BIOGRAPHY: SHAUN EDWARDS MARSH

Shaun Edward Marsh was born on 9^th July 1983 in Narrogine, Western Australia, Australia. He is the son of the legendary Aussie cricketer Geoff Marsh. He is a left-handed batsman and has represented the Australian cricket in all the three formats of the international cricket.

He is also known as the production of the under 19 cricket program of ICC. He represented the Aussie under-19 cricket team and was the leading run scorer in the world cup tournament held in New Zealand in 2001-02. He made his first class debut in 2001 against South Australia representing Western Australia.

Owing to the good form in the tournament in Australia he was selected in the 15 man squad of Kings XI Punjab in IPL season 2008. Although he missed the first four games if the tournament but still he was the leading scorer and was awarded the orange cap. Shaun Marsh was chosen in the inaugural IPL dream team chosen by the cricketing website Cricinfo along with cricket superstars such as Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara, Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne.

Owing to his outstanding performance he got the chance in his national team and made his T20 debut at 20^th June 2008 against West Indies at Bridgetown. He made his ODI debut on 28^th October 2008 against South Africa at Kings Mead Durban. He has scored 1274 runs in 36 ODI's and 108 runs in 7 T20s.

After a long wait of 3 years Shaun Marsh made his test debut on 16^th September 2011 against Sri Lanka and smashed the century on his debut. He became the 19^th player to score the century at the debut match. He has proved by his performances that he can play best when given the chance.

Shaun's younger brother Mitchell is also predicted to follow in his brother and father's footsteps.

BIOGRAPHY: ABDUR RAZZAQ

Abdur Razzaq was born on 2^nd December 1979 in Lahore in province Punjab, Pakistan. He is one of the best all-rounder of the world in the field of cricket and he is the proud of Pakistan. He made his debut in international cricket in 1996 against Zimbabwe at Karachi. He waits for three years to play the test cricket in 1999 against Aussies at Brisbane.

Razzaq has played 46 test matches and 227 ODI matches and scored 1946 and 5074 runs. He has grabbed 100 wickets in the tests and 248 in one day internationals. He also played 26 T20 internationals in which he made 346 runs and took 18 wickets.

He has an exceptional first-class record. He has represented the domestic teams such as Lahore Lions (Pakistan), Surrey, Kent, Hampshire, Worcestershire, Leicestershire (England). He has represented the Asian XI team in the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal charity match at Melbourne Cricket ground in 2005.

He is known as the youngest player to take the test hat-trick. He get his first and final five wicket haul in test match at Karachi against India.  His best test bowling figures is 5/35 and in ODI's is 6/35. His valuable performance at T20 world cup give Pakistan victory over Sri Lanka in the final and Pakistan won the world cup. He made smashing century at Abu Dhabi in 2010 series against South Africa in the second ODI. In that ODI Pakistan grab victory over SA.               

Recent performances of Razzaq had created the problems to the world of cricket as he has proven himself to be the dangerous all-rounder in the world.