Greatest cricket player of West Indies cricket team: Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards
by admin on July 13, 2011
in Famous cricket players profiles
Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, more popularly known as Viv is quite a recognized figure in the list of former West Indies cricketers. His fearless demeanor and determined performance earned him a lot of fame. At the same time, he enjoyed the intimidating aura he possessed against bowlers from the opposition team! Richards’s skill of taking good-length balls through midwickets from outside off-stumps is still known to be his trademark.
Born on 7th March, 1952, Richards was nominated amongst one of the top Cricketers of the Century back in 2000 and in 2002, he was also elected as one of the best ODI batsman alongside the honor of being the third greatest Test batsman of all time.
It was in 1974 in a Test match when Richards market his debit by giving in a challenging score followed with a victorious 192 in the second test match of the same series. He scored 8,540 runs in a total of 121 Test innings averaging 50.23 and included 24 centuries. During the World Series Cricket held during 1977-79, he also scored an impressive 5 centuries. Having made a score from only 56 balls during the 1986 tour against England, Richards won the title of ‘Scorer of the Fastest-Ever Test Century’. His achievement in the Cricket World Cup of 1975 was quite a memorable experience which followed with any superb feat in the following World Cup of 1979 wherein Richards made a century in the final.
Throughout his career, 1976 turned out to be the finest year as he was able to score 1,719 runs at an average of 90! Additionally, he made 7 centuries during the 11 Tests he was a part of. Richards savored the honor of captaining the West Indian team from 1984 to 1991, leading in 50 Test innings. He was the only West Indian captain who never lost any Test series. He played his entire career without any helmet on and was always ready to strike back!
Today, we affiliate hiss name with the Sir Vivian Richards Stadium: a cricket stadium in North Sound and has been named after him.
Record holder players in 2011 ICC Cricket World cup
by admin on February 17, 2011
in World cup 2011
One Day International Cricket is thrilling and interesting. With the world cup 2011 just round the corner, some interesting facts and figures have grabbed my attention. While going through the list of bowlers and batsmen who have been the most successful in their fields in ODI cricket, I started noting the players who are amongst the chart toppers, and are playing in the 10th world cup cricket 2011. Looking at the figures and record lists closely, one can easily predict the probable finalists of ICC cricket World Cup 2011.
Most wickets in cricket career-Bowling Records ODI: Muralitharan has taken 519 wickets for Sri lanka so far. He is the top ranked bowler in the world as far as career wicket taking record is concerned. Waseem Akram, Waqar Younis, Chaminda Vaas, Shaun Pollock, Glenn McGrath and Anil Kumble are next in line but none of these brilliant bowlers is playing now. The 8th highest wicket taker in ODI, Brett Lee from Australia has taken 335 wickets so far. Next in line are Sanath Jayasuriya, Juvagal Srinath and Shane Warne all three of them retired now. The 12th most successful bowler in ODI cricket is Shahid Afridi, the Pakistani captain in cricket world cup 2011. Saqlain Mustaq and Agarkar are next in line who are retired now, while the 15th highest wicket taker in ODI cricket is Daniel Vettori, representing New Zealand. After A Donald and Ntini from South Africa, we have Abdul Razzaq from Pakistan cricket team as most successful bowler ever. He is the 18th highest wicket taker in ODI in the world. Abdul Razzaq has taken 262 wickets. Following him closely is the 19th highest wicket taker in ODI cricket, J Kallis from South Africa. Kallis has taken 259 wickets so far. Great all rounder and the world cup winning captain Kapil Dev is the 20th most successful bowler in ODI to date.
Most runs in cricket career-Batting Records ODI: Sachin Tendulkar tops the chart with 17629 runs so far. He is very much there in the Indian squad. Jayasuriya is second on this list of highest run scorers in Cricket ODI but he is not playing in this world cup. Ricky Ponting is on the list with 13082 runs in his career so far, making him the third highest run scorer in ODI cricket history ever. Inzimam ul Haq and Saurav Ganguly are next in line, both retired from cricket now. J Kallis from South Africa has scored 11002 runs so far and he is the 6th highest run scorer in ODI cricket. Rahul Dravid, Brain Lara, Mohammad Yousuf, Adam Gilchrist, Muhammad Azharuddin, and Aravinda De silva are next in line. D Jayawardene is 13th on the list of highest run scorers in the ODI cricket with 9119 runs on the board. Saeed Anwer from Pakistan is 14th on the list of highest run scorer in career in the ODI cricket. On 15th number we have Kumar Sangakkara of Sri lanka with 8699 runs. S Chanderpaul from West Indies is 16th on the list with 8664 runs. Desmond Haynes, Atapattu, Mark Waugh and H Gibbs are the next in line constituting the top 20 run scorers in the ODI cricket.
Now looking at the players who are amongst the top 20 bowlers or batsmen ever in the cricket ODI history, Sri lanka has the most experienced highly skilled batsmen and bowler. 3 best ever cricketers (Jayawardene, Sangakkara and Muralitharan) amongst the top few are in this list. Sri lanka thus stands a great chance this time around. Second in line is Australia, with one all time great batsman and one all time great bowler in the squad (Ponting and Lee). Pakistan can be considered as the third best team to be there in the final match. The Pakistani squad includes two all time best bowlers (Afridi and Razzaq). South Africa is next in line with J Kallis being the only player appearing in both the lists. Kallis is undoubtedly one of the best all rounder ODI cricket has ever produced. Sachin Tendulkar brings hope to India. Looking at the current form of Indian cricket team, they stand a good chance. West Indies and New Zealand have one great player each (Chander Paul and Daniel Vettori) but lack of consistency in the team’s recent performance shows these teams have lesser chances to reach the finals. So the stats show that it will be any two amongst Sri lanka, Pakistan, Australia and India who will be playing the Cricket world cup 2011 final on 2nd of April 2011 in Mumbai, India.
Top 10 fifty scorers of West Indies in Test
by admin on December 24, 2010
in Test Cricket, West Indies
The West Indian team is the combination of the multinational cricket team which is representing 15 different Caribbean countries. For cricket, the West Indian team is also popularly known as the Windies. Since the period of 1970–1990, the West Indies team was considered the strongest team in the Test cricket world because of the number of fifties and centuries scored by their great players. The West Indian cricket team has some of the great world record-holding players like Sir Viv Richards and Brian Lara. These two players were the best Test players of the team due to their fifties, centuries and other records.
This team has already won the ICC World Cup two times in their period of activity. One was in 1975 and another in 1979. Here are top ten who scored fifties most for the West Indies.
- B.C. Lara
- G.S. Sobers
- I.V.A. Richards
- S. Chanderpaul
- C.H. Lloyd
- C.G. Greenidge
- D.L. Haynes
- R.B. Richardson
- C.L. Walcott
- E.D. Weekes
Top 10 ODI fielders of Pakistan
by admin on August 11, 2010
in One day Cricket, Pakistan, Players
At the One Day Internationals, Pakistan has been performing very well and has been giving tough competition to its opponents. Their major cause of worry is their fielding which has not been up to the mark, causing the opponents to score well.
Fielding is a very important aspect of the game and needs to be enjoyed thoroughly by the players. To be a competent player, one needs to be passionate about it or else the drowsiness will show. Also, lack of communication among the players needs to be sorted out, so that they can understand each other’s strengths and weaknesses.
Today, certain ground fielding records need to be set, so that the over all team performance can be accepted and understood. Here are the top 10 fielders of Pakistan in ODI:
1. Inzamam-ul-Haq
2. Younis Khan
3. Shahid Afridi
4. Ijaz Ahmed
5. Wasim Akram
6. Saleem Malik
7. Javed Miandad
8. Shoaib Malik
9. Mohammad Yousuf
10. Aamer Sohail
Top 10 fielders of Pakistan in Test Cricket
by admin on August 11, 2010
in Pakistan, Players, Test Cricket
Test Cricket requires the players to have the ability and commitment to it and for those who cannot handle it, T20 or ODIs are the safest to play.
Pakistan has been excellent in the batting and the bowling department but in the last few matches their fielding has been incompetent. Unity is going to be their way of reaching the top.
Pakistan needs to appoint a fielding coach because the methods they have been using are outdated, as was noted in the Australian Tour. This will help them overcome their fielding disabilities.
There are some wonderful players in the Pakistan Test Cricket team. All they need to do is to include a little more hard work and dedication.Here are top ten fielders of Pakistan in test cricket:
1. Javed Miandad
2. Inzamam-ul-Haq
3. Younis Khan
4. Majid Khan
5. Mohammad Yousuf
6. Saleem Malik
7. Mudassar Nazar
8. Ijaz Ahmed
9. Wasim Akram
10. Iqbal Qasim