They were bowled out for 33, In the fifth Test of the series, South Africa won the toss and batted first, scoring 530 with centuries from, Barbados batted first, scoring 246 (Cecil Pouchet took six for 52), to which Trinidad replied with 194. After making two-half centuries in the first two Tests, he failed to pass 20 in the last three and finished with 213 runs at 23.66 in a team that won 30. [13] On 30 September 2009, Akram was one of five new members inducted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame. The idea was that making Dravid keep wickets allowed India to accommodate an extra specialist batsman. Smith played just one ODI match during England's tour during 201314, in the 4th ODI at Perth where he made 19 runs. Yorkshire's openers, Yorkshire won the toss and batted first, scoring 662, including centuries from, In this Ranji Trophy match, Saurashtra won the toss and elected to field. [117] In these early matches, the number of runs scored off each bowler was not recorded. LDN 147/3 (82) NORS 143/5 (100) London Spirit. In the first innings, Smith was dismissed again cheaply by Stuart Broad with a score of 6, as Australia capitulated in the first session of a total 60 runs from 18.3 oversis the quickestin terms of balls faceda team has been bowled out in the first innings of a Test match. He only scored 45 runs, it was Sri Lanka's first World Cup defeat in a quarter final after 1999. If it was his match total, he could still have made a century in either innings. The win in Adelaide avoided a 30 whitewash at home, as the 21 defeat marked Smith's first series defeat at home. [11] However, it was a disappointing tour for the team; the solitary Test in Delhi was lost, as were all five ODIs played during the Titan Cup.[68]. [83] Making him only the third Sri Lankan player to hit a triple century after Sanath Jayasuria and Mahela Jayawardena. [43], Dravid announced his form in England hitting consecutive fifties against Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in the warm-up games. Smith is consistently rated as one of the top-ranked Test batsmen in the world, according to the ICC Player Rankings. Glamorgan won the toss and batted first, scoring 217; Lancashire won the toss and fielded first; Surrey scored 146 to which Lancashire replied with 151 for seven declared; Gloucestershire won the toss and batted first, scoring 305 for nine declared, including 103 from. Akram was awarded Wisden Cricketer of the Year in 1993 for his sporting achievements. [25] Dravid has a younger brother named Vijay. In the final over, Taylor equalled Bradman's Australian Test record when a shot to midwicket was barely stopped by Ijaz Ahmed, which reduced the scoring opportunity to a single run. [245][246], British Media along with former cricketers rated his dominating batting in the series as one of the greatest batting displays in a test series. [63][65], Later that month, India played a two Test home series against Pakistan. [223], In 2004, Dravid was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. In just over twelve months, he had amassed 1,618 runs at 70.35. Coming in to bat at no. He learned to pace his innings cleverly without going for the slogs. Wright was particularly impressed with Dravid's performance on that tour, especially his twin hundreds at Hamilton. [10] Australia then played five ODIs in New Zealand before starting the England tour with three more. Set 291 to win, Canterbury collapsed to 108 for eight, but, Kent won the toss, and fielded first; Glamorgan scored 354 for seven declared, and Kent replied with 300 for six declared including 100 from, Lancashire won the toss and batted, scoring 310, to which Glamorgan replied with 303 for five including 138* from, Western Province B won the toss and batted first, scoring 284 for four declared including 154 from, Yorkshire won the toss and fielded. He was selected for the squad for the 1992 Cricket World Cup held on home soil, and after Australia lost its first two matches, Taylor was recalled for his first ODI in 12 months. [125] In the final, Australia drew against fellow neighbours New Zealand after defeating South Africa. He was just five runs short of a landmark debut hundred when he nicked a Lewis delivery to the keeper and walked even before umpire's decision. [199][200][201][202], Smith was rested for the T20 series against New Zealand and England so he could prepare for the South African Test series. Australia won the match in a tight contest.[152]. In this Ranji Trophy match, Maharashtra won the toss and elected to bat, scoring 764 for six declared. [33] Huma died of multiple organ failure at Apollo Hospital in Chennai, India, on 25 October 2009. [38], In 1988, Akram signed for Lancashire County Cricket Club in England. [74][75][76], In his first match innings in India he scored 92 before being stumped by Dhoni from a delivery by Pragyan Ojha, and in the second innings he managed 5 runs. As he said, he retired from T20I cricket in April 2014 and from ODI cricket on 18 March 2015. He did commentary on a variety of sporting tournaments including the 2009 Women's Cricket World Cup in Australia, the 2009 ICC World Twenty20 in England, the 2009 ICC Champions Trophy in South Africa, and the 2011 ICC World Cup in India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. [99], Taylor retired from professional cricket in early 1999 after the Ashes series. [9][10][11][12], A left-arm fast bowler who could bowl with significant pace, he holds the world record for most wickets in List A cricket, with 881, and he is second only to Sri Lankan off-spin bowler Muttiah Muralitharan in terms of ODI wickets, with 502 in total. Australia missed the finals in both tournaments, winning three of their six matches. [92] Smith remarked "Everything sort of just clicked into place and it felt really good so I've continued doing it". [159], A two Test return tour against New Zealand took place in February 2016. by a Sri Lankan Sangakkara (57.40)- fifth highest overall after. In March 2018, Smith was widely criticised for overseeing ball tampering in the third Test against South Africa, during which he stood down from the team captaincy and was replaced by Tim Paine. [331] Smith played during the first two ODI matches, but was unable to play during the last three due to a quad injury. National selection panel chair Trevor Hohns said of the injury - "I can't tell you how long or how serious it is but it's something that he's had before, and it definitely flared up again whilst playing in the IPL How long it'll take to get it completely right, I can't tell you that at the moment the main thing from our point of view with Steven is to make sure he is fit for the T20 World Cup and of course the Ashes next season. [152] They played cautiously, taking body blows on a pitch with uneven bounce. First batsman to register ten successive scores of 50 or more against a single opponent in Test history. During his school days, he was a chorister and played the violin.[27]. In their second innings Wellington then scored 309 for six declared, including 156* from John Aiken. 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Surrey also reached the finals of 2015 Royal London One-Day Cup before losing by six runs to Gloucestershire. [90], To mark 150 years of the Cricketers' Almanack, Wisden named him in an all-time Test World XI.[91]. [76] He holds the record for facing the most balls in a test match as well as in an innings as number 8 batsman (363 balls), First bowler to take 500 ODI wickets and still holds the record for taking the most ODI wickets as seamer (502), Wasim Akram is the person to grab 100+ ODI wickets at the same ground. In the final against Leo Lions, he scored 30 runs to become top run scorer of the series. Wisden wrote: Taylor talked so well that he raised the standard of debate in Australiaand perhaps of cricket itselfin a way which was an example to all professional cricketersBorder stopped Australia losing. [63][64] In their first match together in Perth, the pair put on 190, with Taylor scoring 85. There have been ten other scores of 400 or more, including another by Lara and two by Bill Ponsford. [190] During this time, he also became involved with the Indian national team, serving as mentor for the team's tour of England in 2014. [32], His parents sheltered Tamil families during the Black July riots in 1983. In their second innings Queensland scored 316, Charles Barnes took five for 105. [77][78] In the final Test match at Delhi, Smith made 46 and 18 runs, respectively, but Australia was unable to win the Test match as India secured a 40 series win. [125][126] He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 2002 and made an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2003. Dravid captained Indian Test Team for the first time in the second game of the series at Mohali in the absence of Ganguly. [54] He top scored for India in the Standard Bank International One-Day Series 1996/97 in South Africa with 280 runs from eight games at an average of 35.00 and a strike rate of 60.73,[74] the highlight being a Man of the Match award-winning performance (84 runs, one catch) in the Final of the series that came in a losing cause. Before Sri Lanka's Test series against England in 2014, Sangakkara returned to county cricket, playing two matches for Durham,[131] which included 159 against Sussex in his final innings. I told him he will be playing. [21] In 201112, the Australian T20 competition became the city-based Big Bash League featuring eight teams. [222][223] On 1 June 2019, Smith played in Australia's opening match of the Cricket World Cup, against Afghanistan, at the County Ground in Bristol. [11][12] The difficulty of Australia's task was increased when fast bowlers Craig McDermott and Damien Fleming went home injured at the start of the tour. [11][12], This victory was followed by the 1995 tour of the West Indies, where Australia had not won a Test series for 22 years. [201] Out of 7 first class tour games that Zimbabwe played on that tour, Kent was the only team that managed to beat them. Dravid hit another fifty in a draw against Surrey. [41] A few weeks prior to his selection into the Pakistan team, he was an unknown club cricketer who had failed to make it even to his college team. After the spiteful summer, a Tamil Tiger bombing in Colombo coupled with death threats to some members of the team forced Taylor to forfeit his team's scheduled World Cup match against Sri Lanka in Colombo. He was also an excellent first slip his 157 catches, at the time, a Test record (now held by Rahul Dravid). [186], My approach to cricket has been reasonably simple: it was about giving everything to the team, it was about playing with dignity, and it was about upholding the spirit of the game. [13] Dravid and Sachin Tendulkar are currently the highest scoring partnership in Test cricket history having scored 6920 runs combined when batting together for India. [109] In the first Test in Dubai, Smith made 22 runs in the first innings and 55 runs in the second innings but collectively lost the Test match by 221 runs. However, none of the allegations could be proved. [83][84] In the final Test, Smith scored his maiden Test century, which came in the first innings of the last Test of the series at The Oval,[85] reaching the total in style by hitting a six off the bowling of Jonathan Trott. He did so well for Sevenoaks that he was picked to play for Surrey's second XI. He is a member of the Think Wise Initiative, launched by International Cricket Council, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and UNICEF, this initiative is aimed at raising awareness of HIV prevention and eliminating discrimination against people living with HIV and AIDS. For me, growing up, I dreamt of playing for India. [92] The highlight for Dravid in the ensuing Test series came in the second innings of the Second Test. On the day, if umpires believe any form of significant movement is unfair (in an attempt to deceive the batsman), then the Law still applies. Tendulkar has been dismissed nine times between scores of 90 and 99. In Test matches, Tendulkar has scored centuries against all the Test cricket playing nations, and is the second batsman to score 150 against each of them. Uncharacteristically, Dravid was the faster of the two scoring 116 of 118 deliveries. [214] Smith and vice-captain David Warner stood down from the team leadership the morning after the incident, but still played on, and wicketkeeper Tim Paine took over as interim captain for the rest of the Test match. Some matches have not been universally accepted as first-class for statistical purposes and there are thus variations in published cricket statistics, mainly because of the different proposals that have been made for the starting date of the statistical records, ranging from the 17th century to 1895. [citation needed], In his autobiography titled Sultan: A Memoir, Akram revealed that he was addicted to cocaine after his playing career ended. [114] McHugh batted in 111 innings for only 179 runs, with only four double figure scores. [309], Smith was ruled out of the tours to West Indies and Bangladesh with an elbow injury in his left arm a recurrence of an injury that prohibited him from playing domestic cricket for a month during February and March in 2021. [54][165] Dravid top scored in the series with 313 runs at an average of 78.25. [113] Dravid, who was instrumental in Wright's appointment as India's first foreign head coach, welcomed him with his maiden double hundred. [92], On 26 February 2015 in 2015 ICC Cricket World Cup against Bangladesh, Sangakkara scored his 22nd ODI century in his 400th appearance in One-Day Internationals. [157] India trailing 12, needed 325 runs to win the Fourth ODI and level the series. India lost to Australia in the Final. Sussex replied with 414, and Nottinghamshire were 185 for seven in their second innings, only 9 runs ahead, when Ted Alletson started his innings. [264] It involved left-arm fast-medium bowler Neil Wagner pitching short to Smith attempting to get him out caught on the leg side. [137][138][139] Dravid captained the team in the 'unofficial' Third test in the absence of injured Ganguly, which India lost by an innings margin. [34], On 7 July 2013, it was reported that Akram had become engaged to an Australian woman, Shaniera Thompson, whom he had met while on a visit to Melbourne in 2011. Smith scored 254 runs at an average of 84.66, the highest Australian total in the series and consequently receiving the man of the series award. However, Smith's hundred was in vain as India chased down the target in the 48th over, India winning the series 21. Four biographies have been written on Rahul Dravid and his career: "Dravid" redirects here. Australia were then up 20 in the series. [61] The first of those four hundreds came on the Zimbabwe tour. [4][5] He became the first and only cricketer to score 100 international centuries when he made 114 against Bangladesh in March 2012. ), Wisden Cricketers' Almanack 2010, John Wisden & Co.. Scyld Berry (ed. [134] Reinstated to his usual no. [70] In 2012, he was honored as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year. Four wickets in an over, and who's the Cockroach? [99] The second Test in Port Elizabeth saw a slower pitch as Smith made 49 and a duck and South Africa levelled the series 11. 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