Sri Lanka will be looking for the elusive test match and series win when they tour India for a Three Test, five ODI and Two T20 match series from November to December 2009. The team arrive in India on November 8th for the 55-day tour.
Australia Cricket Players
Stuart MacGill
Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill (b. 25 February 1971, Mount Lawley, Perth) is a right-arm leg spin bowler of the Australian cricket team. Despite being credited with having the best strike rate of any modern leg-spin bowler, MacGill has not had a regular place in the Australian Test team, often being overlooked due to the dominance of Shane Warne in the position of sole spinner, for most of his career. He was recently brought back in 2007 after the retirement of Warne, as spinner for the first Test against the Sri Lankan cricket team.
MacGill is noted as an intellectual type, having once read 24 books on a tour of Pakistan and at odds with his other beer-drinking team-mates, MacGill is a keen wine connoisseur.
MacGill began his first class career in the 1993/94 season playing for Western Australia. He managed just one game, against New South Wales at the SCG but didn't take a wicket and didn't play again for over two years.[2] When he returned in 1996/97 it was for New South Wales and he took 6 wickets in the match, the first being Darren Berry.[3] He finished the season with 16 wickets at 37.00.
1997/98 was the breakthrough season for MacGill, he made his his Test debut and finished with 35 wickets at 28.14 in the Sheffield Shield
In the 3rd Test against South Africa at Adelaide in January 1998, MacGill was selected as Australia's second spinner and helped them to draw the match with 3 for 22 in the second innings.[6] He next appeared in October of that year for a tour of Pakistan, finishing the series as Australia's top wicket taker with 15 victims at 27.46
Full name : Adam Craig Gilchris
Born : April 10, 1984, Woodville, Adelaide, South Australia
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm offbreak
Test debut : Bangladesh v Australia at Chittagong (CDS), Apr 16-20, 2006
ODI debut : Bangladesh v Australia at Chittagong (CDS), Apr 23, 2006
The 2009 ICC World Twenty20 is a Twenty20 cricket tournament scheduled to take place in England in June of 2009. It will be the second World Twenty20 and will consist of 12 teams, contested by all Test-playing nations plus qualifiers (Ireland, Netherlands and Scotland)
The Champions Twenty20 League, formed with the official sanction of ICC will kick off in October 2008. Eight domestic teams from four nations will participate. Cricket Australia will partner the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) and Cricket South Africa (CSA). The champion team in the Champions Twenty20 league will get US $5 million, which is the highest ever prize money for a cricket event.
