable. He retired from
international cricket in March 2008.
In March 2013, he announced that he would join the Caribbean
Premier League, a Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies in
July along with teammate Ricky Ponting.
Adam Gilchrist was born in 1971
at Bellingen Hospital, in Bellingen, New South Wales, the youngest of four
children. He and his family lived in Dorrigo, Junee and then Deniliquin where, playing for his school,
Deniliquin South Public School, he won the Brian Taber Shield (named after New South Wales cricketer Brian Taber). At the age of 13, his
parents, Stan and June, moved the family to Lismore where Gilchrist captained the Kadina High School cricket team. Gilchrist was selected for the state
under-17 team, and in 1989 he was offered a
scholarship by London-based
Richmond Cricket Club, a scheme he now supports himself. During his year at Richmond, he also
played junior cricket for Old
Actonians Cricket Club's under 17
team, with whom he won the Middlesex League and Cup double. He moved to Sydney
and joined the Gordon Club in Sydney
Grade Cricket, later moving to Northern Districts.
Gilchrist
is married to his high school sweetheart Melinda (Mel) Gilchrist (née Sharpe),
a dietitian, and they have three
sons, Harrison, Archie and Ted, and a daughter, Annie Jean. His family came under the spotlight in
the months leading up to the 2007
Cricket World Cup as Archie's
impending birth threatened his presence in the squad; Archie was born in
February and Gilchrist was able to take part in the tournament.
Gilchrist's attacking batting has
been a key part of Australia's one-day success, as he usually opens the batting.
He was a part of the successful1999, 2003 and 2007
Cricket World Cup campaigns. Gilchrist's Test batting average in
the upper 40s is unusually high for a wicket-keeper. He is currently 45th on the all–time
list of highest batting averages. He
maintains a Test strike-rate of 82 runs per hundred balls, the highest since
balls were recorded in full. His combination of attack and consistency create
one of the most dynamic world cricketers ever,playing shots to all areas of
the field with uncommon timing. Gilchrist's skills as a wicket-keeper are
sometimes questioned; some people would claim that he is the best keeper in
Australia while Victorian wicket-keeper Darren Berry was regarded by many as the best
Australian wicket-keeper of the 1990s and early 2000s.
In this
role, Gilchrist is perhaps disadvantaged by his relatively tall stature for a
pure wicket-keeper. However, while perhaps not as elegant as some, he has
successfully kept wicket for spin
bowler Shane Warne and fast
bowlers Glenn McGrath and Brett
Lee for most of his international
career. His partnerships with McGrath and Lee are second and fourth
respectively in both test and ODI history for the number of wickets taken. With Alec
Stewart and Mark Boucher, he shares the record for
most catches (6) by a wicketkeeper in a ODI match, however he has now achieved
this feat five times, the most recent versus India in 2008 CB Series. The match in 2007 was also the second
time he took six dismissals and scored a half century in the same
ODI; he remains the only player to do so even once. At Old
Trafford in August 2005, he
passed Alec Stewart's world record of 4,540 runs as a Test wicketkeeper. Statistically,
he is currently the most successful ODI wicket-keeper in history; with 417
catches and 55 stumpings, a total of 472 dismissals, his closest rival, Mark
Boucher, is more than 80 dismissals behind.
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Kapil Dev
KAPIL DEV RAMLAL NIKHANJ (born 6
January 1959), 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, 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
Kapil Dev was born as Kapil
Dev Ramlal Nikhanj to Ram Lal Nikhanj, a building and timber contractor and his
wife Raj Kumari in Chandigarh on 6 January
1959. His
parents had migrated from Rawalpindi during the Partition of India. Kapil Dev was a student at D.A.V. School and
joined Desh Prem Azad in 1971.
By the end of 1983, Kapil
already had about 250 Test wickets in just five years and looked well on his
way to becoming one of the most prolific wicket-takers ever. However, his
bowling declined following knee surgery in 1984, as he lost some of his
majestic jump at the crease. Despite this setback, he never missed playing a
single test or one-day game on fitness grounds (save for his disciplinary
ouster in the 3rd test at Calcutta during the 1984/85 series against England).
He continued to be effective, if not devastating, for another ten years and
became the second bowler ever to take 400 wickets in Test
cricket in 1991–92 when he took Mark
Taylor's wicket in a series versus Australia in
Australia. In that Australian tour he took 25 wickets.
Kapil continued as India's lead
pace bowler under a succession of captains in the early 1990s. He was involved
in a notable incident during the Lord's Test Match of 1990, when he hit
off-spinner Eddie Hemmings for four sixes in succession to take
India past the follow-on target. This match also featured the highest
test score by an Englishman against India, 333 by Graham Gooch. He was also cited
by umpire Dickie Bird as being one of the greatest
all-rounders of all-time.
He also
became a valuable batsman in the ODI version of the game, being used as a
pinch-hitter to accelerate the run-scoring rate, usually in the final ten
overs, and relied upon to stabilise the innings in the event of a collapse. He
played in the 1992 Cricket World
Cup, which was his last, under the captaincy of Mohammad Azharuddin. He led the
bowling attack with younger talents like Javagal
Srinath and Manoj Prabhakar, who would eventually
succeed him as India's leading pace bowlers. He retired in 1994, after breaking Richard Hadlee's then standing record
for the most Test wickets taken.
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