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● 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

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●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)

●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)


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)


●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)

Usain Bolt World Records

Usain Bolt 200m World Record (Slow motion Chariots of Fire)

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.

Things You’ll Need

  1. A love for cricket and spinning
  2. Expertise at playing carroms
  3. A Strong Middle Finger!!
  4. Motivation to practice a lot!

Steps

1 The carrom ball is similar to the “Doosra” that Muthiah Muralitharan delivers. It is a delivery normally delivered by an off-break bowler but only it behaves like a leg-break ball. While Murali delivers it by turning the palm of his hand towards himself and by flicking his wrist, Ajantha Mendis delivers it differently.
2

The Grip To bowl the Carrom ball that behaves like a Doosra – Hold the ball as show in the picture with the seam facing gully. Place the index finger on the seam and the thumb below the ball. Essentially you’re gripping the ball between your thumb and index finger. Now place your middle finger folder underneath the seam of the ball (similar to how you get ready to srike a carrom with your middle finger), supporting the ball.

3

At the time of delivery Push your middle finger out (similar to the strike in caroms) by flicking it quickly. This causes the ball to not only spin like a regular leg-break but also provides it the additional lateral force to skid or shoot through causing further difficulty to the batsman.

4 Bowling other variations By using this concept of flicking your finger (or squeezing the ball out) with other grips you can get a similar spin/shoot combination on an off-break, leg-break, etc.

The Carrom Ball | Ajantha Mendis Vs Darren Sammy 2008

source- http://jaanlo.com/