sports stars: March 2011

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

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James Michael "Jimmy" Anderson born 30 July 1982 in Burnley, Lancashire
\ is an English cricketer. He plays first-class cricket for Lancashire County Cricket Club and since bursting onto the scene in 2002/03, before his first full season of county cricket, Anderson has represented England in over 50 Test matches and over 100 One Day Internationals
A right arm pace bowler, Anderson made his international debut at the age of just 20. On England's 2002/03 tour of Australia, Anderson was drafted into the squad from the England A team due to an injury crisis. When he played his first ODI he had only played five senior one day matches. Anderson went on to feature in the 2003 ICC World Cup and made his Test match debut against Zimbabwe at Lords the next summer. Later in 2003 he experienced a dip in form and confidence against South Africa. After this he was in and out of the team and experienced numerous injuries, including a stress fracture of the back which kept him out of action for most of the 2006 season. He returned to action and features regularly in England's Test squad. He is a regular strike bowler in England's one day team.
Contents
* 1 Early and personal life
* 2 Domestic career
* 3 International career
o 3.1 Under Fletcher
+ 3.1.1 Early success
+ 3.1.2 Slow decline
+ 3.1.3 Injury and return
+ 3.1.4 2007 World Cup
o 3.2 Under Moores
+ 3.2.1 Replacing the old guard
+ 3.2.2 New Zealand
+ 3.2.3 South Africa
+ 3.2.4 India
o 3.3 Under Flower
+ 3.3.1 West Indies tour
+ 3.3.2 West Indies in England 2009
* 4 Achievements
o 4.1 Test Match
* 5 References
* 6 External links
Early and personal life
James Anderson was a pupil at St Theodore's RC High School, Burnley. He played cricket at Burnley Cricket Club from a young age. His childhood dream was to be a cricketer, and at the age of 17, after a growth spurt, Anderson was one of the fastest bowlers in the Lancashire League.He stated that "I've always bowled seam, but when I was about 17 I don't know what it was but I just started bowling fast all of a sudden
Just months after his international debut he had become one of the biggest stars in English cricket. Continued alteration of hair styles, attractive looks, and up-to-the-minute outfits earned him comparisons with some of the most recognisable sport personalities around, including David Beckham In 2006, at a church in Hale, he married Daniella Lloyd, a model he met in 2004 while on England duty in London; he stated that marriage has made him "a much happier personOn 8 January 2009, Daniella Lloyd gave birth to a girl called Lola Rose. His second daughter, Ruby Luxe Anderson was born on 8 December 2010Anderson became the first cricketer to model naked for Attitude, "Britain's biggest-selling gay magazine", in September 2010. He stated "If there are any gay cricketers they should feel confident enough to come out because I don't think there is any homophobia in cricke
Domestic career
Anderson made his first-class debut for Lancashire in 2002; he played 13 matches and took 50 wickets at an average of 22.28, including three five wicket hauls He was awarded the NBC Denis Compton Award for Lancashire's most promising young county player in the 2002 season.In 2003, Anderson became the youngest player to take a hat trick for Lancashire, just a week before his Test match debut against Zimbabwe; it was the first hat trick at Old Trafford in eight years.In a match against Worcestershire in May 2004, Anderson recorded his maiden first-class ten wicket haul.
2005 was Anderson's first full season for Lancashire. He was propelled into the England side soon after his Lancashire debut and had returned to rediscover his form after winter tours with England where he had spent the majority of his time on the sidelines, and when given a chance for England he often bowled poorly due to a lack of match practice He finished the season with 60 first-class wickets at an average of 30.21 and 27 one day wickets at an average of 22.00
Anderson was prevented from playing much for Lancashire in the 2006 season by a stress fracture of the back sustained in early MayHe played in only two matches for Lancashire, and at one point it was considered sending Anderson to play for Glamorgan to prove his fitness; however, Lancashire decided they would rather have Anderson play for them if only in a limited capacity In the only first-class match he played for Lancashire that season, he was limited to three four overs spells by the ECB who were wary of injuring him again
2008, after the Test and one day series against South Africa ended at the beginning of September, Anderson was made unavailable to play for Lancashire for the rest of the season He finished the season with 20 first-class wickets at 7.75 for Lancashire.
At the start of the 2009 English cricket season, Anderson took career-best match figures in a first-class match with 11/109 against Sussex as Lancashire won by 8 wickets. It was the only first-class match he played for Lancashire before being called into the England squad for a series against the West IndiesAs of 26 April 2009, Anderson had taken 188 wickets at 24.37 from 48 first-class matches with Lancashireand 66 wickets at 21.78 in 44 list A matches
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

ab de villiers cricket career

Abraham Benjamin de Villiers born 17 February 1984, Pretoria, Transvaal Province, South Africa more commonly known by his initials AB is a cricketer who plays for South Africa and the Nashua Titans. He is now the part of Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League.
De Villiers is a right-handed batsman, who, in a very short space of time, has accumulated many runs in Tests including centuries against England, India, the West Indies and Australia. He has been dismissed in the 90s on five occasions in Tests. He still holds the record for most Test innings without registering a duck 78 before being dismissed for nought against Bangladesh in November 2008. He also holds the record for the highest individual score by a South African batsman in an innings, with 278*. He is an occasional wicketkeeper for the South African cricket team, and is commonly regarded as one of the best fielders currently in international cricket. AB de Villiers blasted the seventh fastest century in ODI cricket, in 58 balls, when he slammed an unbeaten 102 off just 59 balls against India in Ahmedabad in February 2010. He is currently ranked no. 2 jointly along with Virat Kohli with 784 points in the ODI batsman as per ICC rankings.
Contents
* 1 Cricket career
o 1.1 World Cup 2007
o 1.2 2008
o 1.3 Tour of Australia 2008/09
o 1.4 Return Series, Johannesburg 2009
o 1.5 Series against Zimbabwe October 2010
o 1.6 Against Pakistan in October 2010
o 1.7 Indian Premier League
o 1.8 ICC World Cup 2011
* 2 Statistics
o 2.1 Test Centuries
o 2.2 One Day International Centuries
o 2.3 Career Best Performances
* 3 Education
* 4 Personal life
* 5 Music career
* 6 References
* 7 External links
Cricket career
De Villiers who played for Carrickfergus Cricket Club in Northern Ireland as a youngsterbecame the second youngest and second fastest South African to reach 1000 test runs after Graeme Pollock and in his test career so far De Villiers has batted, bowled and kept wicket as well. He is a talented sportsman and has excelled in golf playing off scratch despite playing infrequentl, rugby, cricket and tennis. However, he chose to pursue a career in cricket and, after a spell in the South Africa U19 team, he made his debut for the Titans in 2003/4.
He made his test debut as a 20 year old on 16 December 2004 against England at Port Elizabeth. He made an impression opening the batting, but was dropped down the order for the second test and also handed the wicket-keeping gloves. In this match, he made a match saving half century from number seven. However, he found himself at the top of the order again for the final test of the series and has played the majority of his tests there. Since then he has not missed a Test match and has also batted down the order in some tests leading to speculation that he may possibly take the place of Mark Boucher as the wicket-keeper/batsman when Boucher retires, although de Villiers has himself expressed a preference for playing as a specialist batsman only
Despite a good tour of the Caribbean where he scored 178 to help South Africa seal a test series win, his rapid progress was halted on the tour of Australia in 2005. Despite playing Shane Warne well, he struggled and made just 152 runs in 6 innings. De Villiers holds the record for scoring most Test runs before getting out for a duck.
He has been used in a similar fashion to Jonty Rhodes in ODIs, opening the innings, although he currently bats in the middle order. The 2005 ODI tour to India represented a 'coming of age' for De Villiers as a cricketer as he scored his second ODI half century on 24 October 2006, batting 5th in a partnership with Mark Boucher, playing against an impressive Sri Lankan side. De Villiers gave the selectors a sign by producing his then highest one-day score of 92 not out, which included 12 fours and one six, from 98 balls against India in the 2006 winter series.
De Villiers has a reputation as an outstanding fielder, typified by a diving run-out of Simon Katich of Australia in 2006, when he dived to stop the ball, and while still lying on his stomach facing away from the stumps, he tossed the ball backwards over his shoulder and effected a direct hit. This has also led people to make further comparisons of him to Jonty Rhodes as he was also one of the finest fielders of his generation.

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graeme swann best top

Graeme Peter Swann born 24 March 1979 in Northampton is an English international cricketer. He is primarily a right-arm offspinner, but also bats right-handed. After initially playing for his home county Northamptonshire, for whom he made his debut in 1997, he moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005. He often fields at slip. He attended Sponne School in Towcester, Northamptonshire.
Swann played a single One Day International against South Africa in 2000, before losing his place in the squad. In 2007, Swann was chosen to accompany England on its tour of Sri Lanka as the team's second spin bowler, alongside Monty Panesar, and subsequently cemented a regular place in England's Test team, playing throughout England's 2–1 victory in the 2009 Ashes. In December 2009, he became the first English spinner to take 50 wickets in a calendar year, culminating in back-to-back man of the match awards in the first two Tests of the South Africa tour and third place in the world rankings for bowlers
In March 2010, Swann became the first English off-spinner since Jim Laker to take 10 wickets in a match, when he achieved the feat in England's victory in the first test in Bangladesh. In May, he was named ECB Cricketer of the Year. ended 2010 as England retained and then won the Ashes series in Australia, as the second highest-ranked bowler in world cricket, and the highest ranked spin bowler
Contents
* 1 Career
o 1.1 Early years
o 1.2 Test debut
o 1.3 The Ashes 2009
o 1.4 South Africa 2009/10
o 1.5 Bangladesh 2010
o 1.6 2010 ICC World Twenty20
o 1.7 Pakistan 2010
* 2 Bowling style
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Statistics
o 4.1 Test 5-Wicket Hauls
o 4.2 Test 10-Wicket Match Hauls
o 4.3 One Day International 5-Wicket Hauls
* 5 Notes
* 6 References
* 7 External links
years
Swann bowling for Nottinghamshire against Leicestershire in 2007
Swann began his domestic career for Northamptonshire. As a teenager, he was part of the successful U-19 World Cup winning side in 1998, a tournament that took part in South Africa alongside other future England players Owais Shah and Robert Key
Against Leicestershire in 1998 he scored 92 and 111, his maiden first-class half-century and century South Africa and Zimbabwe with the England A-team that winter, Swann took 21 wickets at 25.61 and averaged 22 with the bat. Wisden commented,
Swann did spin the ball appreciably and emerged as a definite candidate for elevation. He had the potential to become a genuine allrounder, with a wide range of attractive strokes, though he needs to use them more selectively
In 1999, Swann was brought into the England squad for the final Test against New Zealand. He did not play, but featured in an ODI against South Africa following an injury to Ashley Giles This tour also saw him miss the team bus once due to oversleeping
In domestic cricket, Swann scored his highest first-class score of 183 in 2002, sharing a partnership of 318 with Northants captain Mike Hussey 310 not out
He moved to Nottinghamshire in 2005, and finished the season of 2007 with 516 runs and 45 wickets, leading to his recall to the England side against Sri LankaWhile England fell heavily in defeat during the first match, Swann hit 34 to help seal victory in the second, and took four for 34 and hit 25 in the third as England took a two-one lead in the series

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brett lee early life

Brett Lee born 8 November 1976 in Wollongong, New South Wales is an Australian cricketer.
After breaking into the Australian Test team, Lee was recognised as one of the fastest bowlers in world cricket. In each of his first two years, he averaged less than 20 with the ball, but since then has mostly achieved figures in the early 30s.
He is an athletic fielder and useful lower-order batsman, with a batting average exceeding 20 in Test cricket. Together with Mike Hussey, he has held the record for highest 7th wicket partnership for Australia in ODIs since 2005–06
Contents
* 1 Style
* 2 Early career
* 3 Test career
o 3.1 Early Test career
o 3.2 Return from injury
o 3.3 Loss of Test position
o 3.4 Test return
o 3.5 Post McGrath-Warne era
* 4 One-day International career
* 5 Batting
* 6 Cricket World Cup 2003
* 7 Retirement from Tests
* 8 One Day International Comeback
* 9 Awards
* 10 Personal life
o 10.1 Endorsements
o 10.2 Charity work
* 11 Career highlights
o 11.1 Tests
o 11.2 One-day Internationals
o 11.3 Other
* 12 References
* 13 External links
Style
Lee is a fast bowler, one of the fastest the game has known. Lee's fastest recorded delivery to date is 160.8 km/h 99.9 mphwhich he bowled in his first over on March 5, 2005 at Napier, New Zealand against Craig Cumming
Lee ranked with Pakistani bowler Shoaib Akhtar as the fastest bowler in contemporary cricket during most of this decade Akhtar's delivery at 161.3km/h 100.23mph stands as the fastest recorded to date
Early in his career, Lee was reported for a suspected illegal bowling action, but was clearedHe was also criticised in early 2005 for bowling a series of beamers at batsmen during ODIs, at a rate which lead some to claim he was deliberately bowling illegal head high full tosses at batsmen.
Early career
Lee also played for the Australian Under 17 & 19 teams and was awarded a scholarship to attend the Australian Cricket Academy
In March 1994, Lee was forced out of the Australian under-19 team to tour India due to stress fractures in his lower back. He recovered and made his first-class debut for New South Wales against Western Australia in a Sheffield Shield match as a 20-year old in the 1997–98 season, playing one match and taking 3/114.
One month later, Lee was chosen to represent the Australian A team on a tour to South Africa. He claimed two wickets but in that very match, stress fractures in his back from the previous injury had re-opened and Lee was in a back brace for over three months.
During the 1997-98 season, he played in five of the ten Sheffield Shield games, taking fourteen wickets at 30. He finished outside the top 20 in both the wicket taking list and the bowling averages.
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