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Date: 5-Mar-11
Venue: Colombo
Sri Lanka Cricket Team Profile:
Sri Lankan cricket team is a strong cricket team who can put up a fight to win 2011 cricket World Cup. The strength of Sri Lankan cricket team is their batting which is full of batsmen like Tilakratne Dilshan, Kumara Sangakkara and Mahela Jayewardene who are considered to be some of the greatest batsmen of the cricket history.
- Sri Lanka Cricket Team
The bowling department is led by a legend off spinner Muthaya Muralitharan who has taken highest wickets in the test cricket history and he has the support of current world’s second ranked bowler Nuwan Kulasekara. They have the vast experience of Sanath Jayasuriya and leadership of Kumara Sangakkara is very effective. They have the bowler like Ajantha Mendis who has recorded fastest 50 wickets in one day internationals.
In spite of having such a good talent, Sri Lanka has failed to achieve results in recent times because of inconsistency of their top players. In recent series against India, Sri Lanka managed to win only one twenty-20 match and single one day international match.
But, Sri Lanka has the record of reaching in the World Cup final of 2007 cricket World Cup and winning the 1996 World Cup behind them. Apart from this, they have the advantage of playing on the home surface in 2011 World Cup. Due to all this factors, they can throw challenges to any team and can win cricket World Cup 2011.
One of the oldest Test and ODI playing nation in international cricket, Australia gave a hint of their perfect professional approach to cricket right in the beginning when they started playing Test matches with England in 1882.
Australians rule the game of cricket and have ferociously guarded their number one position in ICC rankings be it Tests or ODIs.
Australan Cricket Team Profile:
Australian team consists of bowling vigour of Glenn McGrath, batting zeal of Adam Gilchrist and astonishing captaincy of Ricky Ponting, making it the best cricket playing team ever. Australia’s unmatchable domestic base and an impervious bench strength always keep the playing 11 on their toes and thus comes the best out of them.
Australian cricket team’s USP is its high spirit, self confidence and never say die attitude.
The big stars
- Australan Cricket Team
Sir Donald Bradman is universally regarded as the greatest batsman of all time. Bradman’s Test batting average of 99.94 makes him unmistakably the best batsman ever to have picked up a bat.
Currently a member of Cricket Australia selection panel, David Boon was a stocky right-handed batsman. Boon who was Australia`s most prolific run scorers was named Wisden Cricketer of the Year in the year1994.
Allan Border and Mark Taylor were the other sensations that made their mark in international arena. Australia was once, also led by the most experienced batsmen in the history of cricket Steve Waugh. Ricky Ponting is just another marvel in the league of captains that Australia got.
Shane Warne arguably Australia’s greatest cricketer after Sir Don Bradman was ranked by Wisden as one of the five best cricketers of the twentieth century.
The country had two Waughs – Steve the hardhead and Mark the artist, whose fluid strokes were poetry on field.
Highs and Lows
Champions of cricket
Australia is the only cricket team that has won all the trophies contested internationally. The last major win was that of Champions Trophy (2006), which the Australians had wanted and chased for a long time.
Australia is the only country to have won the cricket World Cup thrice. They were victorious in 1987, 1999 and 2003. Australia in recent years has held the upper hand and won The Ashes a staggering 8 times in a row from 1989 till 2005. They were finally beaten by the English cricket team (2005) by 2 wins against 1 with 2 draws. They reclaimed the Ashes in 2006-07 scripting a complete whitewash of the Poms after 86 years.
Historians consider the present run of the team to be the fifth golden era of Australian cricket, there`s been nothing to match it for duration or the number of exceptional players it`s spawned.
Over this period greatness (or something close to it) has come in pairs; it has arisen in those apparently untouched and been replicated as if by decree.
The Ashes debacle
In 2005, Australia was humbled by England in the Ashes. The series was close, Australia nearly snatching victory in both the Tests they lost.
The aboriginal killing of cricket
When Australian cricket was booming with likes of Don Bradman, there were players like Eddie Gilbert and Johnny Mullagh who became victim of aboriginal discrimination in Australia.
Eddie Gilbert who the great Sir Don Bradman termed as “unhesitatingly faster than anything” was not selected in the national team more because he was an aboriginal and less because he had a suspected arm action. This was just an example that Australian cricket in the nineteenth century was marred by discrimination and thus killing of such a budding talent.
Team Records
Test
Highest Team total
758-8 d Australia v West Indies Kingston 1954/55
Lowest Team total
36 Australia v England Birmingham 1902
ODI
Highest Team total
434-4 (50 overs) Australia v South Africa Johannesburg 2005/06
Lowest Team total
70 (25.2 overs) Australia v England Birmingham 1977
Contracted Players
Ricky Ponting (captain), Nathan Bracken, Stuart Clark, Michael Clarke, Dan Cullen, Jason Gillespie, Brad Haddin, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Brad Hogg, Michael Hussey, Phil Jaques, Mitchell Johnson, Michael Kasprowicz, Simon Katich, Justin Langer, Brett Lee, Stuart MacGill, Damien Martyn, Shaun Tait, Shane Watson
Captains
Test Captains
Dave Gregory(1876-1879), Billy Murdoch(1880-85, 1890), Tom Horan(1884-85), Hugh Massie(1884-85), Jack Blackham (1884-85, 1891-92, 1893-95), Tup Scott (1886), Percy McDonnell(1886-88), George Giffen(1894-95), Harry Trott (1896-98), Joe Darling (1899, 1901-03, 1905), Hugh Trumble (1901-02), Monty Noble (1903-04, 1908-09), Clem Hill(1910-12), Syd Gregory(1912), Warwick Armstrong(1920-21), Herbie Collins (1921-22, 1924-25, 1926), Warren Bardsley(1926), Jack Ryder (1928-29), Bill Woodfull (1930-34), Vic Richardson( 1935-36), Don Bradman(1936-38, 1946-48), Bill Brown(1945-46), Lindsay Hassett(1949-53), Arthur Morris(1951-52, 1954-55), Ian Johnson(1954-57), Ray Lindwall (1956-57), Ian Craig( 1957-58), Rechie Benaud( 1958-63), Neil Harvey(1961), Bob Simpson (1963-67, 1977-78), Brian Booth (1965-66), Bill Lawry(1967-71), Barry Jarman (1968), Ian Chappell(1970-75), Greg Chappell (1975-77, 1979-83), Graham Yallop( 1978-79), Kim Hughes ( 1978-80, 1981, 1982-85), Allan Border(1984-94), Mark Taylor(1994-99), Steve Waugh(1998-2004), Adam Gilchrist 2000-01, 2004-05), Ricky Ponting(2003-present
ODI Captains
Bill Lawry(1970-71), Ian Chappell(1972-75), Greg Chappell( 1975-76, 1982-83), Bob Simpson (1977-78), Graham Yallop (1978-79), Kim Hughes (1979,1984-85), David Hookes (1983), Allan Border (1984-85,1993-94), Ray Bright (1985-86), Geoff Marsh 1986-87,1990-91), Mark Taylor (1992-93,1997), Ian Healy (1996-97), Steve Waugh (1996-97,2001-02), Shane Warne (1997-98,1998-99), Adam Gilchrist (2000-01, 2005-06), Ricky Ponting 2001/2-present.
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