Bharatakula People - Dimitri Mascarenhas, Jeyaraj Fernandopulle (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: 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 plays county cricket for Hampshire County Cricket Club, in the Indian Premier League for the Rajasthan Royals and for the Otago Volts in New Zealand state cricket. In the inaugral Champions League Twenty20, he represented the Otago Volts as his other teams failed to qualify. 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. Mascarenhas was born to Malik Mascarenhas and his wife, Pauline (ne de Croos), both from the Tamil community. He grew up in Perth, Australia and attended school at Trinity College, Perth; school alumni include Australian international cricketers Simon Katich, Tim Zoehrer, and Craig Serjeant. In 1996 Mascarenhas returned to England to pursue a professional cricket career. Mascarenhas had great success in Australian junior cricket, captaining Western Australia at Under-17 and Under-19 state level competition. Returning to England, he played a single Minor Counties Championship fixture for Dorset against Cornwall, taking 7/64 in his only match for the county. During the same season he joined Hampshire, where he continued in excellent form, with 6-88 on debut (the best figures for a Hampshire debutant since Teddy Wynyard made 6-63 in August 1899). He then proceeded to make the first Rose Bowl century against Worcestershire in 2001. In 2004, he was the first player to record a hat trick in Twenty20 cricket, claiming the wickets of Mark Davis, Mushtaq Ahmed and Jason Lewry of Sussex. He was part of ... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3528097