Biography -Mahela Jayawardene

Mahela Jayawardene is another famous cricketer among all the cricket lovers .Who has already made many historical records in history of World cricket. Actually he is a legend. And the former captain of Sri Lankan Cricket Team.
'Denagamage Proboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene' is Mahelas' full name.He born in Sri Lanka 1977 May 27.He is famous as 'Mayya' among his fans. Jayawardene completed his basic education at 'Nalanda College-Colombo' ,a leading boy school in Sri Lanka. In there he polished his talent in cricket and he was able to be the best school boy cricketer of Sri Lanka in year 1994.
He played for 'Sinhalese Sports Club' in 1995 and 'Derbyshire' teams in his domestic career. Currently he plays for 'Kings XI Punjab' in IPL-Indian Premium League. Jayawardene was able to made his Test debut against Indain team at 'R.premadasa Stadium' in Colombo scoring 66 runs,and made his ODI-One Day International at the same ground against Zimbabwe in 1995 scoring 74 runs.Jayawardene was successful with his maiden century in International career
against England Team in Cralton and United World Series at Adelade,under a high pressure situation when the team was at 134/4 and he was able to won the match. Jayawardene was
named as the Captain of the Sri Lankan team for the first time in 2006 during the England tour with the absence of 'Marvan atapattu'.
Jayawardene was responsible for a first class historical record in cricket history ,The highest partnership for any wicket In the International Test Cricket.In there he scored 624 runs with Kumar Sangakkara -(The current captain in Sri Lankan Team),And made another record for the highest partnership for 3rd wicket breaking previous record made by with 'Martin Crowe' and 'Andrew Jones' in New Zealand team, In there Jayawardene was partnered by 'Thilan Samaraweera'. Jayawardene was able to become the first Sri Lankan Captain who scored a tripple century in Test cricket, Scoring 374 runs off 572 deliveries, And it was the 4th highest score made by a Right- handed batsman in International Test crictet.And he was able to resposible for the highest test score made by a Sri lankan Batsman, breaking former record established by 'Sanath Jayasuriya' scoring 350runs.
In the 2007 Cricket World cup Jayawardene was awarded as the 'Wisden Cricketer of the year -2007' Jayawardene entered his marriage life with 'Christina Mallika Sirisena' a travel consultant. Jayawardene was lucky enough to save his life form the terrorist attack in 2009. Currently Jayawardene appers for developing the Trade names Mobitel (Sri Lanka),DSI holdings Ltd and Reebok .

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Harbhajan makes his maiden century finally

The first test between India and New Zealand ended in a dramatic draw, India started their innings with Sehwag and Gambhir opening for them but they were to face a threat from Chris Martin who took all the India’s top order batsmen with a shock and ended with a fantastic five wicket haul. New Zealand had started thinking about their victory over the hosts as Martin was going guns and shook over the Indian top order but thanks to Laxman once again with Harbhajan who put up a 163 run stand which held the Indian innings strong and took them out from the jaws of defeat.

Laxman who is known as a match winner also proved that he can be a match saver as well for India while Harbhajan accomplished his personal goal of making his maiden test century on the final day of the test. Laxman once again was left alone with no proper batsman left on the task to save the game but Harbhajan came to the rescue. While Laxman played with a cool head and with some glorious shots and Harbhajan started off in his unorthodox style of batting and saved a couple of times in the early of his innings but the pair carried their calm and India had taken a lead of 192 by lunch. 

When Laxman was into his nineties he was given lbw by Steve Davis missing the huge inside-edge which again brought into question the absence of UDRS in the series. Laxman was shocked to hear the decision which reaction was repeated by Zaheer Khan on the very next ball leaving Vettori on a hat-trick. Now the matter was of Harbhajan’s century but he finished it with a Sehwag-like six over extra cover and moved to 101 from 95 and started celebrating his maiden century with a message from his close friend Sachin Tendulkar.

Harbhajan’s fierce innings came to an end by a miss-hit of Taylor’s high full toss and India ended their innings on 266 soon. When New Zealand came to bat they ended up for 22/1 when match was called a draw.

New Zealand had started hoping for a win with the start of the day but couldn’t break Motera’s jinx of no team chasing a target. However the question that was in the making whether New Zealand can take 20 wickets against the Indian’s was answered even though the match was a draw but New Zealand would be more than satisfied with their performance against the test no.1 team.

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McKay and Starc succeeded to end Aussie long losing Streak

Sri Lanka won the series but lost their last game of the series against the hosts which ended their seven match losing streak. McKay and Starc played a vital role in their victory with both of them picking up 9 wickets together. They have given Australia a boost which was much needed before the start of the Ashes series.

Despite a great performance from Sri Lanka they fell short of focus and temperament in their final game. McKay got his first five-wicket haul and Starc got his first four international wickets as Sri Lanka was reduced to 115 which showed that the pitch was seamer friendly. Sri Lankan skipper won the toss and elected to bat but their batsmen failed to fire in the last game with only 2 batsmen getting into the double figures. McKay’s three early blows left the guests bewildered with 14/3 in just five overs and soon after Starc got his first wicket but had to wait till his spell of nine overs to get his 4 wickets and the hosts were on the top from the start of the game. Sri Lanka was all out in just 32 overs as their much experienced batsmen failed on the occasion. The hosts had no problem getting past the guests score in just 22 overs. Shane Watson and Brad Haddin were just two casualties making 15 and 31 respectively both were sent off by Dilhara Fernando. Clarke who had a difficult time so far had something to smile about as he finished with an unbeaten 50 runs and finished the game for his team.

Sri Lanka won the series in the absence of Nuwan Kulasekara and Muttiah Muralitharan which is a great achievement for them but they will certainly be disappointed with their performance in the final game. Australia on the other hand would be really happy to end their losing streak of seven games and will be going into the Ashes with a positive frame of mind.

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Biography -Mohammad Asif

Mohammad Asif is the top rated bowler in the Pakistani Cricket team. Currently he is the second ranked Test bowler in ICC Test Player Rankings. Asif born in 'Sheikhupura, Punjab,Pakistan' on 20th December 1982.
His batting style is 'Left handed' and bowling style is 'right arm fast medium'. He support his team mainly as a bowler.Before his international career he played for the National Bank ,Khan Research labs,Sheikhupura,Quetta, Sialkot and Leicestershire in his domestic cricket life.Currently he also plays for 'Delhi DareDevils' in IPL-Indian Premium League.
Asif made his Test debut Against Australia in 2005 January.Asif was dropped from the team for several times,because of his poor performances and some other cases. Any way he has currently become more successful than before . He is responsible for some important records in cricket history. Asif is the first bowler who has bowled a maiden over in T2o-Twenty20 cricket and he took two wickets in that over.Asif took his 100th wicket in Test during 'Pakistan's tour toEngland' in 2010 July. Asif got married to Sania Hilal 02 March 2010.

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Biography -Graeme Smith

Graeme Craig Smith is a famous cricket player of South African team . Currently he is in top list among the Test batsmans in ICC,and he is also the captain of South African cricket team.
Smith was born in 'Johannesburg, Transvaal Province' in South Africa. He completed his education at 'King Edward VII School'.
Before his international career he played three test and seven ODI-one Day International for South Africa in 'Under 19 Cricket World cup'.Because of the excellent performance in the 2001-2002 South African cricket season he was awarded as the 'South African Cricketer of the Year'. He is well known as 'Biff' among the cricket lovers.
He played for 'Gauteng'-1999/2000,'Hampshire Cricket Board'-2000,' Western Province'-2000/01-2003/04,'Cape Cobras'- 2004/05-present and 'Somerset'-2005 in his domestic cricket life currently he is also playing for 'Rajasthan Royals' in IPL-Indian Premium League.
Smith got his successful test debut Against Australia scoring 286 runs on 8 March 2002 and also ODI debut on 30 March 2002. His ODI shirt number is 15.His batting style is 'Left- Handed' and Bowling style is 'Right arm Break off'.Currently he is the Opener and the Captain of the South African team and Sometimes also act as an occasional Off spinner .He is known for his successful opening partnership with 'Herschelle Gibbs' the most ever successful opening partnership in the International cricket ground. Smith was a part of four South Africa's opening partnerships of over 300. The important thing about these partnerships was, three times partnered by Herschelle Gibbs. He has also made world record partnership of 415 runs in Test cricket with 'Neil McKenzie ' against Bangladeshi Tem in 2008.
Smith was punished several times by the ICC-International Cricket council for various infringements,and once he was accused by 'Dwayne Bravo' (The well known West Indies All rounder ) for racial abuse ,but he was cleared from those allegations.
On 07 January 2009 Smith showed his unbeatable courage by attempting to save the 3d test in second innings with a broken hand,but he fell down on the remaining last ten balls.

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