William Boyd Rankin is a Northern Irish former cricketer who played international cricket for Ireland,and briefly also played for England. He is a right-arm medium-fast bowler. He is the brother of fellow cricketer David Rankin.
Stafanie Roxann Taylor is a Jamaican cricketer who is a former captain of the West Indies women's cricket team. She has represented them over 250 times since her debut in 2008. A right-handed batter and off break bowler,Taylor was selected as the 2011 ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year –the first West Indian to receive the accolade. She was also the first woman to score 1,000 runs in ODIs for the West Indies. She plays domestic cricket for Jamaica and Guyana Amazon Warriors and has previously played for Auckland,Sydney Thunder,Adelaide Strikers,Western Storm,Southern Vipers,Southern Brave and Trailblazers.
Shabnim Ismail is a South African cricketer who made her debut for the national women's team in January 2007. A right-arm fast bowler,Ismail is South Africa's all-time leading wicket-taker in both the One Day International and Twenty20 International formats. She has earned a reputation as one of the fastest female bowlers in the world having recorded the fastest ball bowled by a female of 132.1 kilometres per hour (82.1 mph) during the WPL in 2024.She has played in every editions of the ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament since its inception in 2009. She has featured in ICC World Twenty20 on eight occasions in 2009,2010,2012,2014,2016,2018,2020,2023.
George Henry Dockrell is an Irish cricketer,who plays international cricket for Ireland,having learned his cricket at Leinster Cricket Club,Dublin. Known as an all-rounder,Dockrell is a right-handed batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler. He was a member of the class of 2010 in Gonzaga College,Dublin. In December 2018,he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by Cricket Ireland for the 2019 season. In January 2020,he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by Cricket Ireland,the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.
Shauna Maire Kavanagh is a Dublin-born Irish international cricketer who plays her club level cricket at Pembroke Cricket Club. She attended school at Loretto College Foxrork,and later attended St. Andrews College in Booterstown,Dublin. Kavanagh is a right-handed batter and wicket-keeper,as well as bowling right-arm medium pace. She has represented Leinster Development squads for under 15's,17's and 19's,and has also represented the Irish under 15's and 17's women's teams,Ireland A and has also made it onto the Ireland's senior women's team. She went to Bangladesh in November 2011 with the Irish senior Women's team to compete in the ICC Women's World Cup Qualifiers. She plays for Scorchers in the Women's Super Series.
Anisa Mohammed is a Trinidadian cricketer who plays for Trinidad and Tobago,Trinbago Knight Riders and the West Indies. She plays as a right-arm off spin bowler. Since her international debut at 15 years of age she has played in 122 One Day International (WODI) and 111 Twenty20 International (WT20I) matches. Mohammed was the first cricketer,male or female,to take 100 wickets in T20Is. In WODIs,she is currently fifth on the all-time dismissals list with 151 wickets to her name. She was also the first bowler for the West Indies to take 100 wickets in WODIs,and the first for the West Indies to take a hat-trick in a Women's Twenty20 International match.
Craig Alexander Young is an Irish professional cricketer. Young is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace. On 26 May 2013,Young made his first-class debut for Ireland against Scotland. He made his One Day International debut against Scotland in September 2014,taking 5 wickets for 45 runs. He made his Twenty20 International debut against Scotland on 18 June 2015.
Sompal Kami is a Nepalese professional cricketer. Kami is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast-medium bowler. He is one of the eleven cricketers to play in Nepal's first ever One Day International (ODI) match,against the Netherlands,in August 2018. In January 2019,he became the first bowler for Nepal to take a five-wicket haul in an ODI. He represents the Nepal Army Club of the National League,Jagdamba Giants of the Nepal Premier League,and New Horizon College,which plays in the SPA Cup.
Rumana Ahmed is a Bangladeshi cricketer who plays for the Bangladesh cricket team. She plays as a right-handed batter and right-arm leg break bowler.
Clare Mary Alice Shillington is an Irish former cricketer and the current coach of Typhoons. She played as a right-handed batter and appeared in 1 Test match,90 One Day Internationals and 56 Twenty20 Internationals for Ireland between 1997 and 2018. She played in her final match for Ireland in November 2018,during the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament.
Atapattu Mudiyanselage Chamari Jayangani is a Sri Lankan cricketer and the current captain of the women's Twenty20 International team of Sri Lanka. Chamari was the tenth captain for Sri Lanka women's national cricket team. In November 2017,she was named the Women's Cricketer of the Year for the 2016–17 season at Sri Lanka Cricket's annual awards. She is the first Sri Lankan woman to play in franchise cricket. In November 2023,it was announced that a special dedicated seating zone at the Sydney Cricket Ground would be named after her as the Chamari Bay.
Lega Siaka is a Papua New Guinean cricketer,who plays for the national team mainly as a right-handed batsman.
Leonie Kelly Bennett is a Dutch cricketer who debuted for the Dutch national side in August 2011. A left-arm orthodox spinner.
Hayley Kristen Matthews is a Barbadian sportswoman. She plays international cricket for the West Indies as an all-rounder,batting right-handed and bowling right-arm off break. She plays domestic cricket for Barbados,Barbados Royals and Melbourne Renegades,and has previously played for Tasmania,Lancashire Thunder,Southern Vipers,Loughborough Lightning,Velocity and Hobart Hurricanes. She has also represented Barbados in the javelin throw at several international track and field competitions. In June 2022,Matthews was named as the captain of the West Indies women's cricket team,taking over from Stafanie Taylor.
Rashid Khan Arman is an Afghan international cricketer and captain of the Afghanistan national team in the T20I format. In franchise leagues,he plays for Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League (IPL),Adelaide Strikers in Australia's Big Bash League (BBL),Lahore Qalandars in the Pakistan Super League (PSL),Band-e-Amir Dragons in Afghanistan's Shpageeza Cricket League and MI New York in Major League Cricket (MLC). He bowls right-arm leg spin and is an aggressive right-handed batsman.
Gaby Hollis Lewis is an Irish international cricketer who made her senior debut for the Irish national team in July 2014,aged only 13. She made her Twenty20 International (T20I) debut later in the year,becoming the youngest to play at that level. The International Cricket Council (ICC) named Lewis as one of the five breakout stars in women's cricket in 2018. She currently captains the Women's Super Series team Scorchers. In June 2022,at the age of 21,Lewis became the youngest player to captain the Ireland Women's team in international cricket.
Ciara Johanna Metcalfe is an Irish former cricketer who played as a right-arm leg break bowler. She appeared in 1 Test match,53 One Day Internationals and 25 Twenty20 Internationals for Ireland between 1999 and 2018,playing her final match during the 2018 ICC Women's World Twenty20 tournament. She also played in the Women's Super Series for Dragons,and spent one season playing for Northamptonshire in 2018.
Esther Mbofana is a Zimbabwean cricketer. She played for the Zimbabwe women's national cricket team in the 2017 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in February 2017. In February 2021,she was named in Zimbabwe's squad for their home series against Pakistan.
Babette Johanna Adriana de Leede is a Dutch cricketer who plays as a wicket-keeper and right-handed batter.
Celeste Raack is an Australian-Irish cricketer who plays as an all-rounder for Typhoons and Ireland. She holds an Irish passport and was selected to represent Ireland in October 2018,making her full international debut the following month. She previously played in Australia for Tasmania and Hobart Hurricanes.
