14 jersey number in cricket

In today’s world cricket has achieved the status of the second most popular sport after football. When a player debut their career, they are given a cap, which shows that the player has become a particular number’s player for that country. In the same way a cricket player bears a jersey which has a number on its back side.

Sean Williams

Sean Colin Williams is a Zimbabwean international cricketer known for playing all formats primarily as a batting all-rounder. In September 2019, Zimbabwe Cricket named him as Zimbabwe’s captain, after Hamilton Masakadza retired from international cricket. Later the same month, Williams captained Zimbabwe for the first time, in the opening Twenty20 International (T20I) match of the 2019–20 Singapore Tri-Nation Series, against Nepal.

Gulbadin Naib

Gulbadin Naib is an Afghan cricketer. Naib is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm fast-medium. In April 2019, the Afghanistan Cricket Board (ACB) named Naib as the team’s new One Day International (ODI) captain ahead of the 2019 Cricket World Cup, replacing Asghar Afghan. However, following the Cricket World Cup, where Afghanistan lost all of their matches, Rashid Khan was named as the new captain of the Afghanistan cricket team across all three formats.

Ben Sears

Ben Sears is a New Zealand cricketer. He made his international debut for the New Zealand cricket team in September 2021.

Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting is an Australian cricket coach, commentator, and former cricketer. Ponting was captain of the Australian national team during its “golden era”, between 2004 and 2011 in Test cricket and 2002 and 2011 in One Day Internationals (ODIs) and is one of the most successful captains in international cricket history, with 220 victories in 324 matches with a winning rate of 67.91%. He is widely considered one of the best batsmen of the modern era and in December 2006 reached the highest rating achieved by a Test batsman for 50 years, although this was surpassed by Steve Smith in December 2017. He stands in the top of the list with cricketers by number of international centuries scored.

Domestically Ponting played for his home state of Tasmania as well as Tasmania’s Hobart Hurricanes in Australia’s domestic Twenty20 competition, the Big Bash League. He played as a specialist right-handed batsman, an excellent slip fielder, as well as a very occasional bowler. He led Australia to their second 5–0 Ashes win as well as victory at the 2003 and 2007 Cricket World Cups and was also a member of the 1999 World Cup winning team under Steve Waugh. He led Australia to consecutive ICC Champions Trophy victory in 2006 and 2009. Combative and at times a controversial captain, statistically he is one of the most successful Test captains of all time, with 48 victories in 77 Tests between 2004 and 31 December 2010. As a player, Ponting is the first cricketer in history to be involved in 100 Test victories and set the record for the most ODI victories as a player, with 262 wins, having played in over 160 Tests and 370 ODIs.

A prolific batter, Ponting is one of the Australia’s leading run-scorers in Test and ODI cricket. He was named “Cricketer of the Decade 2000” in the country’s best Ashes XI in a Cricket Australia poll in 2017 and in July 2018 he was inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame. He is also known as the assistant coach of the Australian national men’s cricket team, having been appointed to the role in February 2019.

Ponting announced his retirement from Test cricket in November 2012, the day before playing in his final Test against South Africa; this was his 168th and last Test appearance, equaling the Australian record held by Steve Waugh. He retired with a Test batting average of 51.85, although he continued to play cricket around the world until 2013.

Ponting was known as an aggressive competitor, as manifested in his on-field conduct. According to former Australian captain Allan Border, what you see with Ponting is what you get, and “he wears his heart on his sleeve”. Border also noted that Ponting has an abundance of determination, courage and skill.

However, his competitive attitudes could be overly aggressive, pushing the boundaries of cricket etiquette. In early 2006, in the Chappell–Hadlee Trophy, Ponting had an on-field argument with umpire Billy Bowden over signaling a no-ball because not enough players were within the inner circle. In mid-2006, during a tour of Bangladesh, Ponting was accused of “badgering the umpires until he got what he wanted”.

The South African captain, Graeme Smith, described Ponting as the toughest competitor he had ever played against.

Ponting was known as an aggressive right-handed batsman who played a wide repertoire of shots with confidence, most notably the pull and hook. However, he had some technical weaknesses, such as shuffling across his stumps and being trapped leg before wicket, and thrusting his bat away from his body — especially early in his innings, because he wants to move forward and across to drive rather than backwards and across to cut the ball. Despite being widely renowned as the best player of the hook and pull shots in the world, Ponting was equally adept on both the front and back foot. However, during the latter stages of his career, the hook and pull shots have often been the cause of his dismissal. He adopts a more traditional V-grip lower down the handle as he is a short batsman that doesn’t have natural power on the shot.

He was considered by some observers to have trouble against quality spin, especially against Indian off spinner Harbhajan Singh, who dismissed Ponting on 13 occasions in international cricket. Ponting had a tendency to rock onto the front foot and thrust his wrists at spinning deliveries, resulting in many catches close to the wicket. Ponting rarely employed the sweep shot against spin, something considered unusual for a top-order batsman. Instead, he looked to use his feet to come down the wicket to spinners, or play off the back foot through the off-side. Former West Indian captain, Viv Richards, who was rated as the third best Test cricketer in a 2002 poll by Wisden, said Ponting was his favourite current-day player to watch, slightly ahead of Sachin Tendulkar.

A right-arm medium bowler who tends to bowl off cutters or faster offspin, Ponting rarely bowled, although he has notably dismissed West Indian batsman Brian Lara in an ODI match and former England captain Michael Vaughan in an Ashes Test in 2005. He was also ceremoniously asked to bowl in his final test match against South Africa in 2012. He was, however, rated one of the best fielders in the world. He usually fielded in the slips, cover and silly point. His good eye and accurate throws often saw him run batsmen out with direct hits.

Ponting has often been criticised for his lack of imagination in his captaincy, though many players who played under him say he is a good leader. According to former Australian opening batsman Justin Langer: “He is quite inspirational as a leader and I just never get all the detractors he has. Whether it’s in the fielding practice, the nets, the way he holds himself off the field — every time he speaks, these young guys just listen, they hang on every word he says”.

“Ponting captained 2 consecutive World Cup victories in 2003 and 2007 (out of Australia’s hat-trick of World Cups – 1999, 2003, 2007)”.

Beuran Hendricks

Beuran Eric Hendricks is a South African professional cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler known for playing with the Cape Cobras and his native Western Province cricket team. He made his international debut for the South Africa cricket team in March 2014.

Marcus Harris

Marcus Sinclair Harris is an Australian cricketer known for playing as an opening batsman for Victoria in domestic cricket. He made his Test cricket debut for the Australia national cricket team in December 2018.

Harris’ batting style is typical of Perth-raised opening batsmen, similar to Justin Langer and Chris Rogers. He has a variety of shots he can play well, particularly the cover drive and the pull and hook shots. He leaves the ball judiciously if he thinks it’s outside the line of his off stump. Harris is comfortable at facing fast bowling. Harris’ similarities with Langer were noted by former Australian coach Darren Lehmann following Harris’ maiden first-class century. Harris has said that this is because the two of them came from the same club team in Perth and had the same batting coach.

James Vince

James Michael Vince is an English cricketer known as the captain for Hampshire County Cricket Club and player for the England cricket team. Vince was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman who is also a right-arm medium pace bowler. He made his international debut for England in May 2015.