Patel first gained prominence in 2003 at the age of 20 before he had even played first class cricket for Gujarat, when he was invited to the MRF Pace Foundation in Chennai by the Indian chairman of selectors Kiran More. In the 2005-2006 Test Series against West Indies, Munaf proved he was arguably the fastest bowler in India, bowling regularly at speeds of over 87 mph.

Shane Keith Warne (born 13 September 1969) is a former Australian international cricketer who is widely regarded as the greatest leg spin bowler in the history of cricket. While his career statistics suggest that, despite his aggregate performances, phenomenal popularity and notoriety, he was perhaps less effective and destructive than the interbellum Australian leg-spinners Bill O'Reilly and Clarrie Grimmett, his durability and impact on the modern game assure his place alongside them in cricket's pantheon. Indeed, in 2000, he was selected by a panel of cricket experts as one of the five Wisden Cricketers of the Century, the only specialist bowler selected in the quintet.

Warne played his first Test match in 1992, and his 708 wickets was the record for the most wickets taken by any bowler in Test cricket, until it was broken by Sri Lanka's Muttiah Muralitharan on December 3, 2007. He took over 1000 international wickets (in Tests and One-Day Internationals)—he was the

Watson debuted for the Australian cricket team in 2002, playing his first one-day international against South Africa. While he has become a regular member of the one-day squad, Watson has played few Test Matches for Australia, having debuted against Pakistan at the Sydney Cricket Ground in January 2005.

Graeme Craig Smith (born 1 February 1981 in Johannesburg) is a South African cricketer, and the current captain of the South African cricket team, having succeeded Shaun Pollock after the 2003 Cricket World Cup.

A tall, left-handed opening batsman, on the 2003 South African tour of England he made double centuries in consecutive Test matches: at Edgbaston, and 259 at Lord's. The 277 is the highest individual innings ever made for South Africa, and the 259 is the highest score ever made at Lord's by a foreign player.

Known for the success of his opening partnership with Herschelle Gibbs, South Africa's most prolific ever opening partnership, Smith has the distinction of having been part of all four of South Africa's opening partnerships of over 300 runs: in three of them he was partnered by Gibbs, and in 2008 Smith added 415 for the first wicket with Neil McKenzie against Bangladesh, a world record opening partnership.

He is a right arm fast bowler, he made his debut for the South Australian state team in the 2002-03 season, at the age of nineteen after a strong showing in Adelaide club cricket. He made his One-Day International debut on 2 February 2007. He was named as Australia's Young Cricketer of the Year for the 2003-04 season and won a call-up to the Australian national squad for the tour of Sri Lanka.

Robert John Quiney (born August 20, 1982 in Brighton, Victoria) is an Australian cricketer who is a member of the Victorian Bushrangers side. A left handed middle-order batsman, he had a more daunting debut than most in Australian domestic cricket.

Yusuf Khan Pathan (born 17 November 1982 in Baroda) is an Indian cricketer. Pathan made his debut in first-class cricket in 2001/02. He is a hard hitting right handed batsman and a right-arm offbreak bowler. His half-brother Irfan Pathan is also an Indian cricketer. Though younger to Yusuf, it was Irfan who entered the Indian team first.

Swapnil Asnodkar is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a hard hiting right handed opening batsman with a relatively short stature of around 5'5. He plays for Goa in first class cricket, and Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League. He is an attacking opening batsman.

Niraj Kanubhai Patel (born March 26, 1981 in Ahmedabad, Gujarat) is an Indian first class cricketer. He is a left-handed middle order batsman. Patel represents Gujarat in Ranji Trophy. He represented Rajasthan Royals in the 2008 Indian Premier League.

Tyron Henderson (born August 1, 1974, Durban, Natal) is a South African cricketer. Henderson has represented South Africa in a Twenty20 International. An all-rounder, Henderson currently plays for Middlesex. He was purchased by the Rajasthan Royals for whopping $650,000 in the Indian Premier League Season 2 Auction.

Lee Andrew Carseldine (born November 17, 1975 in Nambour, Queensland) is a professional Australian cricketer who currently plays for Queensland and also for the IPL team Rajasthan Royals.

Adrian Dimitri Mascarenhas (born 30 October 1977 in Chiswick) is an English cricketer of Sri Lankan-Tamil heritage. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He currently is the only Englishman to play in the Indian Premier League; for the Rajasthan Royals. He holds the record for most runs for England in an over in a One Day International with 30, scored against India off Yuvraj Singh on 5 September 2007, at The Oval, London.

Shane Harwood (born 1 March 1974 in Ballarat, Victoria) is an Australian cricketer who plays for the Victoria Bushrangers. He bowls right-arm fast-medium and has represented Australia in 3 Twenty20 Internationals. Harwood began his Pura Cup career as a 28-year-old in 2002-03 and became the third Australian to get a hat-trick on debut. He has represented Australia A and was suggested by teammate Shane Warne as being a contender for the 2006 Australian Test tour of South Africa. Harwood was selected for the 16-man Australian one-day squad in South Africa. He played both Twenty20 Internationals, taking 2/21 in the second match off his four overs.

Playing with Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2009

Playing with Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2009

Johan Botha's is an interesting case. He began his career as an ordinary medium pacer for the Eastern Cape Warriors - by his own admission he was quicker than 125 kmph - but it was after Mickey Arthur, the South Africa coach, had a look at him in the nets and saw something else that Botha dropped his ambitions for speed. Spurred by Arthur's comments that he would do well to turn to spin, Botha remodeled his action and began studying the art of the doosra - the ball that turns away from the right-handed batsman - in hopes of emulating the wiles of Harbhajan Singh. A successful tour of Sri Lanka with the South Africa A side - in which he took key wickets as well as scoring runs - saw Botha's name penciled in as a potential spinning allrounder.