Michael Clarke

Personal information
Full name Michael John Clarke
Born 2 April 1981 (1981-04-02) (age 29)
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname Pup,Clarkey
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Batting style Right-hand
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role Batsman, Australian Twenty20 captain
International information
National side Australia
Test debut (cap 389) 6 October 2004 v India
Last Test 20 March 2010 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 149) 19 January 2003 v England
Last ODI 3 March 2010 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 23
Domestic team information
Years Team
2000 – New South Wales
2004 Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 59 173 117 237
Runs scored 4,284 5,289 8,245 7,107
Batting average 51.61 42.31 46.32 40.61
100s/50s 14/17 4/40 28/32 5/54
Top score 168 130 201* 130
Balls bowled 1,540 2,210 2,720 2,906
Wickets 19 52 30 77
Bowling average 39.73 35.78 48.10 31.12
5 wickets in innings 1 1 1 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/9 5/35 6/9 5/35
Catches/stumpings 58/– 69/– 115/– 93/–

Michael Clarke
Michael Clarke at the SCG in January 2009
Personal information
Full name Michael John Clarke
Born 2 April 1981 (1981-04-02) (age 29)
Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Nickname Pup,Clarkey
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Batting style Right-hand
Bowling style Slow left-arm orthodox
Role Batsman, Australian Twenty20 captain
International information
National side Australia
Test debut (cap 389) 6 October 2004 v India
Last Test 20 March 2010 v New Zealand
ODI debut (cap 149) 19 January 2003 v England
Last ODI 3 March 2010 v New Zealand
ODI shirt no. 23
Domestic team information
Years Team
2000 – New South Wales
2004 Hampshire
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC List A
Matches 59 173 117 237
Runs scored 4,284 5,289 8,245 7,107
Batting average 51.61 42.31 46.32 40.61
100s/50s 14/17 4/40 28/32 5/54
Top score 168 130 201* 130
Balls bowled 1,540 2,210 2,720 2,906
Wickets 19 52 30 77
Bowling average 39.73 35.78 48.10 31.12
5 wickets in innings 1 1 1 1
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 6/9 5/35 6/9 5/35
Catches/stumpings 58/– 69/– 115/– 93/–
Source: CricketArchive, 23 March 2010

Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981) is an Australian cricketer vice captain and the Twenty20 captain of the national team. Nicknamed 'Pup', he is a right-handed batsman, highly-regarded fielder and occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler.

Ricky Ponting

Personal information
Full name Ricky Thomas Ponting
Born 19 December 1974 (1974-12-19) (age 35)
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Nickname Punter
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Batting style Right-hand
Bowling style Right-arm medium
Right arm off break
Role Batsman, Australian Test and ODI captain
International information
National side Australia
Test debut (cap 366) 8 December 1995 v Sri Lanka
Last Test 13 July 2010 v Pakistan
ODI debut (cap 123) 15 February 1995 v South Africa
Last ODI 23 June 2010 v England
ODI shirt no. 14
Domestic team information
Years Team
1992 – Tasmania
2004 Somerset
2008 Kolkata Knight Riders
Career statistics
Competition Test ODIs FC List A
Matches 145 351 245 421
Runs scored 11,954 13,072 20,801 15,388
Batting average 54.83 42.85 57.46 42.50
100s/50s 39/51 29/79 73/89 33/94
Top score 257 164 257 164
Balls bowled 539 150 1,434 349
Wickets 5 3 14 8
Bowling average 48.40 34.66 54.85 33.62
5 wickets in innings 0 0 0 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling 1/0 1/12 2/10 3/34
Catches/stumpings 172/– 152/– 261/– 184/

Ricky Thomas Ponting (born 19 December 1974 in Launceston, Tasmania), nicknamed Punter, is the current captain of the Australian cricket team. He is a specialist right-handed batsman, slips and close catching fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He is regarded as one of Australia's finest cricketers in the modern era. He represents the Tasmanian Tigers in Australian domestic cricket and played in the Indian Premier League with the Kolkata Knight Riders in 2008.

Ponting made his first-class debut for Tasmania in November 1992, when just 17 years and 337 days old, becoming the youngest Tasmanian to play in a Sheffield Shield match. However, he had to wait until 1995 before making his One Day International (ODI) debut, during a quadrangular tournament in New Zealand in a match against South Africa. His Test debut followed shortly after, when selected for the first Test of the 1995 home series against Sri Lanka in Perth, in which he scored 96. He lost his place in the national team several times in the period before early-1999, due to lack of form and discipline, before becoming One Day International captain in early-2002 and Test captain in early-2004.

After being involved in over 140 Tests and 350 ODIs, Ponting is Australia's leading run-scorer in Test and ODI cricket, with more than 25,000 international runs as of July 2010. He has scored 39 Test centuries—behind only Indian Sachin Tendulkar (48)[1]—and third for most runs in ODIs behind Tendulkar and Sanath Jayasuriya.

Misbah-ul-Haq

Personal information
Full name Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi
Born 28 May 1974 (1974-05-28) (age 36)
Mianwali, Pakistan
Batting style Right-hand batsman
Bowling style Right arm leg break
Role Batsman
International information
National side Pakistan
Test debut (cap 166) 8 March 2001 v New Zealand
Last Test 26 December 2009 v Australia
ODI debut (cap 142) 27 April 2002 v New Zealand
Last ODI 30 September 2009 v Australia
Domestic team information
Years Team
2008–present Baluchistan
2006–2008 Punjab (Pakistan)
2003–2007 Faisalabad
2003–present Sui Northern Gas Pipelines
2000–2003 Khan Research Laboratories
1998–2001 Sargodha
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI FC LA
Matches 18 56 152 158
Runs scored 997 1,523 11,042 5,218
Batting average 35.60 39.05 50.65 45.77
100s/50s 2/4 0/9 32/51 8/31
Top score 161** 79** 284* 129**
Balls bowled – 24 318 144
Wickets – 0 3 1
Bowling average – – 80.66 179.00
5 wickets in innings – 0 0 0
10 wickets in match – n/a 0 n/a
Best bowling – 0/30 1/2 1/10
Catches/stumpings 21/– 32/– 152/– 81/–

Misbah-ul-Haq Khan Niazi (Urdu: مصباح الحق خان نیازی), born May 28, 1974) is a Pakistani cricketer. Misbah has been in and out of the team for much of his career. Currently he has been dropped and is trying to regain his place on the team he also wants a valid reason as to why he has been dropped.

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi

Personal information
Full name Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi
Born 1 March 1980 (1980-03-01) (age 30)
Khyber Agency, FATA, Pakistan
Nickname Boom Boom Afridi
Batting style Right-handed
Bowling style Right arm leg break
Role All rounder
Domestic team information
Years Team
2009–present South Australia
2008–present Deccan Chargers
2007–present Sind
2006 Ireland
2004 Kent
2003–04 Griqualand West
2003 Derbyshire
2001 Leicestershire
2001 Marylebone Cricket Club
1997–2008 Habib Bank Limited
1995–present Karachi
Career statistics
Competition Test ODI T20I
Matches 27 296 35
Runs scored 1,716 6,222 584
Batting average 37.40 23.93 18.83
100s/50s 5/8 6/30 0/3
Top score 156 124 54*
Balls bowled 3,194 12,555 816
Wickets 48 278 44
Bowling average 35.60 34.73 19.13
5 wickets in innings 1 3 0
10 wickets in match 0 n/a 0
Best bowling 5/52 6/38 4/11
Catches/stumpings 10/– 99/– 11/–

Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi (Urdu: صاحبزادہ محمد شاہد خان آفریدی) (born 1 March 1980 in Khyber Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas)[1], popularly known as Shahid Afridi (Pashto: شاهد ‏افریدی) is a Pakistani cricketer and current ODI and Twenty20 captain of the Pakistani national team in the international circuit. He made his ODI debut on 2 October 1996 against Kenya in Nairobi[2] and his Test debut on 22 October 1998 against Australia at Karachi.[3]

He is known for his aggressive batting style, and currently holds the highest career strike rate in the history of international cricket. He also holds the record for the fastest one day century which he made in his debut innings,[4][5] as well as scoring 32 runs in a single over, the second highest scoring over ever in an ODI.[6] He also holds the distinction of having hit the most number of sixes in the history of One Day International cricket.[7] In a survey, Afridi was named as the most popular cricketer in Pakistan