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.
William Thomas Stuart Porterfield is an Irish former cricketer and a former captain of the Ireland cricket team. He played first-class cricket for Gloucestershire and Warwickshire. A left-handed batsman,he played for Ireland from 2006 to 2022,and has captained Ireland at all levels from Under-13 and is considered one of the greatest Irish cricketers of all time. During Afghanistan T20I series in March 2017,he passed 1,000 runs in T20Is and became the first player from Ireland to do so. In May 2018,he was named as the captain of Ireland's squad for their first ever Test match,against Pakistan. He announced his retirement from international cricket on 16 June 2022.
Sarfaraz Ahmed is a former Pakistani professional cricketer,a wicketkeeper-batsman,who plays for the Pakistani national cricket team. He was the former captain of the Pakistan side in all formats. He leads Quetta Gladiators in the Pakistan Super League. Under his captaincy,Pakistan won the 2017 ICC Champions Trophy,defeating arch-rivals India in the final. Coincidentally,during his under-19 days,he also led the Pakistan team to win the 2006 Under-19 Cricket World Cup,where they had also beat India in the final.
The ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup is an international cricket tournament organised by the International Cricket Council (ICC) contested by national under-19 teams. First contested in 1988,as the Youth Cricket World Cup,it was not staged again until 1998. Since then,the World Cup has been held as a biennial event,organised by the ICC. The first edition of the tournament had only eight participants,but every subsequent edition has included sixteen teams. Among the full members,India have won the World Cup on a record five occasions,while Australia have won three times,Pakistan twice,and Bangladesh,England,South Africa and the West Indies once each. New Zealand and Sri Lanka have reached tournament finals without winning.
Binod Kumar Das is a Nepalese former cricketer and a former captain of Nepal national cricket team. All-rounder Binod is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Nepal against UAE in November 2000.
Paras Khadka is a Nepalese former cricketer who is the current Secretary of Cricket Association of Nepal and President of Bagmati Province Cricket Association. He was the captain of the Nepalese cricket team from 2008 to 2019. An all-rounder,Khadka was a right-handed batsman,and a right-arm medium-fast as well as an off-break bowler. He made his debut against Malaysia in April 2004. Khadka played in Nepal's inaugural One Day International (ODI) match,against the Netherlands,in August 2018. He is often considered as one of the greatest cricketers of Nepal.
Basanta Regmi is a Nepalese professional cricketer. An all-rounder,he bats left-handed batsman and is a left-arm orthodox spinner. He made his debut for Nepal against Namibia in March 2006. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Nepal's first ever One Day International (ODI) match,against the Netherlands,in August 2018.
Calum Scott MacLeod is a Scottish professional cricketer. He has represented the Scotland national team since 2008,including at the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World Twenty20. He has played county cricket in England for Warwickshire and Durham. In January 2019,MacLeod was named the ICC Associate Player of the Year at the 2018 ICC Awards.
Liam Andrew Dawson is an English cricketer who plays for Hampshire and for the England cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox spin. He made his international debut for England in July 2016,and has since played all three formats of the game for England,the last in 2018. Dawson was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup,however,he did not play in any matches during the tournament.
Paul Robert Stirling is an Irish cricketer. Stirling is the opening batsman for the Ireland cricket team and an occasional right-arm,off-break bowler. He is one of the top 10 run scorers in T20 internationals. He was one of the eleven cricketers to play in Ireland's first ever Test match,against Pakistan,in May 2018. He was appointed as the vice-captain of the Ireland team in June 2020. He subsequently served as interim captain of Ireland in the T20I and ODI format following the resignation of Andrew Balbirnie,before being appointed as permanent limited-overs captain in October 2023.
Delray Millard Wendell Rawlins is a Bermudian cricketer who captains the Bermuda national cricket team and also plays for Sussex in English county cricket.
Aarif Sheikh is a Nepalese cricketer,who has been a former vice-captain of the Nepal national under-19 cricket team,and currently plays for the senior team. An all-rounder,Aarif is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his debut for Nepal against Hong Kong in May 2014.
Rajesh Pulami Magar is a Nepalese cricketer. Rajesh is a right-handed batsman and a leg break googly bowler. He made his debut for Nepal against Hong Kong in November 2014.
Shai Diego Hope is a Barbadian cricketer,who plays as a wicketkeeper/batsman for the West Indies cricket team. He is also the current ODI captain of the Windies. In June 2018,he was named the Men's Cricketer of the Year,Test Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies' Awards. The following year,he was named the CWI ODI Player of the Year. He is generally regarded as one of the best ODI batsmen in the contemporary cricketing world. Hope has also twice been named,for both 2020 and 2022,in the ICC ODI Team of the Year.
Harry Cherrington Brook is an English cricketer who plays international cricket for England and domestic cricket for Yorkshire. Primarily a right-handed batsman,he also bowls right-arm medium pace. He made his international debut for England in January 2022.
The 2022 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup was an international limited-overs cricket tournament that was held in the West Indies in January and February 2022 with sixteen teams taking part. It was the fourteenth edition of the Under-19 Cricket World Cup,and the first that was held in the West Indies. Bangladesh were the defending champions.
Thomas Geoffrey Reeves Clark is an English cricketer. He made his first-class debut on 23 September 2019,for Sussex in the 2019 County Championship. Before his first-class debut,Clark has played for the England under-19 cricket team. In October 2019,he was named in the England under-19 cricket team's squad for a 50-over tri-series in the Caribbean. In December 2019,he was named in England's squad for the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his List A debut on 23 July 2021,for Sussex in the 2021 Royal London One-Day Cup.
Jacob Graham Bethell is a Barbadian born cricketer who plays for the England under 19s cricket team. Bethell was born in Barbados and moved to Warwickshire,England,when he was 12. He made his Twenty20 debut on 20 June 2021,for Warwickshire in the 2021 T20 Blast.
Rehan Ahmed is an English cricketer. He made his international debut against Pakistan on 17 December 2022,becoming England men's youngest Test debutant at the age of 18 years and 126 days. On the third day of the match he also became the youngest debutant to take five wickets in an innings in men’s Tests. On 12 March 2023,Ahmed became the youngest England male cricketer to play in all three formats of international cricket.
