Famous cricket player of New Zealand cricket team: Gavin Rolf Larsen
by MairaS on July 9, 2011
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Larsen, a specialist in the economic bowling, was an asset for the New Zealand cricket team. He is a renowned former cricketer of NZ who always held an outstanding economy rate of bowling in One Day International Cricket i.e. 3.76 – the average being usually between 4 and 4.50 in his 121 One Day Internationals over a period of 10 years.
Gavin Rolf Larsen played a total of 8 Test cricket with impressive success rate which included 24 wickets. Not only this, he was a reliable and contributive batsman alongside being a trustworthy bowler. He held a good standing in one-day side and for the World Cup semi-final in 1999, Larsen played a highly significant role by being a part of the New Zealand cricket team. It was very unusual of a NZ player to have played cricket throughout the course of his first-class playing career with only one team i.e. Wellington.
Larsen also captained the New Zealand cricket team in the 1994 Australasian Cup in Sharjah where he promoted the team to reach the semi-finals of a 6-team tournament. Today, he is working as the CEO of Cricket Wellington and is still affiliated with the cricket arena. Gavin Rolf Larsen is one of the best and most economical New Zealand bowlers.
Famous/Best English cricket player: Nicholas Verity Knight
by MairaS on July 6, 2011
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Nicholas Verity Knight, more commonly known as Nick, is a former player of the English cricket team who was a left-handed opening batsman and a premier fielder. His middle name was given in the honor of the English Test bowler, Hedley Verity of the 1930s and was killed in WWII.
Knight played in a total of 100 ODIs and 18 Test matches throughout his playing career. He announced his retirement from International cricket followed after the World Cup of 2003. Knight began his domestic cricket career in 1991 with Essex, four years after which he joined Warwickshire. It was in 1996 when he made a feat of one century in an innings of 113 against Pakistan while in 1996-7, he made his second best score in Test cricket against Zimbabwe i.e. 96. In the arcade of ODIs, Knight made his debut in 1996 wherein he scored centuries consecutively in the 2nd and 3rd innings. He served as a captain for Warwickshire from 2003-2005 and contributed to their County Championship in the season of 2004. Knight’s highest score was a victorious score of 303. He ended his playing career with a score of 16,172 runs averaging at 44.18 including forty 100s.
Nick Verity Knight now works as a cricket commentator for Sky Sports and is quite a recognized face in the cricket arena.
Popular English cricketer: Nasser Hussain
by MairaS on July 6, 2011
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Nasser Hussain, is a renowned English cricketer who savored quite a lot of fame throughout his playing career. He was in fact the first Muslim player the English team had as a captain who was a mixed race.
This strong cricketer began playing for Essex quite late in the 80s during which he showed excellent fielding yet averaging batting. He was seen as a belligerent batter whose highest batting score was 207 as scored in the Ashes in 1997 in the first Test match. When it comes to his playing era, Hussain was recognized as one of the best captains that the English Test cricket team had. His first Test debut took place in 1990 which was a spectacular game for his team as England won by 9 wickets against West Indies, a victory that culminated after a span of 16 years and 20 Test matches. Hussain undertook the responsibility of the English team’s captaincy from 1999-2003 and has the 4th most wins in Test cricket as a captain for the English cricket team.
Hussain played in a total of 88 ODIs at an average of 30.2. He led his team as a captain in 56 One Day Internationals and participated in one World Cup tournaments. After the World Cup of 2003, he resigned from his captaincy. He claims his ODI score of 115 as quite a memorable moment in his ODI career. After retirement, Nasser Hussain joined Sky Sports as a cricket commentator. He also worked as a cricket professional at New Hall School, Chelmsford and also made an appearance in a recent Bollywood movie, Patiala House.
Best English cricket players: Brian Christopher Broad
by MairaS on July 2, 2011
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Brian Christopher Broad, a former cricketer of the English Test cricket team, was an opening batsman and had a 25 match long international Test career in the course of which he made 6 centuries along with his participation in 34 ODIs with a reasonable enough average of above 40.
Broad is extensively renowned for his achievement during the Ashes series in 1986 where he made 3 impressive centuries in successive series of Tests while he demonstrated an overwhelming presence at the crease. From this point onwards, Broad became a Test official. His first-class Test debut came in 1979 when he played for Gloucestershire and won him a secure standing in the team the following summer season. When it comes to International cricket, Broad was an aggressive left-handed opening batsman and made his Test debut in 1984 for England.
It was in 2003 when Broad became an ICC Test official wherein he performed as a match referee for the Tests and ODIs. This includes the match played for the World Cricket Tsunami Appeal while he served as a match referee in the World Cup Super Eights played between WI and Australia.
He is still referred to as a player who had an influential presence on the field with a devastating aura around him.
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.