Biography -Jerome Taylor

Jerome Taylor is a West Indies cricketer who was born in 'Saint Elizabeth' Jamaica 1984 June 22.Jerome Everton Taylor is his full name.
He made his Test debut against Sri Lanka 2003 June 20 and also ODI-One Day International debut 2003 June 11.He is a 'Right -handed' batsman and a 'Right arm Fast' Bowler.His role in the West Indies team is as a Bowler. He play for Jamaica 2003-present and for 'Leicestershire '2007 in his domestic cricket life.
Taylor is in the top list while comparing with other leading fast bowlers Daren Powell , Dwayne Bravo and Ian Bradshaw at the Cricket World Cup. Taylor was named as 'the most promising fast bowler' of the 'Carib Beer series' of 2003,because there he broke Twentyone wickets for 20.14 run average.that included a haul of 8 for 59 runs,as his first and ever Ten -wickets match haul.
He was selected for the '2006 Champions Trophy as a result of magnificent performance in 'DLF Cup in Malaysia' , 2006 as the West Indies' leading wicket -taker with 8 wickets in his hand. He was able to take four wickets against Zimbabwe and Bangladesh in preliminary Games.and headed towards hat-trick against Australia in 'opening group game'
In the year 2008 Jerome Taylor was named as the 'West Indies' premier and most reliable fast bowler and currently both his test and ODI average is in a top player`s list in International Ground.

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Biography-Ajantha Mendis

Another remarkable Player who can change the decision of a match and he is well known as 'Carrom Ball' player in the grounds is Ajanta who represent Sri Lankan Cricket team. Ajantha mendis was born in 'Moratuwa' Sri Lanka ,1985 March 11,as the 3rd child in a family of five, He has an elder brother and a sister.He is Catholic ,his full name is 'Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis'
Hecompleted his primary Education at 'St Anthony's College at Kadalana' in his village and then after he entered to 'Moratuwa Maha Vidyalaya' in the year of 2000 because his former school facilities were not enough for his sports career.
As a result of his unique talent he was able to represent his school in under 15 cricket team and lately he was deputized for the Captain of the School cricket team. As a result of his marvelous perforance in a match against 'Army under 23 Division 11 'he was invited to join regular force 'Sri Lankan Army' as a criket player by 'Sri Lankan Army Cricket Committee ', and he started his military career as a Gunner in Sri Lanka Artillery. But due to his Asia cup performance he was promoted to the rank of 'Sergeant' on 2008 July 07
Before entering to international career he played for two domestic teams,Wayamba 2007-2008 and Sri ankan Army 2006-2008.Currently he is also playing for IPL-Indian Premium League under 'Kolkata Knight Riders'
He achieved his Test debut against India ,22 July 2008 and his ODI- One Day International against West Indies ,2008April 10, His ODI Shirt number is 40, and his Role in the team is as a Bowler but turning the side he has also scored his maiden half century on 2010 August 06 scoring 78 runs against India which is something rarely happen for a number Ten batsman.
Because of his unique bowling performance in ODI he was awarded as the 'Man of the Series' in 2008 Asia cup and he break 6 wickets for 13 runs in his 8th ODI match and he was able to gain 17 wickets in the tournament. In this way he also became able to win the 'Emerging Player' of the Year award at the 'LG ICC Awards' ceremony held in Dubai in September 2008.

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Biography- T.M. Dilshan

The remarkable player well known for his scoop style known as 'DilScoop' and he was the founder of that unique technique,in International Cricket Ground. T.M.Dilshan is an aggressive 'Right-handed' batsman in Sri Lankan Cricket team.'Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan' is his full name ,but before his conversion to Buddhism from Islam his name was 'Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan. He changed his name when he was 16 years old with the Religious conversion.
Dilshan was born on 1976 October 14 to a 'Malay' father and a 'Buddhist' mother. Dilshan got admission in 'Kaluthara Vidyalaya'for his high studies where he started his career in cricket.
Dilshan made his Test career successful debut on 1999 November 18 against Zimbabwe scoring 80 runs and achieved his ODI-One Day international Career debut on 1999 December 11 also again Zimbabwe scoring 102 runs as his maiden century in his ODI career.
In November 2007 he Scored !88 runs for the team' Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club' against 'Colts Cricket Club in a 50 Overs game
In 2009 twenty20 world cup series .Dilshan became the 'Player of the series gaining 317 runs in seven matches ,In the series his batting average was 52.83,and it was the 4th best among the all players ,Others are Anjalo.D Mathews (Sri Lanka) with 75, J Kallis (South Africa) with 59.5 and Younis Khan (Pakistan) with 57.33
In domestic career He played for Kaluthara Town Club in 1996-1997,Singha Sports Club in 1997-1998,Suburbanites C&AC in 1998-2000 and 2000-present he is planing for Bloomfield C&AC ,Basnahira South ,Delhi Daredevils team in IPL-Indian Premium League And 2010 in Northern Districts.
Dilshan got married with 'Manjula Thilini' who is one of a melodrama actress in Sri lanka and this was his second marriage. He has two children a daughter from his second marriage and a son from his first marriage.

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1st Test: 2nd day India v New Zealand at Ahmadabad

Day 2: India is still on top after the end of the day as expected. The New Zealand spinners got rid of the strong Indian middle-order in pretty quickly, but they struggled to get past the lower order as Harban Singh scored his career best 69 off jus 97 deliveries which included 3 sixes.

The crowd was expecting to see a century from Tendulkar on this ground as he has a pretty good record at this ground but they were bit disappointed by not seeing his 50th test century.

Even though Bhajji kept the things going under his control and entertained the crowd with some off his shots while reaching towards his half century.

The Indian middle-order had a fairly bad day as they could not become able to do much and were gone for just few runs. As soon as Tendulkar was gone by Jeetan Patel just 10 short of his fifty while he was trying to punch the length ball their was more for the Kiwi's to celebrate as Raina was already struggling and gave his wicket to Kane Williamson who in this way got his first Test wicket, while Laxman was done lbw by Patel though Laxman looked quite unhappy with the decision.

Dhoni was caught at forward short leg of an inside edge for just 10 runs. Zaheer Khan soon followed his captain and was bowled by Vettori. l.

Harbhajan carried the show after the dismissal of Zaheer Khan and troubled the New Zealand bowlers with Ojha playing a supportive role with Harbhajan.

These both helped India reach a huge total of 487, though Harbhajan again fell short of his maiden century which was one of his personal and team goal.

New Zealand came to bat with Brendon McCollum as an opener for the first time since 2004 and he started with some aggressive shots to the boundary though his opening counterpart Tim McIntosh went to pavilion without scoring to the Indian pace spearhead Zaheer Khan who was bowling with a good pace and swing straight from the first over which indeed was a maiden and BJ Watling was bowled by Ojha as he played down the wrong line and was gone for 6 runs.

Then came Taylor and he along with McCollum prevented further damage to New Zealand and ended the day for 69/2.

The day was much better for them as compared to the previous day which was spoiled by wracking shots by Sehwag and some greatly timed by Dravid.

Still at the end of the day things didn’t get changed much and the hosts are in the game as favorites.

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Sri Lanka conquers series against Australia

Sri Lanka achieved their mission of winning their maiden series win in Australia which they had been trying hard to achieve for the past 26 years. They played very well against a team like Australia and have won the series with still one more game to go, while Australia tasted their seventh consecutive defeat.

Even though the game was troubled by the rain a couple of times but there wasn’t much wrong about their game as the only time they struggled were the first two over in which they failed to score but as soon as the openers Upul Tharanga who played a solid knock of unbeaten 86, while Dilshan was unstoppable after he got onto his game and made a quick fire 47 before being done lbw by Watson.

The rain disturbed the game twice in Sri Lanka’s innings before it stopped at 213/3 in 41.1 overs but not even the weather was able to stop the Sri Lankan’s from playing with so much passion and the score went on to 244 in 39 overs for Australia when they came on to bat by the Duckworth Lewis method.

The rains only made things difficult for the hosts on a seemer friendly wicket, while a short rain again turned the score to 240 which didn’t help them much. The Australian started by scoring more then run a ball but mistakes weren’t far to come by the hosts and one by one they were reduced down to 80 for 4 in which haddin made jus 3 runs,Ponting scoring 10 and Clarke 25 to leave the hosts in trouble and made the game one sided from where there was no come back happened for the Australians.

The Australian fans were left disappointed to see their team losing their seven consecutive games. Australia needs to get into their winning ways again if they want to retain their Ashes cup which is not too far away from now.

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