11 jersey number in cricket

A cricket player’s jersey number is their form of identification in the game. You may even call it a tag. Every player has an inscription of this significant number alongside their surname at the back of their jersey. It is easier to remember the jersey number of a cricketer than their actual name.

Mohammed Shami

Mohammed Shami Ahmed is an Indian international cricketer, known for playing with the Indian national cricket team in all formats of the game as a bowler. He chose to play domestically for Bengal and in the Indian Premier League for Gujarat Titans.

He is a right-arm fast bowler, who has bowled consistently at around 140 km/h (87 mph), moving the ball off the seam and using swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both ways. He has been described as a fine bowler at the end of a limited-overs innings and as “unplayable” at times in all formats.

Shami made his international debut in a One Day International (ODI) against Pakistan in January 2013, bowling four maiden overs. His Test debut in November 2013 saw him take a five-wicket haul against the West Indies. He is one of the fastest Indian bowlers to take 100 ODI wickets. During the 2019 Cricket World Cup, he became the second Indian bowler to claim a hat-trick in a World Cup match. Shami got an A grade central contract from the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI), the second highest grade of contract.

Shami is a right-arm fast bowler who has the ability to move the ball off the seam and using swing, including reverse swing, to move the ball both ways. He has bowled persistently at around 140 km/h (87 mph), with one of his highest bowling speeds being 153.2 km/h against Australia during the 2014 series at MCG. According to ESPNcricinfo, the secret of Shami’s success lies in his wrist with his run-up and action being quite smooth. Earlier he used to be accused of straying to leg once too often for searching wickets, but then shifted the line of attack to the left ever so slightly. As a result when he bowls in the channel, he really does bowl in the channel. His wicket taking ability and bowling reverse swing make him one of the lethal bowlers of the world and which is why he has been described as ‘unplayable’ at times regardless of the formats.

Shami’s ability of bowling yorkers continuously at much needed times has been discussed and praised by several former cricketers and critics. His wrist is firmly cocked at the point of delivery and his slightly split fingers come down so straight that the seam invariably comes out bolt upright, which along with being neither a swing bowler nor a hit-the-deck-hard bowler make him a unique fast bowler.

Daniel Vettori

Daniel Luca Vettori is a New Zealand cricket coach and former cricketer who played for the New Zealand cricket team in all formats. He is the 200th Test cap for New Zealand.

He was the captain of New Zealand between 2007 and 2011. Vettori is the eighth player in Test history to take 300 wickets and score 3,000 runs. He is one of the youngest male players to have represented New Zealand in Test cricket, having made his debut in 1996–97 at the age of 18, and one of New Zealand’s most-capped test cricketers with 112 caps, and One-Day cricketers with 284 caps. Vettori was a bowling all-rounder who bowled slow left-arm orthodox spin.

He is known for his accuracy, flight and guile rather than prodigious turn, and also his speed variation. Vettori announced his retirement from all forms of cricket following the 2015 Cricket World Cup.

Temba Bavuma

Temba Bavuma is a South African cricketer known as the captain of the South African national team in limited overs (One Day International and Twenty20 International) cricket. He is also known as the vice-captain of the South African national cricket team in Test cricket. He was the first black African cricketer to make a Test century for South Africa and the first to captain the side. Bavuma is only the second South African cricketer to score a century on ODI debut, scoring 113 runs against Ireland in September 2016. He is also South Africa’s first permanently appointed black captain.

Kraigg Brathwaite

Kraigg Clairmonte Brathwaite is a Barbadian cricketer known as the captain of the West Indies in Test Cricket. He bats right-handed and occasionally bowls right arm off break. On 6 November 2011, he became only the second West Indian to score two Test fifties before his 19th birthday when he made 63 (212) against India in Delhi. He has also effectively stood as stand-in-captain in place of Jason Holder in seven test matches before becoming the permanent captain of the test team taking over from Holder. He idolises Shivnarine Chanderpaul and his batting style.

Karim Janat

Karim Janat is an Afghan cricketer. He made his first-class debut against the England Lions on 7 December 2016. Prior to his first-class debut, he was part of Afghanistan’s squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup.