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Mohammad Amir sets up a wonderful plan to dismiss TM DIlshan in the T20 Final World Cup between Pakistan and Sri Lanka in 2009.

Dashing batsman Tillakaratne Dilshan today (Januaru 23) stepped down as Sri Lanka captain following his side’s dismal performance in South Africa where they lost both the Test and ODI series. Veteran batsman Mahela Jayawardene is likely to replace him as captain but Sri Lanka Cricket is yet to make any formal announcement.

Umar Gul (Pashto: عمر ګل) (born 14 April 1984 in Peshawar) is a Pakistani right arm fast medium bowler in cricket who has played Test matches, One Day Internationals and Twenty20 Internationals for the Pakistani cricket team. He has gained fame as one of the most successful bowlers in Twenty20 cricket finishing as the leading wicket taker and bowler in both the 2007 and 2009 Twenty20 World Championship tournaments. Twenty20 With injuries limiting Gul’s test cricket participation, he made a distinct change to his bowling set-up. Making a focus on bowling in the late overs of T20. He got his opportunity with the absence of Shoaib Akhtar and Abdul Razzaq in the 2007 ICC World Twenty20 held in South Africa. He was generally used by Pakistan from the 13th over onwards and finished the tournament with 13 wickets, making him the leading wicket taker ahead of Shahid Afridi and RP Singh. In the 2009 ICC World Twenty20, he performed excellently, earning the mantle from at least one pundit of “the outstanding seam bowler of the World Twenty20″.[7] His five-wicket haul for just six runs when Pakistan dismantled New Zealand won especial acclaim. The spell made him the first bowler in history to take a five wickets in a Twenty20 international, and he held the record of best T20I bowling figures until 8 August 2011, when surpassed by Ajantha Mendis (6/16).[8] Mutterings were made about a possible correlation between ball tampering and the exorbitant amounts of reverse-swing he was able …

Full Name: Mahendra Singh Dhoni Born: 7th July, 1981, Ranchi, Jharkhand Nickname: Mahi Height: 5ft 11 inch Batting Style: Right-hand Bat Bowling Style: Right-arm Medium Fielding Position: Wicket Keeper Major Teams: India, Asia XI, Bihar, Chennai Super Kings, Jharkhand Test Debut: 2nd December 2005 v Sri Lanka ODI Debut: 23rd December 2004 v Bangladesh T20I Debut: 1st December 2006 v South Africa MSDhoni or Mahendra Singh Dhoni or Mahi each name relate to only one person and that Dhoni the current Indian captain. He announced his arrival in 2004-05 at the international arena with bang as he smashed a superb century 148 runs of 123 balls in his fifth ODI at Vizag which helped India to beat Pakistan easily. On 31st October 2005, MSDhoni became the first wicketkeeper batsman to score 183 runs in ODI in the game against Sri Lanka played at Jaipur. At initial phase of his career he was more aggressive in his batting approach and destroyer of bowling attacks. But after becoming the Captain of India, he has chosen his role as finisher. He and Yuvraj has won too many games on their own. Under his captaincy India have achieved so many feet in short period of time, the biggest achievement was winning the inaugural ICC World twenty20 in South Africa in 2007. The icing on the cake was the triangular series win against Australia in Australia in 2008. After that he also helped India to beat Australia in the home series by 2-0, also able to beat New Zealand on their home soil after 27 …

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Pakistan’s day at Lord’s against Sri Lanka, first bowling, then batting and finally a victory!!

Sachin Tendulkar dropped 4 times during his 85 vs Pakistan 2011 World Cup Semi-Final