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Monday, November 29, 2010

Biography-Matthew Hayden


The full name of Matthew Hayden is Matthew Lawrence Hayden. He was an aggressive and powerful left-handed opening batsman of Australia. He was famous for his ability to score quickly in both test and one-day matches. He has made the record of scoring the highest runs in both the ODI and test matches as an Australian. His highest run in the test is 380 and in ODI 181. He formed one of the most fruitful test partnership with Justin Langer, and ODI partnership with Adam Gilchrist.


He started his test career in 1993-1994 against South Africa at the New Wanderers Stadium of Johannesburg. In that match, he scored total 20 runs from both the innings. His ODI (One-Day International) career began in 1993 against England at Old Trafford of Manchester. He scored only 29 runs in that match.


Haiden has played a total 103 test and 161 one-day matches in his career. His highest scores are 380 and 181* in the test and one-day matches respectively. He has 30 test centuries and 10 one-day centuries. In test, his total run is 8625. For one-day, it is 6133. His overall batting average is 50.73 in test, and 43.80 in one-day. He also played 43 Tewnty20 matches where his highest score is unbeaten 93 runs.
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Biography-Ishant Sharma


Ishant Sharma is an Indian cricketer who earned a nick name “Lambu” because of his height as 193cm (6 ft 4 inch). He delivered the second fastest bowl as an Indian bowler, and the speed was measured 152.6 km/h or 94.8 mph. He performed this record against Australia in 2008 at the stadium named Adelaide. The fastest delivery (154.5km/h) was performed by Javagal Srinath in the 1999 World Cup Tournament. Sharma can move the ball in the both directions.
Sharma started his first test match against Bangladesh in 2007 played at Shere Bangla National Stadium of Dhaka. In that match, he hunted 1 wicket giving 49 runs in both the innings. He began his ODI career in 2007, in a match against South Africa at the Civil Service Cricket Club of Belfast. But in that match, he got no wicket.
Ishant has played a total 28 test and 45 one-day matches in his career. He took 83 test wickets and 63 ODI wickets. He got five and four wickets 1 and 4 times in the test match respectively and four wickets 3 times in the ODI match.
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Biography-Ashish Nehra


Ashish Nehra is an Indian left-arm fast bowler. He was born at Delhi in 1979. He was the only Indian bowler who had the economy rate less than 6 during the final match against Australia in the World Cup 2003 where Australia scored 359 runs. He was not able to strong his position to the national team, due to his successive injuries. His career statistics are better in the ODI than in test.
Nehra started his first test match against Sri Lanka in 1998-1999 played at Sinhalese Sports Club Ground of Colombo. In that match, he hunted 1 wicket giving 94 runs in the first innings. In the second innings, India did not need to do batting. He began his ODI career in 2001, in a match against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club. But in that match, he got 2 wickets giving 33 runs.
He has played a total 17 test and 108 one-day matches in his career. He took 44 test wickets and 146 ODI wickets. He got five wickets in ODI match two times. In the test match, he did not get five wickets ever, but four wickets two times.
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