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Rohit Sharma
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Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an Indian cricketer. He is a batsman and an occasional right-arm off break bowler who plays for Mumbai in domestic cricket. He is the captain of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, having started his international career at the age of 20, Sharma quickly came to be pegged by many analysts as a permanent fixture in the Indian cricket team in the next decade. He made his ODI debut on June 23,2007 against Ireland, in 2013, he started playing as an opening batsman for India ODI team, and performed consistently. He played 108 ODIs before playing his maiden Test, on 13 November 2014, Rohit Sharma scored 264 against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens, Kolkata, which is the highest individual score in ODIs. He has also scored 106 against South Africa in Twenty20 Internationals and he thus became the only player in the world to score two double hundreds in ODIs. Rohit Sharma is the skipper after MS Dhoni and Gautam Gambhir to lead his team to the IPL title twice. As per Forbes India 2015 Top 100 celebrities in India, Sharma is listed 8th in terms of fame, 46th in terms of income, Sharma was born on 30 April 1987 in Bansod, Nagpur, Maharashtra. His mother Purnima Sharma comes from Visakhapatnam and his father Gurunath Sharma worked as a caretaker of a transport firm storehouse. Sharma was raised by his grandparents and uncles in Borivali because of his fathers low income and he would visit his parents, who lived in a single-room house in Dombivli, only during weekends. He has a brother, Vishal Sharma. Sharma joined a camp in 1999 with his uncles money. His coach at the camp was Dinesh Lad who asked him to change his school to Swami Vivekanand International School, where Lad was the coach, Sharma recollects, I told him I couldnt afford it, but he got me a scholarship. So for four years I didnt pay a penny, and did well in my cricket, Sharma started as an off spinner who could bat a bit, before Lad noticed Sharmas batting abilities and promoted him from number eight to open the innings. He excelled in the Harris and Giles Shield school cricket tournaments, Rohit Sharma made his List A debut for West Zone against Central Zone in the Deodhar Trophy in March 2005, at Gwalior. It was his unbeaten innings of 142 in 123 balls against North Zone at Udaipur in the same tournament and this was before he had made his Ranji Trophy debut. He was also selected for the NKP Salve Challenger Trophy, Sharma made his First-class debut for India A against New Zealand A, at Darwin in July 2006. He made his Ranji Trophy debut for his First-class side Mumbai in the 2006/2007 season, though he was unable to contribute much in the initial matches, he scored 205 off 267 balls in the match against Gujarat
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Mahela Jayawardene
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Denagamage Praboth Mahela de Silva Jayawardene, known as Mahela Jayawardene, is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team. He is regarded as one of the greats of batsmanship. Jayawardenes highest test score,374 against South Africa is the highest test score by a right handed batsman in the history of test cricket and it is also regarded as the highest absolutely chance-less innings by a batsman in test cricket history. Jayawardene made his Test cricket debut in 1997 and his One Day International debut the following season, in 2006 he made the highest ever score by a Sri Lankan in Test cricket, scoring 374 in the second Test of Sri Lankas home series against South Africa. He has a test cricket average of over 50 and a One Day average in the 30s and he is the first player in the history of Sri Lankan cricket to score over 10,000 Test runs. Despite his relatively low ODI average, Jayawardene is considered to be one of the best batsmen produced by Sri Lanka. He is one of only four Sri Lankans—the others being Sanath Jayasuriya, Kumar Sangakkara and he scored 56 runs at that match, where his counterpart scored 221 runs. In 2006, Jayawardene was named by the International Cricket Council as the best international captain of the year and was nominated in 2007 as the best Test cricket player of the year. Statistics also reveal that c Jayawardene b Muralitharan is the most common combination in the history of Test cricket. Jayawardene also worked as an international TV commentator in the first test at Headingley on 19 May 2016 between England and Sri Lanka, Jayawardene was educated at one of the most prestigious schools of Sri Lanka, Nalanda College Colombo. At an early age Mahelas father, Senerath Jayawardene, introduced him to the Lionel Coaching Clinic run by Nondescripts Cricket Club in Cinnamon Gardens and it was there that he learned to play cricket. Jayawardene captained Nalanda College Colombo first XI cricket team in 1994 and he developed his talents through the school cricket team, eventually becoming captain. He was runner-up for the best schoolboy cricketer award during the 1994 cricketing season, domestically he has played for Sinhalese Sports Club since 1995. He was signed to play as a player for Derbyshire for the first half of the 2008 English cricket season. However, his commitments to Sri Lanka and involvement in the Indian Premier League prevented him from playing any part in the 2008 county season, Mahela Jayawardene is the 69th Sri Lanka Test Cap, having made his debut against India at Colombo in 1997. Jayawardene made his Test debut in the record breaking Test in 1997 against India at R. P. S, Jayawardene added 66 to Sri Lankas first innings score of 952/6, the highest Test score ever. He was at the crease when the previous highest Test score was surpassed, early in his career he scored 167 against New Zealand and 242 against India. Jayawardenes One Day International debut was against Zimbabwe at Premadasa in January 1998, Sri Lanka won the match, with Jayawardene hitting the winning run
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Mukesh Ambani
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He holds a 44. 7% stake in the company. RIL deals mainly in refining, petrochemicals, and in the oil, Reliance Retail Ltd. another subsidiary, is the largest retailer in India. He is the son of the late Dhirubhai Ambani and Kokilaben Ambani. In 2016, he was ranked 38, and is the only Indian businessman, as of 2016, Ambani has consistently held the title of Indias richest person on the magazines list for ten years. Through Reliance, he owns the Indian Premier League franchise Mumbai Indians. In 2012, Forbes named him one of the richest sports owners in the world and he resides at the Antilia Building, one of the worlds most expensive private residences. Its value is close to 1 billion dollars, as of 2015, Ambani ranked fifth among Indias philanthropists, according to China’s Hurun Research Institute. He has served on the board of directors of Bank of America and he was the chairman of the board of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, which is one of the leading business schools in India. Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani was born on 19 April 1957 to Dhirubhai Ambani and he has a younger brother, Anil Ambani, and two sisters, Dipti Salgaoncar and Nina Kothari. The Ambani family lived in a modest two-bedroom apartment in Bhuleshwar, Dhirubhai later purchased a 14-floor apartment block called Sea Wind in Colaba, where, until recently, Mukesh and Anil lived with their families on different floors. He attended the Hill Grange High School at Peddar Road, Mumbai, along with his brother and he received his BE degree in Chemical Engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga. Mukesh later enrolled for an MBA at Stanford University but discontinued the program to help his father build Reliance, in 1980, the Indian government under Indira Gandhi opened PFY manufacturing to the private sector. Dhirubhai Ambani applied for a license to set up a PFY manufacturing plant, in spite of stiff competition from Tatas, Birlas and 43 others, Dhirubhai was awarded the licence. To help him build the PFY plant, Dhirubhai pulled his eldest son Mukesh out of Stanford where he was studying for his MBA. Mukesh Ambani, then discontinued the program to help his father and initiated Reliances backward integration from textiles into polyester fibres and further into petrochemicals, Mukesh Ambani set up Reliance Infocomm Limited, which was focused on information and communications technology initiatives. In February 2014, an FIR has been filed against Mukesh Ambani for alleged irregularities in the pricing of gas from K G Basin. Arvind Kejriwal, who had a stint as Delhis chief minister and had ordered the FIR against has accused various political parties of being silent on the gas price issue. Kejriwal has asked both Rahul Gandhi and Narendra Modi to clear their stand on the gas pricing issue
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Nita Ambani
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Nita Dalal Mukesh Ambani is the chairperson and founder of Reliance Foundation and a non-executive director of Reliance Industries. She is a Philanthropist and sport lover, with a family fortune estimated in excess of USD$20 billion, she is reportedly Indias wealthiest woman. She is married to Reliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani and she is also an art collector and owner of the Mumbai Indians cricket team. She is the first Indian woman to become a member of the International Olympic Committee, nita Ambani was honoured by the Metropolitan Museum in New York for her work in philanthropy, education and promoting the arts. Nita Ambani was born on November 1,1963 in Mumbai to Ravindrabhai Dalal and she completed her bachelors degree in Commerce from Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics. She studied Bharata Natyam, and performed frequently, nita Ambani started out as the founder and chairperson of Reliance Foundation, the CSR arm of Reliance Industries. She is also the owner of Mumbai Indians, in 2014, she was elected to the board of Reliance Industries. Ambani is also the co-owner of Indian Premier League team, Mumbai Indians who won the Champions League T20 in 2011 and 2013 and and she has also led the ‘Education for All’ initiative as part of Mumbai Indians’ way of giving back to society. EFA has reached over 70,000 underprivileged children and created awareness for education using various media, on 3 June 2016, Ambani was among eight candidates nominated for membership in the International Olympic Committee by the Swiss-based panel. The election of new members was held during the 129th IOC Session in the first week of August 2016. Ambani was elected as a member of the IOC on 4 August 2016, Reliance Foundation website Dhirubhai Ambani International School
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Reliance Industries
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Reliance Industries Limited is an Indian conglomerate holding company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. Reliance owns businesses across India engaged in energy, petrochemicals, textiles, natural resources, retail, the company is ranked 215th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the worlds biggest corporations as of 2016. It is ranked 8th among the Top 250 Global Energy Companies by Platts as of 2016, the company was co-founded by Dhirubhai Ambani and his brother Champaklal Damani in 1960s as Reliance Commercial Corporation. In 1965, the partnership ended and Dhirubhai continued the business of the firm. In 1966, Reliance Textiles Industries Pvt Ltd was incorporated in Maharashtra and it established a synthetic fabrics mill in the same year at Naroda in Gujarat. In 1975, the company expanded its business into textiles, with Vimal becoming its major brand in later years, the company held its Initial public offering in 1977. The issue was over-subscribed by seven times, in 1979, a textiles company Sidhpur Mills was amalgamated with the company. In 1985, the name of the company was changed from Reliance Textiles Industries Ltd. to Reliance Industries Ltd, during the years 1985 to 1992, the company expanded its installed capacity for producing polyester yarn by over 145,000 tonnes per annum. The Hazira petrochemical plant was commissioned in 1991–92, in 1993, Reliance turned to the overseas capital markets for funds through a global depositary issue of Reliance Petroleum. In 1996, it became the first private company in India to be rated by international credit rating agencies. S&P rated Reliance BB+, stable outlook, constrained by the sovereign ceiling, moodys rated Baa3, Investment grade, constrained by the sovereign ceiling. In 1995/96, the company entered the industry through a joint venture with NYNEX, USA. In 1998/99, RIL introduced packaged LPG in 15 kg cylinders under the brand name Reliance Gas, the years 1998–2000 saw the construction of the integrated petrochemical complex at Jamnagar in Gujarat, the largest refinery in the world. In 2001, Reliance Industries Ltd. and Reliance Petroleum Ltd. became Indias two largest companies in terms of all major financial parameters, in 2001–02, Reliance Petroleum was merged with Reliance Industries. In 2002, Reliance announced Indias biggest gas discovery in nearly three decades and one of the largest gas discoveries in the world during 2002. The in-place volume of gas was in excess of 7 trillion cubic feet. This was the first ever discovery by an Indian private sector company, in 2002–03, RIL purchased a majority stake in Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Ltd. Indias second largest petrochemicals company, from Government of India, IPCL was later merged with RIL in 2008
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Mumbai
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Mumbai is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India and the ninth most populous agglomeration in the world, Mumbai lies on the west coast of India and has a deep natural harbour. In 2008, Mumbai was named a world city. It is also the wealthiest city in India, and has the highest GDP of any city in South, West, Mumbai has the highest number of billionaires and millionaires among all cities in India. The seven islands that came to constitute Mumbai were home to communities of fishing colonies, during the mid-18th century, Bombay was reshaped by the Hornby Vellard project, which undertook reclamation of the area between the seven islands from the sea. Along with construction of roads and railways, the reclamation project, completed in 1845. Bombay in the 19th century was characterised by economic and educational development, during the early 20th century it became a strong base for the Indian independence movement. Upon Indias independence in 1947 the city was incorporated into Bombay State, in 1960, following the Samyukta Maharashtra movement, a new state of Maharashtra was created with Bombay as the capital. Mumbai is the financial, commercial and entertainment capital of India and it is also home to some of Indias premier scientific and nuclear institutes like BARC, NPCL, IREL, TIFR, AERB, AECI, and the Department of Atomic Energy. The city also houses Indias Hindi and Marathi film and television industry, Mumbais business opportunities, as well as its potential to offer a higher standard of living, attract migrants from all over India, making the city a melting pot of many communities and cultures. The oldest known names for the city are Kakamuchee and Galajunkja, in 1508, Portuguese writer Gaspar Correia used the name Bombaim, in his Lendas da Índia. This name possibly originated as the Old Portuguese phrase bom baim, meaning good little bay, in 1516, Portuguese explorer Duarte Barbosa used the name Tana-Maiambu, Tana appears to refer to the adjoining town of Thane and Maiambu to Mumbadevi. Other variations recorded in the 16th and the 17th centuries include, Mombayn, Bombay, Bombain, Bombaym, Monbaym, Mombaim, Mombaym, Bambaye, Bombaiim, Bombeye, Boon Bay, and Bon Bahia. After the English gained possession of the city in the 17th century, Ali Muhammad Khan, imperial diwan or revenue minister of the Gujarat province, in the Mirat-i-Ahmedi referred to the city as Manbai. By the late 20th century, the city was referred to as Mumbai or Mambai in the Indian statewise official languages of Marathi, Konkani, Gujarati, Kannada and Sindhi, the Government of India officially changed the English name to Mumbai in November 1995. According to Slate magazine, they argued that Bombay was a corrupted English version of Mumbai, Slate also said The push to rename Bombay was part of a larger movement to strengthen Marathi identity in the Maharashtra region. A resident of Mumbai is called mumbaikar in the Marathi language, the term has been in use for quite some time but it gained popularity after the official name change to Mumbai. Mumbai is built on what was once an archipelago of seven islands, Bombay Island, Parel, Mazagaon, Mahim, Colaba, Worli and it is not exactly known when these islands were first inhabited
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Maharashtra
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Four Maharashtra is a state in the western region of India and is Indias second-most populous state and third-largest state by area. It is the wealthiest Indian state and it is also the worlds second-most populous sub-national entity. It has over 112 million inhabitants and its capital, Mumbai, has a population of approximately 18 million, Nagpur is Maharashtras second capital as well as its winter capital. Maharashtras business opportunities along with its potential to offer a standard of living attract migrants from all over India. Ancient and medieval Maharashtra included the empires of the Satavahana dynasty, Rashtrakuta dynasty, Western Chalukyas, Mughals, the major rivers of the state are Godavari, and Krishna. The Narmada and Tapti Rivers flow near the border between Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, Maharashtra is the second most urbanised state in India. The state has several popular Hindu places of pilgrimage including Pandharpur, Dehu and Alandi, other places that attract pilgrims from other parts of India and beyond include Hazur Sahib Gurudwara at Nanded, Sai Baba shrine at Shirdi and Dikshabhumi at Nagpur. Maharashtra is the wealthiest and one of the most developed states in India, as of 2011, the state had a per capita income of ₹1.0035 lakh, more than the national average of ₹0.73 lakh. Its GDP per capita crossed the ₹1.20 lakh threshold for the first time in 2013, however, as of 2014, the GDP per capita reduced to ₹1.03 lakh Agriculture and industries are the largest parts of the states economy. Major industries include chemical products, electrical and non-electrical machinery, textiles, petroleum, Jai Maharashtra The modern Marathi language developed from the Maharashtri Prakrit, and the word Mahratta is found in the Jain Maharashtri literature. The terms Maharashtra, Maharashtri, Marathi and Maratha may have derived from the same root, however, their exact etymology is uncertain. But the Marathas as a people do not seem to be mentioned before the thirteenth or fourteenth century, the most widely accepted theory among the linguistic scholars is that the words Maratha and Maharashtra ultimately derived from a combination of Maha and rashtrika. The word rashtrika is a Sanskritized form of Ratta, the name of a tribe or dynasty of petty chiefs ruling in the Deccan region. Another theory is that the term is derived from Maha and ratha / rathi, an alternative theory states that the term derives from the word Maha and Rashtra. However, this theory has not found acceptance among scholars who believe it to be the Sanskritised interpretation of later writers. Maharashtra was ruled by the Maurya Empire in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, around 230 BCE Maharashtra came under the rule of the Satavahana dynasty for 400 years. The greatest ruler of the Satavahana Dynasty was Gautamiputra Satakarni, in 90 CE Vedishri, son of the Satavahana king Satakarni, the Lord of Dakshinapatha, wielder of the unchecked wheel of Sovereignty, made Junnar, thirty miles north of Pune, the capital of his kingdom. The state was ruled by Western Satraps, Gupta Empire, Gurjara-Pratihara, Vakataka, Kadambas, Chalukya Empire, Rashtrakuta Dynasty, and Western Chalukya before finally
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Mumbai Indians
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The Mumbai Indians are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Mumbai, Maharashtra in the Indian Premier League. The franchise is owned by Indias biggest conglomerate, Reliance Industries, the primary home ground of the Mumbai Indians is the Wankhede Stadium. The Mumbai Indians are one of the most successful teams in the IPL and they won the 2011 Champions League Twenty20 after beating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 31 runs in the final. They won their second IPL title on 24 May 2015 by defeating the Chennai Super Kings by 41 runs in the final, the Mumbai Indians are currently captained by Rohit Sharma. Mahela Jayawardene has been appointed as the new coach of Mumbai Indians for the 2017 season. Sharma is the leading run scorer of the team while Lasith Malinga is the leading wicket-taker, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced in September 2007 the establishment of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition to be started in 2008. In January 2008, the BCCI unveiled the owners of eight city-based franchises, the Mumbai franchise was sold to the Reliance Industries Ltd for $111.9 million, making it the most expensive team in the league. RIL, owned by Mukesh Ambani acquired the rights to the franchise for a period of 10 years, the franchise was eventually named Mumbai Indians. The Indian Premier League named four players as players for their respective city franchises which made the players unavailable to play for any team other than their city team. Sachin Tendulkar was named Mumbais icon player, the icon player was also entitled to earn 15% more than the next-best paid player in their team. The franchise named Sachin Tendulkar as the captain of the team, however, Tendulkar was injured before the start of the 2008 season due to which Harbhajan Singh took over as the captain in the initial stage of the season. The team got off to a bad start in the losing their first four games by some comprehensive margins. Their first match was a defeat to the Royal Challengers Bangalore on 20 April 2008 at the Wankhede. Their stand-in captain, Harbhajan, was suspended from the tournament for reportedly slapping Sreesanth during Mumbais league match against Kings XI Punjab, after Harbhajans suspension, Shaun Pollock assumed the leadership duties until Tendulkars return on 24 May. Under Pollocks captaincy, Mumbai won six out of their six games which left them needing to win two more out of the remaining four matches to qualify for the semifinals. Mumbai suffered three defeats in the next three games, including two off the last ball, before winning their last league match. They finished fifth in the table with 7 wins and 7 losses. Before the start of the season, Mumbai Indians traded Robin Uthappa for Zaheer Khan with Royal Challengers Bangalore, Shaun Pollock retired after the first season and became the head coach of the team
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Wankhede Stadium
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The Wankhede Stadium is a cricket stadium in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The stadium now has capacity of 33,108, following renovations for the 2011 Cricket World Cup, before the upgrade, the capacity was approximately 45,000. The Wankhede stadium has been host to numerous high-profile cricket matches in the past, most notable being the 2011 Cricket World Cup Final, the stadium witnessed the last match of Sachin Tendulkars international career. Additionally, it has hosted many matches in both the 1996 as well as 2011 Cricket World Cup. The stadium is also the host to the match in which Ravi Shastri hit six sixes in an over Mumbai has seen Test matches played at three different grounds, the Bombay Gymkhana ground hosted the first ever Test in India, in 1933–34 against England. After World War II, the Cricket Club of India Ltds Brabourne Stadium – second ground of the city – was used for 17 Tests and this became severe after the Test between India and England in 1973. At the initiative of S. K. Wankhede, a politician, six months and opened in time for the final Test between India and the West Indies in 1975. Since then the Wankhede stadium has taken over from Brabourne Stadium as the main cricketing venue in the city and it was named after the Association’s President Barrister Sheshrao Wankhede in 1974. It staged its first Test in the 1974–75 season when the West Indies toured India, clive Lloyd scored an unbeaten 242 and in Pataudis last hurrah, India lost by 201 runs. The Test also featured a crowd disturbance after a fan who rushed onto the ground to greet Lloyd was treated roughly by the police, indias first victory here was posted against the New Zealand two seasons later. The highest score by an Indian at the Wankhede Stadium is Vinod Kamblis 224 against England in 1992–93 in only his third Test. Incidentally Ravi Shastris six sixes in an over off Barodas Tilak Raj in Ranji Trophy and his unbeaten 200 in 113 minutes off 123 balls with 13 fours and 13 sixes at this ground, is the fastest double century in first-class cricket ever since. The Wankhede Stadium was built in 1974 and the first Test match played was between India and West Indies from 23 to 28 January 1975, the Managing Committee invited presentations from reputed Architects and shortlisted M/s. Shashi Prabhu & Associates to jointly draw up a project for the redevelopment of the Wankhede Stadium. While redeveloping the Stadium, major changes were at the North end, while MCA undertook the redevelopment of Wankhede Stadium, the ground was not available for domestic and international cricket till February 2011. In order to ensure that MCA did not miss out the turn of Test and ODI matches, One of the highlights of the stadium is the suspended cantilever roofs. The Teflon fabric roof is lighter in weight and heat resistant, there is no beam support for the roof to ensure that the spectators will have a better view. On the roof there are exhaust fans which suck the hot air from the stands, the stadium has 20 elevators for North and South stands
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Brabourne Stadium
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The Brabourne Stadium is a cricket ground in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The ground is owned by the Cricket Club of India, Brabourne Stadium is Indias first permanent sporting venue. Brabourne Stadium hosted Test matches from 1948 to 1972, and was the venue for Bombay Pentangular matches from 1937 until 1946, after disputes over ticketing arrangements with the CCI, the Bombay Cricket Association built the Wankhede Stadium a few hundred metres north of Brabourne. After the Wankhede was built, Brabourne was no longer used for Test matches, apart from cricket, the ground has played host to tennis and football matches as well as music shows and concerts. Brabourne hosted a Test match in December 2009 after 36 years, the ground was home to the Mumbai Indians during the third season of the Indian Premier League in 2010. Several matches of the ICC Womens Cricket World Cup 2013 were held here, at its AGM in September 2013, the BCCI unanimously decided to allot international matches as per its rotation policy thereby bringing the ground back as a regular international venue. BCCI also used this stadium on 29 May 2014 for IPL playoffs that is eliminator between Mumbai Indians and Chennai Super Kings, in IPL2015 the venue was secondary home ground to the Rajasthan Royals. The CCI was incorporated as a company on 8 November 1933, during the MCCs 1933–34 tour of India, R. E. Grant Govan, the President of the BCCI, became the first President of the club. Anthony de Mello, the Secretary of the BCCI from its inception in 1928 until 1937, sir Nowroji Saklatwala was the first Chairman of club, who served till his death in 1938, who also donated a large sum for construction of pavilion of the stadium. Though the CCI was originally based in New Delhi, Mumbai was chosen as the location of its new ground as Mumbai was considered the home of cricket in India. Brabourne Stadium was built on 90,000 square yards of reclaimed land along Marine Drive near Churchgate railway station in South Mumbai and was Indias first permanent sporting venue. The negotiations for the land for the new ground took place between de Mello and the then Bombay governor Lord Brabourne. De Mello used the name of Antonio Piedade da Cruz, an artist from Goa who was painting Lord Brabourne at the time, in order to obtain a meeting. Brabourne chose immortality and the CCI was allotted 90,000 square yards at a price of ₹13.50 per square yard from land reclaimed in the Backbay reclamation scheme. Gregson, Batley and King were appointed the architects of the facility, the intention of the ground design was such that it be the Lords of India. The foundation stone was laid by Lord Brabourne on 22 May 1936, the ground was intended to provide covered accommodation for 35,000 spectators and contain pavilions, tennis courts, and a swimming pool. Frank Tarrant was the first groundsman, the first match was played on the incomplete ground in October 1937 between the CCI and the Spencer Cup XI. The ground was opened on 7 December 1937 by Roger Lumley, then Governor of Bombay, the ground was named after Brabourne at the suggestion of the Maharaja of Patiala
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Indian Premier League
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The Indian Premier League is a professional Twenty20 cricket league in India contested during April and May of every year by franchise teams representing Indian cities. The league was founded by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007, the title sponsor of the IPL in 2016 was Vivo Electronics, thus the league is officially known as the Vivo Indian Premier League. The current IPL title holders are Sunrisers Hyderabad, the IPL is the most-attended cricket league in the world and ranks sixth among all sports leagues. In 2010, the IPL became the first sporting event in the world to be broadcast live on YouTube, the brand value of IPL was estimated to be US$4.5 billion in 2015 by American Appraisal, A Division of Duff & Phelps. According to BCCI, the 2015 IPL season contributed ₹11.5 billion to the GDP of the Indian economy, Duff & Phelps added that the value of brand IPL has jumped to $4.16 billion after the 2016 edition, against $3.54 billion in 2015. The 19% jump is despite the fact that the US dollar to Indian rupee currency has depreciated by nearly 10%, the Indian Cricket League was founded in 2007, with funding provided by Zee Entertainment Enterprises. The ICL was not recognized by the Board of Control for Cricket in India or the International Cricket Council, businessman and cricket executive, Lalit Modi, was tasked by the BCCI to start a new Twenty20 league that would rival the Indian Cricket League. In early 2008, the BCCI announced the launch of the Indian Premier League, a new franchise based T20 league, the league was based on the Premier League of England and the NBA in the United States. In order to decide the owners for the new league, an auction was held on 24 January 2008 with the base prices of the franchises costing around $400 million. At the end of the auction, the bidders were announced, as well as the cities the teams would be based in, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Kolkata, Mohali. In the end, the franchises were all sold for a total of $723.59 million, the Indian Cricket League soon folded in 2008. On 21 March 2010, it was announced two new franchises – Pune Warriors India and Kochi Tuskers Kerala – would join the league before the fourth season in 2011. Sahara Adventure Sports Group bought the Pune franchise for $370 million while Rendezvous Sports World bought the Kochi franchise for $333.3 million. However, one later, on 11 November 2011, it was announced that the Kochi Tuskers Kerala side would be terminated following the side breaching the BCCIs terms of conditions. Then, on 14 September 2012, following the team not being able to find new owners, the BCCI announced that the 2009 champions, the Deccan Chargers, would be terminated. The next month, on 25 October, an auction was held to see who would be the owner of the replacement franchise, the team would be named Sunrisers Hyderabad. Then, on 8 December 2015, following an auction, it was revealed that Pune and Rajkot would replace Chennai, the teams are the Rising Pune Supergiants and the Gujarat Lions. Currently, with eight teams, each team plays each other twice in a home-and-away round-robin format in the league phase, at the conclusion of the league stage, the top four teams will qualify for the Playoffs
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2013 Indian Premier League
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The 2013 season of the Indian Premier League, abbreviated as IPL6 or Pepsi IPL2013, was the sixth season of the IPL, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007. The tournament featured nine teams and was held from 3 April to 26 May 2013, the opening ceremony was held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on 2 April 2013. This was the first season with PepsiCo as the title sponsor, the Kolkata Knight Riders were the defending champions, having won the 2012 season. A spot fixing case was revealed by Delhi Police, leading to arrest of three cricketers from Rajasthan Royals and other persons, Mumbai Indians won the tournament for the first time, defeating Chennai Super Kings in the final by 23 runs. PepsiCo replaced DLF Ltd as the title starting with the 2013 season. DLF did not renew their contract after their initial contract, for ₹2.50 billion. PepsiCos contract is ₹3968 million for five years, ending with the 2017 season. In response to questions about the higher costs compared to DLFs. However, Brand Finance had assessed the IPLs brand value to have fallen from $4.1 billion in 2010 to $2.9 billion in 2012, attributed to the decline in television ratings over the two years. Deccan Chargers, champions of the 2009 Indian Premier League, became the team to be terminated from the IPL after Kochi Tuskers Kerala. The owners failed to save the team after several attempts were made with the Bombay High Court, immediately after the Chargers termination, the BCCI invited bidders for a replacement team also based in Hyderabad. It was announced on 25 October 2012 that Sun TV Network won the bid at ₹850.5 million per year, the new team was named the Sunrisers Hyderabad. In October 2012, the teams were allowed to any number of their players from their contracts to reduce their player costs. The released players would have the option of entering the auction, the players auction was held on 3 February 2013, where 37 players were sold. Their deliberation was due to the tournaments dates clashing with the Bangladesh tour of Zimbabwe, regardless, both affected players, Shakib Al Hasan and Tamim Iqbal, missed the start of the tournament due to injury. Several South Africans missed the start of the tournament to play in the stage of the Ram Slam T20 Challenge. Two New Zealand players were released early by their teams to join the New Zealand tour of England, both players were not performing for their teams. Sri Lanka Cricket made a similar request to some of their players to join their preparations for the ICC Champions Trophy
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2015 Indian Premier League
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The tournament featured eight teams and was held from 8 April 2015 to 24 May 2015. The tournaments opening ceremony was held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata on 7 April 2015, Kolkata Knight Riders were the defending champions having won the title in the 2014 season. On 24 May 2015 in the Final at the Eden Gardens, Kolkata, Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma was awarded player of the match in the final for his knock of 50 from 26 balls. Andre Russell of the Knight Riders was named Most Valuable Player of the season, the eight franchises retained a total of 123 players for the 2015 IPL season before moving into the auction. The released players were provided an option to register themselves for auction, six players were traded across teams before the auction took place. At the 2015 IPL auction held on 16 February at Bangalore, Yuvraj Singh was sold to Delhi Daredevils for ₹16 crore, a total of 67 players were sold out in the auction and the franchises spent a total of ₹87.60 crore to buy the players. The 2015 IPL season saw 26 match officials,13 Indian umpires,26 match officials participated in a two-day workshop, organised by the BCCI, in preparation for the 2015 IPL season. The workshop was held at the Cricket Centre, Mumbai, on 4 and 5 April 2015,12 venues were selected to host the league stage matches. Mumbai, Pune and Ranchi hosted Qualifier 1, Eliminator and Qualifier 2 respectively, group Stage Playoffs BCCI started a new initiative IPL Fanpark to spread the reach of IPL across the country. As a part of the initiative, IPL was made available in the stadiums across 15 cities, apart from the 12 venues hosting the matches, the access to these stadiums was free and based on first-come first-served basis. The opening ceremony was held at the Salt Lake Stadium in Kolkata, the captains of all eight teams signed the MCC Spirit of Cricket pledge. The ceremony featured performances of Hrithik Roshan, Anushka Sharma, Farhan Akhtar. The ceremony began after a one and an hours delay due to rain. Source, Cricinfo The player with the most wickets at the end of the tournament receives the Purple Cap, Source, Cricinfo Source, Cricinfo Official website Tournament website on ESPN Cricinfo
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Champions League Twenty20
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The Champions League Twenty20, also referred to as the CLT20, was an annual international Twenty20 cricket competition played between the top domestic teams from major cricketing nations. The competition was launched in 2008 with the first edition held in October 2009 and it was jointly owned by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa, and was chaired by N. Srinivasan, who was also the chairman of the ICC. Sundar Raman was the Chief Operating Officer of the CLT20 as well as the IPL, the tournament was held between September and October for a period of two to three weeks in either India or South Africa. It had a prize pool of US$6 million, with the winning team receiving $2.5 million. The format involved the best teams from the premier Twenty20 competitions of eight Test-playing nations, favouring the teams from India, Australia, by shortening matches to around three hours, the format was designed to attract a younger crowd and boost attendances. Cricketing nations began adopting the format and creating domestic Twenty20 competitions and this was followed by the creation of international Twenty20 tournaments. The International 20,20 Club Championship was an attempt at an international Twenty20 club tournament. It was held in 2005 and featured domestic Twenty20 teams from three countries, domestic Twenty20 competitions began with Englands Twenty20 Cup in 2003. By 2006, most of the cricketing nations had created their own domestic Twenty20 competitions. However, all these competitions had a similar to their existing first-class and List A cricket counterparts. In 2008, the Indian Premier League was launched and achieved revolutionary success, the plans for the creation of the Champions League Twenty20 were first announced on 13 September 2007. The inaugural edition was to be held in October 2008, run by the boards of India, England, Australia and South Africa. England featured ICL players in many of their teams, including their domestic tournaments runners-up the Kent Spitfires, the BCCI decided to replace Kents slot with a team from Pakistan and was prepared to also replace the remaining England team. In response, ECB devised plans for their own Champions League, ECB eventually agreed to the terms from the BCCI. The CLT20 was founded by the BCCI, Cricket Australia and Cricket South Africa with one team from England and $6 million in prize money. Following this, another problem arose with the International Cricket Council over the tournament dates, which clashed with the ICC Champions Trophy, plans were also made for the second edition to be held in late 2009 with 12 teams. In November 2008, the tournament was put in jeopardy when Mumbai suffered terrorist attacks. In December 2008, it was pushed to September 2009
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2011 Champions League Twenty20
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The 2011 Champions League Twenty20 was the third edition of the Champions League Twenty20, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in India from 19 September to 9 October 2011 and it was the first edition after Nokia replaced Bharti Airtel as the tournaments title sponsor. The defending champions were the Chennai Super Kings, the Mumbai Indians emerged the winners of the tournament, defeating the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the final. David Warner from the New South Wales Blues won the Golden Bat Award, while Ravi Rampaul was awarded the Golden Wicket Award, the tournament was the first edition to feature a qualifying stage, which consists of six teams competing for three spots in the main tournament. The main tournament had the format as the previous year. It consists of 23 matches, and is divided into a group stage, if a match ends in a tie, a Super Over will be played to determine the winner. The group stage has the teams divided into two groups, with each playing a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advances to the advance to the knockout stage, the knockout stage consists of two semi-finals, with the top team of one group facing the second from the other. The winners of the play the grand final to determine the winners of the competition. Points awarded in the stage, Same as the previous tournaments. In addition to the money, each team in the main tournament receives a participation fee of $500,000. The prize money will be distributed as follows, $200,000 – Each team eliminated in the group stage $500,000 – Each semi-finalist $1.3 million – Runners-up $2, All players chose to play for their Indian Premier League team. The tournament rules state each team may only field four overseas players and they were allowed to field five overseas players as many of their Indian players were unable to play due to injury. Without the exception they would have been unable to construct a team of eleven, the tournament was hosted at three venues across India with the qualifying stage to be held at Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium. Both the Chennai Super Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore played some of their group matches at their home grounds. The Chennai Super Kings would play their semi-final in Chennai if they qualify, similarly, unless they play against the Chennai Super Kings, the Royal Challengers Bangalore would play their semi-final in Bengaluru if they qualify. A six-team qualifying stage was held in Hyderabad from 19 to 21 September, the teams were divided into two groups of three, with each playing a round-robin tournament. The top teams in group and the best performing team from the remaining teams qualified from this tournament
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2013 Champions League Twenty20
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The 2013 Champions League Twenty20 was the fifth edition of Champions League Twenty20, an international Twenty20 cricket tournament. It was held in India from 17 September to 6 October 2013, Sydney Sixers were the defending champions but they failed to qualify for the event. During the finals on 6 October 2013, in a re-match of the opening game, domestic Twenty20 competitions faced several setbacks in 2013. The Bangladesh Premier League included a spot-fixing scandal where seven individuals were charged and their problems with franchises missing their payments to players also continued and resulted in five franchises having their contracts conditionally terminated. The Indian Premier League also included a case where three players were among the 39 charged. This years Sri Lanka Premier League was cancelled after all franchises refused to pay their bank guarantees, all franchises had lost interest in participating in the tournament after they all made losses from the inaugural season. As a replacement, Sri Lanka Cricket created the Super 4s Twenty20 and it was the first time where a team is neither a club nor a franchise and, as such, the first time where a cricketing board directly receives the proceeds from the CLT20. In Australia, the Big Bash League continued to be a success and led to public interest in cricket. The Caribbean Premier League was created and had its first season in August 2013, billed as the ultimate cricket carnival, its major attraction was its unique party atmosphere and it was an immediate success with high attendance for all matches. Another attraction was the involvement of legends of West Indies cricket in coaching roles, both features were also used in the Caribbean Premier League. The tournament features a stage and group stage. The qualifying stage consists of four playing a round-robin tournament from which the top two teams qualify for the group stage. These two teams join the eight teams that received direct entry in the group stage, the group stage has the teams divided into two groups of five teams and each group plays a round-robin tournament. The top two teams of each group advances to the knockout stage, the knockout stage consists of two semi-finals, with the top team of one group facing the second from the other. The winners of the play the grand final to determine the winners of the competition. Matches ending with the level are decided by a Super Over. Points awarded in the qualifying and group stages, The winners of champions league got 1.5 million US dollars while the runners up got 1 million. England teams have indefinitely refused participation in the tournament starting with this due to its dates clashing with the end of the County Championship
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Cricket clothing and equipment
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Cricket clothing and equipment is regulated by the Laws of Cricket. Cricket clothing, known as whites, or flannels, is slightly loose fitting so as not to restrict players movements. Use of protective equipment, such as helmets, gloves and pads, is also regulated, collared shirt with short or long sleeves depending on the climate or personal preference. Jockstrap with cup pocket into which a box, or protective cup, is inserted, abdominal guard or box or an L Guard for male batsmen and wicket-keepers. It is usually constructed from high density plastic with a edge, shaped like a hollow half-pear. This is used to protect the genitals against impact from the ball, sun hats, cricket cap or baseball cap Spiked shoes to increase traction Helmet, worn by batsmen and fielders close to the batsman on strike to protect their heads. Leg pads, worn by the two batsmen and the wicket-keeper, used to protect the shin bone against impact from the ball, the wicket-keeping pads are slightly different from the batsmens. Fielders that are fielding in close to the batsmen may wear shin guards as well, thigh guard, arm guards, chest guard, and elbow guards to protect the body of the batsmen. Gloves for batsmen only, thickly padded above the fingers and on the thumb of the hand, usually includes webbing between the thumb and index fingers. Safety glasses, for wicket-keepers, to prevent damage to the eyes from dislodged bails impacting between the grill and peak of the helmet, batsmen are allowed to wear gloves while batting. The batsman can be caught out if the ball touches the glove instead of the bat. This is because the glove is considered to be the extension of the bat, the batsman may also wear protective helmets usually with a visor to protect themselves. Helmets are usually employed when facing fast bowlers, while playing spinners, it might not be employed. Fielders cannot use gloves to field the ball, if they wilfully use any part of their clothing to field the ball they may be penalised 5 penalty runs to the opposition. If the fielders are fielding close to the batsman, they are allowed to use helmets, as the wicket-keeper is positioned directly behind the batsman, and therefore has the ball bowled directly at him, he is the only fielder allowed to wear gloves and leg guards. Ball – A red, white or pink ball with a cork base, the ball should have a circumference of 9.1 in unless it is a childrens size. Bat – A wooden bat is used, the wood used is from the Kashmir or English willow tree. The bat cannot be more than 38 inches long and 4.25 inches wide, the bat has a long handle and one side has a smooth face
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Cricket
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Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard-long pitch with a wicket at each end. One team bats, attempting to score as many runs as possible, each phase of play is called an innings. After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a number of overs have been completed, the innings ends. The winning team is the one that scores the most runs, including any extras gained, at the start of each game, two batsmen and eleven fielders enter the field of play. The striker takes guard on a crease drawn on the four feet in front of the wicket. His role is to prevent the ball hitting the stumps by use of his bat. The other batsman, known as the non-striker, waits at the end of the pitch near the bowler. A dismissed batsman must leave the field, and a teammate replaces him, the bowlers objectives are to prevent the scoring of runs and to dismiss the batsman. An over is a set of six deliveries bowled by the same bowler, the next over is bowled from the other end of the pitch by a different bowler. If a fielder retrieves the ball enough to put down the wicket with a batsman not having reached the crease at that end of the pitch. Adjudication is performed on the field by two umpires, the laws of cricket are maintained by the International Cricket Council and the Marylebone Cricket Club. Traditionally cricketers play in all-white kit, but in limited overs cricket they wear club or team colours. In addition to the kit, some players wear protective gear to prevent injury caused by the ball. Although crickets origins are uncertain, it is first recorded in south-east England in the 16th century and it spread globally with the expansion of the British Empire, leading to the first international matches in the mid-19th century. ICC, the governing body, has over 100 members. The sport is followed primarily in Australasia, Britain, the Indian subcontinent, southern Africa, womens cricket, which is organised and played separately, has also achieved international standard. A number of words have been suggested as sources for the term cricket, in the earliest definite reference to the sport in 1598 it is called creckett. One possible source for the name is the Old English cricc or cryce meaning a crutch or staff, in Samuel Johnsons Dictionary, he derived cricket from cryce, Saxon, a stick
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Royal Challengers Bangalore
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The Royal Challengers Bangalore are a franchise cricket team based in Bangalore, Karnataka, that plays in the Indian Premier League. One of the eight teams in the IPL, the team has made three final appearances in the IPL, losing all of them. The team also finished runners-up in the 2011 CLT20, the home ground of the Royal Challengers is the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore. The team is captained by Virat Kohli and coached by Daniel Vettori. Indian Premier League is a tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. For the inaugural tournament held in April–June 2008, the BCCI had finalised a list of 8 teams who will be participating in the tournament. This was the second highest bid for a team in the IPL, the players in the team, were selected in an auction conducted by BCCI on 20 February 2008. South Africas Jacques Kallis at $900,000 became the costliest player to be selected to play for the Royal Challengers and this meant that Rahul Dravid, being the Icon Player would be paid $1,035,000. The team also included Pakistan cricket teams vice captain Misbah-ul-Haq although he wasnt in the playing 11 for most part of the tournament, the team won only 4 matches in the inaugural season, losing 10 matches and finishing second from the bottom in the table. The string of failures midway through the season led to the sacking of the CEO, Even coach Venkatesh Prasad was reportedly about to be sacked, but he saved his job by publicly apologising for the teams failure. Vijay Mallya went on to publicly criticise Dravid and Sharma for the failures by saying that they had not selected the right team and he regretted that he had made a mistake by not getting involved in the selection of the team. They were the team in the IPL to try out 11 opening combinations in 14 games. Eventually the chief cricketing officer, Martin Crowe resigned and it was decided that from 2009 IPL session onwards the team would be coached by former South Africa coach Ray Jennings. Kevin Pietersen made his way into RCB as one of the costliest players in IPL, Kevin Pietersen was valued at $1. 55m over a base price of $1. 35m. Also Jesse Ryder from New Zealand was acquired in the auction at $160,000, on the last day of the 2008–2009 transfer window, Zaheer Khan was swapped with Robin Uthappa of Mumbai Indians, with no money exchanged. The team also acquired Karnataka batsman Manish Pandey from Mumbai Indians, the team also signed Eagles fast bowler Dillon du Preez as a replacement for Zaheer Khan. Vijay Mallya, the owner of Bangalore Royal Challengers, had kept the captaincy options open, minutes after picking up Kevin Pietersen at USD1.55 million, Mallya said he was happy with the price he got him at. The team management will take a decision on it, the Royal Challengers, who finished second to last the previous year, were led by Rahul Dravid
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Chennai Super Kings
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The Chennai Super Kings are a franchise cricket team based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, that played in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008, the team played its matches at the M. A. Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Prior to the suspension, the team was captained by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the Super Kings were the most successful team in the IPL with a win percentage of 60.68 and had won the title twice in succession. In 2010, they won the Champions League Twenty20 for the first time, the leading run-scorer of the team is Suresh Raina, while the leading wicket-taker is Ravichandran Ashwin. The brand value of the Super Kings in 2015 was estimated at $67 million, in September 2007, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced the establishment of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition to be started in 2008. In January 2008, the BCCI unveiled the owners of eight city-based franchises, the Chennai franchise was sold to the India Cements for $91 million, making it the fourth most expensive team in the league behind Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. India Cements acquired the rights to the franchise for 10 years, former ICC Chairman N. Srinivasan was the de facto owner of the Chennai Super Kings, by means of his position as the vice-chairman and managing director of India Cements Ltd. Dhoni became the costliest player of the auction, as the Chennai franchise bought him for $1.5 million, the franchise named Dhoni as the captain of the team and appointed Kepler Wessels as the head coach. They played their first game on 19 April 2008 against Kings XI Punjab at Mohali, the Super Kings won the game by 33 runs after posting 240/5 in 20 overs, which was the highest total of the tournament, a record surpassed by themselves in 2010. The Super Kings ended the league stage with eight wins from 14 games and they beat the Kings XI Punjab by 9 wickets in the semifinal. The Super Kings faced the Rajasthan Royals in the final of the IPL at Mumbai, batting first, the Super Kings scored 163/5 in 20 overs and lost the game by 3 wickets off the final delivery of the match. However, Flintoff played only 3 matches for them before suffering an injury that ruled him out of the season. The Super Kings were also without the services of Hussey who had decided to skip the IPL season to focus on The Ashes, the Super Kings finished with 17 points from 14 matches and earned a second place at the league table. However, at the semi-finals, their hopes of entering the final for a time were crushed by the Royal Challengers who beat them by 6 wickets. In 2010, the Super Kings struggled in the first half of the regular season and they won four of their next five games in the season mainly due to the efforts of Murali Vijay and Suresh Raina. After a defeat at home to the Delhi Daredevils, the Super Kings were left with a match against Kings XI Punjab at Dharamsala. The Super Kings won the match by six wickets as they chased down the target of 193 with two balls to spare with skipper Dhoni scoring an unbeaten 54 from 29 balls. Thus, with seven wins from 14 matches, Chennai finished with the number of points as three other teams with two semi-final spots at stake
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Rajasthan Royals
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The Rajasthan Royals is a cricket team in the Indian Premier League from the city of Jaipur, suspended till the 2017 season. Founded in 2008 as one of the initial eight IPL franchises, the team played its home matches at the Sawai Mansingh Stadium in Jaipur and also had secondary home grounds at the Sardar Patel Stadium at Ahmedabad and the Brabourne Stadium at Mumbai. The Royals are sometimes considered the Moneyball team of the IPL, the Royals are known to unearth obscure exciting talent. The team won the edition of the IPL under the captaincy of Shane Warne, despite being written off as a title contender by the media. The Royals were also the runners-up of the 2013 Champions League Twenty20 under Rahul Dravids captaincy, Shane Watson is the only player to lead most runs, most wickets, highest score, highest batting average, most sixes, for a team in T20. Also the only player to win man of the tournament in IPL twice, the Board of Control for Cricket in India announced in September 2007 the establishment of the Indian Premier League, a Twenty20 competition to be started in 2008. In January 2008, the BCCI unveiled the owners of eight city-based franchises, the team is one of the eight founding members of the IPL in 2008. The Jaipur franchise was sold to the Emerging Media for $67 million, the franchise is currently owned and chaired by Manoj Badale. Other investors include Ryan Tkalcevic, Lachlan Murdoch, Aditya S Chellaram, the Group acquired the franchise for $67million. Incidentally, this was the least expensive franchise in the Indian Premier League and it made a pre-tax profit of $7.5 million in 2009. In 2010, the BCCI decided to expel Kings XI Punjab, the expulsion baffled captain Shane Warne who stated that he suspected that there might be some foul play and that the BCCI might possess some ulterior motives. The Rajasthan Royals however filed an appeal against the decision and the two went to the Mumbai High Court to decide The Mumbai high-court adjourned that case until 29 October 2010. The six-week period included the auction in which Rajasthan Royals participated. After this the Bombay High Court rejected the appeals of the BCCI against keeping the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL for six-weeks while the case was sorted out, in 2015 the team was banned for two years following the Lodha Panel inquiry. Rajasthan Royals became the source of controversy when inappropriate and fictitious bids were made, ranjit Barthakur and Fraser Castellino were the only two shareholders of the Jaipur IPL, completely unknown to the BCCI at the time. An out of settlement between the two later ensued. In 2015 Rajasthan Royals were banned for two years by the BCCI, with its owner Raj Kundera banned for life. Prior to the start of the inaugural IPL season, many considered the Royals as possibly the weakest team in the IPL, evidence of the latter opinion seemed to be confirmed when the team lost its first match against the Delhi Daredevils in a 9 wicket loss
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2015 Indian Premier League Final
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The 2015 Indian Premier League Final was a day/night Twenty20 cricket match between the Mumbai Indians and the Chennai Super Kings, played on 24 May 2015, at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. It was held to determine the winner of the 2015 season of the Indian Premier League and it was the third time these two teams met in the final, having previously played each other in the 2010 and 2013 finals. Mumbai defeated Chennai by 41 runs to win their second IPL title and their previous IPL victory had come at the same venue against the same opposition in 2013. Chennai were playing their sixth IPL final, attempting to win their third title, Mumbai captain Rohit Sharma was awarded man of the match for his innings of 50. The final was sold out, with an attendance of around 67,000 people. Chennai and Mumbai were ranked first and second respectively on the league table, apart from a defeat to the Rajasthan Royals, Chennai had a successful first half of the league stage, having won six out of seven matches. They suffered a loss of form in the seven games of the second half in which they managed three wins and finished at the top of the table with 18 points. During the league stage, Chennai successfully defended low totals like 150,134 and 148, Chennai bowlers Dwayne Bravo and Ashish Nehra produced consistent bowling performances throughout the tournament, with the former holding on to the Purple Cap for most wickets during the season. Chennais most prolific batsman of the season Brendon McCullum had to depart for England on national duty at the conclusion of the league stage, Mumbai began the season with five defeats in their first six matches, including four on the trot at the start of the season. At this time, their opener Aaron Finch was ruled out of the tournament with an injury, after which Mumbai found success with their new opening combination of Parthiv Patel and they averaged more than 50 for the first wicket, making them the best opening pair of the tournament. Mumbai went on to win seven of their last eight matches, including five wins in succession, in the two group stage matches between Mumbai and Chennai, both teams lost at home. Chennai started strongly in the run-chase with a 109-run opening stand between McCullum and Dwayne Smith, McCullum was dismissed for 46 and soon Smith followed with 62. Suresh Raina then came up with an unbeaten 43 to take Chennai to a six-wicket win, in their second encounter, Chennai could put up a total of 158 for 5 mainly due Pawan Negis innings of 36 off 17 balls and an unbeaten 39 by captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni. Mumbai were at a position of 84 for no loss at the end of their first 10 overs. They lost Rohit Sharma in the 18th over and were left with 30 runs to score from the last two overs, Hardik Pandya struck three sixes in the 19th over which yielded 25 runs. Mumbai then sealed the win six wickets and four balls to spare and this was Mumbais fifth consecutive win of the season and Chennais first defeat at the Chepauk since 2013. The playoff stage is played according to the playoff system and provided Chennai and Mumbai, being the top- and second-ranked teams. They first faced each other in Qualifier 1 where the winners would qualify for the Final, the losers of Qualifier 1 would play against the winners of the Eliminator in Qualifier 2, the winners of which would also qualify for the Final
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Lasith Malinga
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Separamadu Lasith Malinga is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer and 2014 ICC World Twenty20 winning captain. He was the captain of Twenty20 International side for Sri Lanka, until 7 March 2016, on 22 April 2011, he announced his retirement from Test cricket. He bowls around a speed of 140 km/h and his fastest ball was clocked at 155.7 km/h in 2011, which is still tied for the 4th fastest speed amongst active bowlers as of 3 January 2015. Malinga is known for his ability to bowl yorkers and slower bowls to restrict scoring in the overs of games. He is the second highest wicket taker in all Twenty20 cricket just after Dwayne Bravo, Malinga grew up in modest circumstances in Rathgama, a coastal village situated 12 km northwest of Galle. He often played cricket with friends on the banks and coconut groves by a river in his cricket-obsessed village. He had his education at three schools, namely Mahinda College, Galle, Vidyaloka College, Galle and Vidyathilake Vidyalaya, Malinga had his primary education at Vidyathilake Vidyalaya in Thiranagama, a school situated near by his village. After passing the grade 5 Scholarship Examination in 1993, he entered Vidyaloka College, Galle for his secondary education, here Malinga was discovered by former Sri Lankan paceman Champaka Ramanayake. Champaka, so impressed by Malingas raw ability, invited him to join the Galle Cricket Club, Champaka also helped him to join the first XI cricket team of Mahinda College, Galle. A short-lived attempt to make Malingas action more upright led to much reduced pace, Malinga promptly returned to his natural action with success, and with great encouragement from Ramanayake. Malingas action has attracted great comment, the cricket reference text Wisden has noted that Malingas delivery action is similar to slinging. Resulting to his nickname Slinga Malinga, Malinga has said that his unique round-arm bowling action was a result of learning to play cricket exclusively with a tennis ball. Typically, younger bowlers are encouraged to deliver the ball with their arm near vertical to remove or reduce direction variables, Malinga made his Test debut on 1 July 2004 against Australia at Marrara Oval In Darwin. He developed into Sri Lankas fastest Test bowler and a member of both their Test and One Day International sides. He has earned a reputation for troubling batsmen with his lively pace and he regularly bowls at speeds between 140 and 150 km/h and sometimes slightly faster. As time went by he started to lose pace clocking around 130 to 140 km/h and his slower off cutter was also menacing. He burst onto the test scene after ripping through the New Zealand top order and he announced his retirement from Test cricket on 22 April 2011 in order to prolong his career in ODI and T20 cricket. Malinga made his ODI debut in Sri Lankas opening match of the 2004 Asia Cup against the United Arab Emirates, easily winning the match by 116 runs, Malinga took the wicket of the Emirati captain, Khurram Khan to the finish the match with figures of 1/39
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Wicket
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In the sport of cricket, the wicket is one of the two sets of three stumps and two bails at either end of the pitch. The wicket is guarded by a batsman who, with his bat, the origin of the word is from wicket gate, a small gate. Historically, cricket wickets had only two stumps and one bail and looked like a gate, the third stump was introduced in 1775. Through metonymic usage, the dismissal of a batsman is the taking of a wicket, and the cricket pitch is sometimes called the wicket. The size and shape of the wicket has changed several times during the last 300 years and its dimensions and placing is now determined by Law 8 in the Laws of Cricket, thus, Law 8, the wicket consists of three wooden stumps that are 28 inches tall. The stumps are placed along the crease with equal distances between each stump. They are positioned so they are 9 inches wide, two wooden bails are placed in shallow grooves on top of the stumps. The bails must not project more than 0.5 inches above the stumps, there are also specified lengths for the barrel and spigots of the bail. There are different specifications for the wickets and bails for junior cricket, the umpires may dispense with the bails if conditions are unfit. Further details on the specifications of the wickets are contained in Appendix A to the laws, losing a wicket refers to a batsman getting out. If dismissed by a bowler, the bowler is said to have taken his wicket, the number of wickets taken is the primary measure of a bowlers ability. For a batsman to be dismissed by being bowled, run out, stumped or hit wicket, what this means is defined by Law 28 of the Laws of cricket. Crickets wicket is put down if a bail is removed from the top of the stumps, or a stump is struck out of the grounds by the ball, the strikers bat, the strikers person. The wicket is put down if a fielder pulls a stump out of the ground in the same manner. If one bail is off, removing the remaining bail or striking or pulling any of the three out of the ground is sufficient to put the wicket down. A fielder may remake the wicket, if necessary, in order to put it down to have an opportunity of running out a batsman. The sequence of time over which two particular batsmen bat together, a partnership, is referred to as a specifically numbered wicket when discriminating it from other partnerships in the innings. The first partnership is from the start of the innings until one of the first two batsmen gets out, the second wicket partnership is from when the third batsman gets in until a second batsman gets out
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Board of Control for Cricket in India
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The Board of Control for Cricket in India is the national governing body for cricket in India. The board was formed in December 1928 as a society, registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act, in 1912, an all-India cricket team visited England for the first time, sponsored and captained by the Maharaja of Patiala. In 1926, two representatives of the Calcutta Cricket Club travelled to London to attend meetings of the Imperial Cricket Conference, although technically not an official representative of Indian cricket, they were allowed to attend by Lord Harris, chairman of the conference. The outcome of the meeting was the MCCs decision to send a team to India, led by Arthur Gilligan, who had captained England in The Ashes. A consensus was reached to create a board for control of cricket in India and on 10 December 1927, in December 1928, the BCCI was registered under the Tamil Nadu Societies Registration Act with six associations affiliated to it. R E Grant Govan was elected as its first president and Anthony de Mello as secretary, with the surge of cricket in India, BCCI has become rather notorious for its monopoly and has been amidst corruption allegations. In 2009, the ICC and BCCI were in disagreement over the WADA, BCCI was also against the Umpire Decision Review System proposed by the ICC. The ECB, Cricket Australia and the BCCI are regarded as crickets Big Three economic players, BCCI does not depend on the Government of India for its finances. The global media rights for cricket to be held in India were awarded to Rupert Murdoch-led production house Star India for ₹3,851 crore for six years. Official kit sponsorship rights for 5 years from 2010 to 2013 inclusive were awarded to Nike for US$43 Million, while Air Sahara became the official Indian cricket team sponsor for a period of four years at a cost of US$70 Million. The media rights for 25 neutral venue one-day matches to be played over the next 5 years were awarded to Zee Telefilms for US$219.16 million, BCCI had avoided taxes on its income, claiming exemption as a charitable organisation. Although the Income Tax Department withdrew this exemption in 2007-08, BCCI only paid tax amounting to ₹41
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Twenty20
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Twenty20 cricket, sometimes written Twenty-20, and often abbreviated to T20, is a short form of cricket. At the professional level, it was introduced by the England and Wales Cricket Board in 2003 for the inter-county competition in England. In a Twenty20 game the two teams have a single innings each, which is restricted to a maximum of 20 overs, a typical Twenty20 game is completed in about three hours, with each innings lasting around 75–90 minutes and a 10–20-minute interval. This is much shorter than previously-existing forms of the game, and is closer to the timespan of other team sports. It was introduced to create a form of the game which would be attractive to spectators at the ground. Since its inception the game has very successful resulting in its spread around the cricket world. On most international tours there is at least one Twenty20 match, the inaugural ICC World Twenty20 was played in South Africa in 2007 with India winning by five runs against Pakistan in the final. Pakistan won the tournament in 2009, and England won the title in the West Indies 2010. West Indies won in 2012, with Sri Lanka winning the 2014 tournament, West Indies are the reigning champions, winning the 2016 competition, and in doing so, became the first nation to win the tournament twice. When the Benson & Hedges Cup ended in 2002, the ECB needed another one day competition to fill its place, cricketing authorities were looking to boost the games popularity with the younger generation in response to dwindling crowds and reduced sponsorship. It was intended to deliver fast paced, exciting cricket accessible to thousands of fans who were put off by the versions of the game. Stuart Robertson, the manager of the ECB, proposed a 20 over per innings game to county chairmen in 2001. The first official Twenty20 matches were played on 13 June 2003 between the English counties in the Twenty20 Cup, the first season of Twenty20 in England was a relative success, with the Surrey Lions defeating the Warwickshire Bears by 9 wickets in the final to claim the title. Thirteen teams from different parts of the participated in Pakistans inaugural competition in 2004. On 12 January 2005 Australias first Twenty20 game was played at the WACA Ground between the Western Warriors and the Victorian Bushrangers and it drew a sell-out crowd of 20,000, which was the first time in nearly 25 years the ground had been completely sold out. Starting 11 July 200619 West Indies regional teams competed in what was named the Stanford 20/20 tournament, the event was financially backed by billionaire Allen Stanford, who gave at least US$28,000,000 funding money. It was intended that the tournament would be an annual event, guyana won the inaugural event, defeating Trinidad and Tobago by 5 wickets, securing US$1,000,000 in prize money. On 5 January 2007 Queensland Bulls played the New South Wales Blues at The Gabba, a crowd of 11,000 was expected based on pre-match ticket sales
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Icon player
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Icon player is a status given to an athlete to indicate that they are the most valued player in the team. The title is most commonly used in cricket, particularly in the Indian Premier League. The status can sometimes denote that the player will be among the first to be drafted or auctioned in the league, Icon player was a status given to five players of the Indian Premier League. They were not a part of the first IPL players auction and they played for the team they were assigned to. The icon players received 15% percent more money than the highest paid player of the team bought in the auction. As of the 2010 season, the clause pertaining to players has been removed on account of complaints by franchises with icon players that having these players was a handicap in the player auction. Later, on the request of Delhi Daredevils, Virender Sehwags name was added to the list, for example, the presence of Sachin Tendulkar as an icon player was cited as the main reason why Mumbai Indians could not compete with Chennai Super Kings for Mahendra Singh Dhoni. The Icon player status was given to five players in the first season of the Pakistan Super League, the five players would be the first five to be drafted in the league so that every team would have an Icon player. The title was not exclusive to Pakistani players and three out of the five players were foreigners
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Sachin Tendulkar
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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is a former Indian cricketer and captain, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time. Later in his career, Tendulkar was a part of the Indian team that won the 2011 World Cup and he had previously been named Player of the Tournament at the 2003 edition of the tournament, held in South Africa. In 2013, he was the only Indian cricketer included in an all-time Test World XI named to mark the 150th anniversary of Wisden Cricketers Almanack. After a few hours of his match on 16 November 2013. He is the youngest recipient to date and the first ever sportsperson to receive the award and he also won the 2010 Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy for cricketer of the year at the ICC awards. In 2012, Tendulkar was nominated to the Rajya Sabha, the house of the Parliament of India. He was also the first sportsperson and the first person without a background to be awarded the honorary rank of group captain by the Indian Air Force. In 2012, he was named an Honorary Member of the Order of Australia, in December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs. Tendulkar played 664 international cricket matches in total, scoring 34,357 runs, Tendulkar was born at Nirmal Nursing Home in Dadar, Bombay on 24 April 1973 in a Maharashtrian family. His father, Ramesh Tendulkar, was a well-known Marathi novelist and his mother, Rajni, Ramesh named Tendulkar after his favourite music director, Sachin Dev Burman. Tendulkar has three siblings, two half-brothers Nitin and Ajit, and a half-sister Savita. They were Rameshs children from his first marriage, although, Sachin has not mentioned this even in his autobiography. He spent his years in the Sahitya Sahawas Cooperative Housing Society in Bandra. As a young boy, Tendulkar was considered a bully, and he also showed an interest in tennis, idolising John McEnroe. To help curb his mischievous and bullying tendencies, Ajit introduced him to cricket in 1984 and he introduced the young Sachin to Ramakant Achrekar, a famous cricket coach and a club cricketer of repute, at Shivaji Park, Dadar. In the first meeting, the young Sachin did not play his best, Ajit told Achrekar that he was feeling self-conscious due to the coach observing him, and was not displaying his natural game. Ajit requested the coach to give him another chance at playing and this time, Sachin, apparently unobserved, played much better and was accepted at Achrekars academy. Ajit is ten years elder and is credited by Sachin for playing a role in his life
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2008 Indian Premier League
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The 2008 Indian Premier League season was the debut season of the Indian Premier League, established by the BCCI in 2007. The season commenced on 18 April 2008 with the match held on 1 June 2008. The competition started with a round robin group stage, in which each of the 8 teams played a home match. These matches were followed by two semi-finals and a final, sohail Tanvir won the purple cap for being the top wicket-taking bowler while Shaun Marsh won the orange cap for leading run-scorer in the tournament. Shreevats Goswami was awarded the best under-19 player award and the award for Fair Play was won by the Chennai Super Kings. Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly, Rahul Dravid, Yuvraj Singh and they will play for the franchises representing their home towns and hence did not enter the auction. Few players were classified as marquee players and the teams which lost out on icon players were allowed one extra player to be selected in the auction. The auctions were conducted on 20 February 2008 with Mahendra Singh Dhoni winning the highest bid of US$1.5 million. Points in the stage were awarded as follows, In the event of tied scores after both teams have faced their quota of overs, a bowl-out will determine the winner, even in the group stage. Tournaments leading scorer wore a cap when fielding. Minimum 150 runs scored, minimum 7 innings played Tournaments leading wicket taker wore a cap when fielding. Minimum 20 overs bowled Most MOMs On 5 June 2008, Cricinfo announced what it referred to as the pick of the IPL crop in its short-form all-star XI for the IPL. Two cheerleaders from London were asked to leave the ground at Mohali because of the colour of their skin by Wizcraft International Entertainment, both the girls also allege that an employee referred to them with the racial slur ″nigger″. Board of Control for Cricket in India said a probe would be initiated by the IPL only if the two women officially complain to IPL commissioner Lalit Modi. BCCI and IPL officials are surprised that the two cheerleaders did not complain about the alleged racist behaviour while they were in India and spoke about it only after they returned to London. P. On 25 April 2008, following the Kings XI Punjabs victory over the Mumbai Indians at Mohali, Punjab player Sreesanth was slapped under his eye by Harbhajan Singh, the incident came to light as Sreesanth was caught by TV cameras sobbing inconsolably on the field before the presentation ceremony. Sreesanth had since downplayed the incident saying he had no complaints against Harbhajan who was like a brother to him. Harbhajans team had lost their third match when he apparently reacted violently to Sreesanths approaching him
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Sanath Jayasuriya
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Deshabandu Sanath Teran Jayasuriya is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and a former captain of the Sri Lankan national cricket team. Considered as one of the greatest ODI players of all time, Jayasuriya is well known for his powerful striking, Jayasuriya was also the captain of the Sri Lankan cricket team from 1999 to 2003. He retired from Test cricket in December 2007 and from limited overs cricket in June 2011, on 28 January 2013, Sri Lanka Cricket appointed him as the chairman of cricket selection committee. Sri Lanka won the ICC World Twenty20 for the first time in 2014, Jayasuriya ran for public office at the 2010 Sri Lankan general elections and was elected to the parliament from his native Matara District. He topped the UPFA parliamentary election list for Matara district by obtaining 74,352 preferential votes, Jayasuriya did not contest for the 2015 Sri Lankan general election, though he won most votes from Matara district under UPFA in the 2010 Sri Lankan general election. Sanath Jayasuriya was born in the Southern Sri Lankan city of Matara, to the family of Dunstan and he has an elder brother, Chandana Jayasuriya. He was educated at St. Servatius College, Matara, where his talents were nourished by his school principal, G. L. Galappathy. He excelled in cricket while at St. Servatius College, Matara, Jayasuriya was picked as the Observer Schoolboy Cricketer of the Year in the Outstation Segment in 1988. He also received the awards for the Best Batsman and Best All-rounder in the Outstation Segment at the Observer School Cricket Awards ceremony in the same year, shortly afterwards he was drafted into the national side for the tour to Australia in 1989–90. He made his One Day International debut against Australia at Melbourne on Boxing Day of 1989 and their new gameplan is now the standard opening batting strategy in limited overs cricket for the modern era. Jayasuriya is known for both cuts and pulls along with his shot, a lofted cut over point. He was one of the key players in Sri Lankas victory in the 1996 Cricket World Cup and his philosophy towards batting is summarized by an all-aggression approach and over the years he has dominated almost every one day bowling combination that he has faced at one stage or another. His devastating performances have ensured that Sri Lanka have won almost 80% of the matches that he scored over 50 runs in limited overs cricket. When asked in an interview who are the most challenging bowlers he had faced in the game, he named in the order Wasim Akram, Shane Warne, Glenn McGrath, Courtney Walsh, Jayasuriya is a spin bowler known for quickly getting through his overs. Sanath Jayasuriya held the record for the highest Test score made by a Sri Lankan,340 against India in 1997 and this effort was part of a second-wicket partnership with Roshan Mahanama that set the then all-time record for any partnership in Test history, with 576 runs. Both records were surpassed in July 2006 when fellow Sri Lankan Mahela Jayawardene scored 374 as part of a 624-run partnership with Kumar Sangakkara against South Africa. On 20 September 2005, during the Second Test of the series against Bangladesh, Jayasuriya became the first Sri Lankan to play 100 Tests. Jayasuriya announced his intention to retire from Test cricket following the Pakistan tour of Sri Lanka in April 2006 and he reversed his decision soon after, however, joining the Sri Lankan cricket team in England in May 2006
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Harbhajan Singh
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Harbhajan Singh Plaha, commonly known as Harbhajan Singh, is an Indian international cricketer and former captain of IPL team Mumbai Indians and Punjab state for the 2012–13 Ranji Trophy season. A specialist spin bowler, he has the second-highest number of Test wickets by an off spinner, Harbhajan made his Test and One Day International debuts in early 1998. His career was affected by investigations into the legality of his bowling action. However, in 2001, with leading leg spinner Anil Kumble injured, in that series victory over Australia, Harbhajan established himself as the teams leading spinner by taking 32 wickets, becoming the first Indian bowler to take a hat trick in Test cricket. He is also an Officer in the Punjab Police and has held the rank of a Superintendent of police, a finger injury in mid-2003 sidelined him for much of the following year, allowing Kumble to regain his position as the first choice spinner in Tests and ODIs. Throughout 2006 and into early 2007, Harbhajans accumulation of wickets fell and his average increased. Following Indias first-round elimination from the 2007 Cricket World Cup, Harbhajan was replaced by other spinners in the squad for both formats. He regained a position in the team in late 2007. In early 2008, he was given a ban by the International Cricket Council for racially vilifying Andrew Symonds and he appeared in Total Nonstop Action Wrestlings Indian promotion, Ring Ka King. He was in the World Cup-winning team of 2011 Cricket World Cup and he was conferred the Padma Shri, Indias fourth highest civilian honour, in 2009. Harbajan Singh was born into a Sikh family and he is the only son of Sardar Sardev Singh Plaha, a businessman who owned a ball bearing and valve factory. Growing up with five sisters, Harbhajan was in line to inherit the family business, Harbhajan was trained as a batsman by his first coach Charanjit Singh Bhullar, but converted to spin bowling after his coachs untimely death saw him turn to the tutelage of Davinder Arora. Arora credits Harbhajans success to an ethic that included a three-hour training session in the morning. Following the death of his father in 2000, Harbhajan became the family head, in 2002 he ruled out his own marriage until at least 2008. In a country where cricketers are idolised, Harbhajans performances have brought him government accolades, despite having a job with the constabulary, Harbhajan sustained minor injuries in March 2002 in an altercation with police outside the team hotel in Guwahati. The scuffle broke out when Harbhajan remonstrated with officers after they refused to allow a photographer into the hotel, Harbhajan cut his bowling arm and injured his elbow when he was struck by the police. Singh was caught at Auckland airport for failing to declare that he had filthy boots in his luggage and his only excuse was that he couldnt be bothered complying with New Zealand quarantine laws. He was fined $200 on the spot, among Indians, Harbhajan is more commonly known as bhajji
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Shaun Pollock
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Shaun Maclean Pollock OIS is a former South African cricketer who is considered a bowling all-rounder. From 2000 to 2003 he was the captain of the South African cricket team and he was chosen as the Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2003. He is the leading wicket taker among South Africans, taking over 400 test wickets, on 11 January 2008 he announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket after his 303rd One Day International on 3 February. After Hansie Cronje was banned from cricket for life, Pollock took over the captaincy in April 2000 and he was eventually removed from the captaincy after South Africas performance in the 2003 Cricket World Cup. Although no longer captain, he retained his place in the team, after a disappointing Test series tour of Australia in 2005/2006, he faced criticism for losing his wicket taking ability. He has the lowest economy rate of any bowler to have taken 300 ODI wickets, in September 2007 he was dropped from the South African test side for the first time in his career. Pollock was later readded to the test series against the West Indies, whereupon he announced his retirement and he stated that I realise I have been blessed by God and feel I have nurtured my talents to the best of my abilities. Shaun Pollock later represented Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League, Pollock took four wickets in four balls on his first appearance for Warwickshire – in a limited-overs game v Leicestershire at Birmingham in 1996. He also recently received the SA Players Player award and the SA ODI Player of the Year Award, in June 2007 he represented an Africa XI in an ODI game against an Asia XI in Bangalore. Playing as a specialist batsman, Pollock scored 130 from number 7 in the batting order, the record would however not last long, MS Dhoni bettered it later in the series. In Summer 2008 he played for Durham County Cricket Club in the North East of England and along with fellow South African Albie Morkel was used mainly in the Twenty20 Cup competition. Of the 18 players who have bowled at least 2,000 balls for South Africa in ODIs, ODI Bowling 1st ODI All-rounders best 1st. Pollock comes from a family of mainly Scottish ancestry and his paternal grandfather, Andrew Pollock, who played for Orange Free State, was born in Edinburgh. He is married to Patricia Trish Lauderdale and has two daughters, Jemma and Georgia, Jemma was born in August 2003, and Georgia in July 2006. Lauderdale was a finalist in the Miss South Africa pageant in the early 90s and also worked for MTN and he is a teetotaller and a devout Christian. Pollock is a graduate of the University of Natal with a degree in commerce. Shaun Pollock at ESPNcricinfo Shaun Pollock at CricketArchive
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Robin Uthappa
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Robin Venu Uthappa is an Indian cricketer. He plays for Karnataka in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL, Uthappa made his One Day International debut in the seventh and final match of the English tour of India in April 2006. He had a debut, making 86 as an opening batsman before being dismissed run out. It was the highest score for an Indian debutant in a limited-overs match and he is nicknamed The Walking Assassin for his tactic of charging the bowler. He played an important role in Indias win at the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 and he finished the 2014–15 Ranji Trophy season as the highest run scorer that season. Uthappa was born in Kodagu in Karnataka, India and he received his education at Sri Bhagawan Mahaveer Jain College which comes under the umbrella of Jain University, Bangalore. At a very young age, he has shown the signs of fulfilling his potential, Uthappa first came to the publics attention when he made 66 for India B against India A in the Challenger Trophy in 2005. The following year, in the tournament, Uthappa made match-winning 93-ball 100 against the same team which propelled him in the big league. Previously, he had been a member of the India Under-19 team that won the Asia Cup, once a wicket-keeper batsman, his List A batting average of near 40 with a strike rate of approximately 90 has made him regarded as something of a limited overs cricket specialist. He was recalled to the ODI side in January 2007 for the series against the West Indies and he did not feature in the first two games. He scored a quick 70 in the game followed by a quickfire 28 in the fourth game. He was selected in the 15-member squad of the Indian team for the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies in March–April 2007. He played in all three games, but only scored 30 runs in total as India suffered a shock defeat to Bangladesh. Used to batting as an opener, in this match he came in at the position of no 7. When he came at the crease India were 5 down for 234 after 40.2 overs, still needing 83 from less than 10 overs. After Dhoni got out in the 47th over with the Indian score at 294, Uthappa also scored a crucial 50 against Pakistan in the 20–20 World Cup in South Africa, when India were tottering at 39/4. With this, he became the first Indian to score a 50 in a 20–20 International match, India subsequently won the match in bowl out 3–0, where he bowled one of the three deliveries that hit the stumps. After his impressive performance in the season of IPL, he was selected to captain the India A team for its tour of Australia in July 2013
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Lalchand Rajput
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Lalchand Sitaram Rajput is a former Indian cricketer who is the current head coach of the Afghan national team. Rajput played in two Tests and four ODIs from 1985 to 1987, after the conclusion of his playing career, he served as manager of the Indian national team for a brief period. He has also held positions with the Mumbai Cricket Association. Rajput had a career as an opening batsman for Bombay. However, he did not translate his promise and success at the level to the international arena. Rajput attended a clinic held at Bangalore in April 2007. He was coach of Under-19 Indian Cricket Team during the tour of England, Rajput was appointed as the manager of the winning Indian cricket team for the Twenty20 World Championship 2007 held in South Africa. Rajput was the coach of the Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League 2008 and he was caught on camera laughing when Harbhajan Singh slapped Sreesanth after a match between Mumbai Indians and Kings XI Punjab. The BCCI expressed it was shameful that Rajput was laughing on witnessing the incident and it was expected that BCCI would take strong action against Rajput. He was chosen ahead of Mohammad Yousuf, Herschelle Gibbs and Corey Collymore Profile at cricinfo. com
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Kings XI Punjab
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The Kings XI Punjab are a franchise cricket team based in Mohali, Punjab, that plays in the Indian Premier League. The team is owned by leading Bollywood actress Preity Zinta, Wadia Group scion Ness Wadia. The team plays its matches at the PCA Stadium, Mohali. Since the 2010 IPL, they have been playing some of their games at Dharamsala as well. In 2008, Board of Control for Cricket in India created the cricket tournament Indian Premier League based on the Twenty20 format of the game, franchises for eight cities were made available in an auction held in Mumbai on 20 February. The team representing Punjab was bought by the Dabur groups Mohit Burman, the Wadia groups Ness Wadia, Preity Zinta, the group paid a total of $76 million to acquire the franchise. On 10 October 2010 the franchise agreements for the Kings XI Punjab and the Rajasthan Royals were terminated by the league, the tournament got off to a slow start for the Kings XI Punjab, with the team losing their first two games. However,94 runs by Kumar Sangakkara helped them to take game 3, despite the absence of Brett Lee and Simon Katich, the team found its groove. Shaun Marsh was arguably KXIPs star player in the inaugural IPL, the opener from Western Australia was overlooked in both IPL player auctions and was signed by the franchise on 9 April. He finished the tournament the Orange Cap holder - the award for the player with the most runs across the competition - with an average of 68.44, Marsh managed to hit 1 century and 5 half-centuries across the course of the tournament. Finished last in this season Finishing as semi-finalists in 2008, Kings XI Punjab started with enormous ambitions to win the trophy and their ambitions were supported by their new sponsors Emirates Airlines. With two available slots to fill the Punjab Kings made bids on Jerome Taylor and Yusuf Abdulla at the second IPL auction, the team took a hit as most of their Australian cricketers were not available. The team lacked available pace bowlers after Jerome Taylor backed out at the last minute with an injury, the team lost badly to Delhi Daredevils and Kolkata Knight Riders, however got back to form by beating the Royal Challengers, Rajasthan Royals and Mumbai Indians. Then the team witnessed a roller-coaster ride in their eight matches with 4 wins and 4 losses. The teams semi-final hopes were crushed after losing to the Chennai Super Kings in their last match, Kings XI Punjab were boosted by the return of Brett Lee against Kolkata, but he was not at his best. Shaun Marsh returned in the match against Mumbai Indians, in spite of his good performance, which included a half century, the team lost the match. They ended IPL3 in last position, following the controversy surrounding the BCCI and Lalit Modi the Indian Premier League announced that it had terminated the franchise contracts of Kings XI Punjab and Rajasthan Royals. Kings XI Punjab missed out on the play offs by 2 points and this meant they finished 5th in the points table
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2009 Indian Premier League
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The 2009 Indian Premier League season, abbreviated as IPL2 or the 2009 IPL, was the second season of the Indian Premier League, established by the Board of Control for Cricket in India in 2007. The tournament was hosted by South Africa and was played between 18 April and 24 May 2009. It was the second biggest cricket tournament in the world, after the Cricket World Cup, as the second season of the IPL coincided with multi-phase 2009 Indian general elections, the Government of India refused to commit security by Indian paramilitary forces. As a result, the BCCI decided to host the season of the league outside India. On 24 March 2009, the BCCI officially announced that the season of the IPL will be held in South Africa. Though India did not host the season, the format of the tournament remained unchanged from the 2008 season format. The IPL injected approximately US$100 million into South Africas local economy, in addition, the BCCI signed a ₹82 billion contract with Multi Screen Media to broadcast matches live from South Africa to India. The IPL was hosted successfully in South Africa and was hailed as an extraordinary accomplishment, the tournament was particularly praised for globalizing cricket and had set record television viewership. The tournament was won by Deccan Chargers while the Royal Challengers Bangalore were declared as runners-up, some of the rules were changed for the 2009 edition of the IPL. The number of players allowed in any one squad was increased from 8 to 10 although the number allowed in any playing 11 remained at 4. The players purchase cap was increased from 5 to 7 million, the BCCI also negotiated with the ECB to allow English cricketers to participate in the 2009 edition of the IPL cricket. English players were allowed to play for 21 days in between their tour to West Indies and the subsequent return tour, at the halfway point of each innings, a seven-and-a-half-minute television timeout was now held. The change proved controversial, as critics and players felt that it broke the flow of the game, the timeout rules were revised for the 2010 season. The format is the same as previous season, the match between Cape Cobras and Rajasthan Royals was billed as the Clash of the Champions due to both teams being champions of their countrys Twenty20 leagues. However, as an IPL warmup, both teams fielded understrength teams in order to try out new blood, with only 4 of Rajasthans 2008 title-winning team playing the warm-up, times are in Indian Standard Time. Subtract 3.5 hours for local time in South Africa Tournaments leading scorer wore a cap when fielding. Minimum runs –200 Minimum 25 overs bowled The attendance was expected to be lower in the second due to the lower capacities of South African grounds. Total attendance is expected to be a maximum of 1, in the 2009 season all the franchises made a profit
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Indian general election, 2009
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India held general elections to the 15th Lok Sabha in five phases between 16 April 2009 and 13 May 2009. With an electorate of 714 million, it was the largest democratic election in the till the Indian General Elections 2014 held from 7 April 2014. By constitutional requirement, elections to the Lok Sabha must be held five years. The previous election to the 14th Lok Sabha was conducted in May 2004, Elections are organised by the Election Commission of India and are normally held in multiple phases to better handle the large electoral base and its security concerns. The 2009 elections were held in five phases, in February 2009, Rs.11.20 billion was budgeted for election expenses by the Indian Parliament. A total of 8070 candidates contested for 543 Lok Sabha seats, the average election turnout over all 5 phases was around 59. 7%. The results of the election were announced three days of phase five, on 16 May 2009, following the first past the post system. Manmohan Singh became the first prime minister since Jawaharlal Nehru in 1962 to be re-elected after completing a full five-year term, the UPA was able to put together a comfortable majority with support from 322 members out of 543 members of the House. Though this is less than the 335 members who supported the UPA in the last parliament, External support came from the Bahujan Samaj Party, Samajwadi Party, Janata Dal, Rashtriya Janata Dal and other minor parties. On 22 May 2009, Manmohan Singh was sworn in as the Prime Minister at the Ashoka Hall of Rashtrapati Bhavan. The election, while following the normal cycle, came after a break in the old UPA alliance after the left parties withdrew support of the Indo-US nuclear deal forcing a vote of confidence. The 2009 elections adopted re-drawn electoral constituencies based on the 2001 census, following the 2002 Delimitation Commission of India, in the 2009 general elections,499 out of the total 543 Parliamentary constituencies were newly delimited constituencies. This affected the National Capital Region of Delhi, the Union Territory of Puducherry and all the states except Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu & Kashmir, Jharkhand, Manipur and Nagaland. As in the 2004 election, this election was conducted completely using electronic voting machines. There were 828,804 Polling Stations around the country – a 20% increase over the number from the 2004 election and this was done mainly to avoid vulnerability to threat and intimidation, to overcome geographical barriers and to reduce the distance travelled by voters. The electoral rolls had to be completely updated because of the delimitation that took effect from February 2008, the process of updating the electoral rolls continued until the last date of filing nominations. 714 million people were eligible to vote in 2009, up 6. 4% from 2004 and this election also saw the entire country except the states of Assam, Nagaland and Jammu & Kashmir use photo electoral rolls. This meant that the photo of each elector was printed on the electoral rolls, in addition to the photo electoral rolls, the electors also needed to provide separate photo identification
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Government of India
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It is located in New Delhi, the capital of India. There is a bicameral Parliament with the Lok Sabha as a lower house, the judicial branch systematically contains an apex Supreme Court,24 high courts, and several district courts, all inferior to the Supreme Court. Similar to the government, individual state governments each consist of executive, legislative. The legal system as applicable to the federal and individual state governments is based on the English Common, the full name of the country is the Republic of India. No other name appears in the Constitution, and this is the name appears on legal banknotes, in treaties. The Union Government, Central Government or Government of India are often used in an official and unofficial capacity to refer to the Government of India, because the seat of government is in New Delhi, New Delhi is commonly used as a metonym for the Central Government. Legislative branch in India is exercised by the Parliament and a legislature consisting of the Rajya Sabha. The latter is considered the house or the House of the people. The Parliament does not have control and sovereignty, as its laws are subject to judicial review by the Supreme Court of India. However, it does exercise some control over the executive branch, the members of the cabinet, including the prime minister and the Council of Ministers, are either chosen from parliament or elected there to within six months of assuming office. The cabinet as a whole is responsible to the Lok Sabha, the Lok Sabha is a temporary house and can only be dissolved when the party in power loses the support of the majority of the house. Whereas the Rajya Sabha is a permanent house which can never be dissolved though the members of the Rajya Sabha who are elected for a six-year term, the Executive Branch of government is the one that has sole authority and responsibility for the daily administration of the state bureaucracy. The division of power into separate branches of government is central to the idea of the separation of powers. The executive power is vested mainly in the President of India, the President has all constitutional powers and exercises them directly or through officers subordinate to him as per the aforesaid Article 53. The President is to act in accordance with aid and advice tendered by the Prime Minister, the Council of Ministers remains in power during the pleasure of the President. However, in practice, the Council of Ministers must retain the support of the Lok Sabha, if a President were to dismiss the Council of Ministers on his or her own initiative, it might trigger a constitutional crisis. Thus, in practice, the Council of Ministers cannot be dismissed as long as it holds the support of a majority in the Lok Sabha, the President is responsible for making a wide variety of appointments. His/Her work is to facilitate smooth transaction of business in Ministries/ Departments of the Government, the President is de jure the Commander in Chief of the Indian Armed Forces
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Paramilitary forces of India
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Since then the Assam Rifles have undergone a number of name changes before the name Assam Rifles was finally adopted in 1917. In the post World War II period the Assam Rifles has expanded greatly as has its role, in times of war they can also be used as a combat force to secure rear areas if needed. The special Frontier force is paramilitary unit of India, based in Chakrata, Uttarakhand, SFF is also known as the Establishment 22. The force was put under the supervision of the Intelligence Bureau, and later. Indian Armed Forces Indias Paramilitary Forces @ Bharat-Rakshak. Com Assam Rifles official site Analysis of the PMF An informative article on the PMF Global Security article on Border Security Force
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Zaheer Khan
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ProSport Fitness and Services is a Fitness & Sports clinic in Mumbai, India, offering Fitness Training and Physiotherapy & Injury Management. ProSport was founded by Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer, adrian Le Roux heads the fitness & functional training, and Andrew Leipus heads the physiotherapy & injury management. The main aim of the centre is to ‘Maximize Potential’ of people, Zaheer Khan’s objective is to bring in world class fitness program to India for sports injury management and physiotherapy. ProSport offers scientifically designed programs and treatment that helps to reach the fitness goals, the clinic conducts workshops and sessions for corporates and schools for spreading the awareness of physical fitness. The fitness clinic is located in Lower Parel, Mumbai, • Physio & Injury Management • Treatment • Functional training • Strength & conditioning • Marathon training • Athlete training • Training for kids, corporates and institutions
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Ashish Nehra
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Ashish Diwansingh Nehra is an Indian cricketer who has represented India at the international level since 1999. He embodies various virtues of a left- handed bowler- pace, accuracy, strategic variations in line and length, and he has been particularly effective with the new ball and at the death overs. He has also particularly effective in the IPL, in which he has represented five different teams. Nehra started playing cricket for his hometown, Delhi, in the 1997/1998 season. Nehra made his Test debut against Sri Lanka at Colombo in 1999, on his Test debut, Nehra started out well, dismissing Marvan Atapattu early but then failed to pick up any more wickets. Similarly, he dismissed Alistair Campbell with only his 2nd ball in ODIs and he was also part of the Indian teams run at the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. It was there against England, that he got his career-best ODI figures of six for 23 and his performance in the other matches in the World Cup were also noteworthy. However inconsistency and successive back and ankle injuries have prevented him from cementing his place in the Indian team, the new crop of fast bowlers like Munaf Patel, RP Singh and Ishant Sharma also add to the competition. Nevertheless, Nehra completed recovery from an injury in March 2006. He recalled to the ODI squad for the tour of West Indies in June 2009 after 4 years due to an injury to Zaheer Khan, in 2011 Cricket World Cup, Nehra played his first game vs South Africa. He was expensive giving away 65 runs during 8.4 wicketless overs and he gave away 16 runs in 4 balls when he had to defend 13 runs in the last over. After this, many thought Nehras world cup was over and he was, however, a surprise inclusion against Pakistan in the semi-final ahead of Ravichandran Ashwin. Nehra redeemed himself by being the most economical bowler for his side taking 2 wickets in 10 overs for a mere 33 runs as India beat Pakistan by 29 runs and he however could not play the final due to a fractured finger on his right hand. After recovering from his injury, Nehra made himself available for the 2011 ODI series in England, after being ignored, despite the backing of former Indian bowler Manoj Prabhakar and a decent Ranji season, he was ignored for the subsequent tour of Australia as well. Recently, Nehra made a comeback in the T20 squad for Indias tour of Australia 2016, the Asia Cup. After performing against Australia and Sri Lanka, he was promoted to Indias main bowler at the age of 36. He Continues his good performance against England T20 series in 2017, took 3 for 28 on 2nd T20 match. He hit the headlines with creditable showings in the season of the IPL in 2009. Being out of the reckoning for the side, he continued to perform for Delhi
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Shikhar Dhawan
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Shikhar Dhawan is an Indian international cricketer. He is an opening batsman and occasional right-arm off break bowler. He played for the Indian Under-17 and Under-19 teams before making his first-class debut for Delhi in November 2004. He was the player of the tournament and leading run-scorer at the 2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup with 505 runs, Dhawan made his One Day International debut against Australia in October 2010 at Visakhapatnam. His Test debut came against the opposition in March 2013 at Mohali where he scored the fastest century by any batsman on Test debut. He was the leading run-scorer and the Man of the Tournament of 2013 ICC Champions Trophy in England, which India won. In August 2013, he recorded the second highest individual score in a List A match when he scored 248 runs off 150 balls for India A against South Africa A at Pretoria. In November 2014, he became the fastest Indian batsman to reach the 2000-run mark in ODIs and he was the leading run-scorer for India and fifth highest run-scorer overall at the 2015 Cricket World Cup. In 2016, he became the fastest Indian and one of the three fastest batsmen in the world to reach 3000 ODI runs and he was the player of the match in the final of the 2016 Asia Cup which India won. He was the fourth highest run-getter of the 2016 Indian Premier League which Hyderabad won, shikhar Dhawan was born on 5 December 1985 in Delhi to Mahendra Pal Dhawan and Sunaina Dhawan in a Punjabi family and has a younger sister, Shreshta Dhawan. He did his schooling from St, marks Senior Secondary Public School in Paschim Vihar. Since the age of 12, he trained at Sonnet Club under the guidance of coach Tarak Sinha, who has trained 12 international cricketers. Dhawan was a wicket-keeper when he first joined the Club, in 2012, Dhawan married Melbourne-based Ayesha Mukherjee, a half-Bengali, half-British amateur boxer. Mukherji was introduced to Dhawan by Harbhajan Singh on Facebook, mukherji already had two daughters from her previous marriage - Rhea and Aliyah - when she married him. In early-2014, she gave birth to a boy named Zoravar, Dhawan first played for Delhi Under-16s in the 1999/00 Vijay Merchant Trophy. He had scores of 5 and 6 in the game he played in that tournament. In the 2000/01 Vijay Merchant Trophy in which Delhi finished runners-up and he scored 755 runs from 9 innings at an average of 83.88 with two hundreds and a top-score of 199. He was selected in the North Zone Under-16s squad for the Vijay Hazare Trophy in February 2001 and he scored 30 and 66 in the semifinal against South Zone. His impressive performances for Delhi Under-16s was rewarded when he was picked in the India Under-17 squad for the 2000/01 ACC Under-17 Asia Cup and he played three games in that tournament and averaged 85
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Delhi Daredevils
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The Delhi Daredevils are a franchise cricket team representing the city of Delhi in the Indian Premier League. Founded in 2008 as one of the eight founding teams of the IPL and their home grounds are the Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi and the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Cricket Stadium in Raipur, Chhattisgarh. Despite never making it to the IPL final, the team were table toppers twice and qualified for Champions League T20 twice, however, in recent seasons, the team has struggled, often ending up as wooden spooners. The teams current captain is Zaheer Khan while the coach and mentor are Paddy Upton, the leading run-scorer of the side is Virender Sehwag while the leading wicket-taker is Irfan Pathan. Indian Premier League is a tournament organised by the Board of Control for Cricket in India. For the inaugural tournament held in April–June 2008, the BCCI had finalised a list of 8 teams who will be participating in the tournament. The bowling, which in 2008 was composed mainly of players was bolstered by a trade to gain former Team India paceman Ashish Nehra in exchange for Shikhar Dhawan. Pradeep Sangwan and Amit Mishra had both improved since last season, and the signing of Dirk Nannes from Australia created a bowling lineup that was strong. However, despite dominating for the season, the Daredevils crumbled in the semi-final under a fierce batting assault by Adam Gilchrist. Nannes in particular, who was picked over McGrath, was punished by Gilchrist. The disappointing semi-final meant Delhi did not contest the final of the 2009 IPL despite having the best record in the league stages, however, Delhi managed to qualify for 2009 Champions League Twenty20 because of their performance in group stage. Delhi was the table topper or the league topper in 2012, Morne Morkel of Delhi was the highest wicket taker of the tournament. Delhi came third in the tournament and qualified for the time in champions league. Iconic Australian pace bowler Glenn McGrath expressed disappointment over not being picked to play any match during the whole season, due to the disbanding of Kochi Tuskers Kerala, each team will play the remaining eight teams twice, once at home and once away. Mahela Jayawardane was appointed as the new captain of the Delhi Daredevils as Virender Sehwag stepped down from captaincy during 2012 Champions League Twenty20, the Delhi Daredevils lost all first six matches of IPL2013 and they won their first match in 7 games against the Mumbai Indians. Virender Sehwag and Mahela Jayawardenes partnership led to a win against Mumbai Indians in which they scored 161. Sehwag was the Man of the Match for his brilliant score of 95* of 57 balls, after this match, they faced the kings X1 Punjab and lost again. But in their 9th match of the season, against Pune Warriors India, they won and they defeated Kolkata Knight Riders in their 10th Match by 7 wickets but failed to advance to 7th place due to their net run-rate
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JP Duminy
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Jean-Paul Duminy, often shortened to JP Duminy, is an international South African cricketer. He is a batsman and a part-time right-arm off spin bowler. Duminy, who is a Cape Coloured, was raised in the Western Cape and currently plays cricket for his home team. Duminy is a successful batsman generally occupying the top order, a skilled fielder, though he bowls less frequently in One Day Internationals, he has also found success with the ball, making his ODI debut in 2004 against Sri Lanka. Duminy is married to Sue Duminy and together they have a daughter and he grew up in a catholic church but has said he didnt have a personal relationship with God until about 2013. In his own words To cut a long story short. we were touring Sri Lanka and myself, AB De Villiers, Faf Du Plessis and David Miller started a little Bible study together in the national team. One of the sessions was called ‘Salvation’ and at the end of the chapter it asked you the question of whether you are willing to commit yourself to God. On that night all four of us committed our lives to him, months later I got baptised along with my wife. His performance was lauded by critics, including Peter Roebuck. In the next Test match, beginning on Boxing Day, Duminy combined with the tailenders to score his maiden Test century of 166, South Africa were more than 200 runs in arrears when they lost their seventh wicket in the first innings. In the process, he and Dale Steyn put on 180 and surpassed Graeme, South Africa ended with a 62-run lead and converted it into a nine-wicket win. This sealed the series, the first time that South Africa had won a Test series in Australia, and Australias first home Test series loss in 16 years. He also took his first test wicket, Michael Clarke during that tour in the 3rd test, David Hussey skied a ball up in the air and Duminy, while running towards the boundary, flung himself in the air, dived, and took the catch with two hands. During 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup, Duminy became the second batsman after Adam Gilchrist to be dismissed for 99 in a World Cup match, overall, there have been 36 occasions when a player has been dismissed in the nineties in World Cups. During 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup, Duminy became the first South African to take a hat-trick in a World Cup match, on 5 Novemer 2016, Duminy scored his fifth Test century during the first Test against Australia at Perth. On 10 March 2017, Mark Richardson and Simon Doull noted during that his action has changed from a round-arm action to an action similar to Harbhajan Singh. Duminy played in the Indian Premier League in 2009 after the Mumbai Indians franchise acquired him for US$950,000 and he scored two half-centuries in the tournament. Currently, he is playing for Delhi Daredevils, JP Duminy at ESPNcricinfo JP Duminys profile page on Wisden JP Duminy at CricketArchive JP Duminy on Twitter Interview and coaching video
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Kieron Pollard
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Kieron Adrian Pollard is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for the West Indies. An aggressive all-rounder, Pollard provides Slow Medium pace bowling and big-hitting from the middle-order, after shining during the 2009 Champions League, he was signed by both the Southern Redbacks and Somerset for their domestic Twenty20 campaigns. He was the joint highest paid player in the 2010 Indian Premier League and he was not selected for the west indies team in ICC WT20 held in India. But, his 2016 career had been more affirmative and aggressive. He was named in the 15 member squad against 2016 Pakistan tour. Pollard was born in Trinidad and Tobago, where he was raised, speaking about it, Pollard reflects It was pretty tough, it wasnt ideal getting up and your mum say We only have X amount of money. After representing Trinidad and Tobago in the 2005 TCL Group West Indies Under-19 Challenge, Pollard top-scored for the West Indies in the first youth One Day International, scoring 53 runs off 49 balls. Pollard made another half-century in the match, but didnt manage to make double figures in either of last two games. Pollard made his debut for Trinidad and Tobago in the twenty20 competition against the Cayman Islands in July 2006. He made his first-class debut six months later against Barbados, as in the Twenty20, his innings contained a large number of boundaries, with 86 of his 126 runs coming from either fours or sixes. Pollards dream run continued with half-centuries in both four-day and 50-over matches against Guyana, followed by his second century, coming against the Leeward Islands. Against Jamaica, Pollard showed his ability, claiming four wickets in his seven overs to claim his fifth man of the match award in his 15th senior match. Trinidad and Tobago remained unbeaten in the 2006–07 KFC Cup, beating Windward Islands in the final to claim the trophy, Pollard finished as the competitions leading run-scorer, making 261 runs from his seven innings at an average of over 40. The 2008–09 West Indies Cricket Board Cup saw an improvement in Pollards bowling, an all-round performance against Jamaica in the semi-finals, in which he took three wickets and made 76, earnt Trinidad and Tobago a place in the final, and Pollard the man of the match award. In the 2009 Champions league T-20 for Trinidad & Tobago, Pollard hit 54 runs in just 18 balls in the 15th match against New South Wales in Hyderabad and this earned the man of the match award and his side a crucial win. His display of hitting was so impressive that NSW approached Pollard after the game, Pollard also represents the South Australian Redbacks in the KFC Twenty20 Big Bash. He also signed for Somerset County Cricket Club for the 2010 Friends Provident t20, although named in the provisional 30-man squad for the 2007 ICC World Twenty20, Pollard failed to make the cut for the tournament. Pollard was disappointing as Trinidad and Tobago won the 2007–08 Stanford Twenty20, Pollard was recalled to the West Indies ODI squad for the series against Sri Lanka. The match was rained off after 18.2 overs of the West Indian run-chase with Pollard not required to bat
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Robin Singh (cricketer)
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Robin Singh is a former international cricketer who represented the Indian national team between 1989 and 2001 as an all-rounder. He has coached the Indian Premier Leagues Mumbai Indians since 2010 and he also coached the Deccan Chargers in the IPLs inaugural year. As a player, he was known for his agility and fitness, born in Trinidad to Indo-Trinidadian parents, Singh moved to India in 1984 and studied at Madras University during which he played club and college-level cricket. He helped Tamil Nadu win the Ranji Trophy in 1988, and was one of the seasons most consistent players and he gave up his Trinidad and Tobago passport so he could become an Indian citizen and play for Indias national cricket team. Singh was born in Princes Town, Trinidad and Tobago, to Ramnarine and Savitri Singh on September 14,1963, and is of Indian descent. At the age of 19, Singh moved to Madras, India and he currently resides in Chennai, India, with his wife Sujata and son Dhananjay, although his parents and siblings still live in Trinidad and Tobago. While in Trinidad, Singh captained the Trinidad youth cricket team in regional tournaments from 1982 to 1983, Singh started his first-class career for Tamil Nadu during the 1985–86 season. During his nearly two decade career, he was a genuine all-rounder for his club, making more than 6,000 runs, Singh made his debut for the Indian national cricket team in a One Day International against the West Indies cricket team on 11 March 1989. He played two one-day Internationals, coming in to bat at number 7 both times in futile situations. The Indian team dropped Singh after the series, and he played in domestic and overseas leagues for the seven years. Singh was recalled for the Titan Cup tournament in 1996 and he remained a regular player in the One Day Internationals until 2001. Singh was known for his middle-to-lower order batting, medium-pace bowling and he was also known for his batting in closing overs, which made him an integral player during the 1999 Cricket World Cup. Throughout his career, Singh was considered a fit for One Day matches. Singh began coaching soon after his retirement and his first coaching position was with the Indian under-19 cricket team. In 2004, he began coaching the Hong Kong national cricket team, in 2006, Singh was appointed coach of the India A cricket team, where he coached cricketers such as Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa. Several cricketers whom Singh coached went on to play for the Indian national team, Singh was named the Indian national team fielding coach in 2007 and 2008 and was appointed the first head coach of the Deccan Chargers franchise in the Indian Premier League. Singh remained the coach for the Indian national cricket team until October 2009 and is the batting coach of the Mumbai Indians. Singh coached the Khulna Division cricket team in the Bangladesh Premier League, in 2012, the Uva cricket team, under Singhs coaching, won the Sri Lanka Premier League tournament
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