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4 Mesmerizing Performances by Cricketers on Their Birthdays

Successful cricketers always dream of playing and giving the best performance for their respective countries. Bringing pride, honor and success to their country not only makes them happy but also fulfill their dream of being a good cricketer. Browsing through the pages of world cricket, there has been instances where cricketers have luckily given awesome performances during their birthdays. 

Fantasy cricket in India is one such platform for the cricket lovers. Here the cricket lovers have been able to extravagantly use their cricketing skills to build up their teams and win lots of money! The incidents where the cricketers have gifted themselves a special day by putting up some memorable performances are quiet a few in the history.  

Let’s check out some of them. While making new team for the online fantasy game, you can recall these fun facts as well.  

Jason Gillespie’s 200 runs 

The year was 2006. This unbelievable stunt took place when Gillespie cam to bat in the third number for Australian team. Unbelievably, he made 201 runs off 425 balls and helped Australia win the match against Bangladesh with 80 runs. 19th April, the day this memorable event took place, was his birthday. People say it was definitely a lucky day for this tall fast bowler of the Australian team. Such miraculous happenings create a huge difference in the field of fantasy cricket.  

World cup century of Ross Taylor 

Getting a century in the world cup is unquestionably an achievement and a dream. Ross Taylor of New Zealand made his dream successful on his 27th birthday during the 2011 ODI world cup between NZ and Pakistan. All fantasy game players were worries because NZ started off bad. They lost 2 wickets at the very beginning of the game. But Taylor made sure that he wanted a memorable 27th birthday. He scored 131 runs from 124 balls and made it impossible for Pakistan to follow the lead.  

Hattrick at Ashe’s tournament 

Peter Siddle was celebrating his 26th birthday during this particular match. Ashes was a crucial match in 2010 because the merit of the players were determined by the performance of the players in the Ashes match. This match was more crucial because it was between England and Australia. Peter Siddle of England took 3 wickets in 3 balls and made sure that England won the Ashes trophy after 23 years that too by defeating Australia in their home ground. Indeed, a proud and memorable moment for Siddle who had two things to celebrate that day – one is the win and the other was his birthday!  

Yuvraj Singh’s All-rounder performance 

It is a known fact to all fantasy sports lover that Yuvraj Singh is an all rounder in the team. But in the year 2009, he did what he is famous for. First, he batted wonderfully and then he took 3 wickets out of 23 runs and helped India chase down the big total or 206 runs. He was declared the man of match and this became more special because it was his birthday that day!  

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