Pakistan Cricket Players: December 2011

Friday, 30 December 2011

Kareena Kapoor

Kareena Kapoor Bio
Date of Birth
21 September 1980, Mumbai, Maharahstra, India

Birth Name
Kareena Randhir Kapoor

Nickname
Bebo

Height
5' 4" (1.63 m)

Mini Biography
Kareena was born to Sindhi-speaking Babita (nee Shivdasani) and Punjabi-speaking Randhir Kapoor in Bombay, India. She has an elder sister, Karisma.

She is born in a family that have been actors for generations, including her paternal great-grandfather, Prithviraj Kapoor; her grandfather, Raj Kapoor; her paternal uncles, Shammi, Shashi, Rishi, and Rajiv; as well as aunt, Neetu Singh, & Jennifer Kendall, the wives of Rishi and Shashi respectively. On her maternal side, her grandfather, Hari Shivdasani, and aunt, Sadhana, have been actors in their own rights.

As a child she studied in Jamnabai Narsee School in Juhu, Bombay, and thereafter was enrolled in Dehra Dun's prestigious Welham Girls' Boarding School. Then she re-located to Harvard for approximately 3 months to take a course in Information Technology and Microcomputers. Upon her return to India, she joined the Government Law College in Churchgate, Bombay, but left it after one year, to enroll in the Kishore Namit Kapoor Acting School.

Her dad, Randhir is very protective towards his daughters and wanted both of them to keep away from acting, get married, and settle down, as per the Kapoor family tradition. This led to irreconcilable differences between her parents, ultimately leading to a divorce, with both sisters leaving their dad to live with their mom.

Her film debut was in the year 2000 with 'Refugee' along with the debut of Amitabh Bachchan's son, Abhishek. She went on to appear in 31 other Hindi movies, and has thus far won four awards for her performances in 'Refugee', 'Chameli', 'Dev', and 'Omkara'.

She is one of the most sought-after actresses in Bollywood, considered bankable, with an enviable A-listing and as of June 2007 is to appear in 'Tashan', 'Lajjo', 'Kismat Talkies' amongst others.

Kareena Kapoor

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Akshay Kumar

Akshay Kumar Bio
Date of Birth: September 9, 1967
From a waiter studying martial arts in Bangkok to one of the most successful actors in Bollywood, Akshay Kumar has come a long way.
His first successful film, Khiladi, made the industry take notice of the talented actor. From there, films such as Main Khiladi Tu Anari (1994), Mohra (1994) and Sabse Bada Khiladi (1995), among other hits catapulted Kumar to fame and established his position as one of the reigning actors in India.
After the successful Khiladi (1992) series, Kumar played the villain in Ajnabee (2001), which was well received by audiences and critics alike. Dhadkan (2000) confirmed the fact that in addition to being an action hero, Kumar was also able to play a compelling romantic lead. In the same year came another memorable performance with the film Hera Pheri (2000), which brought to the forefront his comedic strengths.
Kumar attained further success with his subsequent projects, including hit films such as Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2004), Aitraaz (2004), Namaste London, Heyy Babyy (2007) and his most recent credits, Welcome (2007) and Chandni Chowk To China (2009).
Today, he is one of the most sought after actors in India, commanding strong box-office opening in the Indian and overseas markets.
He married actress Twinkle Khanna January 14, 2001. They have a son named Araav, born September 15, 2002.

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Salman Khan

Salman Khan Bio
Age: 45 yrs

Birthday: 27th December, 1965

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Marital status: Single

Awards: Filmfare Best Male Debut Award, Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award, Star Screen Best Actor Award.

Trivia: Salman was arrested and jailed after allegedly shooting a rare black antelope near Jodhpur on 12th Oct, 1998.

He often visits sick children in hospitals & donates blood.

‘Being Human’ is his well known charitable organization. Salman is an excellent painter and swimmer.

Khan is the fourth Indian to have a wax statue at the Madame Tussauds wax museum in London.

Biography: Infamously known as Bollywood’s bad boy, Salman Khan hails from a notable filmy family. He is the eldest son of Salim Khan, who himself is a screenwriter, & his wife Salma Khan. Former Bollywood actress Helen is his stepmother. Arbaaz Khan, Sohail Khan, Alvira & Arpita are Salman Khan’s siblings. Actor/director Atul Agnihotri is Salman’s brother–in–law married to Alvira. Salman Khan has finished his schooling in Mumbai – St. Stanislaus High School – Bandra.

Salman Khan made his debut in Biwi Ho To Aisi (1988) in which he played a supporting role. He made his debut in lead role in Sooraj Barjatva’s romantic family drama movie Maine Pyar Kiya for which he won Filmare Best Male Debut Award & was also nominated for Filmfare Best Actor Award. Baaghi: A Rebel for Love (1990), in which he starred opposite southern actress, Nagma, was a major box-office success. In 1991, Salman gave a hat trick with Patthar Ke Phool, Sanam Bewafa & Saajan. The next couple of years were quiet unsuccessful for Salman. Hum Aapke Hain Koun..! (1994) directed by Sooraj Barjatya and co-starring Madhuri Dixit was the most successful film of the year. Salman’s role in Andaz Apna Apna (1994) was well received and praised. Rakesh Roshan’s blockbuster Karan Arjun (1995) cemented his success.

Salman then went on to act in a number of films including Bhansali’s directional debut Khamoshi: The Musical (1996), Judwaa (1997), Auzaar (1997), Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya (1998), Jab Pyaar Kisise Hota Hai (1998), Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998). All the films did pretty well at the box-office. His cameo in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai won him the Filmfare award for Best Supporting Actor.

1999 was a fruitful year for Salman as it churned out three major successful films – Hum Saath-Saath Hain, Biwi No. 1 and Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, the latter getting him a Filmfare Best Actor’s nomination.

In 2000, he starred in Har Dil Jo Pyaar Karega, Chori Chori Chupke Chupke and Hum Tumhare Hain Sanam. The movies were moderately successful at the box-office. Salman’s role in Tere Naam (2003) got him critical acclamation and the movie was a box-office success. This successful run continued with Mujhse Shaadi Karogi (2007) & No Entry (2005). Salaam-e-Ishq (2007) failed at the box office. However, Partner (2008) was a hit.

Wanted (2009) remains one of Salman’s blockbuster hits. But Main Aur Mrs. Khanna & London Dreams released in the same year did not do so well. And then Dabanng (2010) happened! The movie broke all box-office records, thus becoming the second highest grossing Indian movie of all time. Salman received the Star Screen Best Actor Award for the movie and was nominated for Filmfare Best Actor Award as well.

Ready and Bodyguard are some of his much awaited upcoming releases in the year 2011.

Salman Khan

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Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya Bio
Sanath Jayasuriya, a professional Sri Lankan cricketer, was born on June 30, 1969 in Matara. He is an all-rounder, who is a left-handed opening batsman and a slow left-arm orthodox bowler. Sanath Jayasuriya captained the Sri Lankan team for a span of four years from 1999 to 2003. He was educated at the Servatius College in Matara, where his talents were spotted and nourished by the principal, G.L. Galappathy, and coach, Lionel Wagasinghe. Sanath Jayasuriya is married to Sandra and has three children.

Sanath Jayasuriya made his Test debut for the Sri Lankan national team in February 1991 against New Zealand in Hamilton and has scored 6,973 runs in 110 matches, at an average of 40.07 in his Test career. His highest Test score of 340 came against India, and he has been the recipient of the Man of the Match award four times. On his last innings before bidding farewell to Test cricket, Sanath Jayasuriya smashed six 4s in an over against England, becoming the third batsman to achieve this feat in Test cricket.

Sanath Jayasuriya made his first One Day International (ODI) appearance for Sri Lanka against Australia on December 26, 1989 in Melbourne. He was made the opening batsman in the 1995-96 tour of Australia and redefined batting at the start of the game with his aggressive style, taking advantage of the early fielding restrictions. His exceptional performance as an all-rounder fetched him the Man of the Tournament award in the 1996 Cricket World Cup, which was won by the Sri Lankan team. His brilliant display in the 2006 Natwest Trophy against England not only won him the Man of the Series award but also helped Sri Lanka win the series 5-0. . Sanath Jayasuriya made his presence felt during the 2007 Cricket World Cup held in the West Indies, making two centuries and an equal number of half-centuries. Sanath Jayasuriya played a crucial role for his team in the 2008 Asia Cup and helped it lift the trophy. He has to his credit the second highest number of ODI centuries (27) and shares the second position (189 runs) with Viv Richards, a former West Indian cricketer, for the world’s highest ODI scores. He holds the world record for the fastest fifty, which was scored off 17 balls and shares the record for the most number of sixes (11) in an ODI innings with Shahid Afridi. Sanath Jayasuriya is the only batsman in the history of cricket to have made four ODI scores above 150 and he also has the record for the fastest 150 in an ODI innings. He has won the second highest number of Man of the Match awards (46) in ODI cricket. He holds the distinction of being the second batsman to score more than 12,000 runs and the first to scalp more than 300 wickets in ODI matches. His explosive style of play at the top of the innings has helped the Sri Lankan team reach great heights in the history of ODI cricket and is considered as one of the greatest ODI players in the cricket world. Sanath Jayasuriya made his International Twenty20 (T20I) debut for Sri Lanka on June 15, 2006 versus England in Southampton.

In 1997 Sanath Jayasuriya was chosen as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year. He holds the honour of being the first cricketer to be appointed as a United Nations (UN) Goodwill Ambassador for his commitment to create AIDS awareness among the young in Sri Lanka.

Sanath Jayasuriya was selected to be a part of the Mumbai Indians team for the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. He was signed for US$ 975,000 by the team owned by Reliance Industries Limited. On April 29, 2008, in the match against the Kolkata Knight Riders, Sanath Jayasuriya scalped three wickets giving away just 14 runs, for which he won the Man of the Match award. On May 14, 2008 he smashed the fourth fastest fifty of the 2008 IPL and went on to make a century in the match against Chennai Super Kings. His match-winning performance fetched him the Man of the Match award for the second time in the tournament. Sanath Jayasuriya has represented the team in 14 matches during the 2008 season, scoring 514 runs at an excellent strike rate of 166.34. He smashed the maximum number of sixes (31) and emerged as the third highest run-scorer for the season.

Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Jayasuriya | 152 Off 99 Balls vs England | 2006

Sanath Jayasuriya 122 vs Australia 2002/03 SCG

Kumar Sangakara

Kumar Sangakara Bio
Kumar Sangakkara is a Sri Lankan cricketer who was born on October 27, 1977 in Matale. This left-handed batsman-cum-wicket-keeper is nicknamed “Sanga” in the cricket world. He idolizes the Australian cricketer, Adam Gilchrist, known for his batting and wicket-keeping skills. Considered as the best South-Asian wicket-keeper batsman, his multilingual talent has made him the unofficial spokesman of the Sri Lankan cricket team. Kumar Sangakkara attended the Trinity College in Kandy and is married to Yehali.

Kumar Sangakkara made his Test debut for Sri Lanka on July 20, 2000 versus South Africa. His highest score of 287 in Test cricket came in the match against South Africa in July 2006. He joined hands with his teammate, Mahela Jayawardene, to build a partnership of 624 runs in the match, creating a world record in both Test and First-class cricket. Kumar Sangakkara is one among the few batsmen who have made more than five double centuries in Test cricket. His back-to-back double centuries against Bangladesh in 2007 have made him the sixth man in the world to achieve this feat, putting him on par with cricketing greats such as Sir Don Bradman and Wally Hammond. Kumar Sangakkara also has to his credit of being the first batsman ever to score more than 150 in an innings in four consecutive Test matches. He has been ranked as the number 1 batsman by the LG International Cricket Council (ICC) Test ratings on December 6, 2007. As of August 11, 2008 he has scored 6356 runs at an average of 54.79 and has taken 153 catches from 76 matches in Test cricket. He has also won nine Man of the Match awards for his match-winning efforts.

Kumar Sangakkara made his first One-Day International (ODI) appearance for Sri Lanka against Pakistan on July 5, 2000. He was a part of the ICC World XI for the Super Series One-Day games in October 2005. He was a key member of the Sri Lankan team that lifted the 2008 Asia Cup. He played a pivotal role for the team during the tournament by contributing three centuries. His brilliant display in ODI cricket has earned him three Man of the Series and twelve Man of the Match awards. Kumar Sangakkara has played in 230 ODI games, securing 6,777 runs at an excellent strike rate of 74.42, his highest score being 138* versus India in 2005. As a wicket-keeper he has taken 210 catches and effected 58 stumping as of August 29, 2008.

Kumar Sangakkara made his International Twenty20 (T20I) debut for the Sri Lankan team versus England in Southampton on June 15, 2006. He was selected to be a part of the Kings XI Punjab for the inaugural season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 2008. He was signed for US$ 700,000 by the Kings XI team. His brilliant performance in the match versus Mumbai Indians on April 25, 2008 won him the Man of the Match award and his last game of the 2008 IPL season was against the Chennai Super Kings team in Mumbai on May 31, 2008. Kumar Sangakkara has represented the Kings XI team in ten IPL matches during the 2008 season scoring 320 runs, his best being 94 against the Mumbai Indians.

Kumar Sangakara

Kumar Sangakkara 152 Vs England 2007

Kumar Sangakkara 192 vs Australia 2nd test 2007 Hobart

Ms Dhoni

Ms Dhoni Bio
Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father’s home town. His father’s name is Pan Singh and mother’s name is Devki Devi.
Dhoni, made his debut for Jharkhand in the 1999-2000 season as an eighteen year old. He was noticed by the national team selectors in 2004 after his performances in first class tournaments such as the Deodhar Trophy and the Duleep Trophy.

Dhoni was selected to represent India ‘A’ on a tour of Kenya and his performances were good enough to win him selection in the Indian national team, making his one-day international debut against Bangladesh in Chittagong in December of that year.
Luck wasnt on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day.
On the 31st of October, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur, beating Adam Gilchrist’s former record of 172 runs.
On the 2nd of December 2005, Dhoni made his Test cricket debut against Srilanka which was played in Chennai, India.
He is currently ranked number one in the official ICC cricket rankings for batsmen in Limited over internationals.
Dhoni’s current batting average in ODIs is just over 50 (as of April 2006), the highest by any Indian player with more than 20 innings. With a career ODI batting strike rate of more than 100 he remains the only batsman with the unique double of a 50+ average scored at more than a run a ball. Currently, Dhoni has one of the highest strike rates in the world (103.00 runs per hundred balls). With 44 sixes in 38 ODI innings, Dhoni has hit more sixes than he’s played internationals.
He made his maiden Test century against Pakistan in the 2nd Test at Faisalabad in January 2006, reaching the landmark in just 93 balls. Dhoni’s career batting average at the end of the ODI series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi stands at 52.76, which is the fourth highest for any batsman having scored at least 1,000 runs in one-day internationals, behind Australians, Mike Hussey Michael Bevan, and Englishman Kevin Pietersen.

Ms Dhoni

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Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Tendulkar Bio
Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973 in Mumbai, India. He went to Shradashram Vidyamandir, a high school in Mumbai, where he began his cricketing career under his coach Ramakant Achrekar. He attended the MRF Pace Foundation during his schooldays to train as a fast bowler, but Australian fast bowler Dennis Lillee, who saw him training, was not much impressed and suggested that Tendulkar should focus on his batting instead. As a young boy, Tendulkar would practice for hours at the net, and was driven hard by his coach Achrekar.
While at school, his extraordinary batting skills got noticed by the sports circuit. People felt that the young boy would soon become one of the greats in cricket. In the 1988 season, he scored a century in every inning that he played. In one of the inter school matches that year, he had an unbroken 664-run partnership with friend and team mate Vinod Kambli.
When he was 14, Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar a great Indian batsman of that time, gave him a pair of his own light pads. This touching gesture greatly encouraged the budding cricketer, who 20 years later broke Gavaskar’s world record of 34 Test centuries.
In 1988, when he was just under 16, he scored 100 not out in for Bombay against Gujrat. This was on his first-class debut. He then scored a century in his first appearance in the Deodhar and Duleep Trophy. Mumbai captain Dilip Vengsarkar picked him up after seeing him batting Kapil Dev in the nets. That season he was Bombay’s highest run-getter. In the Irani Trophy final, He made an unbeaten century. He scored a century in all three of his Irani Trophy, Ranji Trophy and Duleep Trophy debuts, and became the first player to do so. He was selected for the tour of Pakistan next year.
At the very young age of 16, Sachin played his first Test match against Pakistan in Karachi in 1989. In this Test, he received several blows to his body at the hands of Waqar Younis, a pace bowler. He made just 15 runs. In the last test in Sialkot, he had a bloody nose from a bouncer, but he went on playing. He scored better in the subsequent games, scoring 53 runs of 18 balls at Peshawar.

In the 1990 Test in England he scored a century at Old Trafford. The English were highly impressed by his disciplined display of immense maturity. He played many types of strokes. His off-side shots from the back foot greatly impressed the English. Though short in height, he confidently faced short deliveries from the English pace bowlers. His great performance made him look the embodiment of Gavaskar, India’s former famous opener.
During the 1991-1992 tour of Australia Tendulkar scored and unbeaten 148 in Sydney and another century on a bouncing pitch a Perth.
At the age of 19, Tendulkar was in England, playing for Yorkshire in 1992. He scored 1070 runs at an average of 45.25 while playing for the English county as the first overseas player.
In the 2003 Cricket World Cup, he made 673 runs in 11 matches which enabled India reach the final. Although Australia won the trophy Tendulkar was given the Man of the Tournament award.
Shortly after this Tendulkar developed a tennis elbow and he was out of cricket for a while. But by 2005, he was back in form. He played well against Australia, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Tendulkar performed very well against Bangla Desh and he was adjudged the Man of the Series in the Future Cup against South Africa.
Today Tendulkar is a national icon to fans all over the world. He is the most worshipped cricketer in the world. Tendulkar has been granted the Padma Vibhushan, Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, Arjuna Award, Padma Vibhushan by the Indian government.

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