Famous cricket player of West Indian cricket team: Richard Benjamin Richardson
by MairaS on July 13, 2011
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Richardson is a renowned name in the list of former West Indian cricketers. He also served his team as a captain during his tenure as a player. He stepped into the field of cricketer in 1982 as an opener with the Leewards Island. Following his season season, he went aboard the West Indian team to tour India during the season of 1983-84. He initiated batting in the middle-order and it didn’t take him long to emerge as an ostentatious batsman alongside being an outstanding fast bowler.
Soon after the retirement of Viv Richards from Test match, Richardson, better known as Richie was capped with the captaincy of the team. The team went out in the playing field 24 times under his captaincy out of which 11 matches were won. Richie captained for a good 4 years during which the team lost only one series that was played in 1995 against Australia.
Up till 1995, Richie played 86 Test matches and hit a score of 5,949 runs including 16 centuries. This superb West Indian player exhibited a strong profile against Australia, hitting a superb 9 centuries while the highest score was acquired in 1989 against India. Richardson played a total of 224 ODIs inclusive of 3 World Cups. The last international he played was the semi final for the World Cup of 1996 against Australia after which he resigned from the role of captainship.
Post-retirement from International cricket, Richie became the first ever high profile signing by the English All-Star Club Cricket Team: Lashings World XI and is also the present captain of the team.
Popular Australian cricket player: Simon O’Donnell
by MairaS on June 28, 2011
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Simon O’Donnell is a multi-talented former Australian cricketer who gave up a very promising career in the football arena to enhance his cricket playing expertise. He then continued to become an integral part of the Australian One-Day cricket team. Being in the middle-lower order, he is still recognized as a player who made some surprisingly fiery innings.
Amongst his scale of accomplishments are a half century achieved with only 18 balls in 1990 against Sri Lanka which retained the position of fastest 50 scored in ODIs for almost six years. Given the credit to O’Donnell’s fast-medium bowling, it has always benefitted Australia’s One Day victories which was evident when he won the title of ‘Australia’s most economical bowler’. Unfortunately, O’Donnell, a remarkable right-hand batsman and right-arm fast medium bowler, was diagnosed with cancer when the tournament ended, nonetheless, he returned to ODIs in the season of 1988-99. He sustained a superb strike rate of 80.96 runs per 100 balls during the ODIs which was double the rate in the test innings.
Today, Simon O’Donnell is a member of the Nine Network’s commentary team and also hosts regularly in The Cricket show. He also manages horse races by his company ‘O’Donnell Thoroughbreds International’. He is a very popular Australian Cricketer.
Famous Australian cricket player: Michael Slater
by MairaS on June 28, 2011
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Michael Slater is to known to be a former cricket player for the Australian cricket team who played from 1993 – 2001 and participated in 74 Tests and 42 One Day Internationals in his entire playing span. Today, he is a cricket commentator after his retirement in 2004.
With a right-hand batting style and right-arm medium bowling, Slater entered the cricket arena, representing New South Wales Blues in domestic cricket and played English County with Derbyshire. With his blustering demeanor, he was an opener batman in the Test series and hit a score of 5,312 runs at an average of 42 including 12 centuries; however, he did not exhibit much of his strong-headed power in ODIs as he averaged around 24.07. Emerging from a dimension like the Australian Cricket Academy, he sure made a quick stride to the test team from where he was chosen for the tour of the Ashes in 1993.
Some of his career highlights include 219 runs in 1995-96 when he played against Sri Lankan cricket team in Perth, his superbly performed home series in 1993-94 that he played against New Zealand wherein he acquired 305 at an average of 76.25 and his play against England in 1994-94 wherein he achieved 623 runs at an average of 62.30. Between the late 1999 and early 2011, Slater played in 16 matches during which Australia won a successive series of victory which was a milestone marked in the history of Test innings.
Slater today appears as a steady contributor to a sports-oriented program known as Dead Set Legends, is also co-hosting with Terry Kennedy on 2KY Big Sport Breakfast.
Popular Australian cricket player: Mark Waugh
by MairaS on June 28, 2011
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Mark Waugh, who we commonly recognize as Steve Waugh’s twin brother, was one of the finest and most talented strokemarkers in the history of cricket. He had a flawless aura around him and made a stroke so effortlessly that it was a treat to watch him play. He represented the Australian cricket team in test matches during early 1991-late 2002 and made his ODI debut in 1988.
Mark Waugh started off mainly as a right-handed batsman and also contributed as a medium-paced bowler in the test matches but after certain back injuries, had to switch over to being an off-spin bowler. In the Australian ODI team, he was considered to be an all-rounded but with the time, he started focusing on batting which he later excelled in! This led him to be Australia’s spearheaded one-day runscorer while his 3 centuries made at the World Cup of 1996 won him the stature of being the only batsman to have ever accomplished such an impressive feat. Waugh made another century in 1999 that made him the only Australia to have scored four centuries and score more than 100 runs, that too in a World Cup tournament.
From the mid 1990s – 21st century, Waugh consistently ranked amongst the 10 highly rates batsman and was well aware of the art of batting strongly when faced with spin bowling. In 2005, he was appointed as a member of the Order of Australia. Presently, he is working as a sport journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Famous Australian cricket player: Justin Lee Langer
by MairaS on June 28, 2011
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Justin Lee Langer is an ex left-handed batsman of the Australian cricket team who represented his country in 105 Test matches on International level. He is recognized for his strong and successful partnership with famous Australian cricket player Mathew Hayden at the time. He also occasionally performed the role of a wicket keeper for One day matches owing to his strong built as a fielder.
Langer had a remarkable strike rate i.e. 54.22 which exceeded the achievement of the most notable stroke-makers like some of the best Australian cricket players Mark Waugh and Damien Martyn. He is also known to have own the title of being the highest run-scorer for the Pura Cup and Sheffield Shield matches that he participated in for Western Australia. In 2009, Langer played a match against Worcestershire wherein he made a landmark strike of the highest score in the history of first-class cricket by an Australian player. He was a strong-willed cricketer whose determined demeanor was a highlight. With 394 runs at an average of 43.77, Langer was the leading scorer in the team.
In total, he was part of only eight ODIs at a superb strike rate of 88.88! He won himself quite a lot of International Awards as Man of the Match – a proof of his strong and unrivalled profile. He is still remembered for his aggressive and full of power playing stature.