Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born April 24, 1973) is an Indian cricketer, widely considered to be one of the
greatest batsmen of all time. He currently holds the records for the most cumulative runs in One-Day
Internationals, and the most number of centuries scored in both One-day Internationals and Test cricket. He
made his international debut against Pakistan in 1989 at the age of sixteen, becoming India's youngest Test
player. Although primarily a top-order batsman, Tendulkar has often proved to be a useful and effective slow
bowler. He received India's highest sporting honour, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna in the year 1997-1998 and
the civilian award Padma Shri in 1999. His cricketing and batting abilities are widely regarded as genius by
many stalwarts of the game. For instance, Sir Donald Bradman, the Australian great said of Sachin, "He
reminds me of myself". He is affectionately known as The Little Master by his adoring fans. On 23
December 2012, Tendulkar announced his retirement from ODIs and from Twenty20 format in May 2013.
He retired from cricket on 16th November 2013 after playing his 200th Test match, against the West Indies
in Mumbai's Wankhede Stadium. Following the end of his final match, the Prime Minister's Office on 16
November declared Bharat Ratna, the highest civilian honour, making him the first sportsperson and
youngest to receive it.
Virat kohli
irat Kohli is an Indian International cricketer, who is a middle-order right hand batsman and a right arm
medium pace bowler. He was the captain of the champion Indian team at the 2008 U/19 Cricket World Cup
held in Malaysia. Virat represents Delhi in first-class cricket and is the captain of the Royal Challengers
Banglore franchise in the Indian Premier League. He was the part of the Indian team which won the "2011
World Cup". He is also a co-owner of the ISL team FC Goa and the IPTL franchise UAE Royals. Recently,
he has representing India in ICC world cup 2015. Virat Kohli, the rising star of the Indian Cricket was born
on 5 November 1988 in Delhi. He was brought up in Delhi and studied at Vishal Bharti and Savier Convent,
Delhi. He got his initial cricket training in West Delhi Cricket Academy, since 1998. He also used to play
matches for Sumit Dogra Academy in Vasundhara Enclave near Noida. Virat Kohil's role model is
Herschelle Gibbs of South Africa. He is fascinated about Lawn tennis and is a huge fan of Leander paes
(Indian tennis star) and Roger Federer (The Swiss tennis legend).
Bhuvneshwar kumar
Bhuvneshwar Kumar is an Indian cricketer, who plays for Uttarpradesh in domestic cricket. He is a Righthanded Batsman and Right-arm medium Bowler. He made his debut at the age of 17 against Bengal. He also
plays for Pune Warriors India in the Indian Premier League. He became the first bowler to dismiss Sachin
Tendulkar for a duck in first-class cricket in 2008-09 season. Later he handed an IPL contract by Royal
Challengers Banglore. Kumar also represented Central Zone in Duleep Trophy and Deodhar Trophy. Apart
from being a good swing bowler, Kumar is also known for his lower middle-order batting, which makes him
a useful all-rounder. Bhuvneshwar Kumar was born on 5 February 1990 in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh in a Gurjar
family. He belongs to Luharli village, Bulandshahr, Uttar Pradesh. Bhuvneshwar test career was started
against Australia during 1st test of Australia Tour to India in 2013. His partnership helped India to establish a
lead of 266 runs. Kumar, got his maiden ODI Man-of-the-Match award.
Mahendra singh dhoni
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (born 7 July 1981), commonly known as M. S. Dhoni, is a cricket player and
the captain of the current Indian cricket team.[2] Dhoni is a right-handed batsman. He is known as the
greatest captain of all time, having achieved more success than any other captain in the history of cricket.
The Indian cricket team won the 2011 Cricket World Cup under his captainship. His Test cricket and One
Day International records are the best among all Indian captains to date. He took over the ODI captaincy
from Rahul Dravid in 2007 and led the team to its first ever inter-country ODI series wins in Sri Lanka and
New Zealand. Dhoni also holds the post of Vice-President of India Cements Ltd. after resigning from Air
India. India Cements is the owner of the Indian Premier League team Chennai Super Kings, and Dhoni has

been its captain since the first edition of IPL. Dhoni has also been given many awards, such as the ICC ODI
Player of the Year award in 2008 and 2009 (the first Indian player to achieve this), the Rajiv Gandhi Khel
Ratna award in 2007 and the Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian honour, in 2009.On 6 February
2015, Dhoni's daughter was born.

Irfan pathan
Irfan Khan Pathan born 27 October 1984) is an Indian cricketer who made his debut for India in the
2003/04 Border-Gavaskar Trophy, and was a core member of the national team until a decline in form set in
during 2006, forcing him out of the team. Since then, he has been in and out of the limited-overs teams
(ODIs and T20Is), and has only sporadic appearances in Test cricket. Pathan played his last Test in April,
2008 at the age of 24. Beginning his career as a fast-medium swing and seam bowler, Pathan broke into the
national team soon after turning 19, and evoked comparisons with Pakistan's Wasim Akram with his
promising performances and prodigious swing. He cemented his position in the team and was named by
the International Cricket Council as the 2004 Emerging Player of the Year. Pathan was instrumental in
India's One-day international and Test series wins in Pakistan in 2004. He was described by the media as the
"blue-eyed boy" of the Indian cricket.[2] In late-2004 he took 18 wickets in two Tests against Bangladesh, but
the start of 2005 he performed poorly and conceded runs at a high rate, leading to a brief exile from the oneday international (ODI) team. Immediately thereafter, Australian Greg Chappell, one of the leading batsmen
of his time, became India's coach (2005) and identified Pathan's batting potential. Pathan improved his
batting skills and tried to become a complete bowling all-rounder, and he opened the batting on occasions in
ODIs and scored 93 in a Test match (10 Dec 2005, versus Sri Lanka in Delhi) in the role after an illness
to Virender Sehwag. He made three scores beyond 80 in the space of four Test innings against Sri Lanka and
Pakistan. For the first nine months of Chappell's stint at the helm, Pathan performed strongly with both bat
and ball, scoring runs regularly and frequently taking top-order wickets. He rose to No. 2 in the ICC's ODI
rankings for all-rounders and was also in the top five in the Test rankings. This led critics to compare him to
former Indian pace bowling allrounder Kapil Dev.