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List of Famous Cricketers of All time
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Name of the Cricketer Famous for/ Known as Sachin Tendulkar Holds most of the batting records Sunil Gavaskar The little master Rahul Dravid The Wall Sourav Ganguly The best Indian captain Virender Sehwag India's finest opener Anil Kumble India's highest wicket taker Kapil Dev India's best all-rounder Javagal Srinath India's leading pacer for a long time Harbhajan Singh Best Indian off-spinner Zaheer Khan India's best left-handed fast bowler Aggressive captain and an equally Mohammad Azharuddin good player VVS Laxman One of the most elegant batsman MS Dhoni The best finisher Mohinder Amarnath Scored first test century for India Bishan Singh Bedi An effective spinner of his era Navjot Singh Siddhu Explosive batsman of his era Virat Kohli Next legend in making Vinod Kambli Short but marvellous career Ajay Jadeja A fine middle order batsman • First player to take a 5-wicket haul and score a 50 in the World Yuvraj Cup matches. • First player to hit 6 sixes in a T20 World Cup
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Known for his slower deliveries and Venkatesh Prasad was one of its first proponents in world cricket The fastest Indian bowler to the milestone of 100 wickets in 18 test Ashwin matches and the fastest in the world in over 80 years Only Indian batsman to have scored Gambhir more than 300 runs in four consecutive Test series He has a record of fastest 100 wickets Erapalli Prasanna in Tests by an Indian Bowler (in 20 Tests) at this time. longest test career for any Indian Srinivas Venkataraghva player known to take risks even in the early Krishnamachari Srikkanth part of the innings
Famous Badminton Players of India
P. V. Sindhu Prakash Padukone Dipankar Bhattacharya Pullela Gopichand Parupalli Kashyap Saina Nehwal Chetan Anand Chetan Anand Anup Sridhar Aparna Popat Jwala Gutta Nandu M. Natekar Ashwini Ponnappa Syed Modi
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Famous Tennis Players
Sania Mirza Leander Paes Mahesh Bhupathi Vijay Amritraj Somdev Devvarman Ramanathan Krishnan Yuki Bhambri Rohan Bopanna Ramesh Krishnan Anand Amritraj Akhtar Ali Cotah Ramaswami Ashok Amritraj Zeeshan Ali Stephen Amritraj Prakash Amritraj Asif Ismail Ramkumar Ramanathan Tara Iyer Isha Lakhani Naresh Kumar Jeevan Nedunchezhiya Poojashree Venkatesha Vishu Vardhan Rushmi Chakravarthi Premjit Lall
Famous Hockey Players of India
Dhyan Chand Dhanraj Pillay Yuraj Walmiki Sardara Singh Ajit Pal Singh Viren Rasquinha Mohammed Shahid Gagan Ajit Singh Gurbaj Singh Chinglensana Singh P. R. Sreejesh Raghunath Vokkaliga Kangujam Sandeep Singh Zafar Iqbal Shankar Lakshman Dilip Tirkey Akashdeep Singh Deepika Thakur Sunil Sowmarpet Arjun Halappa Ritu Rani Vitalacharya Birendra Lakra Rani Rampal Gurmail Singh Ignace Tirkey Kothajit Singh S.K. Uthappa Shivendra Singh Bharat Cheetri Maharaj Krishan Kaushik Danish Mujtaba Rajpal Singh Mandeep Singh Dharamvir Singh Pargat Singh Deepak Thakur
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Famous Football Players in India
Sunil Cheetri Bhaichung Bhutia Gurpreet Singh Sandhu I.M. Vijayan Sailen Manna Romeo Fernandes Pradip Kumar Banerjee Chuni Goswami Carlton Chapman Subrata Pal Peter Thangaraj C.K. Vineeth Jeje Lalpekhlua Climax Lawrence Sandesh Jhingan Mohammed Salim Costha Pal Narayan Das Neville D’Souza Anwar Ali Amab Mondal Eugeneson Lyngdoh Robin Singh Krishanu Dey Gouramangi Singh Subhasish Roy Chowdhary Shanmuguam Venkatesh Balwant Singh Cavin Lobo Mahesh Gawli Dhanpal Ganesh Rowllin Borges Steven Dias Udanta Singh Debjit Majumder
Famous Boxing Players in India
Vijendra Singh Mary Kom Vikas Krishan Yadav Mohammed Ali Qamar Akhil Kumar Hawa Singh Jitender Kumar Pinki Rani Satish Kumar Dinesh Kumar Zoramthanga
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Famous Athletics Player of India
Name Sports Name P.T. Usha Sprint Deepika Kumari Archery Milkha Singh Sprint Anju Bobby George Long Jump Tintu Luka Sports of Athletics Dutee Chand Sprint Lalita Babar Track and Field Athletics O.P. Jaisha Track and Field Athletics K.M. Beenamol Hurdles Khushbir Kaur Racewalker Sudha Singh Steeplechase Shiny Abraham Sprint Inderjeet Singh Shot Put Ankit Sharma Long Jump Muhammed Anas Yahiya Running Arokia Raji Track and Field Athletics Dharambir Singh Sprint Manish Singh Racewalker M.D. Valsamma Sprint Ashwini Nachappa Sprint Ayyasamy Dharun Hurdles Manjeet Kaur Sprint Norman Pritchard Sprint Jinson Johnson Sprint M.R. Poovamma Sprint Sapana Sapana Track and Field Athletics Kamaljeet Sandhu Sprint Pinki Pramanik Sprint Ajmer Singh Sprint
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Famous Wrestling Players in India
Sushil Kumar Yogeshwar Dutt Maruti Mane Sakshi Malik Geeta Phogat Rajiv Tomer Khashaba Dadasaheb Udey Chand Harishchand Birajdar Narsingh Pancham Vinesh Phogat Satpal Singh Yadav Sandeep Tomar Babita Kumari Lila Ram The Great Khali Chandgi Ram Subhash Verma Satya Wart Kadian Rajkumar Baisla Palwinder Singh Cheema Hardeep Singh Anuj Kuamr Bajrang Punia
Famous Kabbadi Players in India
Anup Kumar Manjeet Chillar Rahul Chaudhari Ajay Thakur Pradeep Narwal Rakesh Kumar Surender Nada Dharamraj Charlatan Deepak Nivas Hudda Shabeer Bapu Sharfudheen Balwinder Singh Nitin Ghule
Famous Gymnastics Players in India
Dipa Karmakar Ashish Kumar
Famous Weight Lifting Players in India
Yumnam Chanu Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga Pratima Kumari Kunjarani Devi Karnam Malleshwari Mohammed Asdullah Geeta Rani Monika Devi
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Famous Shooting Players of India
Abhinav Bindra Gagan Narang Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore Jitu Rai Vijay Kumar Anjali Bhagwat Heena Sindhu Manavjit Singh Sandhu Sanjeev Rajput Apurvi Chandela Samaresh Jung Ayonika Paul Jaspal Rana Prakash Nanjappa Randhir Singh Chain Singh Ronjan Sodhi Joydeep Karmakar Rahi Sarnobat Avneet Sindhu Omkar Singh Tejaswini Sawant
Famous Golf Players in India
Jeev Milkha Singh Jyothi Randhawa Anirban Lahiri Arjun Atwal Shiv Kapur Gaurav Ghei Shiv Chawrasia Gaganjeet Bhullar Rashid Khan Himmat Rai Sharmila Nicollet Sujjan Singh
Famous Squash Players in India
Cyrus Poncha Ritwik Bhattacharya Saurav Ghosal Joshna Chinappa Janet Vidhi Siddharth Suchde Dipika Pallikal Karthik
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Famous Table Tennis Players in India
Sharath Kamal Soumyajit Ghosh Manika Batra. Anthony Amalraj Kamlesh Mehta Mouma Das. Chetan Baboor Subhajit Saha Poulomi Ghatak. Indu Puri Mamta Prabhu Ankita Das. Venugopal Chandrasekhar Monalisa Baruah Mehta.
Famous Chess Players in India
Viswanathan Anand Humpy Koneru Pentala Harikrishna Parimarjan Negi Krishnan Sasikiran Surya Shekh Ganguly Abhijeet Gupta Harika Dronavalli Tania Sachdev Dibyendu Barua Geetha Narayan Gopal Magesh Chandran Panchanathan Manuel Aaron Praveen Thipsay Abhijit Kunte Subbaraman Vijayalakshmi Ramachandra Ramesh Darpan Inani Hetul Shah Rucha Pujari Prathamesh Mokal Rohini Khadilkar
Famous Car Racing players in India
Narain Karthikeyan Armaan Ebrahim Karun Chandhok
Famous Archery Players in India
Deepika Kumari Jayanta Talukdar Tarundeep Rai Bombayla Devi Laishram Dola Banerjee Atanu Das Limba Ram Laxmirani Majhi Chekrovolu Swuro Mangal Singh Champia Jyothi Surekha Vennam Purnima Mahato Shyam Lal Meena Pranitha Vardhineni Abhishek Verma Rajat Chauhan Rahul Banerjee Sanjeeva Kuamr Singh www.recruitment.guru/general-knowledge/| 8
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Famous Swimming Players in India
Virdhawal Khade Sajan Prakash Sandeep Sejwal. Shikha Tandon Rehan Poncha Bhakti Sharma. Sachin Nag Bula Choudhury Mihir Sen. Khajan Singh Deepa Malik Dolly Nazir.
Famous Billiards and Snooker Players in India
Pankaj Advani Geet Sethi Ashok Sandilya. Michael Ferreira Wilson Jones
Famous Mountaineers in India
Premlatha Agarwal Kalpana Dash Chanda Gayen. Ganesh Jena Harish Kapadia Colonel Narendra Kumar. Tashi and Nungshi Malik Malli Mastan Babu Ratnesh Pandey Bachendri Pal Tsewang Paljor Krushnaa Patil Jaahnavi Satyarup Siddhanta Arjun Vajpai Sriperambuduru Santosh Yadav
Famous Judo Players in India
Garima Chaudhary Khumujam Tombi Devi Navjot Chana Avtar Singh Akram Shah Shushila Likmabam
Famous Rowing Players in India
Dattu Baban Bhokanal Bajrang Lal Takhar Dushyant Chauhan Sawarn Singh Manjeet Singh Paulose Pandari Kunnel
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