ANDREW STRAUSS

Career statistic 

Competition    Test     ODI     FC     LA
Matches     100     127     241     254
Runs scored     7,037     4,205     17,046     7,631
Batting average     40.91     35.63     42.72     32.75
100s/50s     21/27     6/27     46/74     10/49
Top score     177     158     241*     163
Balls bowled     2013     6     132     6
Wickets     2013    2013     3    u2013
Bowling average    2013     2013     47.33     2013
5 wickets in innings     2013     2013     2013     2013
10 wickets in match     2013   u2013     2013     2013
Best bowling     2013     0/3     1/16    2013
Catches/stumpings     121/2013     57/2013     228/2013     90/2013

The Kensington Oval has also hosted many non-cricket events such as matches of the Barbados national football team, hockey, inter-school athletics, Miss Barbados pageants, and concert events. The ground also has a jumbo TV screen and also a jacuzzi type area, for fans to watch while relaxing in the pool (similar to Chase Field in Phoenix, Arizona). Behind this is a large grassy hill for fans to have picnics on, which has a bunker underneath for the media.

On 5 August 2011 – Barbadian Superstar Rihanna performed for the first time in her home country on her LOUD tour.

In November 2013 - Barbadian Superstar Rihanna will perform once again at the oval this time part of her Diamonds World Tour.

ANDREW STRAUSS

Strauss's first taste of international cricket came within England's tour from the sub-continent, but however only fulfil the function of the twelfth man despite considering himself better actually form of the overall game, Strauss was surprised being selected for the Eventually squad. Although he was not selected for your main team, Strauss did make an appearance within a tour match, starring with 51 in an opening partnership of 146 in the slow, but fluent innings. As England moved directly from Bangladesh to Sri Lanka, Strauss continued that will put pressure on England opener Vikram Solanki inside a tour match top scoring with 83, juxtaposed with Solanki's five ball duck and it was rewarded regarding his England debut inside a disastrous ten-wicket defeat where he was caught and bowled by fellow debutant Dinusha Fernandoand was subsequently omitted throughout the tour.

 The runners-up in the Champions Trophy took October off prior to starting an excursion of Africa in November. Their first stop was Zimbabwe, visiting the very first time since the 2003 World Cup political concerns and despite being minnows Strauss couldn't muster a half century from the 4%u20130 series win. In the final match, Strauss was called on to bowl an individual over, conceding three runs. England then gone to live in Strauss' native Africa for the five Test series taking them into the new year. His homecoming was an explosive one because he caught captain Graeme Smith over second ball and took to attain his first away century with 126 before scoring over 50 % of the team's second innings score while he steered them towards victory, again falling in short supply of twin hundreds with 94 not out still he became only the seventh Test player to record a hundred years on his home and away debut. Despite missing this accolade he did record back to back centuries, within the Boxing Day Test he top scored inside the first innings with only 25 because it seemed England were set for defeat, Strauss and Trescothick bolstered along side it by having an opening partnership stand of 273, top scoring with 136 to assist England push for victory though it would lead to a draw. Within the losing, third Test Strauss not only top scored in the first innings with 45, younger crowd had become the fourth fastest Englishman to reach 1,000 Test runs in 19 innings.Australian rival Justin Langer.

Captaincy

Strauss was appointed captain on 7 January 2009 after a rift between previous captain Kevin Pietersen and Peter Moores became public. Subsequently, Pietersen resigned the captaincy after just 3 Test Matches, and Moores was sacked. This came after a rise of form in the 2008 Test Series in India, in which England lost and drew their two games.

In his first match as regular captain, against the West Indies at Sabina Park, Strauss and his team failed, Strauss scoring 7 and 9 as England were bowled out for 51 in the second innings to lose by an innings. After the fiasco of the abandoned Test match, Strauss subsequently had an excellent series with the bat, with scores of 169, 142 and 142 in the remaining three Tests giving him a series aggregate of 541 runs at an average of 67.62, but England were unable to force a victory in any of these three matches and consequently lost the series 1–0. As captain in the subsequent one-day series, which was drawn 2–2, Strauss scored 105 in Guyana^[147] and 79 not out from 61 balls at the Kensington He also captained the Twenty20 side to a six-wicket defeat. Strauss said to the BBC that he hoped that the whole captaincy debacle would be solved in time for the 2009 Ashes Series.

Strauss atoned for the defeat by the West Indies with a 2–0 home victories over the West Indies at home in both the Test and the ODI series. After that series, Strauss had a break from the international circuit while the World Twenty20 was underway. He played two county championship matches to little effect beyond a score of 97 against

 

 

ANDREW STRAUSS

 Born in South Africa, Strauss gone after England at the era of six. First playing cricket in Australia for Caulfield Grammar School, an independent school from the East coastal town of Melbourne, Strauss delivered to England and it was educated at two independent schools in Southern England: first at Caldicott School, a boys' prep school near the village of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire, followed by Radley College, a boys' senior school close to the village of Radley in Oxfordshire and, between 1995 and 1998, at Hatfield College with the University of Durham in the Capital of scotland - Durham in North East England, where he read Economics, writing a dissertation on supermodular games and buying a degree

Andrew John Strauss, OBE (born 2 March 1977) is really a retired English cricketer who played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club and is an early captain of England's Test cricket team. A fluent left-handed opening batsman, Strauss favoured scoring off the back foot, mostly playing cut and pull shots. Strauss seemed to be recognized for his fielding strength at slip or in the covers

Strauss made his first-class debut in 1998, and the Eventually International (ODI) debut in Sri Lanka in 2003. He quickly rose to fame on his Test match debut replacing the injured Michael Vaughan at Lord's against Nz in 2004. With many 112 and 83 (run out) within an England victory, and the man in the match award, he became just the fourth batsman to get a century at Lord's on his debut and was all-around becoming the first Englishman to get centuries in innings of his debut

KANE WILLIAMSON

Kane Stuart Williamson (born 8 August 1990) can be a New Zealand Test cricketer. He plays for Northern Districts, making his first-class debut in December 2007.[1] He made his U-19 debut from the touring Indian U-19 team in 2007 and it was named captain in the Nz U-19 team to the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup. Williamson also represented New Zealand in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 hosted by Subcontinental nations. On 14 August 2013, Williamson signed for Yorkshire for the rest of the English county season.

 Williamson attended Tauranga Boys' College from 2004%u20132008 where he was Head Boy in the final year and it was coached by Josh Simms.

 On 24 March 2010 Williamson was named from the Nz Test squad for the second Test against Australia, but ultimately he would not be in the match.

STUART BROAD

STUART BROAD TAKEN 5 WICKETS IN TEST MATCH

Figure                 Match                        Against                          City/Country                 Venue Date

[1]                        5/85         West Indies Kingston,               Jamaica Sabina Park         26 May 2009

[2]                      6/91           Australia Leeds,                         England Headingley       8 August 2009

[3]                      5/37            Australia London,                         England The Ova      l 20 August 2009

[4]                      6/46          India Nottingham,                England Trent Bridge,     Nottingham 29

[5]                       7/72          West Indies London                       England Lord's            21 May 2012

[6]                       5/69              Africa Leeds,                  England Headingley            6 August 2012

[7]                      6/51        Nz Wellington,             New Zealand Basin Reserve         16 March 2013

[8]                    7/44            New Zealand London,                 England Lord's                19 May 2013

[9]                   5/71         Australia Durham,            England Riverside Ground         11 August 2013

[10]               6/50            Australia Durham,                England Riverside Ground     12 August 2013

[11]               6/81          Australia Brisbane,                 Australia The Gabba          21 November 2013

STUART BROAD

 Stuart Christopher John Broad (born 24 June 1986) is really a cricketer who plays Test and Some Day International cricket for England and is also the captain of the Twenty20 team.

Broad originally started his career as a possible opening batsman, following in the footsteps of his father, the first sort England opener and current ICC match referee Chris Broad. It wasn't until he was 17 and had a growth spurt that they begun to consider like a fast bowler.[5] Broad had been linked to Leicestershire since he was 8 years old having represented them for less than-9 level. Broad learned the majority of his adult cricket at Melton Mowbray club Egerton Park who also produced England seamer Tim Munton. He played for your club in the era of 9%u201319 in his final two seasons he opened the batting with fellow Leicestershire player Matthew Boyce and spearheaded the attack. He was awarded with the Leicestershire Young Cricketers Batsman Award in 1996

If the base note to England's enduringly traumatic tour of Australia has been a sense of a public crumpling under pressure, a failure of basic mettle, then there is perhaps something a little paradoxical in Stuart Broad's – whisper it – increasingly cordial relations with the previously hostile Australian public

 On 23 August 2006, Broad was contained in the England one-day squad for your one-day internationals against Pakistan, and a few days later was named Young Cricketer of this year with the Cricket Writers' Club.[10] On 28 August, Broad made his first England appearance, within the Twenty20 International against Pakistan. Broad bowled four overs for 35 runs, and took two wickets by 50 percent balls, Shoaib Malik and Younis Khan, and narrowly overlooked a hat-trick, after a lofted shot from Shahid Afridi fell just lacking Kevin Pietersen.[11] On 30 August, he made his ODI debut, choosing a wicket in the first over, in addition to being involved in a last-wicket partnership of 29 with Darren Gough. Within the third ODI on 5 September 2006, Broad once more found himself on the hat-trick with all the wickets of Abdul Razzaq and Kamran Akmal, but again overlooked the third. He bowled ten overs and ended with figures of three for 57 with one maiden.

Broad was excluded from the squad to the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy as well as the 2006-07 Commonwealth Bank Series. However, he was called up for that finals from the latter following injuries to Jon Lewis and Chris Tremlett. He has also been called into England's squad instead partway over the 2007 World Cup. He finished the tournament by scoring the winning runs in England's final match from the West Indies. Broad also featured within the ODI squad at the conclusion of free airline Indies tour of England in summer 2007, taking three for twenty within the first match to take England to a 1%u20130 lead inside the ODI series.

PONTING'S CRICKET CARRIER

 

Ponting's domestic performances were rewarded as he was selected for that Australian ODI team to try out in the matches inside the 1995 New Zealand Centenary quadrangular tournament in New Zealand, which also included South Africa and India. Ponting made his debut against Africa at number six in the batting order. He scored one from six balls, as Australia successfully chased South Africa's target on a difficult batting track. Australia secured another victory inside their next match, on this occasion against Nz in Auckland, where Ponting scored 10 not out, after coming to wicket late from the innings. His highest series score started in the 3rd International where Australia lost to India in Dunedin. Ponting was promoted to 3 within the batting order and responded by scoring 62 from 92 balls. The innings was scored with out a responded by scoring 62 from 92 balls. The innings was scored with out a boundary and took it's origin from "deft placement and judicious running." Losing still did not stop Australia from appearing within the final against New Zealand in Auckland. Ponting returned to number six and was seven not out once the winning runs were scored.He finished the series with 80 runs at 40 and strike rate of 71.42 runs per hundred ball

PONTING LIFTS 3 WORLD CUPS

 

Competition        Test                  ODI                FC                LA

Matches            168                    375                 289                 456

Runs scored      13,378            13,704            24,150            16,363

Batting average  51.85              42.03            55.90                  41.74

100s/50s           41/62               30/82             82/106               34/99

Top score          257                164                 257                         164