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
Jason Gillespie
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 2002
Jason Gillespie is a descendant of the Kamilaroi people of Indigenous Australians, and is the first acknowledged Aboriginal person to become a Test cricketer. Jason married his wife Anna in 2003. The couple have since had a son, Jackson, in February 2006.
Gillespie has taken 259 wickets in 71 Tests (an average of 26.08) making him Australia's fifth-highest wicket-taker.
In terms of pace, he bowled in the mid 140's-150 km/h mark in his early career up to about 2001. When he made his comebaack in the late 2000, early 2001 season, he bowled more consistently, but at a speed of about mid-130's-low-140's in terms of kilometres per hour. Consistent injuries forced Gillespie to operate from a shorter run-up and therefore reduce his pace.
Gillespie seldom dominates a series (the most wickets he has taken in a series is 20), but he has had considerable success against Sachin Tendulkar. However, he unexpectedly struggled badly in the 2005 Ashes series, taking just three wickets at a cost of 300 runs and being dropped after the third Test.
Since the Ashes series Gillespie has taken 40 wickets for South Australia this Pura Cup Season (2005/2006). He was the 4th highest wicket taker in the competition, with an average (21.27) far below the other leading wicket takers. His best figures came against Victoria where he took 7-35.
Full name : Jason Neil Gillespie
Born : April 19, 1975, Darlinghurst, Sydney, New South Wales
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm fast
Test debut : Australia v West Indies at Sydney - Nov 29-Dec 3, 1996
Last Test : Bangladesh v Australia at Chittagong (CDS) - Apr 16-20, 2006
ODI debut : Sri Lanka v Australia at Colombo (RPS) - Aug 30, 1996
Last ODI : England v Australia at The Oval - Jul 12, 2005
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.
