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Following is an Itsonlycricket.com exclusive fun series. Just identify the following cricketers in pictures, or learn more.

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Great Talent come in small packages! only 5 feet 5 inches in height, this number 3 bat plays all the shots in a batsman's book and has middle name Ronald. They say Coach Duncan Fletcher found this kid and insisted he played international cricket at a fairly young age.. His recent form has been very good too, proving fletcher was correct!


Trivia/Hint : He's the only 6th England cricketer to score a half-century in both of his test & ODI debut.


Options : Alaister Cook, Paul Collingwood, Ed Joyce, Ravi Bopara or Ian Bell.


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Batsman are not allowed to touch the ball (with hands) once they've played their stroke. Confusing as it may sound - only 7 batsmen in the history of test cricket has been dismissed "Handling the ball".. batsman on the right is one of them!

No points guessing he's an England cricketer who, after playing 86 One day Internationals for his country - couldn't score a century (highest of 90) and finally lost his place in limited over cricket. He still captains the test team, and won the Ashes series in 2005 for England after a gap of almost 20 years!


Trivia/Hints : Nickname Virgil, 6 feet 2 inches in height and he has also writen a book called "A year in the sun".

Options : Graham Gooch, Mike Gatting, Nasser Hussain, Michael Vaughan, Paul Collingwood.


III
For some bowlers, their swing is the main weapon. When bowl swings - they're are almost lethal and when it doesn't - they're a headache to their captain! This 28 year old pakistani swing bowler from Khanewal in Punjab district has done his hard work in domestic cricket & now represents his country frequently, specially in Day-Night ODIs.


Trivia/Hint : Usually batting at number 11 for Pakistan, this right arm bowler has a batting average of 21.12!!


Options : Rao Iftikhar Anjum, Yasir Arafat, Rana Naved-ul-Hasan, Mohammad sami, Abdur Razzaq.


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Cricket is a religion in Pakistan, so captaining the national team automatically becomes a hot job rarely someone would reject.. this cricketer did that!

Trivia/Hint : early on in his career, he took record 4 catches as a substitute against Bangladesh in a test match.


Options : Misbah-ul-Haq, Yousuf Youhana, Younis Khan, Faisal Iqbal or Salim Mallik.


V
Man in picture below made one of greatest comebacks made in International cricket ever, and now he holds the record for highest score by an Indian in test match cricket.

Option : Vinod Kambli, Yuvraj Singh, Sourav Ganguly, Gautam Gambhir or Parthiv Patel.

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