September 23, 2008
Award categories
● ICC Player of the Year
● Women’s Cricketer of the Year
●Test Player of the Year
●One-day Player of the Year
●Captain of the Year
●Emerging Player of the Year
●Test Team of the Year
● One-day Team of the Year
●Spirit of Cricket Award
●Umpire of the Year
September 23, 2008
●Twenty20 International Performance of the Year: Yuvraj Singh
●Player of the Year: Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI)
●Test Player of the Year: Dale Steyn (SA)
●ODI Player of the Year: Mahendra Singh Dhoni(Ind)
●Emerging Player of the Year: Ajantha Mendis(SL),
●Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
●Captain of the Year: Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
● Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Charlotte Edwards(England)
●Spirit of Cricket: Sri Lanka cricket Team
●World Test Team of the Year 2008 is as follows (in batting order):
●Graeme Smith (SA, captain), Virender Sehwag (Ind),Mahela Jayawardena (SL)
Shivnarine Chanderpaul (WI), Kevin Pietersen (Eng), Jacques Kallis (SA)
Kumar Sangakkara (SL, wicketkeeper), Brett Lee (Aus), Ryan Sidebottom (Eng)
Dale Steyn (SA), Muttiah Muralidaran (SL), 12th man: Stuart Clark (Aus)
●World one-day XI:
Herschelle Gibbs (SA), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Ricky Ponting (Aus, captain), Younis Khan (Pak), Andrew Symonds (Aus), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind, wicket-keeper), Farveez Maharoof (SL), Daniel Vettori (NZ), Brett Lee (Aus), Mitchell Johnson (Aus), Nathan Bracken (Aus), 12th man: Salman Butt (Pak)
September 23, 2008
●Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
●Test Player of the Year: Ricky Ponting (Australia)
●ODI Player of the Year: Michael Hussey (Australia)
●Emerging Player of the Year: Ian Bell (England)
●Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
●Captain of the Year: Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka)
●Women’s Cricketer of the Year: Karen Rolton (Australia)
●Spirit of Cricket: English cricket team
● World Test XI: Matthew Hayden (Aus), Michael Hussey (Aus), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Rahul Dravid (Ind, captain), Mohammad Yousuf (Pak), Kumar Sangakkara (SL, wicket-keeper), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Shane Warne (Aus), Makhaya Ntini (SA), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), Glenn McGrath (Aus), 12th man: Brett Lee (Aus)
● World one-day XI: Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Ind), Ricky Ponting (Aus), Mahela Jayawardene (SL, captain), Yuvraj Singh (Ind), Michael Hussey (Aus), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Irfan Pathan (Ind), Brett Lee (Aus), Shane Bond (NZ), Muttiah Muralitharan (SL), 12th man: Andrew Symonds (Aus)
September 23, 2008
● Player of the Year: Awarded jointly to Andrew Flintoff (England) and Jacques Kallis (S Africa)
●Test Player of the Year: Jacques Kallis (S Africa)
● ODI Player of the Year: Kevin Pietersen (England)
● Emerging Player of the Year: Kevin Pietersen (England)
● Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
●Spirit of Cricket: England
●World Test XI: Virender Sehwag (Ind), Graeme Smith (SA), Ricky Ponting (Aus, captain), Jacques Kallis (SA), Brian Lara (WI), Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Shane Warne (Aus), Chaminda Vaas (SL), Glenn McGrath (Aus), 12th man: Anil Kumble (Ind)
●World one-day XI: Marvan Atapattu (SL, captain), Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Kevin Pietersen (Eng), Inzamam-ul-Haq (Pak), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Andrew Symonds (Aus), Daniel Vettori (NZ), Brett Lee (Aus), Rana Naved-ul-Hasan (Pak), Glenn McGrath (Aus), 12th man: Jacques Kallis (SA)
September 23, 2008
●Player of the Year: Rahul Dravid (India)
●Test Player of the Year: Rahul Dravid (India)
● ODI Player of the Year: Andrew Flintoff (England)
●Emerging Player of the Year: Irfan Pathan (India)
●Umpire of the Year: Simon Taufel (Australia)
● Spirit of Cricket: New Zealand
● World Test XI: Matthew Hayden (Aus), Herschelle Gibbs (SA), Ricky Ponting (Aus, captain), Rahul Dravid (Ind), Brian Lara (WI), Jacques Kallis (SA), Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Chaminda Vaas (SL), Shane Warne (Aus), Jason Gillespie (Aus), Steve Harmison (Eng)
●World one-day XI: Adam Gilchrist (Aus, wicket-keeper), Sachin Tendulkar (Ind), Chris Gayle (WI), Ricky Ponting (Aus, captain), Brian Lara (WI), Virender Sehwag (Ind), Jacques Kallis (SA), Andrew Flintoff (Eng), Shaun Pollock (SA), Chaminda Vaas (SL), Jason Gillespie (Aus)
July 22, 2008
Full name Balapuwaduge Ajantha Winslo Mendis
Born March 11, 1985, Moratuwa
Current age 23 years 117 days
Major teamsSri Lanka,Kolkata Knight Riders,Sri Lanka Army,Wayamba
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm slow-medium
Mendis is the author of a new delivery – the Carrom Ball. Since the Doosra, the Carrom Ball is the latest addition to the cricket lexicon.To bowl a “carrom ball” in cricket, the ball is held between the thumb, forefinger and the middle finger, and instead of a regular release, the ball is squeezed out/ flicked by the fingers like a Carrom player flicking the disc on a Carrom Board. It could result in an off-break, a leg-break, a googly or even a zooter. The veteran West Indies cricket writer Tony Becca wrote in the Jamaica Gleaner: “Mendis bowls everything. With a smile on his face as he caresses the ball before delivering it, he bowls the offbreak, he bowls the legbreak, he bowls the googly, he bowls the flipper, he bowls a straight delivery, he bowls them with different grips and different actions, he bowls them with a different trajectory and at a different pace, and he disguises them brilliantly. The result is that he mesmerises, or bamboozles, batsmen .the Sri Lanka Cricket Academy coach, said: “Mendis is unusual, freaky and has developed a ball which could be described as a ‘flicker’, which he releases with a snap of his fingers, which is very unusual compared to other orthodox spin bowlers.”That ball is reminiscent of the former Australia spinner Johnny Gleeson, who had a similar delivery
The Carrom Ball | Ajantha Mendis Vs Rohit Sharma 2008
Ajantha Mendis the new spin sensation from Sri Lankan Cricket is tying batsman in knots with his spin variations and his dreaded “carrom ball”. Here is how you can learn to bowl the carrom bowl like Ajantha Mendis. Once you learn the basic concept you can create many spin variations.
source- Wikipedia
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