Biography -Tamim Iqbal

Tamim Iqbal is a young Bangladeshi cricketer.His full name is 'Tamim Iqbal Khan '. He was born on 20th March 1989 in 'Chittagong, Bangladesh'. Tamin is the brother of Bangladeshi test player "Nafees Iqbal” and the nephew of "Akram Khan” a famous cricketer in Bangladesh.

He Start his International ODI-One Day International career on 9th February 2007 and scored 83 runs in his first match against Zimbabwe and he made his test Cricket debut career on 5th June 2010 by scoring 50 runs against New-Zealand. His ODI shirt number is 29 .His batting style is 'Left-handed' and his main role in team is as a batsman. He was picked for the 2007 World Cup trophy which he played against India.

Iqbal, scored his maiden century on "Bangladesh's tour of West Indies in July and

August 2009".  He was named as the man of the match as a result of his well performance in this tour. On 25 January 2010 Iqbal scored 151 runs with "Junaid Siddique "as a recorded partnership against India.

Tamim was named as test player of the year by the 'Wisden Criketer Magazine'.

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Biography -Shivnarine Chanderpaul

Shivnarin who is well known as 'Shiv' is a remarkable symbol of International cricket. He belongs to West Indian Cricket team. His full name is .Shivnarine Chanderpaul..Shivnarine Chanderpaul was born in "Unity Village,Demerara-Mahaica", Guyana on 16th August 1974.

He began his cricket career with West Indies cricket team and lucky to be the captain of the team .He is the only one West Indian cricketer of Indian Origin but he is also the first "Indo-Caribbean" in the West Indies team.Chanderpaul is one of the top ranked batsman in the world. He remained on the 1st rank in ICC Test rankings for a long period.

His ability of doggedness and ability to stick on the wicket for long time is well known and it makes the bowler to feel trouble.His unorthodox 'Front-on batting stance is also popular, although 'Shiv' shifts his body into a position of more conventional when he faces the ball. This has made him unique score taker on both left and right side of the wicket .He is renowned for getting his outside 'off-stump line' for 'left arm spin' bowlers by  hiding bat behind his pad.

Chanderpaul is lucky enough to be the last batting partner of 'Brian Lara' when Lara broke Gray Sobers' early record of 365 runs and remained not out in the 5th and last final Test against England Team in 1993-1994.

Chanderpaul began his Test debut on 1994 march 17th against England and ODI-One Day International debut on 1994 October 17 against India. His batting style is 'Left-handed' and his Bowling style is 'Right- arm leg break' but his main role in the team is as a Batsman .

Chanderpauls, face is very recognizable from other members of the Team particularly his native 'Guyana'. In cricket history Chanderpaul is responsible for remarkable records like one of only six players who is being in ground for 1000 minutes without conceding wicket and he is the only one batsman who faced 1000 regular balls without getting out in legendary of Cricket . He is also only one of four batsmen to have average of more than 100 runs in two different years. He is responsible for the 3rd fastest Teat hundred in the cricket history against Australia at "Georgetown, Guyana".

Chanderpaul is also second for only 'Brian Lara' in test runs by getting 8000 test runs being 2nd highest score for the "West Indies"

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Biography -Virender Sehwag

Another well known cricketer in Indian Team is Virender Sehwag who is also named as Viru,Nawab of Najafgarh.He was born on 20th October 1978 in Delhi ,India.

His Father was a Grain merchant .His farther' name is "Krishan" and his mothers' name is "Krishna Sehwag". He spent his childhood in a bungalow with their all family members siblings,aunts ,Uncles and sixteen cousins because of joint family system..Shewag was the third of four children in his family.Others are two sisters and one brother .Sisters "Manju" and "Anju" are elder than Shewag and his brother "Vinod" is younger than

Shewag. His farther made his Cricket career foundation by giving him a cricket toy bat when he was seven months old.

He started his School life in "Arora Vidya School " Delhi. On the initial level his father did not allowed  him to play cricket in school,but he evade the ban with help of his mother. After school life he entered to "Jamia Milia Islamia" for graduation

Shewag made his career life from  "Delhi Cricket Team" in first class Cricket early 98s'. In International cricket career he is recognized as an aggressive Right-Handed Opening batsman and a "part-time right-arm off-spin" bowler.Shewag was lucky enough to be honored as the "Wisden Leading Cricketer" in the world for his unique performance in year 2008 and also another award called as "Arjuna Award" in 2002.

Shewag has made multiple records in cricket history some of them include the highest score made by Indian in International test cricket by scoring 319 runs and also the fastest triple century in the International cricket history in the same inning by reaching 300 off 278 balls, against Sri Lankan team on 3rd December 2009 at

the "Brabourne Stadium" in Mumbai. Shewag also holds the unique distinction of being one of three batsmen who ever surpassed 300 runs twice in the world cricket history and also the only one person who scored two triple centuries and took five-wicket in one innings haul. Shewag smashed the fastest century ever made by Indian in ODI-One Day International cricket from 60 ball.

Shewag was being the vice -captain of the Indian cricket team under "Rahul Dravid" in October.2005.but he was repalced by "V.Vs.Laxman" due to his poor form these days. Shewag was dropped from the ODI-One Day International and later from Test team also but after facing failures he made successful return by reestablishing himself as one of the best performing batsman in ODI Cricket by gaining his position as the Vice captain in both ODI and test cricket. In the ground Shewags' scoring rate is extremely well as he performed very well in his whole career .

Shewag selected  "Aarti Ahlawat" as his life partner in 2004 April. Their wedding was held under high security cover . This couple has one son who was born in 2007 October  and named as "Aryavir".

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Biography -Kumar Sangakkara

"Kumar Sangakkara" the Sri Lankan captain is well known name for every cricket lover and mostly Sri Lankan fans both young and elder persons."Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara" is his Full name and He is known as "Sanga" by his cricket lovers. He was born in Matale located in central part of Sri Lanka.

Sangakkara entered to Trinity college in Kandy, Sri Lanka for his studies and from there he began his cricket career. He also was a good cricket player.in his school age as he played for the both school cricket team and the Tennis team . MR.Leonard De Alwis who was the principal of his college advised his mother to pursue Sangakkara towards cricket as he has plenty of talent in Cricket as compared to Tennis. 

Sangakkara has three siblings one Brother and two sisters .One of his sister is a Sportswomen and renowned as a keen Tennis player.

In the early days he began his career as a batsman ,subsequently he became a wicket- keeper and recently he is doing wicket-keeping as well as batting for national Sri Lankan Team. He is very talented in both sides. He was in the top list in the "LG ICC test batting rankings". His contribution to the Sri Lankan team in One Day International and Twenty20 Cricket is remarkable . As a result of his unique Batting he was ranked as the top batsman in the Test bating rankings.and he remained above the 6th rank on ICC all-time Batting rankings.

His batting style is "Left-Handed" and his bowling style is "Right arm off break". He made his Test debut against South Africa in 2000 July 20 and scored 84 runs and 2000 July 5 he entered the ground to play his first ODI -One Day International debut against Pakistan and got success by scoring  93 runs. In ODI career his T-Shirt number is 11 and he plays for Nondescripts ,Warwickshire  domestically but has also played for IPL-Indian Premium League as a member of Kings XI Punjab team  in his career  till now.

Sanga got married to a leading female lawyer in Kandy named as "Yehali". She is a law undergraduate. Sanga and Yehali have two children as twins. They got this good news on 30th June 2009 , one of them is a girl and the other is boy.

Unfortunately Sangakkara and his team met with a terrorist attack in Pakistan on 3rd March 2009 but fortunately he and his team were saved due to the brave Pakistani soldiers and Police who scarified their lives to save the Sri Lankan team. Sanga and some of other fellows got minor injuries but recovered soon.

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Biography -Sachin Tendulkar

"Sachin Thendulkar" one of the great player also known as the "Master blaster","Tendlya" "Little master" ,"The little champion "and "The great man " also , He is well known to every cricket lover and mostly Indian cricket lovers.

The full name of this Master balster is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar ,he was born in Bombay- Maharashtra in India on 24 April 1973. His farther was a Novelist in India named Ramesh Tendulkar. Tendulkar has three siblings two brothers and one sister. Their names are Ajit ,Nitin and savitha ,Ajith is Tendulkars' elder brother who encouraged him to play cricket and make it as his career.

Sachin started his cricketing career under the guidance of Ramakant Achrekar"the Coach and mentor of his High school. He attended the "MRF pace foundation" during his schooling as a Fast bowler,but there Sachin focused his attention to batting by the Australian Fast bowler Dennis Lillee,who was unimpressed on Sachins' bowling .Before his National and international career he played for inter school matches in 1988 and performed extraordinary in that season, he scored centururies in most of his innings .and made one of the unbelievable record at that time of 664 runs unbroken partnership in "Load harris Shield "inter-school game. There his partner was "Vinod Kambli"who was one of present team member of Indian Cricket. Tendulkar scored 326 runs in that innings and it a was record partnership until 2006 in any form of cricket which was then broken by two under thirteen batsmen at Hyderabad in India.

Sachin was greatly inspired by Indian batting legendary person "Sunil Gavaskar"who gave him a pair of his own ultra light pads. Sachin was 14 year little boy at that time. Sachin said, "It was the greatest source of encouragement for me" when I surpassed the Gavaskar's, world record of 34 test centuries.

Sachin got married in May1995 with "Anjali",she was a paediatrician and daughter of "Anand mehta" the Gujarati Industrialist .Sachin and Anjali have two chlidern named Sara and Arjun. Sara was born in 1997 October and Arjun was born in 1999 September.

Thendulkar is a Cross-Dominant who can bat bowl and make fast throws with his right hand .But he uses his left hand for writing. His batting Style is Right-handed and his Bowling style is Right-arm leg spin -off spin - medium pace. His main role for the team is as Batsman. He is a good height of 5Feet and 5Inches. He started his test career in 1989 against Pakistan Scoring 187 Runs and to the ODI- One day international also against Pakistan in1989 scoring 74 runs.

Other way round he also plays for Mumbai , Yorkshire team and also represent his team Mumbai Indains for IPL-Indain Premium League.

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