For your report, printf is plenty sufficient (See sprintf for the formatting codes). For example:

use strict;
use warnings;

my $APPROX_LINES_PER_PAGE = 4;

my $sep = ('-'x60)."\n";
my $header = <<HEADER;
============================================================
Name   Format of match   matches played  runs scored  page %d
============================================================
HEADER
my $format = "%-18s %-8s %-15s %s\n";

my $cur_pers = '';
my $page  = 0;
my $lines = 0;
while (<DATA>){
    chomp;
    my @elements = split /!/,$_;

    if (0 == $page or $lines >= $APPROX_LINES_PER_PAGE) {
        print $sep if $page;
        print "\n";# or do whatever you want to do between pages
        $page++;
        $lines = 0;
        $cur_pers = '';
        printf $header, $page;
    }

    # check if person change
    if ($cur_pers and $cur_pers ne $elements[0]) {
        print $sep;
        $lines++;
    }
    $cur_pers = $elements[0];
    printf $format, @elements;
    $lines++;
}
print $sep;
print "\n";

__DATA__
sachin tendulkar!ODI!434!12000
sachin tendulkar!Test!246!10900
sachin tendulkar!T20!189!5000
sourav ganguly!ODI!334!8000
sourav ganguly!Test!235!5000
sourav ganguly!T20!124!1800
rahul dravid!ODI!387!9000
rahul dravid!Test!212!5980
rahul dravid!T20!43!1345
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I've added some sample pagination - I'm not sure what you had in mind there, but you should be able to extend it to what you wanted.