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Monday, 15 August 2011

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

Ronnie Irani

Ronnie Irani Biography
Ronald Charles \"Ronnie\" Irani (born 26 October 1971 in Leigh, Lancashire), is a former England cricketer who spent most of his career at Essex County Cricket Club, latterly as captain. He is of Indian Irani descent. He played only three Tests for England, with decidedly mixed success, but found a niche in One Day Internationals. Irani was once a genuine all-rounder, and as of 2005[update] had a first-class batting average above 38 and a bowling average nine points lower, but a knee injury in 2003 forced him to stop bowling and play as a specialist batsman. Although initially seen as a major blow, Irani has since said that his inability to bowl has enhanced his batting game as a result of being able to focus more on this side of his game. The recurring nature of this knee injury led to Irani being forced to retire prematurely from first-class cricket in June 2007.

Ronnie Irani

funny cricket moment with Ronnie Irani

Michael Hussey

Michael Hussey Biography
Michael Edward Killeen Hussey (born 27 May 1975, Morley, Western Australia) is an Australian cricketer. Hussey is a left-handed specialist batsman. Hussey is also widely known by his nicknames of Huss, The Huss, and Mr Cricket, the latter due to his encyclopaedic knowledge of his sport, though he loathes the latter nickname. Hussey was a relative latecomer to both the ODI and Test Australian teams, debuting at 28 and 30 years of age in the respective formats, with 15,313 first-class runs prior to test debut. However, he has had a highly successful international career, being the top-ranked ODI batsman in the world in 2006 and has the third-highest test batting average among cricketers who have played more than 25 tests. He plays first-class cricket as vice-captain of the Western Warriors in Australia and has played for three counties in England.

Michael Hussey

Australia Vs England, Mike Hussey hero3rd Test Day 3 Ashes 18 Dec 2010

Mike Hussey fastest innings