Cricket Player Profiles

Cricket Australia – 2008 Australian Cricket Board, Cricket Team, Players, Awards.

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Likewise the international cricket council the cricket Australia is also the governing body for the cricket in Australia. In 1905 it is known as the Australian board of control. The test tours and one day international cricket matches are hosted by this cricket governing body.

Different names of cricket Australia:

Since cricket Australia foundation it is known by the Australian board of control for international cricket up to 1905 and after that it is known as Australian cricket board which presently changes into cricket Australia.

History:

Before the establishment of the cricket Australia, the Melbourne cricket club is the only club which is responsible for the organization of the cricket matches to be held in different countries.

Nowadays, each of the Australian states is represented by the six member organization which are:

i) Cricket New South Wales consisting of three directors.
ii) Queensland Cricket consisting of two directors.
iii) South Australian Cricket Association consisting of three directors.
iv)Tasmanian Cricket Association consisting of one director.
v) Cricket Victoria consisting of three directors.
vi) Western Australian Cricket Association consisting of two directors.

In all, the cricket organization consists of 14 man directors.

To provide the rights and welfare requirements the cricket Australia has to focus on the responsibilities like cricket marketing services, cricket finance services and cricket business services, cricket legal services, business and public affairs on cricket.

Different cricket matches and cricket awards:

Cricket Australia organizes the different matches and presents the awards to the winners.

Matches:

i) Pura Cup:

The original name of the Pura cup is Sheffield shield. In this competition the player of the year award is given at the end of every season and if the match is draw then the award is given to the home team.

ii) Ford ranger cup:

The long distance has been cover up from 1969-2007 to get the present name because firstly it is known by the name Gillette cup but when the format of two pool system is introduced then it became popular by the name Mc Donald’s cup. In 1992 it is again renamed by mercantile mutual cup and ultimately in 2007 it is known by the name ford ranger cup.

The points in this match is given to the player’s on the basis of each pool match and at the end of all the pool matches out of the two teams, the team with the highest score will be the winner.

iii) KFC Twenty20 big bash:

This competition is sponsored by the fast food chicken outlet KFC.The format of big hit and fast scoring encourages the crowd to see the match.

iv)Cricket Australia cup:

The original name of this cup is ACB cup and it is a week long tournament which involves various states and territories having the playing conditions similar to that of pura cup.

v) Women’s national cricket league:

It is basically the tournament for women’s only and the winner team is awarded by the Ruth Preddey cup.

vi) CA-under 19 cup.

vii) CA-under 17 cup.

Awards:

Awards are given to the:
i) Cricket Test players of the year.
ii) Cricket One day players of the year.
iii) Bradman young players of the year.
iv)State cricket players of the year.
v) And last the Allan border medal is given to the best Australian cricket of the year.

How cricket team is selected:

The cricket team is selected by the national selection panel which consists of basically 4 members out of which one is the chairman and other are the directors.

Nowadays, the Australian cricket team is known as the national cricket team of Australia. Also they add the award of cricket world cup 4 times in their account. The sequence of the victories in the test matches led them to the name of the cricket world team of the year.

Ashes Cricket Test Series:

It is a test cricket series which is named after a satirical obituary- “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia” published in a newspaper when Australia beats England for the first time.

This series basically comprises of five test matches including two innings per match and if for any reason the series is drawn then the country holding the series retains the ashes. Currently Australia holds the ashes but it is interesting to watch which country holds it in 2009 in England.

Cricket Players Profile A

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A Greenwood	AV Mankad	AJ Penn
A Hill	AM Pai	Ali Rizvi
A Shaw	AK Roy	Adeel Raja
AC Bannerman	A Gandotra	AC Botha
AN Hornby	Aftab Baloch	A Nel
AP Lucas	AJ Traicos	Ali Naqvi
AJ Webbe	AL Thomson	AV Vadher
A Lyttelton	AR Dell	Akhtar Sarfraz
AG Steel	AG Barrett	AD Mascarenhas
A Shrewsbury	AB Howard	AJ Tudor
AH Jarvis	AI Kallicharran	AJ Strauss
AP Marr	AW Greig	A Habib
AE Stoddart	AR Lewis	AB Agarkar
AJ Fothergill	AG Hurst	Atiq-uz-Zaman
AE Ochse	AJ Woodcock	Asif Mahmood
A Rose-Innes	AME Roberts	Asim Butt
AB Tancred	AD Gaekwad	ASA Perera
A Hearne	Agha Zahid	AR Tait
AD Pougher	A Turner	A Maregwede
AW Mold	APB Tennekoon	AJ Mackay
A Ward	ARM Opatha	AR Khurasiya
AC MacLaren	Aamer Hameed	A Bhandari
A Coningham	Arshad Pervez	AS Chopra
AE Trott	ADG Roberts	A Nehra
AJL Hill	AL Padmore	AV Kale
AM Miller	AL Mann	AM Blignaut
AR Richards	AD Ogilvie	Al Sahariar
AW Seccull	Abdul Qadir	Aminul Islam
AFA Lilley	AE Greenidge	AA Noffke
AG Archer	AB Williams	Ahmed Kamal
AW Powell	AR Border	A Ratra
AO Jones	Anwar Khan	AGR Loudon
AJY Hopkins	AMJ Hilditch	AF Buurman
AW Nourse	AR Butcher	Anwar Hossain
AE Relf	Azhar Khan	AR Adams
A Fielder	Azmat Rana	A Bagai
AE Knight	AO Malhotra	AA Mulla
A Cotter	ALF de Mel	AR White
A Warren	A Ranatunga	AJ Burger
AEE Vogler	Ashraf Ali	AG Puttick
AHC Cooper	AN Ranasinghe	Abdur Rehman
AA Mailey	AJ Lamb	AC Thomas
A Waddington	AL Logie	AM Salvi
A Dolphin	Azeem Hafeez	AC Voges
AE Dipper	AR Bhat	A Mishra
AJ Evans	ACS Pigott	Asim Kamal
A Ducat	Anil Dalpat	Asim Saeed
A Sandham	AMJG Amerasinghe	Abdur Rauf
AW Carr	A Sidebottom	Afzaal Haider
AER Gilligan	AP Gurusinha	Ali Asad
AS Kennedy	AK Kuruppuarachchi	A Sanford
AE Hall	AK Patel	AF Sattaur
APF Chapman	Azhar Hossain	Abdul Rehman
AP Freeman	AH Gray	Alamgir Kabir
AJ Richardson	Asif Mujtaba	Alok Kapali
AEV Hartkopf	AH Jones	Anwar Hossain
AF Kippax	Arshad Ayub	AS Luseno
AW Palm	Aamer Malik	AN Petersen
AL Ochse	AIC Dodemaide	A Codrington
A Jackson	AK Sharma	Arshad Ali
AG Fairfax	AK Zesers	Abdur Razzak
AJ Bell	AC Waller	Aftab Ahmed
AHH Gilligan	Athar Ali Khan	A Patel
AW Roberts	Aminul Islam	AN Cook
AM Matheson	Akram Khan	AM Samad
A Hurwood	Aaqib Javed	AB de Villiers
AH Bakewell	ARC Fraser	AJ Ireland
A Mitchell	AP Igglesden	A Shamshudeen
AG Chipperfield	Akram Raza	ACL Richards
ACB Langton	AGD Wickremasinghe	AG Cremer
AD Nourse	AS Wassan	Asghar Ali
AW Briscoe	AJ Stewart	AN Kervezee
AE Fagg	AC Parore	AL Kandappah
AR Gover		AR Pitcher
AW Wellard	AA DonaA Kumbleld	AR Cusack
ADG Matthews	AC Hudson	A Obanda
AL Hassett	AP Kuiper	ADJ Pitcher
A Wood	Aamer Sohail	Abdul Jabbar
A Melville	Ata-ur-Rehman	AJ Atfield
AV Bedser	ADR Campbell	AA Jones
AH Kardar	A Flower	AGT Whitehead
AR Morris	AJ Pycroft	AJ McQuillan
AMB Rowan	AH Omarshah	AM Ebrahim
Amir Elahi	AD Jadeja	AJ Morgan
AG Ganteaume	AC Cummins	Athar Zaidi
A Coxon	AM de Silva	AV Jayaprakash
AJ Watkins	Aamer Nazir	AC King
AF Rae	AR Caddick	AL Hill
A Wharton	Ashfaq Ahmed	Aleem Dar
AL Valentine	Atif Rauf	Asad Rauf
AJW McIntyre	Arshad Khan	A Bhattacharjee
AR MacGibbon	Aamer Hanif	AM Saheba
AM Moir	AAW Gunawardene	A Chester
Anwar Hussain	AC Bedade	AB Hide
ARA Murray	Azhar Saeed	A Jepson
AP Binns	Arshad Laeeq	A Millward
AHP Scott	AMN Munasinghe	A Morton
AK Davidson	AP Weerakkody	AEG Rhodes
AE Moss	AR Kapoor	AE Street
Alimuddin	Anisur Rahman	AN Barlow
Aslam Khokhar	AP Wells	AF Cocks
Agha Saadat Ali	ACI Lock	AR Crafter
AG Kripal Singh	AY Karim	AG Jenkins
AF Lissette	AD Brown	AC Jones
AT Roberts	AD Mullally	AE Mackley
ASM Oakman	AM Bacher	AP Williams
AI Taylor	AFG Griffith	AE Wyeth
AJ Pithey	AJ Hollioake	A White
ATW Grout	AR Whittall	AR Joshi
AK Sengupta	AC Dawson	AM Mamsa
A D'Souza	AJ Hall	AL Narasimhan
AL Apte	AG Huckle	AA Qureshi
AA Baig	AG Prince	AE Jelley
AG Milkha Singh	AO Suji	Afzaal Ahmed
AH McKinnon	Azhar Mahmood	Akhtar Hussain
Afaq Hussain	AC Gilchrist	Amanullah Khan
A Brown	Abdul Razzaq	Atiq Khan
AE Dick	Azam Khan	Azhar Hasan
AC Smith	A Flintoff	Ahmed Saeed
AN Connolly	AF Giles	A Birkett
Abdul Kadir	AP Grayson	AG Laver
Asif Iqbal	AJ Bichel	AN McCabe
Arif Butt	AM Stuart	A Soames
AW White	A Symonds	AJ Warner
A Bacher	A McGrath	AE Weekes
AL Wadekar	AM Smith	AJ Gaynor
APE Knott	AG Wharf	AG Watson
AP Sheahan	AG Davies	AC Felsinger
AA Mallett	A Kuruvilla	AFM Akhtaruddin
Aftab Gul	AN French	AR Isaac
Asif Masood	Aijaz Ali	A Pettigrew
A Ward	AC Dale	A Sarkar

Cricket Players Profile B

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BB Cooper	B Yardley	BB McCullum
BAF Grieve	BP Bracewell	BA Murphy
BJT Bosanquet	BA Edgar	BSM Warnapura
B Mitchell	B Reddy	BG Rogers
BJ Sealey	BM Laird	BW Hilfenhaus
BH Valentine	BM Mauricette	BRM Taylor
BA Barnett	B Warnapura	BR Dorey
B Dooland	BS Sandhu	BAW Mendis
B Sutcliffe	BR Blair	BAH Palfreyman
BBM Gaskin	BC Broad	B Dudleston
BH Pairaudeau	BR Jurangpathy	BC Cooray
BF Butcher	BA Reid	BT Rennie
BA Bolton	BP Patterson	BW Jackman
BN Jarman	BN French	BR Doctrove
BK Kunderan	B Arun	B Leadbeater
BP Gupte	BC Lara	BG Jerling
BC Booth	BR Hartland	BJ Meyer
BR Knight	BM McMillan	BNJ Oxenford
BK Shepherd	BN Schultz	BF Bowden
BW Sinclair	Basit Ali	BG Frost
BW Yuile	BP Julian	BEW Morgan
BD Morrison	BA Pocock	BE Martin
BS Chandrasekhar	BA Young	B Ganguli
BE Congdon	BKV Prasad	BJ Mohoni
BR Taylor	Bhupinder Singh	BR Nagaraja Rao
BA Davis	BC Strang	BV Ramakrishnappa
BL D'Oliveira	BS Browne	BSP Rao
BS Bedi	B Zuiderent	BK Sadashiva
BAG Murray	BJ Patel	B Satyaji Rao
BF Hastings	BL Kotze	BL Aldridge
BD Milburn	BB Seebaran	BA Bricknell
BL Irvine	BC Hollioake	B Vine
BA Richards	BE Young	Baboo Khan
BW Luckhurst	B Lee	BV Malan
BC Francis	BJ Hodge	B Henderson
B Wood	BA Williams	B Jacelon
BD Julien	BJ Haddin	B Menzies
B Andrews	BMW Patterson	BM Gibbs
BL Cairns	BGK Walker	BA Jamula
BP Patel	BT Watambwa	BJ Paterson
BG Hadlee	Bazid Khan	BB Pradhan
BJ McKechnie	BA Parchment	B Stanton
BC Rose	BO van Rooi	BR Keshavamurthy