Simon Matthew Katich is an Australian cricket coach and former cricketer. He captained New South Wales and also,until the end of the 2007 season,Derbyshire County Cricket Club. Katich also played for Lancashire,represented his birth state of Western Australia and played in Indian Premier League for Kings XI Punjab.
Mark Ravin Ramprakash is an English former cricketer. A right-handed batsman,he initially made his name playing for Middlesex,and was selected for England aged 21. A gifted,and one of the heaviest-scoring,English batsman of his generation at county level,he rarely performed to his full potential during a long but intermittent international career. He became a particularly prolific run scorer when he moved to Surrey in 2001,averaging over 100 runs per innings in two successive seasons. He is one of only 25 players in the history of the sport to have scored 100 first-class centuries.
David Leslie Bairstow was an English cricketer,who played for Yorkshire and England as a wicket-keeper. He also played football for his hometown club Bradford City. He is the father of England international cricketer Jonny Bairstow.
Dominic Gerald Cork is a former English county and international cricketer. Cork was a right-handed lower-order batsman who bowled right-arm fast-medium,and was renowned for his swing and seam control. In 1995,he took the best figures for an England bowler on Test debut,with 7 for 43 in the second innings against the West Indies.
Devon Sheldon Smith is a cricketer who features as a opening or top order left-handed batsman. Smith has played for the West Indies and the Windward Islands in regional tournaments. Smith also holds the record of being the leading runscorer in the history of West Indian first class cricket competitions.
Dwayne Romel Smith is a former Barbadian international cricketer who has represented the West Indies in all three formats of the game. An all-rounder,he is known as an aggressive and powerful right-handed batsman,bowls medium pace,and is also an athletic fielder.
Nicholas Richard Denis Compton is a South African-born English former Test and first-class cricketer who most recently played for Middlesex County Cricket Club. The grandson of Denis Compton,he represented England in 16 Test matches.
Geoffrey Miller,is an English former cricketer,who played in 34 Test matches and 25 One Day Internationals for the England cricket team between 1976 and 1984. He played for Derbyshire from 1973 to 1986,captaining the side from 1979 to 1981,and returned in 1990 after playing for Essex between 1987 and 1989. He was an England selector from 2008 to 2013 and was appointed President of Derbyshire C.C.C. in March 2014.
Cheteshwar Arvind Pujara is an Indian international cricketer who plays Test cricket for India and represents Saurashtra in domestic cricket. He is a right-handed batter and is known for his disciplined batting style.
Usman Tariq Khawaja is an Australian cricketer who represents Australia and Queensland. Khawaja made his first-class cricket debut for New South Wales in 2008 and played his first international match for Australia in January 2011. Khawaja was born in Pakistan and emigrated to Australia with his family at the age of five. He has played county cricket in the United Kingdom and briefly played in both the Indian Premier League and Pakistan Super League.
Christopher John Llewellyn Rogers is a former Australian cricketer who played for the Australian national team. Rogers is a left-handed opening batsman. He spent ten years playing for Western Australia,before moving to play for Victoria in 2008. He played county cricket in England for ten years representing five first-class teams:Derbyshire,Leicestershire,Northamptonshire,Middlesex and Somerset. Rogers holds the record for most half centuries in consecutive innings.
George Arthur Davidson was an English first-class cricketer who played for Derbyshire between 1886 and 1898 and for Marylebone Cricket Club between 1888 and 1898. A useful all-rounder,he scored over 5500 runs and took 621 wickets in his first-class career.
Craig Kieswetter is an English professional golfer and former cricketer who appeared in 71 matches for the England cricket team between 2010 and 2013. Born and raised in South Africa,Kieswetter moved to England to complete his education,and began playing county cricket for Somerset in 2007. Three years later,he made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Bangladesh. A wicket-keeper batsman,he was considered a one-day specialist,and all his international appearances came in ODIs or Twenty20 Internationals.
Gary Simon Ballance is a Zimbabwean cricketer who also represented England internationally until 2017,and represents Zimbabwe from 2022 onwards. He is a left-handed batsman and a leg break bowler,who last played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club. He was born in Harare,Zimbabwe.
Charles Augustus Ollivierre was a Vincentian cricketer who represented the West Indies in matches before they attained Test match status. Born in St Vincent,Ollivierre initially played first-class cricket for Trinidad;he was selected to tour England with the West Indies team in 1900. He later qualified to play first-class cricket for Derbyshire between 1901 and 1907,becoming the first black West Indian to play for an English county. Ollivierre was reasonably successful in county cricket and had a reputation as a stylish batsman. However,he dropped out of first-class cricket after 1907 owing to eye trouble.
David John Wainwright is an English first-class cricketer,who played for Yorkshire from 2004 to 2011 and Derbyshire from 2012 to 2015. He is a left arm orthodox spin bowler,who has also played for British Universities and Loughborough UCCE.
James William Arthur Taylor is an English former cricketer who played for Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club. A right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm leg break bowler,Taylor made his debut in first-class cricket in 2008 for Leicestershire and made major impressions in his first county seasons. He is noted as being a fine fielder in the covers. He became the youngest Leicestershire one-day centurion and first-class double centurion. In 2009,Taylor also became the youngest player in Leicestershire's history to score 1,000 championship runs in a season.
Tom Lexely William Cooper is an Australian–Dutch cricketer who played for South Australia in Australian domestic cricket and for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League (BBL). He is a right-handed middle order batsman and a right-arm off-spinner,and in addition to representing the Netherlands,he has represented Australia in the Under-19 Cricket World Cup.
Kraigg Clairmonte Brathwaite is a Barbadian cricketer who captains the West Indies in Test cricket. He bats right-handed and occasionally bowls right arm off break. On 6 November 2011,he became only the second West Indian to score two Test fifties before his 19th birthday when he made 63 (212) against India in Delhi. He has also effectively stood as stand-in-captain in place of Jason Holder in seven test matches before becoming the permanent captain of the test team taking over from Holder. He idolises Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his batting style.
Gurjit "Gurjie" Singh Sandhu is an English cricketer,who formerly played for Middlesex. Sandhu is a right-handed batsman who bowls left-arm medium-fast. Born in Isleworth,Middlesex to Indian parents,Sandhu was educated at the Isleworth and Syon School. He has recently signed on to play at Strathmore cricket club.
