Born July 10, 1949, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra He was one of the greatest opening batsmen of all time, and certainly the most successful. His game was built around a near perfect technique and enormous powers of concentration. It is hard to visualise a more beautiful defence: virtually unbreachable, it made his wicket among the hardest to earn. He played with equal felicity off both front and back foot, had an excellent judgement of length and line and was beautifully balanced. He had virtually every stroke in the book but traded flair for the solidity his side needed more. His record for the highest number of Test hundreds was recently overtaken by Sachin Tendulkar, but statistics alone don't reveal Gavaskar's true value to India. He earned respect for Indian cricket and he taught his team-mates the virtue of professionalism. The self-actualisation of Indian cricket began under him. Since retiring, Gavaskar has served as a television commentator, analyst and columnist, as well as various responsibilities with the BCCI and chairman of the ICC cricket committee. (cricinfo)
Born 24 April 1973 Mumbai, India
Highest Run scorer in the ODI
Most number of hundreds in the ODI 41
Most number of nineties in the ODI
Most number of man of the matches(56) in the ODI's
Most number of man of the series(14) in ODI's
Best average for man of the matches in ODI'sFirst Cricketer to pass 10000 run in the ODI First Cricketer to pass 16000 run in the ODI
He is the highest run scorer in the world cup (1,796 at an average of 59.87 as on 20 March 2007)
Tendulkar is the only player who has 150 wkts and more than 15000 runs in ODI
Tendulkar is the only player who has 40 wkts and more than 11000 runs in Tests
Only batsman to have 100 hundreds in the first class cricket
Most number of the man of the matches in the world cup
Most number of runs 1996 world cup 523 runs in the 1996 Cricket World Cup at an average of 87.16
Most number of runs in the 2003 world cup 673 runs in 2003 Cricket World Cup, highest by any player in a single Cricket World Cup
He was Player of the World Cup Tournament in the 2003 Cricket World Cup.
Most number of Fifties in ODI's 87
Appeared in Most Number of ODI's 407
He is the only player to be in top 10 ICC ranking for 10 years.
Most number of 100's in test's 39.
He is one of the three batsmen to surpass 11,000 runs in Test cricket, and the first Indian to do so
And 40 other records and achievements
An outstandingly accurate swing bowler and an uncomplicated hitter of the ball, Kapil Dev was India's greatest fast bowler, their greatest fast-bowling allrounder, and led the team to their finest triumph: the 1983 World Cup title. He was voted Wisden's Indian Cricketer of the Century in 2002, and had he not played at the same time as Imran Khan, Ian Botham and Richard Hadlee, would surely have been recognised as the finest all-round cricketer of his age.
Lara is one greats of Cricket and is compared with players like
Sachin Tendulkar and Gary Sobers.
Former Indian captain and Bangalore IPL team Royal Challengers' icon player Rahul Dravid thinks the Indian Premier League's success will depend on the way it rolls out its inaugural edition.
his first class debut at the age of 16, versatile with the ball, bowling two styles of spin - left-arm orthodox and wrist spin, but was also a fine fast-medium opening bowler. All else in this crushing defeat for Pakistan was overshadowed by the feat of Garfield Sobers, the West Indies 21-year-old left-hander, in beating the Test record individual score, 364 by Sir Leonard Hutton, made for England against Australia at The Oval nearly twenty years previously. Sobers passed that by one run and was still unbeaten when West Indies declared at the vast total of 790 for three. So elated were the crowd of 20,000 at Sabina Park that they swarmed over the field and the pitch became so damaged that the umpires ordered repairs and the last fifty-five minutes of the fourth day could not be played. Test record for an individual batsman with a mammoth 365 against Pakistan