Players Photos Biography Videos: August 2011

Monday, 15 August 2011

Benjam Becker

Benjam Becker Biography
Class:
Senior
Hometown:
Orscholz, Germany
High School:
Gymnasium Stefansberg
Height / Weight:
5-10 / 170
Birthdate:
06/16/1981
Experience:
3L
Career - Three-time ITA All-American in singles ... Led the Bears to four Big 12 Championships and the 2004 NCAA team title, a 2005 runner-up finish and the 2005 ITA Team Indoor Championship ... Finished his career ranked No. 1 in BU career singles victories (141) and No. 1 in career doubles wins (104) ... Also No. 1 in career dual match singles victories (92), No. 3 in career doubles win percentage (.776) and No. 3 in singles win percentage (.810) ... Three-time All-Big 12 selection ... Excellent student, three-time Academic All-Big 12, second-team Academic All-District in 2004 ... During his four seasons the Bears posted a 120-7 team record.
2004-2005 (Senior) - Finished the season at 30-7 in singles and 22-8 in doubles ... Advanced to the round of 16 in the NCAA Tournament ... Complied a 19-5 mark versus ranked players ... Teamed with Jon Reckewey at No. 3 doubles where they posted a 20-6 mark ... Ranked in the top 50 in singles play throughout the season, ended the season at No. 11, his highest of the season ... All-Big 12 in both singles and doubles ... Academic All-Big 12.
2003-2004 (Junior) - Won the NCAA singles championship, defeated Tulane's Michael Kogan (6-4, 7-6(8) in the finals...Played mainly at No. 2 singles for the Bears en route to claiming the NCAA team championship title...Finished the season ranked No. 9 in the ITA rankings...Earned All-American honors in singles...Had the most singles victories on the team with a 44-9 record...Was 24-6 against ranked players...Posted a dual match singles record of 25-4...Played mainly at No. 2, was 20-1 at that position...Had a 12-match win streak snapped by SMU's Johan Brunstrom (April 15)...Was 29-7 in doubles on the season and 23-1 in dual match doubles...Teams mainly with Matias Marin; the tandem finsihed the season ranked No. 30 with a 23-3 overall record and 21-1 dual match mark...They are undefeated at No. 2 at 15-0...Prior to losing in the round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament, the duo won 17 straight matches, their last loss had come on Feb. 28 against USC's Jamil Al-Agba and Ruben Torres (8-3 at No. 3)...Becker has been named Big 12 Player of the Week twice this season (March 23, April 7)...Recently named All-Big 12 in both singles and doubles...Two-time Academic All-Big 12...Ranks No. 1 in Baylor career singles wins with 111 and is No. 3 in career doubles wins with 82....Career records: Singles 111-26, doubles 82-22.
2002-2003 (Sophomore) - Finished the spring season ranked No. 31 in singles and No. 36 in doubles ... Ended the season 30-8 overall and 21-1 in dual match play ... Won 13 straight matches from March 15 to May 21 ... Win streak was halted by No. 1 Bobby Reynolds of Vanderbilt in the NCAA Round of 32 ... Selected to participate in the NCAA Singles Championships for the second straight year ... Entered the spring season ranked No. 23 in singles and No. 47 in doubles and No. 33 in doubles teamed with Zoltan Papp ... The duo were alternates for the NCAA Doubles Championships ... All-Big 12 in both singles and doubles ... Academic All-Big 12 ... Big 12 Player of the Week (April 15-21) ... Began fall season ranked No. 5 nationally ... Ended his fall campaign with an 8-4 record ... Advanced to the Round of 16 at the ITA National Indoor Championships ... Semifinalist at the Baylor Intercollegiate Tournament after losing to teammate Zoltan Papp ... In doubles teamed with Zoltan Papp and Benedikt Dorsch ... Advanced to the semifinals of the ITA Region VI Tournament with Papp ... Upset then-No. 24 Choo/Chu of Harvard and advanced to the Round of 16 at the ITA All-American Tournament with Dorsch ... Named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll.
2001-2002 (Freshman) - Walked away with numerous honors, including, All-America, ITA Region VI Rookie of the Year, ITA Region VI Player to Watch, All-Big 12 (singles and doubles), Big 12 Freshman of the Year, Big 12 Player of the Week (twice), Big 12 gold medals at No. 1 singles and No. 2 doubles and preseason All-Big 12 ... Debuted the spring ranked No. 3 nationally, the highest-ever ranking for a Baylor tennis player at that time ... Completed his campaign with a 37-9 singles mark ... Posted a 22-4 dual match record, including 15-match win streak ... 21-8 mark against ranked opponents ... Finished the season ranked No. 11 nationally ... He and doubles partner Zoltan Papp finished the doubles season with a 16-1 mark, including 15 straight doubles victories ... The duo achieved their only national ranking, No. 48, in the April 17 ranking ... Named to the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll for the fall semester.
Prior to Baylor - Graduated from Gymnasium Stefansberg in Merzig, Germany in 2000 ... Played in several international tournaments throughout Europe ... Won an international tournament in Bari, Italy and won an ITF Tournament in 2000 in Luxembourg ... Reached the semifinals of the German National Junior Championships, beating teammate Reiner Neurohr in the quarterfinals ... Played the Wimbledon Junior Championships ... Ranked No. 9 in Europe in 1997 and was ranked in top 100 in ITF rankings in 1998.
Personal - Full name is Benjamin Becker ... Born on June 16, 1981, in Merzig, Germany ... Son of Joerg Becker and Ulrike Becker ... Majoring in finance and international business.

Benjam Becker

Benjamin Becker vs. Marat Safin at SAP Open

Benjamin Becker

Rob Bironas

Rob Bironas Biography

James Robert Douglas Bironas (born January 29, 1978 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American football placekicker for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He was signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at Georgia Southern. Bironas was an All-Pro and Pro Bowl selection in 2008. He has also been a member of the Charleston Swamp Foxes, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Carolina Cobras, Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Dragons.

Rob Bironas

Rob Bironas field goal Tips

Bironas kicks 60ya fg Titans beat colts!

Andrew Caddick

Andrew Caddick Biography

Full Name: Andrew Richard Caddick
Nationality: British
Born: November 21, 1968, Christchurch, New Zealand
Education: Papanui High School, Christchurch, New Zealand
Height: 6ft 6ins
Married: to Sarah
Children: Yes a boy and a girl
Lives: Taunton in Somerset
Nicknames: Andy, Caddy, Shack,
Teams:
England - 1992 - 2003,
Somerset: 1990 - 2009
Hobbies: Flying Helicopters, golf, horse riding
Career:
Andy played for Somerset County Cricket Club and England. For England Andy made 62 Test and 54 One-day international appearances. He has enjoyed many highlights at international level, including taking four wickets in an over against the West Indies at Headingley in 2000. In all, Andy took 234 Test wickets at an average of under 30 and also boasts 69 one day international victims at a similar average.
He was one of Wisden's 'Cricketers of the Year' in 2001 In the 2005 season took his 1,000th first class wicket, becoming one of only six current players to have reached that landmark. Andys' best season for Somerset was in 1998 when he claimed 105 first class wickets.
Present Day:
Away from cricket Andy is now involved in several projects. He is a Sales Director for WOWee ONE - portable speakers. Andy also fronts a company called Brightside Group plc, which is one of the fastest growing insurance broking and financial services businesses in the UK.
Andy is owns UK Heli-Sales a helicopter brokerage company, he is also a sales consultant for "Charter A" who specialise in rotary and fixed wing aircraft sales.

Andy is married to Sarah and they have two children. Andy still lives in Somerset, his parents, brother and sister all live in Christchurch New Zealand. He is also a qualified helicopter pilot and enjoys relaxing on the golf course.

Andrew Caddick

Andy Caddick 5-14 vs West Indies 2000

Andrew Caddick 8 for 89 vs New Zealand 1999

Sunday, 14 August 2011

Monde Zondeki

Monde Zondeki Biography

Full name Monde Zondeki
Born July 25, 1982, King William's Town, Cape Province
Major teams South Africa, Africa XI, Border, Cape Cobras, Warriors, Warwickshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm fast
Young, raw and quick, Zondeki is cut straight from the modern history of the new South Africa and spent a year of his early childhood in Zambia living with his exiled uncle, the late ANC cabinet minister Steve Tshwete.He returned to South Africa where he attended Dale College, a predominantly white boarding school near his home in the Eastern Cape, but which also claims Makhaya Ntini as an old boy. Although he initially bowled legspin, he was soon bowling fast and later, very fast. After Mfuneko Ngam's huge promise was severed by a string of injuries, Zondeki became the next young fast bowler to attempt to fill the boots of Allan Donald.
He could hardly have made a more stunning impact, taking a wicket withhis first ball in international cricket, Sri Lanka's Marvan Atapattu caught in the slips during a one-day international in Bloemfontein in 2002. During the 2003 World Cup, Zondeki was a literal replacement for Donald, the selectors opting for youth and promise over experience. Predictably, Zondeki struggled to make an impression under enormous pressure but was seleced for the 2003 tour of England. He made an impression on his debut at Headingley, but with bat not ball. South Africa were struggling at 142 for 7 before Zondeki and Gary Kisten added 150 for the eighth wicket. But a side injury restricted him to just 4.5 overs, and his bad luck with injuries meant he did not get back into the Test side until March 2005, against Zimbabwe. It was an impressive comeback, nine wickets - including a career best 6 for 39 - booking him a place to the West Indies. He managed just seven wickets in three Tests in the Caribbean, and recurring injuries seriously hampered his chances at international level.
However, he enjoyed an excellent 2007-08 domestic season, during which he was the leading wicket-taker with 62 at 19.16, and was called up to South Africa's Test squad to India after Charl Langeveldt pulled out. Zondeki was also Warwickshire's overseas signing for the 2008 season. He got a chance again at the international level against the touring Kenyan and Bangladeshi sides in October and November 2008, and was later picked in the touring party for Australia.

Monde Zondeki

zondeki's mop

zondekii - Sweet quickscope on Crisis

Lance Klusener

Lance Klusener Biography
Lance Klusener (born 4 September 1971 in Durban, South Africa) is a cricketer, more specifically an all-rounder. He is known for his aggressive batting and his fast-medium swing bowling. He is nicknamed \"Zulu\" because of his fluency in that language. Following his exploits at the 1999 World Cup, he topped the ICC ODI Batting rankings. His peak rating put him 28th on the ICC all-time ODI Batting rankings. His career average of 41.1 in ODI cricket, combined with his strike rate of 89.9 make him one of the the most dangerous batsmen to ever play the game. Klusener made his Test match debut for South Africa against India in Calcutta during the second Test in 1996/97. Klusener, at the time playing primarily as a bowler, took some fearful hammering at the hands of Mohammad Azharuddin, who at one point hit him for five consecutive fours, in his first innings of his debut but returned career best figures of eight for 64 in the second. Klusener will be remembered mainly for his contributions in One Day Internationals, in which he became feared as a hard hitting batsman and was voted as Man of the Tournament during the 1999 World Cup. He was also voted as a Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 2000. His international career has tapered off since then, due mainly to persistent ankle injuries, as well as a public dispute with the current South African captain Graeme Smith, who at a breakfast meeting shortly after his appointment to the captaincy described Klusener as a \"disruptive force\" to the younger players within the South African national cricket team, with the quote ending up in the South African press.[1] However it seems that Klusener and Smith have patched up their differences.[2][3] Klusener plays for Kwazulu-Natal (Nashua Dolphins) in the domestic level in South Africa. In 2003 Northamptonshire County Cricket Club signed him on a contract running until late 2007. So far at Wantage Road he has impressed with his fired-up seam bowling and his hard-hitting in the low middle-order. Due to family beareavments back home, it has been announced that his contract with the county will not be renewed at the end of the 2007 season. In late 2007, he started playing in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 tournament in India for the Kolkata Tigers team. [4] Klusener's batting averages are particularly notable for the peculiar fact that his ODI average is considerably higher than his Test average. This is a fair reflection of his aggressive temperament.

Lance Klusener

Lance Klusener 174 vs England 1999/00

Lance Klusener 5 wickets vs Australia MCG 97/98

Saturday, 13 August 2011

Jason Gillespie

Jason Gillespie Biography
Full Name: Jason Neil Gillespie
Date of Birth: Apr 19, 1975, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales
Major Team: Australia, Ahmedabad Rockets, Glamorgan, South Australia, Yorkshire
Playing Roll: Bowler
Batting Style: Right
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast
Nick Name: Dizzy
Height: 1.95 m
Education: Cabra College, Adelaide
International Debut: 1996
Batting and fielding records
M Inns NO Runs HS Ave BF SR 100 50 4s 6s Ct St
Test 71 93 28 1218 201* 18.74 3810 31.97 1 2 146 8 27 -
ODI 97 39 16 289 44* 12.57 368 78.53 - - 16 6 10 -
T20I 1 1 0 24 24 24.00 18 133.33 - - 4 - - -
Bowling records
M Inns Balls Runs Wkts BBI BBM Ave Eco SR 4W 5W 10W
Test 71 137 14234 6770 259 7/37 9/80 26.14 2.85 54.96 8 8 -
ODI 97 96 5144 3611 142 5/22 5/22 25.43 4.21 36.23 3 3 -
T20I 1 1 24 49 1 1/49 1/49 49.00 12.25 24.00 - - -
Career Statistics
Test Debut: Australia v West Indies at Sydney, 29 Nov - 03 Dec 1996
ODI Debut: Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo, Aug 30, 1996
Twenty20 Debut: England v Australia at Southampton, Jun 13, 2005

Jason Gillespie

Jason Gillespie bowls Jacques Kallis

Jason Bowling Left Hand

Scott Styris

Scott Styris Biography
Scott Bernard Styris (born Brisbane, Australia 10 July 1975) is a New Zealand cricketer. An allrounder, Styris is an aggressive right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. Educated at Hamilton Boys' High School, Styris has represented Auckland and Northern Districts since 1994/95. He was originally just a seam bowler and only started to concentrate on his batting after a knee injury. Nicknamed \"The Pig\" or \"Pigga\", he has become a crowd favourite, especially at Eden Park. Styris has played for Hamilton in the Hawke Cup. Scott Styriswas bought by the Deccan Chargers for the IPL 2008 season. He went for $175,000 in the player auction on February, 20 2008. He will be representing Deccan Chargers for 3 years in IPL from 2008 to 2010.

Scott Styris

Scott Styris 101* vs Pakistan 1st ODI Auckland 2004

Scott Styris 108 vs England 2004