Ishant Sharma

ISHANT SHARMA

Full name: Ishant Sharma

Born: 2 September 1988 

Nickname: Lambu

Height: 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)

Bowling style: Right arm fast-medium

Ishant Sharma (born 2 September 1988, in Delhi, India), is a right arm fast bowler pacing around 135 km/h (85 mph). He delivered the second fastest ball ever bowled by an Indian bowler when he clocked 152.6 km/h (94.8 mph) at Adelaide against Australia on 17 February 2008. He has a high arm delivery action and is able to move the ball in both directions.

At the age of 18, Sharma was called to join the Indian squad for the tour of South Africa in 2006-07. He has earned the nickname Lambu which refers to his lean and tall build.

Ishant plays for Delhi in domestic cricket and has taken 19 wickets in four first class games, including a five wicket haul against Baroda on the opening day of a match Delhi drew after failing to bowl Baroda out on the fourth day. Ishant toured England with the India Under-19s in 2006 and Pakistan in 2006–07. He has played three youth tests and six youth One Day Internationals for India, and is yet to lose a match for them

In May 2007, he was selected in the test team for the Bangladesh tour and played as a replacement for the fast bowler Munaf Patel. Ishant Sharma got a call back in the team in the 3rd Test Match during Pakistan's tour of India in December 2007 due to injury of India's frontline pacers Zaheer Khan, RP Singh, and Sreesanth. On the batting paradise pitch, Sharma toiled hard for cementing and securing his place permanently in the Indian team while picking 5 wickets during the third test in Bangalore. This performance earned him a place in India's squad for the tour of Australia.

Ishant Sharma was the discovery of the tour Down Under. He troubled some of the best Australian batsmen with his bowling. He took Australian captain Ricky Ponting's wicket three times during the series, and six times in as many Tests, making the Indian press label Ponting as Ishant's bunny. This led Australian skipper Ricky Ponting to admit that Ishant Sharma is dangerous.

On the basis of his strong performance in Australia, Ishant Sharma was lapped up for an astounding winning bid of $950,000 by Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan for his franchise Kolkata Knight Riders in the player auction for the IPL twenty20.This was the highest amount paid for any bowler in IPL tournament.

MF Hussain

MF Hussain



Maqbool Fida Husain, (born September 17, 1915, Pandharpur, Bombay Presidency, British India) popularly known as MF.

According to Forbes magazine, he has been called the "Picasso of India". In 1996 controversy arose over paintings originally painted in the 1970s which were interpreted as anti-Hindu. After legal cases in his home country, he was on a self imposed exile from 2006. In January, 2010, he was offered the citizenship of Qatar, which he accepted.

In 1952, his first solo exhibition was held at Zürich and over the next few years, his work was widely seen in Europe and the U.S. In 1955, he was awarded the prestigious Padma Shree prize by the Government of India.

In 1967, he made his first film, Through the Eyes of a Painter. It was shown at the Berlin Film Festival and won a Golden Bear.

M. F. Husain was a special invitee along with Pablo Picasso at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1971. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1973 and was nominated to the Rajya Sabha in 1986. He was awarded the Padma Vibhushan in 1991.

Husain went on to become the highest paid painter in India. His single canvases have fetched up to $2 million at a recent Christie's auction.

He has also worked on few movies, including Gaja Gamini (with his muse Madhuri Dixit who was the subject of a series of his paintings which he signed Fida). The film was intended as a tribute to Ms. Dixit herself. He went on to make Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities (with Tabu). His autobiography is being made into a movie tentatively titled The Making of the Painter, starring Shreyas Talpade as the young Hussain.

Sania Mirza

SANIA MIRZA

Birth Date: 15 Nov 1986
Birth Place: Mumbai, India
Residence: Hydrabad, India
Nationality: INDIA
Height: 5'7 1/2" (1.53m)
Weight: 130 lbs. (59kg)
Plays: Right Handed (Double Handed Backhand)
Favourite Surface: Hard
Coach: C.G.K. Bhupathi
Interests: Swimming, Music
Favourite player: Steffi Graf

Sania Mirza began her tennis career in 2003. She is known for her powerful forehand ground strokes. Sania was born to Imran Mirza, a sports journalist and his wife Nasima in Mumbai, India. She was brought up in Hyderabad in a religious Muslim . Sania began playing tennis at the age of six, turning professional in 2003. She was trained by her father and other family members. She attended Nasr school in Hyderabad and later graduated from St. Mary's College.

Sania is the highest ranked female tennis player ever from India, with a career high ranking of 27 in singles and 18 in doubles. She is the first Indian woman to be seeded in a Grand Slam tennis tournament. She was the first Indian woman to reach the fourth round of a Grand Slam tournament at the 2005 U.S. Open. In winning, with Mahesh Bhupathi, the mixed doubles event at the 2009 Australian Open, she became the first Indian woman to win a Grand Slam title.

In 2004 she was awarded the Arjuna award by the Indian Government. In 2006, Sania was awarded a Padma Shri, India's fourth highest honor for her achievements as a tennis player.
Mirza received an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters from the MGR Educational and Research Institute University in Chennai on 2008-12-11.

 



The Great Khali (WWE)

 THE GREAT KHALI

 

 

Ring names: Giant Singh, The Great Khali
Real Name: Dalip Singh
Height: 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)
Weight: 420 lb (190 kg)
Born: August 27, 1972 
Native: Himachal Pradesh
Resides: Atlanta , Georgia

The Great Khali, is an Indian professional wrestler, actor, and former powerlifter who won Mr. India in 1995 and 1996. He is currently signed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) on its Raw brand. Before embarking on his professional wrestling career, he was a police officer in the Punjab state police.