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Aravinda de Silva

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Deshabandu Pinnaduwage Aravinda de Silva (අරවින්ද ද සිල්වා; born 17 October 1965) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and former captain. [1]

68 relations: Abdul Qadir, Arjuna Ranatunga, Auckland cricket team, Australia national cricket team, Ball tampering, Bangladesh national cricket team, Batting (cricket), Benson & Hedges Cup, Carl Hooper, Chandika Hathurusingha, Clive Lloyd, Colombo, County Championship, Cricket, D. S. Senanayake College, Darrell Hair, David Warner (cricketer), Dayasiri Jayasekara, Deshabandu, Dorset, Eden Gardens, England cricket team, ESPNcricinfo, First-class cricket, Glenn McGrath, Imran Khan, India national cricket team, International Cricket Council, Isipathana College, Javagal Srinath, Kent County Cricket Club, Kolkata, Lancashire County Cricket Club, List A cricket, Lord's, Mark Ramprakash, Mark Taylor (cricketer), Moratuwa, Muttiah Muralitharan, Nasser Hussain, National Cricket League, Nondescripts Cricket Club, Off break, One Day International, Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium, Pakistan national cricket team, Rediff.com, Ricky Ponting, Sachin Tendulkar, Sharjah, ..., Sherborne, Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka national cricket team, St George's Park, Port Elizabeth, Sunil Gavaskar, Test cricket, Throwing (cricket), Umpire (cricket), Viv Richards, Waqar Younis, Wasim Akram, Wisden 100, Wisden Cricketers of the Year, Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, 1996 Cricket World Cup, 2003 Cricket World Cup, 2011 Cricket World Cup, 2016 ICC World Twenty20. Expand index (18 more) »

Abdul Qadir

Abdul Qadir, Abd al-Qadir or Abdulkadir (عبد القادر.) is a male Muslim given name.

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Arjuna Ranatunga

Deshamanya Arjuna Ranatunga (අර්ජුන රණතුංග; born 1 December 1963) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and 1996 Cricket World Cup winning captain for Sri Lanka.

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Auckland cricket team

The Auckland Aces represent the Auckland region and are one of six New Zealand domestic first class cricket teams.

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Australia national cricket team

The Australia national cricket team is the joint oldest team in Test cricket history, having played in the first ever Test match in 1877.

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Ball tampering

In the sport of cricket, ball tampering is an action in which a fielder illegally alters the condition of the ball.

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Bangladesh national cricket team

The Bangladesh national cricket team (বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় ক্রিকেট দল), nicknamed The Tigers, is administered by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB).

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Batting (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, batting is the act or skill of hitting the cricket ball with a cricket bat to score runs or prevent the loss of one's wicket.

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Benson & Hedges Cup

The Benson & Hedges Cup was a one-day cricket competition for first-class counties in England and Wales that was held from 1972 to 2002, one of cricket's longest sponsorship deals.

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Carl Hooper

Carl Llewellyn Hooper (born 15 December 1966) is a former West Indian cricket player and a former captain of Tests and ODIs.

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Chandika Hathurusingha

Upul Chandika Hathurusingha (උපුල් චන්දික හතුරුසිංහ; born 13 September 1968) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer and current head coach of the Sri Lanka national cricket team.

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Clive Lloyd

Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 31 August 1944) is a former West Indies cricketer.

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Colombo

Colombo (translit,; translit) is the commercial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka.

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County Championship

The County Championship, currently known as the Specsavers County Championship for sponsorship reasons, is the domestic first-class cricket competition in England and Wales and is organised by the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB).

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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D. S. Senanayake College

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Darrell Hair

Darrell Bruce Hair (born 30 September 1952) is an Australian former Test match cricket umpire, from New South Wales.

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David Warner (cricketer)

David Andrew Warner (born 27 October 1986) is an Australian international cricketer and a former captain of the Australian national team in Limited overs cricket.

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Dayasiri Jayasekara

Jayasekara Pathirannahelage Dayasiri Pathmakumara Jayasekara (දයාසිරි ජයසේකර) (born on 12 June 1969) is a Sri Lankan politician, and a singer.

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Deshabandu

Deshabandhu (දේශබන්දු; translit) is the third highest national honour awarded in Sri Lanka.

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Dorset

Dorset (archaically: Dorsetshire) is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast.

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Eden Gardens

Eden Gardens is a cricket ground in Kolkata, India established in 1864.

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England cricket team

The England cricket team represents England and Wales (and, until 1992, also Scotland) in international cricket.

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ESPNcricinfo

ESPNcricinfo (formerly known as Cricinfo or CricInfo) is a sports news website exclusively for the game of cricket.

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First-class cricket

First-class cricket is an official classification of the highest-standard international or domestic matches in the sport of cricket.

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Glenn McGrath

Glenn Donald McGrath AM (born 9 February 1970) is an Australian former international cricketer, who played all formats of the game for fourteen years.

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Imran Khan

Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi PP, HI (born 5 October 1952) is the Chairman of Pakistan Movement of Justice and the candidate for the Prime Minister of Pakistan in the upcoming Pakistani general election, 2018.

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India national cricket team

The India national cricket team, also known as Team India and Men in Blue, is governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), and is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) status.

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International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council (ICC) is the international governing body of cricket.

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Isipathana College

Isipathana College (formerly known as Greenlands College) is a National school for boys located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Javagal Srinath

Javagal Srinath (born 31 August 1969), is a former Indian cricketer and currently an ICC Match Referee.

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Kent County Cricket Club

Kent County Cricket Club is one of the eighteen first-class county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales.

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Kolkata

Kolkata (also known as Calcutta, the official name until 2001) is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lancashire County Cricket Club

Lancashire Cricket Club, one of eighteen first-class county clubs in the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales, represents the historic county of Lancashire.

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List A cricket

List A cricket is a classification of the limited-overs (one-day) form of the sport of cricket.

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Lord's

Lord's Cricket Ground, commonly known simply as Lord's, is a cricket venue in St John's Wood, London.

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Mark Ramprakash

Mark Ravin Ramprakash, MBE (born 5 September 1969) is a former English cricketer.

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Mark Taylor (cricketer)

Mark Anthony Taylor AO (born 27 October 1964) is a former Australian cricketer; currently a Cricket Australia director and Nine Network commentator.

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Moratuwa

Moratuwa is a large suburb of Colombo city, on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka, near Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia.

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Muttiah Muralitharan

Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan (முத்தையா முரளீதரன், මුත්තයියා මුරලිදරන්; also spelt Muralidaran; born 1972) is a former Sri Lankan cricketer who was rated the greatest Test match bowler ever by Wisden Cricketers' Almanack in 2002.

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Nasser Hussain

Nasser Hussain OBE (born 28 March 1968) is a former English cricketer who captained the England cricket team between 1999 and 2003, with his overall international career extending from 1990 to 2004.

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National Cricket League

The National Cricket League is the oldest domestic first class cricket competition in Bangladesh.

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Nondescripts Cricket Club

Nondescripts Cricket Club (also known by its initials NCC) is a first-class cricket team based in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Off break

Off break is the type of delivery in the sport of cricket.

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One Day International

A One Day International (ODI) is a form of limited overs cricket, played between two teams with international status, in which each team faces a fixed number of overs, usually 50.

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Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium

Paikiasothy Saravanamuttu Stadium (Tamil: பாக்கியசோதி சரவணமுத்து மைதானம், පාකියසොති සර්වනමූත්තු ක්‍රීඩාංගනය) Colombo Oval or P. Sara or simply PSS is a multi-purpose stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

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Pakistan national cricket team

The Pakistan national cricket team (پاکستان قومی کرکٹ ٹیم), popularly referred to as the Shaheens (شاہینز), Green Shirts and Men in Green, is administered by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

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Rediff.com

Rediff.com is an Indian news, information, entertainment and shopping web portal, founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT".

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Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting, AO (born 19 December 1974), is a former Australian international cricketer, and two-time World Cup winning captain in 2003 and 2007, widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

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Sachin Tendulkar

Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar (born 24 April 1973) is a former Indian international cricketer and a former captain of the Indian national team, regarded as one of the greatest batsmen of all time.

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Sharjah

Sharjah (الشارقة; Gulf Arabic: aš-šārja) is the third largest and third most populous city in the United Arab Emirates, forming part of the Dubai-Sharjah-Ajman metropolitan area.

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Sherborne

Sherborne is a market town and civil parish in north west Dorset, in South West England.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka (Sinhala: ශ්‍රී ලංකා; Tamil: இலங்கை Ilaṅkai), officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea.

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Sri Lanka national cricket team

The Sri Lanka national cricket team, nicknamed The Lions, is a full member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) with Test, One-Day International (ODI) and T20 International status.

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St George's Park, Port Elizabeth

St George's Park (est. 1859) is a multi-use park in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

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Sunil Gavaskar

Sunil Manohar "Sunny" Gavaskar (born 10 July 1949) is a former Indian international cricketer who played from the early 1970s to late 1980s for the Bombay cricket team and Indian national team.

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Test cricket

Test cricket is the longest form of the sport of cricket and is considered its highest standard.

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Throwing (cricket)

In the sport of cricket, throwing, commonly referred to as chucking, is an illegal bowling action which occurs when a bowler straightens the bowling arm when delivering the ball.

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Umpire (cricket)

In cricket, an umpire (from the Old French nompere meaning not a peer, i.e. not a member of one of the teams, impartial) is a person who has the authority to make decisions about events on the cricket field, according to the Laws of Cricket.

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Viv Richards

Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards, KNH, OBE (born 7 March 1952), known as Viv Richards, is a former Antiguan cricketer, who represented the West Indies at test and international levels.

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Waqar Younis

Waqar Younis Maitla (وقار یونس; born 16 November 1971) is a former Pakistani cricketer and a former Test and ODI captain for Pakistan.

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Wasim Akram

Wasim Akram (وسیم اکرم|; born 3 June 1966) is a former Pakistani first-class cricketer, cricket commentator and television personality.

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Wisden 100

The Wisden 100 is a set of lists created by Wisden which attempted to objectively rate the 100 best individual innings performances in Test and One Day International cricket in each of the disciplines of batting and bowling.

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Wisden Cricketers of the Year

The Wisden Cricketers of the Year are cricketers selected for the honour by the annual publication Wisden Cricketers' Almanack, based primarily on their "influence on the previous English season".

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Wisden Cricketers' Almanack

Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (or simply Wisden or colloquially "the Bible of Cricket") is a cricket reference book published annually in the United Kingdom.

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1996 Cricket World Cup

The 1996 Cricket World Cup, also called the Wills World Cup 1996 after its official sponsors, ITC's Wills brand, was the sixth Cricket World Cup, organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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2003 Cricket World Cup

The 2003 Cricket World Cup (known officially as ICC Cricket World Cup 2003) was the eighth Cricket World Cup, organized by the International Cricket Council (ICC).

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2011 Cricket World Cup

The 2011 ICC Cricket World Cup (officially known as ICC Cricket World Cup 2011) was the tenth Cricket World Cup.

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2016 ICC World Twenty20

The 2016 ICC World Twenty20 was the sixth edition of the ICC World Twenty20, the world championship of Twenty20 International cricket.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aravinda_de_Silva

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