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1. David Robert Shepherd born on 27th December 1940.
2. He stood in 92 test matches as umpire and officiated three world cup finals.
3.From 1965 to 1979, he played for Gloucestershire.He has scored 12 centuries and 55 half centuries, with a top score of 153 and completed 10,000 first class runs. He scored 10,672 runs with a batting average of 24.47 and played 282 first class matches.
4. Married a woman called Jennie in 2008, who was his long time partner.
5.in 1981, he has entered into his Umpiring career.
6.He had a superstition for the Nelson numbers like 111, 222 etc
7.Retired from umpiring in 2005.
8.Awarded by Australia and New Zealand teams.
9.He has awarded with the "Most Excellence Order of the British Empire" in 1987.
10. Passed away on 27th October 2009.
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Haddin was selected in the first ever Mercantile Mutual Cup season of 1997–98 for the Australian Capital Territory. He has produced several memorable batting innings, including a top score of 133 against Victoria.
He became a replacement for
Adam Gilchrist on several occasions, following Gilchrist's suffering of a hip injury. In September 2003, he replaced
Simon Katich as captain of the
New South Wales Blues, while Katich was on international duty, and he since been acting-captain on numerous occasions. He has also captained
Australia A.
Haddin became Australia's first choice wicket keeper after Adam Gilchrist's retirement. Haddin has since scored his first
Testcentury in the second test against
New Zealand in the 2008–09 season.
Haddin was involved in a controversy relating to the dismissal of
Neil Broom in an ODI in Perth in February 2009. Broom was given out
bowled but replays appeared to suggest that Haddin's gloves had disturbed the bails. New Zealand captain
Daniel Vettoriexpressed his dissatisfaction with Haddin's actions in not calling Broom back to the wicket. His comment led to an angry retort from Australian captain
Ricky Ponting. Ponting defended his team mate saying that Haddin was convinced the ball hit the stumps.
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Haddin broke his finger during the warm-up of the third Ashes Test at Edgbaston on 30 July 2009, resulting in his replacement
Graham Manou making his Test debut.
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McMillan was a right arm medium-pace bowler and right-handed batsman. He was also a leading slip fielder, and holds the highest percentage of catches per Test for an outfielder in South Africa test cricket history.
McMillan made his Test debut in November 1992, against
India at Durban, in South Africa's first home Test match in over 20 years. He was to become a key member of the South African team post their re-admittance to world cricket in 1991.
In domestic cricket, he represented
Transvaal for four seasons from 1984-85 to 1988-89, and
Western Province from 1989-90 until his retirement in the 1999-00 season . He also spent a season with
Warwickshire in 1986.
McMillan has also been a professional teacher in a Durban university. He currently heads an office automation firm in Cape Town.
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Allan Anthony Donald, (born 20 October 1966 in Bloemfontein) is a former South African cricketer, and one of their most successful pace bowlers ever.
In his prime, he was one of the best fast bowlers ever seen in Test cricket, reaching the top of the ICC Test rankings in 1998, and peaked with a top ICC ranking of 895 points the next year, the 25th best ranking ever. In ODIs, he reached 794 points in 1998, second place to his teammate Shaun Pollock, the 28th best ranking ever. In the early 1990s, he was arguably the only world-class bowler in the South African team, until the emergence of Pollock, with whom he made a healthy new-ball partnership from the 1996/1997 tour of India until his retirement in 2002.
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Mendis, although classified as slow-medium, bowls a mixture of deliveries, including googlies, off-breaks, top-spinners, flippers and leg-breaks, as well as the
Carrom Ball, released with a flick of his middle finger. For Sri Lanka Army in 2007-08 he averaged a mere 10.56 and took 46 wickets in six games, his strike rate a startling 31. This gained him a call-up to the full Sri Lanka squad for the Caribbean tour in April 2008.
His best bowling performance in a one-day international came in the final of the 2008 Asia Cup, where he took 6 wickets for 13 runs in just his eighth match. His 17 wickets in the tournament earned him the Man of the Series award.
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His first
Test Match was against India at
Colombo on July 23, 2008 in which he returned match figures of 8-132, thereby becoming the first Sri Lankan bowler to get an eight-wicket haul on Test debut.
Ajantha Mendis won the Emerging Player of the Year award at the LG ICC Awards ceremony held in Dubai in September 2008.
On March 3, 2009, the bus that carried the Sri Lankan cricketers to the
Gaddafi Stadium in
Lahore, for the third day's play of the second Test match between Sri Lanka and Pakistan,
was fired at by masked gunmen. Mendis was among seven Sri Lankan cricketers who were injured in the attack, which killed five policemen who guarded the bus.
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Andrew John Strauss MBE, (born 2 March 1977) is an English cricketer who plays county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is captain of England.
A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss has the ability to accumulate runs without playing big shots, in which respect he has been likened to Graham Thorpe.[1] Also, his technique and more specifically his footwork has been compared to that of the Australian opening batsman Justin Langer[citation needed], who captained Strauss at Middlesex. Strauss favours scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. Strauss is also known for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers.
He made his First-class debut in 1998, and made his One Day International (ODI) debut in Sri Lanka in 2003. He quickly rose to fame on his Test match debut replacing the injured Michael Vaughan at Lords against New Zealand in 2004 With scores of 112 and 83 (run out) in an England victory, and the man of the match award, he became only the fourth batsman to score a century at Lord's on his debut and was close to becoming the first Englishman to score centuries in both innings of his debut. Strauss again nearly scored two centuries (126 and 94 not out) and was named man of the match in his first overseas Test match, in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, in December 2004.Strauss suffered a drop in form during 2007, and as a result he was left out of the Test squad for England's tour of Sri Lanka, and announced that he was taking a break from cricket. After a poor tour for England, Andrew was recalled into the squad for the 2008 tour of New Zealand, and subsequently reestablished himself in the side with a career-best 177 in the third and final Test of that series, and a further three centuries in 2008.
Having deputised for Michael Vaughan as England captain in 2006, Strauss was appointed on a permanent basis for the 2009 tour of the West Indies following Kevin Pietersen's resignation.[1] He enjoyed success with three centuries, and retained the captaincy into 2009. Strauss captained the England team to a 2–1 victory in the 2009 Ashes, scoring a series total of 474 runs, more than any other player on either side,[6] including 161 in England's first victory in an Ashes Test at Lord's in 75 years.
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Aaqib's best performances in internationals came against
India. He took 54 wickets in his 39 ODIs against India at an
average of 24.64 – 6.79 runs lower than his career ODI average. Four of his six ODI Man of the Match awards were against India.
Aaqib took a
hat-trick in an ODI against India in October 1991, aged only 19 years and 81 days. He remains the youngest player to have taken an
ODI hat-trick. He was a key member of the Pakistan team that won the
1992 Cricket World Cup. He coached Pakistan's Under-19 team to victory in the
2004 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. Aaqib is married to Farzana Burkey, sister of singer Adeel Burkey, and has one daughter named Aaqiba.
Currently, Aaqib is chief coach of the National Cricket Academy in Pakistan. He is also associated with The Computer House, a Pakistani computer hardware company.
