sachin tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar Biography
popular name of Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar
( 1973 – )

(born April 24, 1973, Bombay [Mumbai], India) Indian professional cricket player, considered by many to be one of the greatest batsmen of all time. In 2005 he became the first cricketer to score 35 centuries (100 runs in a single innings) in Test (international) play.

Tendulkar was given his first bat when he was 11. As a 14-year-old, he used it to score 329 out of a world-record stand of 664 in a school match. A year later he scored a century on his first-class debut for Bombay (Mumbai), and at 16 years 205 days he became India's youngest Test cricketer, making his debut against Pakistan in Karachi in November 1989. When he was 18 he scored two centuries in Australia (148 in Sydney and 114 in Perth), and in 1994 he scored 179 against the West Indies. In August 1996, at age 23, Tendulkar was made captain of his country's team.

Although India was defeated in the semifinals of the 1996 World Cup, Tendulkar emerged as the tournament's top run scorer, with 523 runs. In 1997 he was chosen for the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award, the highest award given to an Indian athlete, for his outstanding performance in the 1997–98 season. India was defeated by Australia in the 1999 World Cup, failing to advance past the round of six, and was soundly defeated by both Australia and South Africa in series later that year. In the 2003 World Cup, however, Tendulkar helped his team advance as far as the finals. Though India was again defeated by Australia, Tendulkar, who averaged 60.2, was named the man of the tournament.

Tendulkar made history in December 2005 when he scored his record-breaking 35th century in Test play against Sri Lanka. The feat was accomplished in a total of 125 Tests and allowed Tendulkar to surpass the prolific Indian run scorer Sunil Gavaskar. In June 2007 Tendulkar reached another major milestone when he became the first player to record 15,000 runs in one-day international (ODI) play, and in January 2010 he became the first batsman to score 13,000 runs in Test play. One month later he scored a historic “double century” in a contest against South Africa, becoming the first man in history to record 200 runs in a single innings of ODI play. Throughout his long career Tendulkar was consistently ranked among the game's best batsmen. He was often likened to Australia's Don Bradman in his single-minded dedication to scoring runs and the certainty of his strokeplay off both front and back foot.

Sachin Tendulkar

Longest Six by Sachin

Sachin Tendulkar World Cup 2003 (Part 6)

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Mahendra Singh Dhoni Biography
Full name Mahendra Singh Dhoni
Born July 7, 1981, Ranchi
Current age 29 years 265 days
Major teams India, Asia XI, Bihar, Chennai Super Kings, Jharkhand
Also known as Mahi
Playing role Wicketkeeper batsman
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Fielding position Wicketkeeper

Mahendra Singh Dhoni, sometimes abbreviated as MS Dhoni and poularly known as Mahi or Captain Cool by many former Indian players,(born July 7, 1981 in Lavali Village Almora, Uttarakhand) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian team. Initially recognized as an extravagantly flamboyant and destructive batsman,

Dhoni has come to be regarded as one of the coolest heads to captain the Indian ODI side. Under his captaincy, India won the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, CB Series of 2007-08 and IDEA Cup India-Sri Lanka ODI Series of 2008, the first ever bilateral ODI series win of India in Sri Lanka and the Border-Gavaskar trophy 2008 in which they beat Australia 2-0.

Currently Dhoni is the top ODI batsman in the ICC ODI rankings. Mahendra Singh Dhoni was awarded the ODI Player of the Year award in 2008, the first Indian player to achieve this feat.

He led India in a streak of 9 ODI wins, an Indian record. He was conferred the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

MS DHONI HITTING A SIX - LAST MOMENTS - INDIA WINS WORLD CUP - 2011

Dhoni's Amazing Six

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Ponting Biography

in full Ricky Thomas Ponting
( 1974 – )

(born Dec. 19, 1974, Launceston, Tasmania, Austl.) Australian cricketer, who was the country's premier batsman in the 1990s and 2000s.

Ponting gained a reputation as a cricket prodigy when he scored four centuries (a century is 100 runs in a single innings) for the Under-13s in a Tasmanian cricket week and two more when promoted to the Under-16 team. By age 20 he had made his Test (international match) debut and had been hailed by some as the new Don Bradman, who was considered by many the best cricketer of the 20th century. A maiden Test century came at Leeds on the 1997 tour of England. Ponting was criticized for his inconsistent performances early in his career (caused, in part, by off-field personal troubles), but, after rededicating himself to the sport, he became a key factor in Australia's dominance in international cricket over the next decade.

In 2002 he was rewarded with the captaincy of Australia's one-day international side, and the next year he led the side to victory in the World Cup in South Africa, one of three World Cups won by Australia with Ponting on the squad (1999, 2007). When Test captain Steve Waugh retired in 2004, Ponting was his natural successor. In 2005, Australia lost to England in the first Ashes series under Ponting's leadership. Ponting followed this with an impressive 2005–06 season wherein he scored 1,483 runs (an average of 78 per match), including seven centuries. In January 2006 he marked his 100th Test with innings of 120 and 143 not out against South Africa in Sydney. Later that year he was named the International Cricket Council Player of the Year and, for the third time, the ICC Test Player of the Year.

Ricky Ponting