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By- LAKSHAY & PRABHJEET RYAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

INDIA

SACHIN TENDULKAR Sachin Tendulkar was born

24 April 1973 ,he is a former Indian cricketer  and , captain widely regarded to be one of the greatest cricketers of all time and by many as the greatest batsman of all time . He took up cricket at the age of eleven, made his Test debut on 15 November 1989 against Pakistan in Karachi at the age of sixteen, and went on to represent Mumbai domestically and India internationally for close to twenty-four years. He is the only player to have scored one hundred international centuries, the first batsman to score a double century in a One Day Inter national cricket.

MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI

Mahendra Singh Dhoni , commonly known as M. S. Dhoni ; born 7 July 1981) is an Indian cricketer and the current captain of the Indian national cricket team in limited- overs formats. An attacking right-handed middle-order batsman and wicket-keeper, he is widely regarded as one of the greatest finishers in limited- overs cricket . He made his One Day International(ODI) debut in December 2004 against Bangladesh, and played his first Test a year later against Sri Lanka.

SANIA MIRZA

Sania Mirza  Was born on 15 November 1986.She is an Indian professional tennis player and the reigning women's doubles Wimbledon Doubles Champion and the current world No. 1 in Doubles rankings. From 2003 until her retirement from singles in 2013, she was ranked by the Women's Tennis Association as India's No. 1 player, both in singles and doubles. Mirza is the most successful female Indian tennis player in history.

SAINA NEHWAL

Saina Nehwal ; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian badminton player who is currently ranked No. 2 in the world by Badminton World Federation Women's Singles 2. She is the first Indian to win a medal in Badminton at the Olympics. She achieved this feat by winning the Bronze medal at the London Olympics 2012 on 4 August 2012. She is also the first Indian after Prakash Padukone and the first Indian woman to become world number 1. Besides these, she is the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships and was also the first Indian to win a Super Series tournament, by clinching the Indonesia Open on 21 June 2009. Saina is supported by the Olympic Gold Quest.

AUSTRALIA

SHANE WATSON Shane Robert Watson (born

17 June 1981) is a professional cricketer from Australia. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast medium bowler.

He debuted for the Australian cricket team in 2002, playing his first One Day International against South Africa. While he has become a regular member of the one-day squad, Watson only reached his 50th Test Match for Australia in the fifth Ashes match in January 2014, having debuted against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2005. Despite being allocated to be Australia's designated Test all-rounder, injuries have often prevented him from claiming his position in the Test team. 

MICHAEL CLARKE Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981) is

an Australian Test cricketer and current Australian cricket team  Test Michael John Clarke (born 2 April 1981) is an Australian Test cricketer and current Australian cricket team Test captain. Under his captaincy Australia defeated New Zealand in the final of the recent ICC Cricket World cup at the MCG. He was also the Australian ODI cricket captain until his retirement from ODI cricket after the 2015 Cricket World Cup . His ODI shirt number of 23 was passed on to him by Shane Warne after his international retirement. Nicknamed "Pup", he is a right-handed middle-order batsman, an occasional left-arm orthodox spin bowler and also a slip catcher. He represents New South Wales at a domestic level. In January 2011, Clarke stood down as captain of the Australian Twenty20 cricket team to concentrate on his Test and ODI performance. On 22 November 2012, Clarke scored a double century at the Adelaide Oval, making him the only Test batsman to ever achieve four double centuries in a calendar year. 

ANASTASIA RODIONOVA Anastasia Rodionova born

12 May 1982 in Tambov is a Russian-born Australian professional tennis player.

Rodionova has won eight doubles titles on the WTA tour, as well as eight singles and thirteen doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 16 August 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 62. On 8 September 2014, she peaked at world number 15 in the doubles rankings.

Rodionova's greatest career achievements have come in doubles, having reached the finals of the Mixed Doubles event at the 2003 Wimbledon Championships with Andy Ram of Israel.

ARINA RODIONOVA Arina Ivanovna

Rodionova was born 15 December 1989 in Tambov is a Russian -born Australian professional tennis player.

Rodionova has won seven singles and twenty-four doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 24 May 2010, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 157. On 3 November 2014, she peaked at world number 65 in the doubles rankings.

Rodionova's elder sister Anastasia is also a tennis professional, and the two sisters have intermittently contested doubles tournaments with modest success.

CHINA

ZOU SHIMINGZou Shiming was born on 18

May 1981) He is a Chinese professional boxer who is the current WBO International Flyweight champion.He is known for being China's most successful amateur boxer of all time, winning three amateur world titles at the 2005 World Amateur Boxing Championships, 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championship and 2011 World Amateur Boxing Championships , and winning three consecutive Olympic medals: bronze in the 2004 Summer Olympics, gold in the 2008 Summer Olympics, and gold in the 2012 Summer Olympics, all in the light flyweight division.

LI NA Li Na (born 26 February 1982) is

a Chinese  former professional tennis  player, who achieved a career-high ranking of world No. 2 on the WTA Tour  on 17 February 2014, but retired from the sport seven months later due to a chronic left knee injury that had kept her out of the game for many years previously. Over the course of her career, Li won nine WTA  singles titles, including two Grand Slam  singles titles at the 2011 French Open and 2014 Australian Open . Li's rise to prominence came after those victories, which made her the first and only Grand Slam singles champion from Asia. Prior to this, she had already become the first player representing an Asian country to appear in a Grand Slam singles final, a milestone she achieved at the 2011 Australian Open .

Zhang junZhang Jun was born November

26, 1977 in Suzhou , Jiangsu is a former male badminton player from the People's Republic of China . He is now a coach with the Chinese national team following his retirement from international play.

As a doubles specialist, the solidly built Zhang Jun won several international men's doubles titles with compatriot Zhang Wei including the Swiss (1998), China(2001), and Thailand  (2005) Opens. However, the majority of his titles, and the most prestigious ones, came in mixed doubles with the formidable Gao Ling.

LO YI TING

Lo Yi Ting , is a Hong Kong  basketball player, currently playing for CBA league club Fujian Xun xing. He is the fourth Hong Kong player to play in the Chinese league. Lo Yi Ting started playing basketball when he was 8 years old and by 12 he was selected in the Nike League in Hong Kong. He went to Diocesan Boys' School and became a member of the school team. He played in Hong Kong's Jia Yi Basketball league as a high schooler in 2004.

UNITED KINGDOM

AUDLEY HARRISON

Audley Harrison was born on 26 October 1971 is a retired British professional boxer  from Harlesden, England who fought in the heavyweight division . At the 2000 Olympics  in Sydney he became the first British fighter to win an Olympic gold medal in the superheavyweight division.

Harrison turned professional 2001 after signing a contract with BBC Sport. Harrison had 17 fights on the network before BBC Sport pulled all boxing from their programming.

In October 2009, he won the Prizefighter  tournament. He became European  heavyweight champion after knocking out Michael Sprott  in April 2010.In February 2013, Harrison won the Prizefighter tournament for the second time becoming the first fighter to do so.

KEVIN PETER PIETERSON Kevin Peter Pietersen wasborn

27 June 1980) is a South African-born English cricketer . He is a right-handed batsman  and occasional off spin  bowler who formerly played for England and currently plays for Surrey as well as Twenty20 , in the Caribbean Premier League for St Lucia Zouks and in the Big Bash League  for Melbourne Stars .

Pietersen was born in Pietermaritzburg , Natal Province , South Africa. He made his first-class  debut for Natal in 1997 before moving to England, after voicing his displeasure at the racial quota system in place in South Africa. Having an English mother made him eligible to play for England and after serving a qualifying period of four years playing at county level, he was called up almost immediately into the national side.

HEATHER MIRIAM WATSON

Heather Miriam Watson (born 19 May 1992) is a British female tennis player and the British No 1. Born in Guernsey , she trained and lived at the Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Florida, United States. On 16 July 2012 Watson became the top-ranked British senior woman player on the WTA rankings, overtaking Anne Keoth .

On 14 October 2012, Watson won her first WTA singles title with a win over Chang Kai-chen of Taiwan in the final of the Japan Open, becoming the first British female to win a WTA singles title since Sara Gomer in 1988.

In her junior career, Watson won the US Open and gold at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games .She had been as high as No. 3 in the world on the ITF Junior Circuit .

CHARLOTTE MARIE EDWARDS

Charlotte Marie Edwards was born on 17 December 1979 ,is an English professional cricketer and current captain of the England women's team. She was born in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire . Edwards is the only female cricketer to score 2,000 runs in T20 Internationals.

At the time when she made her England debut in 1995, she became the youngest player ever to play for England .

In 1997, she scored 12 centuries, including one off 118 balls against the touring South Africans. The day before her 18th birthday, she scored a then-record ODI score of 173 not out in a World Cup match against Ireland. In 1998–99, she scored her maiden Test hundred against India, but, while still scoring runs, fell below expectations.