Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Sunil Gavaskar 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. He still holds the record for the highest number of Test
hundreds, 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.
Full name
Sunil Manohar Gavaskar
Born
July 10, 1949, Bombay (now Mumbai), Maharashtra
Major teams
India, Mumbai, Somerset
Batting style
Right-hand bat
Bowling style
Right-arm medium
Career statistics
Test debut
West Indies v India at Port of Spain - Mar 6-10, 1971
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
Sunil Gavaskar 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. He still holds the record for the highest number of Test
hundreds, 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.
