List of most expensive bowling spells in Twenty20 cricket.

Batsare getting broader and bigger but never a ball made which swings or spinsmore. There has been power play (field restrictions) introduced, bouncers disallowed, flat pitches made but never came in a rule to extend boundary lengths which is getting smaller by the day.

Being a bowler in cricket is getting no easier. On bad days, bowlers look like stupid and on even worse days, they enter following list, consisting most expensive spells bowled in Twenty20 International cricket.

SanathJayasuriya : is known more for his explosive batting and marathon career (432 ODIs = the most, till date), is also a mean bowler. a left arm spinner not very many can hit, went for 5 sixes and 3 fours off his 24 balls (4 overs) against Pakistan on 17th September 2007 at Johannesburg. Jayasuriya leads the pack in following list cause he didn't even took a wicket that day, unlike our second runner up below who managed one.

Ricky Ponting : List of all Century/Hundreds in One day Internationals (ODI).

Who'sbest number 3 batsman to have played the game? true Don Bradman batted at the same position too, but he didn't display his skills against TV replays and other footages available today to help device your dismissal.

And neither Sir Don played one day cricket..

Thegreatest one day batsman at position one down is Ricky Ponting. undisputed champion batsmen has so far scored 28 century in his 323 one day career as of today = 2 October 2009.. 27 of those hundreds have come at no.3.

164 = Highest ODI Score :- for Ricky Ponting. he made it against South Africans at their permier ground ~ Johannesburg. sadly, his team lost it. Australians scored 434 in that match, first time above 400 score in ODIs, yet South Africa toppled it with 438 marathan chase. more of that 438 ODI.

Needless to say, Ricky doesn't remember too much of his best one day international innings. The one Ricky will remember, is his 140 not out against Indians, at the same Johannesburg venue but on a bigger occasion = World Cup 2003 final. Ricky hit 8 sixes and only 4 fours that day.. Propelling Australia to 364. After that, victory was just a formality.

RickyPonting is second to Sachin Tendulkar in record for most century in ODI &tests, but recent Ashes loss and successive T20 world cup faliures has put termendos pressure of this right handed batsman. It will be interesting to see how far Ricky goes, and will he ever touch Indian run machine?

A History of Asia Cup Cricket Tournament Over The Years..

Asia is only continent with enough number of international cricket teams to consist a proper tournament. it was spotted by Asian cricket council (ACC) in 1983 to promote the game & goodwill and very next year we had it's first edition. India has won 5 times, Sri Lanka 4 times upto the 2010 championship while Pakistan have won it only once. Sri Lanka are only team to participate in every single asia cup.

We've had two asia cup of test matches as well, won by Pakistan in year 1998 and Sri Lanka in 2001.

Here's a brief history :-

April 1984 in Sharjah

Indiav Sri Lanka v Pakistan : won by India.

Only 3 match triangular, each team played other once, and India (who won both games) were declared winners without there being a final!

Mar-Apr 1986 in Sri Lanka

Pakistanv Bangladesh v Sri Lanka : won by Sri Lanka.

India skipped due to strained relationship with Sri Lanka, Bangladesh joined this second edition of Asia cup cricket which was another triangular tournament (each match of 45 overs) but with a final, between Sri Lanka & Pakistan which hosts won by 5 wickets.

Oct-Nov 1988 in Bangladesh

India v Pakistan v Sri Lanka v Bangladesh : won by India.

A tournament dominated by finalists India and Sri Lanka who both team Bangladesh and Pakistan at league stage but Indians had a better day on final, winning by 6 wickets after bowling out islanders for only 176.

December 1990 in India

India v Sri Lanka v Bangladesh : won by India

Pakistan refused to tour India and hence only 3 teams played, two major ones reached final at Kolkata in which India yet again beat Sri Lanka, this time chasing down 204 with 7 wicket and 17 balls to spare.

April 1995 in Sharjah

Indiav Sri Lanka v Pakistan v Bangladesh : won by India

Asia cup returned after 5 years (after proposed 1993 edition was canceled due to ill political relationship between India & Pakistan), back to where it all started at Sharjah. Pakistan defeated India by huge margin of 97 runs but lost their way since then, losing to Sri Lanka and failing to reach finals where India, having beaten Bangladesh and Sri Lanka at league stage, beat Lankans once again to claim their 3rd consecutive Asia cup, chasing down 232 with 8 wickets in hand.

Get here's a brief history in Asia cup by click..  

Brian Lara's 400 Test runs score world record

 World records are intended to be set by just a selected few, so when Brian Lara domestic the world record Test score with an victorious400 in Antigua in 2004, six months following it was in use off him by Australia's Matthew Hayden, amazing extraordinary was a foot.

Three-nil down in a four-match sequence and with his team in confusion, Brian Charles Lara knew he had to do amazing special in the last Test of England's 2004 tour of the West Indies. Something so as to would let the world be acquainted with there was motionless some arrogance left in Caribbean cricket. He have to take rear his world evidence.

Returning to Antigua, the sight of Lara's 375 next to England a decade previous to, the West Indies captain be on a assignment: to reclaim the uppermost individual Test achieve he had lost when Australia's Matthew Hayden scored 380 next to Zimbabwe in 2003.

It took him now six months to keep his world recorded which Australia's lively opener Matthew Hayden broke. Lara's extraordinary winning400 was merely the tenth quadruple-century in all first-class crickets.

The Trinidadian left-hander face 582 delivery, hitting 43 fours and four sixes, location a new standard which still have to be broken. It has be seven years and no batsman till day has even come close to contravention the extraordinary feat.

Lara's achievement be a feat of astonishing staying power each bit as a great deal as one of ability. He subsists surely not at the climax of his cricketing career, except he has the ability to achieve big. Lara's inning be proof of the control of the brain - he be at the wicket for 13 hours and surely it's not a joke to be at crease for such a long time. No man cut the ball by means of such accuracy and the length of such angle and the method he second-hand the wrists was just amazing.

Brian Lara played one of the classiest innings of his already-illustrious career. Lara become only the second player (after the great Don Bradman) to reach the 300 landmark two times in Tests. The luminous left-hander was the place out of the day, burning balls to all area of the soil and belt the English attack about with no the smallest amount bit of respect.

In the entire history of cricket he is the only man still to have scored a century, 200, 300, 400 and 500 runs in first-class cricket.

The record set by Lara is yet to be broken. So the big query is whether any of this contemporary age group batsman had excellence plus patince to be at the fold for long and do the not possible?

The only name that come in everyone's brain is India's icebreaker Virender Sehwag. The strutting opener absolutely has the class and caress making to reach this feat. Sehwag already has the second best twice century in Test cricket that come from just 168 balls next to Sri Lanka and he has score his Test runs at a earlier pace than anybody in the the past of cricket.

Sehwag is one gentleman who is capable of achieve Lara's 400 run feat. But it won't be easy because it take the fable Lara concerning 10 existences to acheive that figure.

India's Virender Sehwag hits fastest Test 300

Indian opener Virender Sehwag has strike his second vocation triple century on day three of the first Test against South Africa in Chennai.

 

Scoreboard: India v South Africa

The 29-year-old Sehwag, who made 309 against Pakistan at Multan in 2004, became only the third player to attain the feat of two triple hundreds, matching Australian Don Bradman and West Indies batsman Brian Lara.

Indian were battling back after South Africa recorded a first innings total of 540, Hashlim Amla their top scorer with 159.

Sehwag dominated the morning play, support by man opener Wasim Jaffer, as the house team reached 176 with no loss at lunch. That become 309-1 at tea, though Paul Harris had Jaffer wedged at first slip by Jacques Kallis for 73 in the 53rd over to transport to an end a 213-run opening partnership.

RahulDravid joined Sehwag in the middle and be more than happy to play second fiddle as the opener posted his fourth Test twice century. The landmark triple hundred came soon before the close and be the fastest in Test times gone by, Sehwag having faced 278 deliveries in which he had struck 41 fours and five sixes.

India closed the day on 468-1, with Sehwag still winning on 309 and Dravid 65 not out off 181 balls.

Top Five Batsmen In 10,000 Runs Complete in ODI Cricket

1) Sachin Tendulkar (India) 18,176 runs

 

Sachin Tendulkar - The first batsman to blast 10,000 runs in ODI cricket

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar was born on April 24, 1973, in Mumbai, Maharashtra, a right hand batsman and right-arm spin bowler who can bring off smash and leg break evenly good as preferred by the state of affairs. Sachin Tendulkar has the unique distinction of rising highest runs in Test as well as ODI formats of the game and his bat is still prosperous the runs.

The little master made his first appearance on December 18, 2012, next to their arch rivals Pakistan at Municipal Stadium, Gujranwala and was not capable to open his explanation. The 38-year-old has played 456 matches, smashed 18176 runs at an average of 44. 99 runs, the best of winning 200 with 48 hundreds and 95 fifties which are the uppermost tons by any batsmen in the the past of the game.

2)Ricky Ponting (Australia) 13,697 runs

Ricky Thomas Ponting was born on December 19, 1974, in Launceston, Tasmania, a right hand top order batsman and an infrequent right limb medium fast bowler. He is one of the best captain of Australia and the nation has won two ICC Cricket World Cups in 2003 and 2007 under his leadership.The prolific run getter complete his first appearance next to South Africa on February 15, 1995 at sink Reserve, Wellington (neutral venue) and scored just one run.

The 37-year-old took part in 374 match, scored 13697 runs averaging 42.14, the best of 164 runs with 30 centuries and 82 fifties.Ricky Ponting certain his 10,000 runs in the 266th match played vs. South Africa on March 24, 2007, at Warner Park, Basseterre, where he score 91 runs off 91 balls with two sixes and eight fours.

3) Sanath Jayasuriya (Sri Lanka) 13,430 runs

 

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya was natural on last day of June, 1969 in Matra, a dashing left give all-rounder, who used to bat left hand and a quality left-arm spin bowler.

He was one of the hard drumming batsmen as opening the innings, supposed in aggression rather than cooperation and in fact, displayed the earth how to attack in the gap overs.The left hander complete his debut against Australia on December 26, 1989, at Melbourne Cricket Ground and scored three runs.

The 42 year-old appear in his last game against England at Kennington Oval, London, on June 28, 2011 and scored two runs.The master batsman has appeared in 445 matches, scored 13430 runs at an average of 32.36, the best of 189 with 28 hundreds and 68 half centuries.

Sanath Jayasuriya got the honours of scoring 10,000 runs in his 328th match played next to India in the Indian Oil Cup- Final on August 9, 2005, at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo anywhere he scored 67 runs off 77 balls by nine fours.

4)Inzamam-Ul-Haq (Pakistan) 11739 runs

 

He was born on March 3, 1970 in Multan, a correct hand batsman and left-arm spin bolwer. He was a source of Pakistan’s World Cup victory in 1992 under the leadership of great Imran Khan and played few brisk innings in the tournamanet.

The middle order batsman played his primary match against West Indies on November 22, 1991 at Gaddafi sports ground, Lahore and scored 20 runs.The right hander played his last game on March 21, 2007 against Zimbabwe at Sabina Park, Kingston, Jamaica (neutral venue) and scored 37 runs.

The 41-year-old has appear in 378 encounters, scored 11739 runs with an avearge of 39.52, the best of unbeaten 137 runs with 10 tons and 83 fifties. Inzamam secured 10,000 runs in his 299th match which was play vs. India in the ICC Champions Trophy on September 19, 2004, at Edgbaston, Birmingham and scored 41 runs.

5) Jacques Kallis (South Africa), 11481 runs

 

Jacques Henry Kallis was born on October 16, 1975 in Pinelands, Cape Town, Cape Province, one among the best all rounder’s in the contemporary day cricket, a right hand batsman and right-arm medium fast bowler. He is a famous player for the Proteas and has win them quite a few games by his person performance.

He made his debut next to England on January 9, 1996 at Newlands, Cape Town and scored 38 runs. He is holding the highest average in the middle of the top ten run scorers of the limited over game.

The 36-year-old has play 319 matches, scored 11481 runs at an avearge of 45.55, the best of 139 runs with 17 centuries and 85 fifties.He is still at his best and there is much to be deliver from his bat until he calls it a day which looks quite far yet. Kallis achieved the difference of getting 10,000 runs in his 272nd match next to Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground on January 23, 2009, where he scored 60 runs.