Ashwin Ravichandran

Ravichandran Ashwin (born 17 September 1986) is an Indian national cricket team player, who plays for India and Tamil Nadu cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and right arm off-break bowler. He is the only bowler of recent times apart from Ajantha Mendis of Sri Lanka to bowl the carrom ball. He played two matches for team India during world cup, 2011. He is a very economical bowler and has shown many variations in his bowling.

CareerAshwin is a spin bowler for Tamil Nadu and has taken 6/65 against Vidarbha in first-class cricket.[1] He made his debut against Andhra Pradesh in Twenty20 cricket.[2] He did his Engineering (B.Tech IT) in SSNCE. He plays first-class cricket for Tamil Nadu and has played in the Duleep Trophy for South Zone.[3] He was nicknamed "Dada" during his U-19 days while touring Dharamsala.

He played for Chennai Super Kings in the Indian Premier League.[4] He made his ODI debut against Sri Lanka on 6 June 2010. He scored 38 runs in a losing game.[5]

He became the highest wicket taker of the 2010 Champions League Twenty20 tournament for Chennai Super Kings in the tournament with 13 wickets and was adjudged as the player of the tournament and also got the Golden Wicket.[6] During IPL 2011 auction which happened on 5 and 6 January 2011, he has been retained by Chennai Super Kings for the amount of 850000$.[7] Presently, he is the economical bowler in Indian Premier League history with an economy rate of 6.12.[8]

Later, in that month he was selected in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 squad to represent India along with the spinners Harbhajan Singh and Piyush Chawla. He played 2 matches for India in that series. He made his World Cup debut on 20 March 2011 against the West Indies with bowling figures of 10-0-41-2. He played his second world cup match against Australia in the second quarter final at Ahmadabad (10-1-52-2).[9]

In November, 2011, he made his Test debut along with Umesh Yadav against West Indies with impressive figures of 27-4-81-3 in the 1st innings and 21.3-5-47-6 in the 2nd innings. His magical spell of 9 wickets is the second best by an Indian test cricketer on debut after Narendra Hirwani. He was also awarded the Man of the Match (MoM) on debut for his bowling exploits, only the third Indian cricketer after Pravin Amre and R.P. Singh to do so

Mohammad Kaif

Mohammad Kaif Statistics
Born: 1 December 1980, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh
Major Teams: Uttar Pradesh, Leicestershire, India.
Known As: Mohammad Kaif
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break

Mohammad Azharuddin

Mohammad Azizuddin Azharuddin
Born: 08 February 1963, Hyderabad
Major Teams: Hyderabad, India, Derbyshire.
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Test Debut: 31 December 1984 v England, Calcutta
ODI Debut: 20 January 1985 v England, Bangalore
Distinctions: Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1991

Ashish Nehra

Born: 29 April 1979, Delhi
Major Teams: Delhi, India.
Known As: Ashish Nehra
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Left Arm Medium Fast

Sadagoppan Ramesh

Sadagoppan Ramesh
Born: 16 October 1975, Madras (now Chennai)
Major Teams: Tamil Nadu, India.
Known As: Sadagoppan Ramesh
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break

Mohinder Amarnath

Mohinder Amarnath Bhardwaj
Born: 24 September 1950, Patiala, Punjab
Major Teams: Punjab, Delhi, Baroda, Durham, Wiltshire, India.
Known As: Mohinder Amarnath
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium

Sunil Gavaskar

Born: 10 July 1949, Bombay
Major Teams: Mumbai, Somerset, India.
Known As: Sunny Gavaskar
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium
Other: ICC Match Referee

Ajay Singh Jadeja

Born: 1 February 1971, Jamnagar
Major Teams: Haryana, Jammu & Kashmir, India.
Known As: Ajay Jadeja
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium

Robin Singh

Rabindra Ramanarayan Singh
Born: 14 September 1963, Princes Town, Trinidad
Major Teams: South Trinidad, TRIN, Tamil Nadu, India.
Known As: Robin Singh
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium Fast

Abbas Ali

Syed Abbas Ali
Born: 20 February 1976, Indore
Major Teams: Madhya Pradesh.
Known As: Syed Abbas Ali
Batting Style: Left Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Off Break
Career Statistics:
FIRST-CLASS
(1996/97 - 2000/01)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 41 58 9 2619 251 53.44 7 13 47 0

O R W Ave BBI 5 10 SR Econ
Bowling 91.4 331 6 55.16 2-19 0 0 91.6 3.61

LIST A LIMITED OVERS
(1996/97 - 2000/01)
M I NO Runs HS Ave 100 50 Ct St
Batting & Fielding 28 27 3 728 106 30.33 1 5 14 0

O R W Ave BBI 4w 5w SR Econ
Bowling 84.5 369 10 36.90 3-37 0 0 50.9 4.34

Sanjay Bangar

Sanjay Bangar is a genuine all-rounder, not the usual bits-and pieces player. Batting is his preferred strength, but it has been medium-pace bowling that has shot him into the limelight. Bangar claimed five English wickets at Hyderabad in a three-day match while playing for the Board President's XI. His bowling on an absolutely lifeless pitch was good enough to convince the selectors about his character and ability. Bangar is known on the domestic circuit as the quintessential team player who does not believe in setting personal goals.
Bangar made his Test debut at Mohali against England and was unlucky to suffer an injury to his hamstring. Braving the injury, he played a fighting knock of 36, holding the lower order together and helping India post a big first-innings total that eventually win the Test. He had a spectacular start to his ODI career, picking up the wicket of Nasser Hussain with his very second delivery. Bangar is thus one of the few Indian players to have had a winning start to his international career in both forms of the game.

Even though he was brought up in the grind of busy Bombay cricket, it was Railways that offered him a place eight years ago. Ever since, he has been an integral part of the Railways team. He played a very crucial role in guiding Railways to the Ranji Trophy finals in 2001. He has also played in the Minor Counties circuit in England, which according to him was a big help.

Bangar's consistent performances for Railways in the Ranji Trophy ensured that he represented Central Zone in Duleep Trophy (1996-97 to 1999-00) and in the Deodhar Trophy (1996-97 to 2000-01). The gritty all-rounder got national recognition when he was chosen to play for India 'A' in the Challenger Trophy (1999-00) and also at Abu Dhabi in November 1999.

This quintessential team-man is a live-wire on the field, and he has enough tricks up his sleeve as a medium-pace bowler. Apart from being a sedate opening batsman, his uncanny ability to get the ball to swing late, even reverse-swing, makes him an ideal choice for the much-needed all-rounder for the Indian team. The phrase 'late developer' might be a much-used cliche applied to him, but Bangar assuredly has a lot of cricket left in him.