Vangipurapu Venkata Sai Laxman(born 1 November 1974), commonly known as V.V.S. Laxman, is a former Indian cricketer.Laxman represents Hyderabad in domestic cricket and has played for Lancashire in English county cricket. He was the captain of the Deccan Chargers team in the Indian Premier League in its first year before being replaced by Adam Gilchrist for the next year. In 2011, Laxman was awarded the Padma Shri award, India's fourth highest civilian award from the Government of India.
Laxman bats right-handed and occasionally bowls off-spin. He is noted for his superb timing and the ability to hit against the spin, reminiscent of his role model Mohammed Azharuddin. Laxman is particularly noted for the skilful use of his supple wrists, which allow him to flick the ball to various places, but usually through the leg side. This also helps in his catching, and he typically fields in the slips or in a bat pad position.
Laxman is noted most for his batting against Australia, in both Tests and One Day Internationals. Six out of his 17 Test hundreds, and four out of his six ODI hundreds have come against Australia.He has two double-centuries in Tests, both of them against Australia: his personal best of 281 at Kolkata in 2000–01, and 200 not out at Feroz Shah Kotla in 2008–09,and in 2002 he was named one of Wisden's five Cricketers of the Year. In 2012, Laxman retired from international cricket.

Umeshkumar Tilak Yadav, born 25 October 1987) is an Indian cricketer who currently plays for Vidarbha. A right-arm fast-medium bowler, Yadav has played for Vidarbha at domestic level since 2008 and is the first player from the team to have played Test cricket. He made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Zimbabwe in May 2010. The following year, in November, Yadav made his Test debut against the West Indies.He is managed by Gaames Unlimited

Yadav's father was a coalmine worker from Village - Pokharbhinda Lala(Baraipur Lala), Post- Govindpur, Deoria district in Uttar Pradesh and Umesh grew up in Valani (WCL Colny), a village of miners near to Khaperkheda, in Nagpur District of Mharastra State, India.His father is working in WCL Mines. He attended his Schooling in Shankar Rao Chouhan Vidyalaya, Khaperkheda. Before becoming a professional cricketer, Umesh Yadav unsuccessfully applied to join the army and the police force. In 2007–2008, having previously only ever played tennis ball cricket, Yadav began bowling with a leather ball and joined Vidarbha, an unfashionable team in the Plate League of the Ranji Trophy. Pritam Gandhe, Vidharbha's captain, supported Yadav and ensured he represented Air India in a twenty20 tournament. Of Yadav's early career Gandhe remarked "He was raw and wayward. But he was really quick – too quick. I thought that if he lands at least three out of six balls in line with the stumps, he will trouble batsmen."

Shahid Afridi (Urdu: شاہدآفریدی‎), born Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi also known as Boom Boom Afridi born on 1 March 1980) is a Pakistani cricketer. Between 1996 and 2012, Afridi played 27 Tests, 350 One Day Internationals, and 59 Twenty20 Internationals (T20Is) for the Pakistani national team. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia.
He is known for his aggressive batting style,and previously held the record for the fastest ODI century i.e.in 37 deliveries,(Now broken by Corey Anderson who took one delivery less i.e.36 deliveries) which he made in his first international innings, as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the third highest scoring over ever in an ODI. He also holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of ODI cricket. Afridi considers himself a better bowler than batsman, and has taken 48 Test wickets and over 350 in ODIs. Currently Afridi is third on the list of leading wicket takers in the Twenty20 format, behind Saeed Ajmal and Umer Gul of Pakistan, taking 73 wickets from 70 matches. Shahid Afridi has signed to play for Sydney Thunder in Australia’s Twenty20 Big Bash league.In June 2009, Afridi took over the Twenty20 captaincy from Younus Khan, and was later appointed ODI captain for the 2010 Asia Cup. In his first match as ODI captain against Sri Lanka he scored a century however Pakistan still lost by 16 runs. He then also took over the Test captaincy but resigned after one match in charge citing lack of form and ability to play Test cricket; at the same time he announced his retirement from Tests. He retained the captaincy in limited-overs form of the game and led the team in the 2011 World Cup. In May 2011, having led Pakistan in 34 ODIs, Afridi was replaced as captain. Later that month he announced his conditional retirement from international cricket in protest against his treatment by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB). However, in October he reversed his decision. UNICEF and Pakistani authorities have taken Shahid Afridi on board for its anti-polio campaign in the tribal belt of lawless Waziristan region.

Sangakkara was a key member of the team that won the 2014 World T20 as well as the team that made the finals of the 2007 World Cup, the 2011 World Cup and 2012 World T20.
Sangakkara captained the national team from 2009 to 2011, stepping down after the 2011 ICC World Cup final. The same year, he was named the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the ICC awards ceremony. In 2012, he was honoured as one of the Wisden Cricketers of the Year.
Sangakkara is described as one of the "most polished and prudent of batsmen" in cricket.Currently Kumar Sangakkara is placed at number 2 in ICC test rankings. With 9 double centuries, he is second in the list of Test double century-makers, behind only Donald Bradman (12) and equal to Brian Lara (9). He is also the first cricketer ever to score 150+ scores in four consecutive Test matches. As the wicket keeper, he has contributed to the 3rd highest number of dismissals in ODIs—382. It includes 81 stumpings, which is the highest for a wicket keeper in one-day international cricket.
Sangakkara delivered the 2011 MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, which gained worldwide attention. He was the youngest person and the first current international player to deliver that lecture, which was widely praised by the cricketing community for its outspoken nature.
In terms of number of innings required, Sangakkara is the fastest batsman to reach 8,000, 9,000, and 11,000 runs in Test cricket. He is also joint fastest to 10,000. He has won the ICC Cricketer of the Year in 2012, Test Cricketer of the Year in 2012, and ODI Cricketer of the Year multiple times in 2011 and 2013. He has also won the LG People's Choice Award twice, in 2011 and 2012. Sangakkara has regularly featured in the World Test XI and World ODI XI, appearing 6 times and 3 times in them, respectively.
On February 25, 2014 Kumar Sangakkara completed 12000 runs in One-day internationals while playing the Asia Cup match against Pakistan at the Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah.

He was a right-handed batsman and off-spin bowler, who came to prominence in the late 1980s in a side that included such players as Gordon Greenidge, Desmond Haynes, Malcolm Marshall and Courtney Walsh and represented the West Indies over a 21-year international career.
His highest innings score of 233 was made during a Test series in India in 2001.He has made 5,762 runs in his Test cricket career. Hooper could be an erratic Test batsman, as his lower average of 36.46 over 102 Tests shows. In ODI play, Hooper's aggressive style of batting fared better: he averaged 35.34 off 227 matches.
Hooper represented Guyana at local first-class level, and played English county cricket for Kent and Lancashire. In 2003, Hooper became only the second player to have scored a century against all 18 county teams.
Hooper holds the accolade of being the first cricketer in the world to have scored 5,000 runs, taken 100 wickets, held 100 catches and received 100 caps in both ODIs and Tests, a feat only matched since by Jacques Kallis.In his autobiography, Steve Waugh writes that "quickness of feet and sweet yet brutally efficient stroke play were Hooper's trademarks."He was routinely prematurely dismissed, however, after losses in concentration.
Shane Warne also thought very highly of Hooper's footwork and, in 2008, named him among the top 100 cricketers of his time, citing in particular his ability to disguise his dances down the track. Warne felt that determining when a batsman was going to give the charge was one of the most important things for a spinner, and that Hooper was the best at making it indeterminable. "During the 1995 series," he wrote, "this really nagged away at me, because I couldn't spot any of the usual clues even though I knew there had to be a sign that would give him away. On a number of occasions, I stopped at the point of delivery to see if he was giving anything away with his footwork. Most batsmen would be looking to get out of their ground at that point, whereas Hooper just stayed set. In the end, after watching him closely time after time, I managed to crack it. When he wanted to hit over the top, he just looked at me instead of tapping his crease as usual and looking down. Of course, my knowing what he was going to do did not always stop him from doing it."

Shane Warne

If you spin and just roll your finger over the cricket ball...the first name comes into our mind is Shane Keith Warne.

He is a legend in himself and the word records are again seems to be small when talking about this great cricketer.
He has achieved something which one would have not thought when he had began his career as a cricketer.

Played the first game for his national side in 1989 and became a big name in the world of cricket.

The time of 1996 till 2000 along with muralidharan was defining moment for spinners in the world...they and specially Warne revolutionised the spin bowling all together.

But his career was always surrounded by controversy and his personal life was always a public topic.

He ended his career with 708 test wicket and 293 one day scalp.

Played his last odi in 2005 against england and test in 2007.

Shane warne is always remembered as one of the greateset bowler ever produced in the history of cricket.

Rahul Dravid

Bricks can be broken but you need to stand tall against "THE WALL" And that has been the case with the Indian wall as well "THE RAHUL DRAVID"

Aggression in calmness...attitude in politeness...class in game has been the story of this great cricketer.
Dravid was born in a maharashtrian brahmin family in Indore, Madhya Pradesh but he was raised in Karnataka.
Dravid started playing cricket at the age of 12, and represented Karnataka at the under-15, the under-17 and the under-19 levels.Dravid made his Ranji Trophy debut in February 1991, while he was still attending college.
Dravid made his international debut on 3 April 1996 in an ODI against Sri Lanka in the Singer Cup held in Singapore immediately after the 1996 World Cup replacing Vinod Kambli. He wasn't particularly impressive with the bat scoring just three runs before being dismissed by Mutthai Maralitharan but took two catches in the match. He followed it up with another failure in the next ODI of the series scoring just 4 runs before getting run out against Pakistan.
But this man built a reputation for himself as one of the most dependable batsman in the world in the time to come.

Rahul Dravid captained the Indian side from 2005 till 2007.
Though his captaincy record does not show the true picture of the character he is but his records speaks a volume for him.
More than 10000 runs in test cricket and one day cricket.
He is the only batsmen to score century in all the 10 test playing nation.