Kochi tuskers Kerala: Kerala's Own players in the IPL 2011
we have Three kerala players from gods own coutry.Sreesanth,Prasanth and Raiphi gomez.In this article I am giving you a short description of kerala players in kochi tuskers .Kochi tuskers coach jeff lawson select these players from a huge kerala players.Read the players career statistics,Hobbies etc
Kochi tuskers
3 kerala players are playing for kochi tuskers in the ipl season 4.
1)s.sreesanth
2)p.prasanth
3)Raiphi gomez. S.sreesanth
Full name : Shanthakumaran Sreesanth (India)
Date of Birth : February 6, 1983
Born place:Kakur, Ernakulam district, Kerala.
Current age : 26 years 356 days
Major teams: India, Asia XI, Kerala, Kerala Under-19s, Kings XI Punjab, Warwickshire
Nick Name:Sree,Gopu.
Batting style :Right-hand bat
Bowling style :Right-arm fast-medium
Coach:Dennis Lillee
Family Details
Father: Shanthakumaran Nair (a retired Life Insurance Corporation of India officer)
Mother: Savithri Devi (Treasury department official)
Brother: Dipu Santhan (runs a music company in Kochi)
Sister: Nivedita (Television actress in Kerala)
Brother-in law:Madhu balakrishnan(Malayalam playback singer).
Career statistics
Test debut : India v England at Nagpur - Mar 1-5, 2006
ODI debut : India v Sri Lanka at Nagpur - Oct 25, 2005
Twenty20 Int. debut : South africa v India at Johannesburg - Dec 1, 2006
Cricket training centers
1)Ernakulam CC.
2)MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai.
Hobbies and interests
Dancing,Reading,Drawing portraits,Writing poems.
p.prasanth
Full name :Padmanabhan Prasanth
Date of birth:22 May 1985.
Born place: Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala
Current age: 25 years 300 days
Major teams :Kerala Under-16s, Kochi Tuskers Kerala.
Nick name: Prashu
Batting style :Left-hand bat
Bowling style: Slow left-arm orthodox
Career statistics
First-class debut:Goa v Kerala at Margao, Dec 17-20, 2006
Last First-class:Kerala v Maharashtra at Kochi, Dec 1-4, 2010
List A debut:Karnataka v Kerala at Hyderabad, Feb 11, 2006
Last List A:Karnataka v Kerala at Palakkad, Feb 18, 2011
Twenty20 debut:Goa v Kerala at Visakhapatnam, Apr 6, 2007
Last Twenty20:Haryana v Kerala at Hyderabad (Deccan), Mar 14, 2011
Raiphi Gomez
Full name: Raiphi Vincent Gomez
Date of birth:October 16, 1985
Current age: 25 years 171 days
Major teams :Kerala, Rajasthan Royals
Nickname: Raiphi
Batting style : Right-hand bat
Bowling style : Right-arm medium
Contract with Kochi tuskers:30 Lakhs
Raiphi Vincent Gomez first class career starts against Vidarbha in Ranji Trophy Plate League for Kerala on November, 2006. But Raiphi does not do much with his bat in debut and ended up after scoring sixteen runs. But in 2007/08 season Raiphi shows that he has a bright future by scoring 108 runs against Tripura. In the same season Raiphi scores another hundred against Railways. Raiphi has scored 656 runs in 20 first class matches with an average of 21.16.Raiphi is an attacking batsman.At below pease look the details in his cricket career.Raiphy showed glimpses of his talent with a fastest 50 from 22 balls against Hyderabad in Chennai last year.