Yuvraj Singh indian vice captain - achivements

Full Name: Yuvraj Singh

Born: December 12, 1981, Chandigarh

Major teams: India, Punjab, Yorkshire

Batting style: Left-hand bat

Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox

Father : former Indian fast bowler Yograj Singh

Then Yuvraj played a pivotal role in India's dream run in the Natwest Series that culminated in the memorable final triumph against England thanks to a glorious partnership between Yuvraj and Mohammad Kaif. After waiting in the wings for 15 months, Yuvraj made his Test debut against New Zealand in 2003 and notched up a century against Pakistan in only his third outing.

His Test debut at his home ground Mohali, against the touring Kiwis was not a memorable one. But he soon made up with a century against Pakistan in his second Test at Lahore. He has many times been plagued by poor form. But the Indian captain, Sourav Ganguly, has always had confidence in his players, and so also with Yuvraj.

He scored his first Test century in a losing effort against Pakistan in the second Test at Lahore. When Ganguly returned for the third Test, Akash Chopra was dropped and it appeared that the Indian selectors wanted to give him a regular place in the team.

Yuvraj hits six sixes in an over against England DURBAN, September 19. 2007: Yuvraj Singh smashed fast bowler Stuart Broad for six sixes in an over as India piled up 218-4 in a must-win match against England in the Twenty20 world championships on Wednesday.

ball-by-ball commentary of six sixes in an over.........

18.1 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, that's out the ground, super shot over cow corner and it just kept going up.

18.2 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, now that really is sweet, no more than a dismissive flick off his legs, swatting a fly, and the ball arcs deep into the crowd beyond backward square leg. The dodgy TV measurement says that's 111 yards but as it landed outside the ground how do they know? They guess that's how.

18.3 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, he's hitting them everywhere, he steps to leg and smashes the ball over extra cover and it keeps on traveling. The fireworks start on top of the scoreboard and they've been going off in the middle for some time.

18.4 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, Shiver me timbers! Broad goes round the wicket, bowls a filthy wide full toss and Yuvraj steers it over backward point and it clears the rope again.

18.5 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, down on one knee and larruped over midwicket, that one was more nine iron, it went into the night sky and dropped with a thud in the jubilant crowd. England have a team meeting.Broad looks quizzical and miserable. Can he, can Yuvraj do it. Broad looks like a man who knows he is about to be mauled again.

18.6 Broad to Yuvraj Singh, SIX, and he has, Yuvraj leans back and smacks that over wide mid-on. It was the maximum from the moment it left that bat and the crowd was roaring as it flew. The left-hander's feat in the 19th over gave him the fastest 50 in the tournament off just 12 balls.

Saurav Ganguly Ex Indian Captain - biography

Famous picture of Saurav Ganguly at Lords.

Saurav Chandidas Ganguly, born 8 July 1972, in Calcutta, West Bengal, was the captain of Indian national cricket team. He is ambidextrous, a left-handed batsman and a right-handed bowler.He made his ODI debut in 1992 but his talent was noticed in India's 1996 tour of England when he scored centuries in both innings of his debut test match (an third test of the series).

He became only the third cricketer ever to score a century in his first two innings after Lawrence Rowe and Alvin Kallicharan. He scored 183 against Sri Lanka at Taunton in the 1999 cricket World Cup, the highest by an Indian in World Cup cricket.

Sourav Chandidas Ganguly also known as "Dada" is an Indian cricketer. He has led India to the World Cup 2003 finals, and holds the Indian captaincy record for the most Test victories. Ganguly is a left-handed batsman and a right-handed medium-pace bowler. He is a natural right-hander, but converted to the southpaw stance at a young age.

Ganguly is widely credited with grooming a bunch of talented youngsters like Yuvraj Singh, Virender Sehwag and Harbhajan Singh. Ganguly led India all the way to the World Cup final in 2003 and later that year, in Australia, an imperious hundred at Brisbane set the tone for the series-where India gave the mighty Aussies a good run for their money.

He is the third player to cross 10,000 ODI runs and so far the fastest one to do so, after Sachin Tendulkar and Inzamam Ul Haq, and reached 6000, 7000, 8000 and 9000 ODI runs milestones in least number of matches played.

SAURAV GANGULY the perfect example of the induvidual whith a great determination,he was the one who took the responsibilityof leading the indian team when everything was falling apart,he was the one who made the new indian cricket team.

Records

Test:
Scored a century on Test debut
Scored a century in each of his first two Tests
Captained India in a record 49 Test matches
Led India to a record 21 Test wins
India's most successful Test captain

ODIs:
Second fastest player to reach 10,000 ODI runs

Fastest to reach multiples of 7,000, 8,000, 9,000 ODI Runs

Holds the record, shared with Mahendra Singh Dhoni, for the second highest score by an Indian cricketer in an ODI — 183, against Sri Lanka in 1999.

Held the record, shared with Sachin Tendulkar, for the highest first wicket partnership for India in a ODI match, 258, against Kenya in 2001. This record was bettered by Sri Lankan opening pair of Jayasuriya and Tharanga in 2006 at Headingly.

Was involved in the First 300 run ODI partnership with Rahul Dravid

He is also the only player to win 4 consecutive man of the match awards in ODIs.
India's most successful ODI captain.

6th on the all time list with 30 man of the match awards (Sachin Tendulkar leads with 52 awards in 369 matches)

First Indian to Score a ODI Century Against Australia in Australia

Mahedra Singh Dhoni- Indian Captain- facts

Name : Mahendra Singh Dhoni

Nickname : Mahi

Father : Pan Singh ( junior management positions in Mecon )
Mother : Devaki Dev
Sister : Jayanti Gupta
Brother : Narendra.

Date of Birth : 7 July 1981
Place of Birth: Ranchi, Bihar

Nationality : Indian

Role: Captain of the Indian ODI and Twenty20 team and Vice captain of the Test team

Batting style : Right hand batsman

Bowling style : Right arm medium

Field position: Wicketkeeper

Clubs played : Jharkhand

Dhoni was born and brought up in the city of Ranchi. He has two siblings. A sister who is married and a brother who lives in Almora. Almora is a high-lying town at the foot of the Himalaya which is his father's home town. His father's name is Pan Singh and mother's name is Devki Devi.Dhoni, made his debut for Jharkhand in the 1999-2000 season as an eighteen year old. He was noticed by the national team selectors in 2004 after his performances in first class tournaments such as the Deodhar Trophy and the Duleep Trophy.

His one day international debut came after playing five years of first class cricket against Bangladesh On the 23rd of December 2004 Chittagong, Bangladesh. Unfortunately, he was run out on the first ball he faced. It wasn’t a great debut for him where batting is concerned. Luck wasn’t on his side in the first four matches he played. Where as on the fifth match which was played against Pakistan in Visakhapatnam, Dhoni came to the crease one down and managed to score 148 runs from just 123 balls. He hit 15 boundaries and four sixes. He got his first man of the match award that day. Not only a good wicketkeeper but Dhoni proved himself to be a first class batsman too. He is one of the few finest wicketkeeper batsman India has seen after a very long time.

On the 31st of October 2005, Dhoni broke the record of highest runs scored by a wicket keeper by securing 183 runs against Srilanka which was played at Jaipur, beating Adam Gilchrist's former record of 172 runs.

He made his maiden Test century against Pakistan in the 2nd Test at Faisalabad in January 2006, reaching the landmark in just 93 balls. Dhoni's career batting average at the end of the ODI series against Pakistan in Abu Dhabi stands at 52.76, which is the fourth highest for any batsman having scored at least 1,000 runs in one-day internationals, behind Australians, Mike Hussey Michael Bevan, and Englishman Kevin Pietersen.