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Thursday, September 24, 2009

Dilshan


Tillakaratne Mudiyanselage Dilshan (born October 14, 1976 in Kalutara, Sri Lanka) is a Sri Lankan cricketer and member of the Sri Lankan national cricket team since November 1999. Known as Tuwan Mohammad Dilshan prior to his conversion from Islam to Buddhism,[1] an aggressive right-hand batsman, he is also a capable spin bowler and his off breaks are mostly used in the one-day arena.


Career
Dilshan made his Test debut against Zimbabwe in 1999. He scored his maiden Test hundred in the series with a 163. Dilshan also made his One day international debut against Zimbabwe before spending the next 15 months in and out of the side. Even when he played he never knew his place in the side as he was constantly being pushed up and down the order.

His revival as an international cricketer came in 2003. In four consecutive Test innings he scored 63, 100, 83 and 104. The latter came against the world champion Australian side at Galle. In September 2005 Dilshan scored his most recent Test century, an innings of 168 off just 179 balls against Bangladesh.

In first final of the 2005-06 VB Series, Dilshan's fielding made headlines when he made four run outs.

In November 2007, Dilshan scored 188 for Bloomfield Cricket and Athletic Club against Colts Cricket Club in a 50 over game. The innings is the joint 14th highest score made in any List A cricket match (alongside Gary Kirsten's 188 in 1996), and came from just 135 balls, at a strike rate of 139.25. He hit 14 fours and 12 sixes before being bowled by fellow Sri Lankan international Nuwan Kulasekara. The scorecard for the game can be found here [2] In 2009 T20 world cup series, Dilshan became player of the series with 317 runs in seven matches which includes three half centuries. He maintained a 52.83 batting average throughout the series, which was the fourth best among all the cricketers, behind AJ Matthews (Sri Lanka) with 75, J Kallis (South Africa) with 59.5 and Younis Khan (Pakistan) with 57.33.[3]

His scoop, played straight over the wicket keeper's head, was displayed for the first time during this tournament and came to be known as the Dilscoop in his honour

Rising cricket star callum ferguson





Full name Callum James Ferguson

Born November 21, 1984, North Adelaide, South Australia

Current age 24 years 299 days

Major teams Australia, Australia A, South Australia

Nickname Walt Disney

Batting style Right-hand bat

Bowling style Right-arm medium

Height 1.80 m



Profile
After a few stutters at South Australia, Callum Ferguson came of age in 2008-09 and ended the summer as a regular international performer and the owner of a Cricket Australia contract. An easy-to-watch right-hander, Ferguson had suffered from giving away regular starts, but he came home more determined to cash in following a trip to the English leagues in 2008. There were two hundreds and three Pura Cup fifties in a haul of 644 runs and, despite being lightly built, he showed power with 401 FR Cup runs at almost a run a ball and more explosiveness in the Twenty20 competition. The national selectors were impressed and he was picked in the one-day squad for the Chappell-Hadlee Series. Over the next four months he played 14 ODIs, earned three half-centuries and stood out in a crisis, confirming himself as a man for the future.

Following an excellent debut season in 2004-05, when he topped South Australia's run tally, Ferguson fell to fourth on the list the next summer and sixth in 2006-07. But he was back up to third with 498 runs from eight matches in a forgettable 2007-08 for the Redbacks. With the retirements of Darren Lehmann and Matthew Elliott, Ferguson had to shoulder even more of the responsibility last season. He has had two stints at the Centre of Excellence and is highly-rated within the Redbacks camp. Showing incredible maturity when he made his first-class debut four seasons ago, he posted 733 Pura Cup runs as the rest of the team's strokeplayers struggled. The next summer 506 at 36 followed but his only concern in making four half-centuries was a highest score of 65. A talented junior, Ferguson was first picked for the Academy in 2002 and was then chosen for the Under-19 World Cup in Bangladesh in 2004, but a knee injury on the eve of the tournament kept him from playing.
Cricinfo staff May 2009


Wednesday, September 23, 2009

WAYNE PARNELL


Wayne Dillon Parnell (born 30 July 1989 in Port Elizabeth) is a South African cricketer who plays One Day International and Twenty20 cricket for South Africa. At domestic level he plays for the Warriors having previously represented Eastern Province, he has also played county cricket for Kent. He is a left-hand batsman and bowls left-arm fast-medium.




Kent
At the start of the 2009 season Parnell was signed as an overseas player by Kent on a six week contract, serving as a replacement for Stuart Clark.[3] On his county debut against Essex he took 4/78 in the first innings and top scored with 69 in the second, his maiden first-class fifty the innings contained 11 boundaries. Despite following on Kent won the match, with Parnell claiming three further wickets.[4] In Kent's next first-class match, against Glamorgan he bettered his maiden fifty with an innings of 90, again top scoring from number eight.[5] Parnell left Kent to join up with South Africa ahead of the World Twenty20, but after the tournament he returned for a further five weeks.[6] Opening the bowling in Kent's successful defence of 149 runs against Durham in the Twenty20 Cup quarter-final, Parnell dismissed opening batsmen Phil Mustard for a golden duck from the first delivery of the Dynamos' run chase and David Warner in the second over of his spell, also for a duck.[7] Though returning to South Africa after his second spell ends, Parnell has been cleared by Cricket South Africa to return to Kent and feature for the Spitfires on finals day of the competition



Parnell was selected as captain of the South Africa team for the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup having also played for the team in 2006 U/19 Cricket World Cup. He finished the 2008 tournament as the leading wicket-taker with 18 wickets at 8.38.[9] In the quarter-final against Bangladesh he took six for eight as well as top-scoring with 57.[10]

Parnell was selected in the ODI and T20 squads for South Africa's tour of Australia in 2008-09,[11][12] and made his international debut in the second Twenty20 International at Brisbane on 13 January 2009. He was expensive with the ball and put down a crucial catch, but it was later suggested that this was the result of a green laser light beamed into his eyes by a member of the crowd.[13]

Parnell was included in South Africa's squad for the third and final Test against Australia in Cape Town[14] and although he wasn't selected, he was again named for the Twenty20 and ODI series which followed. Sharing the new ball with Dale Steyn, he played a key role in South Africa's seven-wicket win in the second ODI at Centurion by taking four for 25.[15]

In May 2009 Parnell was selected in the South African squad for the ICC World Twenty20 in England. He had an excellent tournament, taking nine wickets at 13.22 with an economy rate of less than six.[16] Against the hosts he took figures of 3/14, which included an opening spell of 2-0-2-1.[17] In the following match against the West Indies he was named man-of-the-match after taking 4/13.[18] His performances earned him a place in the World team of the tournament