Dinesh Karthik

Full name Krishnakumar Dinesh Karthik


Born 1 June 1985
Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India

Batting style Right-handed

Role Wicket-keeper-Batsman

National side India


Test debut  3 November 2004 v Australia

ODI debut 5 September 2004 v England

Yusuf Pathan

Full name Yusuf Khan Pathan


Born 18 November 1982
Baroda (now Vadodara), Gujarat, India

Nickname lethal weapon

Height 1.855 m (6 ft 1.0 in)

Batting style Right-handed

Bowling style Right arm off break

Role All-rounder

National side India


ODI debut 10 June 2008 v Pakistan

T20 24 September 2007 v Pakistan

Yusuf Khan Pathan (born 17 November 1982 in Baroda) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a hard hitting right-handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer. Though younger to Yusuf, it was Irfan who entered the Indian team first.

Irfan Pathan

Full name Irfan Khan Pathan


Born 27 October 1984
Baroda, Gujarat, India

Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

Batting style Left-hand bat

Bowling style Left arm medium fast

Role All rounder

Robin Uthappa

Full name Robin Venu Uthappa


Born 11 November 1985
Kodagu, Karnataka, India

Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)

Batting style Right-handed

Bowling style Right arm medium

Role Batsman, occasional wicket-keeper

National side India

ODI debut 15 April 2006 v England

T20 debut  13 September 2007 v Scotland
His father is Venu Uthappa, an international hockey referee from Kodagu, Karnataka, and mother Roselyn is a home maker and hails from Kozhikode, Kerala. He made his One Day International debut in the seventh and final match of the English tour of India in April 2006. He had a successful debut, making 86 as an opening batsman before being run out. It was the highest score for any Indian debutant in a limited overs match [1]. He is also named 'The Walking Assassin" for his tactic of charging the bowler. He played an important role in India's win at the ICC World T20 World Cup 2007. However, he then suffered a form slump and has not played for India since mid-2008 and was relegated to a Grade C contract.

R. P. Singh

Full name Rudra Pratap Singh


Born 6 December 1985
Rae Bareli, Uttar Pradesh, India

Batting style Right-handed

Bowling style Left arm fast-medium

Role Bowler

National side India

Praveen Kumar

Full name Praveen kumar


Born 2 October 1986
Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India

Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)

Batting style Right-hand batsman

Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Role Bowler

National side India

ODI debut 18 November 2007 v Pakistan
Kumar plays his domestic cricket for Uttar Pradesh. He made his first-class debut in 2004 and enjoyed success at this level by taking 126 wickets in 25 matches at an average of just 21.50. He has also excelled at the shorter version of the game at the list A level, taking 67 wickets in 39 matches at an average of 22.05.
Although he was not part of the player auction, Praveen played for Royal Challengers Bangalore in BCCI's Indian Premier League in the inaugural Twenty20 cricket tournament. His services were bought for 300,000.00 USD. Because of his age, Kumar was counted towards Bangalore's U-22 quota. He bowled well for Bangalore, even though the team did not reach the semi finals.

He became the first bowler to claim a hat-trick in IPL3. He took the wickets of Damein Martyn, Narwal and Dogra to reach his hat-trick. The match was against Rajasthan Royals on 18-March-2010

Suresh Raina

Suresh Raina
Born 27 November 1986
Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh, India

Nickname Sanu

Batting style Left-handed

Bowling style Right arm off break

Role Batsman

National side India

ODI debut  30 July 2005 v Sri Lanka

T20 1 December 2006 v South Africa

The youngest in a family of five children, Raina decided to take up cricket seriously in 1999, and moved from his home town of Ghaziabad, near New Delhi to Lucknow, the capital of Uttar Pradesh, to attend the specialist government Sports College. He rose to become the captain of the Uttar Pradesh U-16s came to prominence amongst Indian selectors in 2002, when he was selected at the age of 15 and a half years for the U-19 tour to England, where he made a pair of half-centuries in the U-19 Test matches.He toured Sri Lanka later that year with the U-17 team. He made his Ranji Trophy debut for Uttar Pradesh against Assam in February 2003 at the age of 16, but did not play another match until the following season. In late 2003, he toured Pakistan for the U-19 Asian ODI Championship before being selected for the 2004 U-19 World Cup, where he scored three half centuries, including a 90 scored off only 38 balls. He was then awarded a Border-Gavaskar scholarship to train at the Australian Cricket Academy and in early 2005, he made his first-class limited overs debut, and scored 645 runs that season at an average of 53.75.He was selected to participate in the Challenger Series in early 2005 ,and after injury to Sachin Tendulkar and suspension to captain Sourav Ganguly, Raina was selected for the Indian Oil Cup 2005 in Sri Lanka .