Namma Bengalooru has produced many cricketers who have made both the team and the country proud. The state uptill now has churned out many fine players right from Gundappa Viswanath, Sayed Kirmani, Javgal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad, Rahul Dravid, Anil Kumble, Robin Uthappa among others. At one point of the history of Indian cricket team almost six players from the state were in the team.
The following is a snapshot of the great players who rocked the cricket world with their performances:

Tall and robust Robin Uthappa, the son of Venu, an international hockey referee, scored heavily in the Ranji Trophy till he could not be kept out of the Indian one-day team any longer. Although his initial record in domestic cricket - a first-class average of 32 from 20 matches with just one hundred - was modest he plundered 854 runs in 7 Ranji matches in 2006-07 to top the batting charts. At one time a wicketkeeper-batsman, Uthappa has since given up the big gloves to concentrate on batting, and now occasionally bowls medium pace.

As a batsman he has always been attractive to watch, hard-hitting, with every shot in the book, unafraid to hit the ball in the air.

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Full name: Robin Venu Uthappa
Date of Birth: Born November 11, 1985, Coorg, Karnataka.
Current Age: 22 years.
Other Teams Represented: India Under-19s, Karnataka, Reebok XI.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat.
Bowling style: Right-arm medium

Arguably the nation's fastest-ever bowler, Javagal Srinath heralded a period of awakening for Indian pace bowling, after Kapil Dev's swing had fired popular imagination. And when he retired from international cricket of 11 years in 2003, Srinath was second only to Kapil in number of Test wickets by an Indian paceman.

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Full Name: Javagal Srinath.
Date of Birth: Born August 31, 1969, Mysore. Current Age: 38 years.
Other Teams Represented: Gloucestershire, Karnataka, Leicestershire.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat.
Bowling Style: Right-arm fast-medium.
At present he is a match referee.

As the new ball partner of state-mate Javagal Srinath, Venkatesh Prasad was an important member of the Indian team from his debut in 1996 until he was passed over in 2001. Tall and proportionally built, Prasad's great strength is that he could move the ball both ways. A deceptive slower ball also proved a useful weapon. Not surprisingly, Venky achieved better figures in more helpful conditions abroad than at home, where the slow, bald tracks did not encouraged his mode of attack. Yet, paradoxically enough, his most devastating spell came at Chennai where, in the first Test in January 1999, he brought Pakistan's second innings to a swift end with figures of 6 for 33, which included a spell of 5 for 0.

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Full Name: Bapu Krishnarao Venkatesh Prasad.
Date of Birth: August 5, 1969, Bangalore.
Current Age: 38 years.
Other Teams Represented: Karnataka.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat
Bowling Style: Right-arm medium-fast

Rahul Dravid, a cricketer who seamlessly blends an old-world classicism with a new-age professionalism, is the best No. 3 batsman to play for India - and might even be considered one of the best ever by the time his career is done. He already averages around 60 at that position, more than any regular No. 3 batsman in the game's history, barring Don Bradman. Unusually for an Indian batsman, he also averages more overseas - around 60, again - than at home. But impressive as his statistics are, they cannot represent the extent of his importance to India, or the beauty of his batsmanship

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Full Name: Rahul Sharad Dravid.
Date of Birth: January 11, 1973, Indore, Madhya Pradesh.
Current Age: 34 years.
Other Teams Represented: Scotland, ACC Asian XI, ICC World XI, Karnataka, Kent
Nickname: The Wall.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat.
Bowling Style: Right-arm off break.
Fielding Position: Occasional wicketkeeper.
Education: St. Joseph's Boys' High School.

No bowler in history has won India more Test matches than Anil Kumble, and there probably hasn't been one to outdo him either. Like the great tall wrist spinners Bill O'Reilly and his own idol B S Chandrasekhar, Kumble trades the leg spinner's proverbial yo-yo for a spear, as the ball hacks through the air rather than hanging in it and comes off the pitch with a kick rather than a kink. It is a method that has provided him stunning success, particularly on Indian soil, where his deliveries burst like packets of water upon the feeblest hint of a crack, and more than one modern-day batsman has remarked that there is no more difficult challenge in cricket than handling Kumble on a wearing surface.

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Full Name: Anil Radhakrishna Kumble.
Date of Birth: Oct 17, 1970.
Birth Place: Bangalore.
Batting: Right hand batsman.
Bowling: Right arm leg-break googly bowler
ODI Debut: India vs Sri Lanka, at Sharjah, on 25/4/90.
Test Debut: India vs England at Manchester, 2nd Test, 1990.

Gundappa Viswanath was a true artist with the willow - his stroke play, particularly the late-cut executed with lumberjack-strong wrists, was nothing less than divine. He was equally adept against pace and spin- waiting on the ball against the fast men and using twinkling footwork against the spinners - and he came good when it truly mattered. Though statistics don't convey it, Vishy was every bit as crucial as Sunil Gavaskar to the Indian team of the 1970s. Right from his century on debut in 1969-70, he performed better when the chips were down than any other Indian batsman. Especially memorable was an unbeaten, match winning 97 against a rampaging Andy Roberts at Madras in 1974-75.

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Full Name: Gundappa Rangnath Viswanath.
Date of Birth: February 12, 1949, Bhadravati, Mysore.
Current Age: 58 years.
Other Teams Represented: Karnataka and Mysore.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat.
Bowling Style: Legbreak
At present he is a match referee.

Kirmani was the quietly efficient worker ant who replaced the flamboyant Farokh Engineer behind the stumps for India, and went on to become their greatest wicketkeeper. His 12-year stint at the top saw a sea-change in the way India played. The early part of Kirmani's career was spent keeping wicket to the famed spin quartet, never the easiest of tasks. After they faded away, he had to step back a few paces to deal with a seam attack spearheaded by Kapil Dev. It is testament to Kirmani's greatness as a keeper that he was able to perform both roles with distinction. A doughty batsman down the order, he scored two Test hundreds and baled India out on several occasions. He played a crucial role in India's triumph in the 1983 World Cup, contributing a flourish or two with the bat in addition to being immaculate behind the stumps.

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Full Name: Syed Mujtaba Hussein Kirmani.
Date of Birth: December 29, 1949, Chennai.
Current Age: 57 years.
Other Teams Represented: Karnataka, Mysore, Railways.
Batting Style: Right-hand bat.
Bowling Style: Right-arm off break.
Fielding Position: Wicketkeeper.