Dipendra Singh Airee
All-rounderNepal all-rounder Dipendra Singh Airee holds the record for the fastest fifty in T20 international history — 50 off 9 balls — and famously hit six sixes in an over.
Player profiles
Bio, records, playing style and earnings for the players the big platforms under-cover — updated as careers develop.
Nepal
Kushal Bhurtel
Opening batterAggressive Nepal opener Kushal Bhurtel sets the tone in the powerplay and announced himself with a breakout 2021 that earned global recognition in Associate cricket.
Rohit Paudel
Batter · Nepal captainNepal captain Rohit Paudel became the youngest male player to score an international fifty at 16, and has since led Nepal to a T20 World Cup and their highest-ever rankings.
Sandeep Lamichhane
Leg-spin bowlerNepal's first IPL cricketer and the face of the country's rise, leg-spinner Sandeep Lamichhane has taken wickets in franchise leagues on every continent.
Sompal Kami
Fast bowlerNepal's pace spearhead for over a decade, Sompal Kami has taken the new ball in every major campaign of the country's rise — from World Cricket League to the T20 World Cup.
United Arab Emirates
Muhammad Waseem
Opening batter · UAE captainUAE captain Muhammad Waseem is one of the most prolific T20I run scorers in Associate cricket, with a stack of international centuries and a fearsome powerplay game.
Ireland
Paul Stirling
Opening batter · Ireland white-ball captainIreland's greatest white-ball batter, Paul Stirling is his country's all-time leading run scorer in international cricket and captain of the limited-overs sides.
India
MS Dhoni
Wicketkeeper-batter · 'Captain Cool'MS Dhoni is the only captain in history to win all three ICC white-ball trophies — the T20 World Cup, the ODI World Cup and the Champions Trophy — and finished with over 10,000 ODI runs at an average above 50.
Rohit Sharma
Opening batter · 'The Hitman'Rohit Sharma owns the highest individual score in ODI history — 264 — and is the only player with three ODI double centuries. He captained India to the 2024 T20 World Cup title.
Sachin Tendulkar
Batter · 'The God of Cricket'Sachin Tendulkar scored 100 international centuries and 34,357 international runs — both all-time records — across a 24-year career that made him cricket's most worshipped player and its richest.
Virat Kohli
Batter · 'The Chase Master'Virat Kohli holds the all-time record for ODI centuries — 54 and counting as of 2026 — with 85 international hundreds, a World Cup and T20 World Cup title, and the biggest commercial profile in cricket.
South Africa
AB de Villiers
Batter · 'Mr 360'AB de Villiers holds the records for the fastest fifty (16 balls), fastest century (31 balls) and fastest 150 (64 balls) in ODI history — the most complete hitter cricket has produced.
Sri Lanka
Muttiah Muralitharan
Off-spin bowler · 'Murali'Muttiah Muralitharan took 800 Test wickets and 1,347 international wickets — both all-time records by enormous margins — finishing with a wicket off the final ball of his Test career.
West Indies
Brian Lara
Batter · 'The Prince of Trinidad'Brian Lara holds the two most romantic records in batting: the highest Test score (400 not out) and the highest first-class score (501 not out) — and he broke the Test record twice.
Australia
Ricky Ponting
Batter · 'Punter'Ricky Ponting won three World Cups — two as captain — scored 71 international centuries, and played in more Test victories than anyone in history. The most successful cricketer the game has seen.
Don Bradman
Batter · 'The Don'Sir Donald Bradman's Test batting average of 99.94 is statistically the greatest achievement in any major sport — no other batter in 150 years of Test cricket has sustained an average above 62.
Shane Warne
Leg-spin bowler · 'The King of Spin'Shane Warne took 708 Test wickets and bowled the 'Ball of the Century' — the delivery that revived leg-spin worldwide. He remains the greatest showman bowling has ever produced.
Pakistan
Wasim Akram
Fast bowler · 'The Sultan of Swing'Wasim Akram was the first bowler to take 500 ODI wickets, finished with 916 international wickets, and took four international hat-tricks — the greatest left-arm fast bowler in cricket history.