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Combining these countries in the tradition of the West Indies cricket team would give a total of 14 players. In recent years, the England team has been perceived to benefit hugely from players born in South Africa. [1] [2] Since Andrew Strauss made his ODI debut in 2003, thirteen other South African-born players have played international ...
Geraint Jones was born in Papua New Guinea, brought up in Australia, and represented England at Test cricket via his Welsh parents. This is a list of Test cricketers who were born in a country that does not currently play Test cricket. Updated 24 Oct 2023. Players in bold are still active.
Anthony William Greig (6 October 1946 – 29 December 2012) was a South African-born cricketer and commentator. Greig qualified to play for the England cricket team by virtue of his Scottish father. He was a tall (6 feet 6 inches or 1.98 metres) [1] all-rounder who bowled both medium pace and off spin.
No player born in Hampshire has ever captained England. Victor Barton, from Netley, became the first Hampshire-born player to represent England when he played against South Africa in 1892, which was his only Test appearance. [1] Nine cricketers born in Hampshire have represented England, with Chris Tremlett, born in Southampton, the last.
Christopher Lyall Smith (born 15 October 1958) is a former cricketer for Hampshire and England. He also played one match for Glamorgan in 1979, while playing in the South Wales League, and in South Africa he played for Natal B (then a first-class team).
A Test match is an international two-innings per side cricket match between two of the leading cricketing nations. The list is arranged in the order in which each player won his Test cap by playing for the England cricket team. Where more than one player won his first Test cap in the same Test match, those players are listed alphabetically by ...
Pietersen was born to an Afrikaner father and English mother in South Africa. He made his first-class debut for Natal in 1997 and moved to England in 2000, after voicing his displeasure at what he said was the racial quota system in South African cricket. [1]
Kepler Wessels played both Test and ODI cricket for South Africa and Australia, while Guyana-born Clayton Lambert became the first cricketer to play just ODIs for two nations – after playing eleven matches for the West Indies between 1990 and 1998 (also five Tests), he played a single ODI for the United States in 2004.