Cricket is a sport that generates a variety of statistics.
Kumar Chokshanada Sangakkara born 27 October 1977 is a Sri Lankan former professional cricketer who represented Sri Lanka in 134 Test matches from 2000 to 2015,including fifteen as captain. In first-class cricket,he played for Nondescripts Cricket Club from 1997–98 to 2013–14 and for Surrey County Cricket Club from 2015 to 2017. He also played for numerous franchise teams. He was born in Matale,Central Province. He was a part of the Sri Lankan squads which won the 2001-02 Asian Test Championship,2002 ICC Champions Trophy and the 2014 T20 World Cup.
Adam Craig Gilchrist is an Australian cricket commentator and former international cricketer and captain of the Australia national cricket team. He was an attacking left-handed batsman and record-breaking wicket-keeper,who redefined the role for the Australia national team through his aggressive batting. Widely regarded as the greatest wicket-keeper-batsman in the history of the game,Gilchrist held the world record for the most dismissals by a wicket-keeper in One Day International (ODI) cricket until it was surpassed by Kumar Sangakkara in 2015 and the most by an Australian in Test cricket. Gilchrist was a member of the Australian team that won three consecutive world titles in a row:the 1999 Cricket World Cup,the 2003 Cricket World Cup,and the 2007 Cricket World Cup,along with winning the 2006 ICC Champions Trophy.
Ashwell Gavin Prince is a former South African cricketer and captain who played all formats of the game for South Africa. At the age of 29,he became the first non-white man to captain the South African cricket team when he stood in for the injured Graeme Smith in two Tests. He took on the role of batting consultant with the Bangladesh cricket team in mid-2021 but resigned in early 2022. He is currently a guest commentator with ABC Grandstand for the Australia-South Africa Test series in Australia.
Abraham Benjamin de Villiers is a South African former international cricketer,and a current commentator. AB de Villiers was named as the ICC ODI Player of the Year three times during his 15-year international career and was one of the five Wisden cricketers of the decade at the end of 2019. He is regarded as one of the greatest cricketers in the history of the sport and as one of the best batsmen of his era. de Villiers began his international career as a wicket-keeper-batsman,but he has played most often solely as a batsman. He batted at various positions in the batting order,but predominantly in the middle-order. Regarded as one of the most innovative and destructive batsmen in the modern era,de Villiers is known for a range of unorthodox shots,particularly behind the wicket-keeper. He made his international debut in a Test match against England in 2004 and first played a One Day International (ODI) in early 2005. His debut in Twenty20 International cricket came in 2006. He scored over 8,000 runs in both Test and ODI cricket and is one of the very few batsmen to have a batting average of over fifty in both forms of the game. In limited overs cricket,he is an attacking player. He holds the record for the fastest ODI fifty,fastest ODI century,and fastest ODI 150.
Zander de Bruyn is a former South African cricketer. He was a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He played three Test matches for South Africa,and played domestic cricket for the Highveld Lions. He was a batting all-rounder whose elegance at the crease drew comparisons with former South African captain Hansie Cronje. His medium-pace bowling was able to take the pressure off the front-line bowlers,with his ability to restrict the run-rate and take partnership-breaking wickets.
Dean Elgar is a South African cricketer who played Tests and ODIs,and also a former Test captain. He is a left-handed opening batter and a slow-left arm bowler.
Clay James Smith is a Bermudian former international cricketer who represented the Bermudian national team between 1991 and 2007. He also coached the team from 2015 to 2018.
MornéMorkel is a South African cricket coach and former cricketer who played international cricket between 2006 and 2018. He worked as the bowling coach of the Pakistan national cricket team until November 2023.
Somerset County Cricket Club competed in four domestic competitions during the 2009 English cricket season:the first division of the County Championship,the Friends Provident Trophy,the first division of the NatWest Pro40 League and the Twenty20 Cup. Through their performance in the Twenty20 Cup,the team qualified for the Champions League Twenty20. They enjoyed a successful season,but fell short of winning any competitions,prompting Director of Cricket Brian Rose to say "We've had enough of being cricket's nearly men."
Sir Frank Herbert Mitchell was a British civil servant known as a private secretary and later Groom in Waiting to King George V. He was also a useful cricketer and golfer.
Pierre de Bruyn is a South African former cricketer. Having made his debut in first-class cricket in the 1995–96 South African cricket season,de Bruyn proceeded to play first-class,List A and Twenty20 cricket for several teams as an all-rounder and occasional wicket-keeper until his retirement during the 2009–10 South African cricket season. Following his retirement,he moved into coaching. He was appointed the head coach of English county side Leicestershire in 2016,before resigning the following year. In December 2018,he was appointed as the head coach of the Namibia national cricket team.
Mohammad Imran Khan is a former Pakistani cricketer who played first-class and limited-overs matches for Agriculture Development Bank of Pakistan (ADB) from 1994 to 2000.
Imraan Khan is a former South African cricketer who played first-class and limited overs matches for North West during the 2004–05 season.
Theunis Booysen de Bruyn is a former South African cricketer who represents Northerns. He is a right-handed batsman who bowls occasional right-arm medium-fast.
Shukri Conrad is a South African cricket coach and former player who was appointed Test coach of the South Africa national cricket team in 2023.
Mark David Sanders is a South African former cricketer active from 1998/99 until 2005/06. Sanders played for KwaZulu-Natal B,KwaZulu-Natal and Boland.
Samuel McDonald Skeete is a former Barbadian cricketer who represented the Barbadian national team in West Indian domestic cricket. He also played three seasons of South African domestic cricket,representing Easterns.
The 2010 Twenty20 Cup Final,known for sponsorship purposes as the 2010 Friends Provident t20 Final,was a 20 overs-per-side cricket match between Hampshire County Cricket Club and Somerset County Cricket Club played on 14 August 2010 at the Rose Bowl in Southampton. It was the eighth final of the Twenty20 Cup.
The 2013–14 Victory Day T20 Cup was a Twenty20 cricket competition that was held in Bangladesh. It was played by four teams,during December 2013. Four Dhaka Premier League teams took part in a lottery to determine who picked one each of the Yellow,Blue,Green and Red teams. Announcing the schedule of the tournament at a press conference on 21 December,the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) confirmed that four teams would participate in the T20 series and AMBER Group would be the title sponsors of the event.
