21 jersey number in cricket

The numbers on cricketers’ shirts help identify a player to the officials, commentators, or even the spectators. The numbers on the front of a player’s shirt indicate the chronological position of their appearance for a particular country. Whereas, numbers on the back are typically self-chosen. However, these numbers are not always just useful for commentators or spectators alone. Sometimes, the jersey numbers of cricketers have much larger personal significance.

Matt Henry

Matthew James Henry is a New Zealand professional cricketer known for playing with Canterbury, and with the New Zealand national team. He is a right-arm fast-medium bowler.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Rahmanullah Gurbaz is an Afghan cricketer. He made his international debut for Afghanistan in September 2019. In January 2021, he became the first batsman for Afghanistan to score a century on debut in a One Day International (ODI) match.

Manish Pandey

Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian international cricketer known for playing ODI and T20I for India. He is primarily a right-handed middle-order batsman who chose to represent Karnataka in domestic cricket and Lucknow Super Giants in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He played as an opening batsman for his former IPL team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore, and became the first Indian player to score a century in the IPL in 2009 Indian Premier League.

Simi Singh

Simranjit “Simi” Singh is an Irish cricketer. In December 2018, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract by Cricket Ireland for the 2019 season. In January 2020, he was one of nineteen players to be awarded a central contract from Cricket Ireland, the first year in which all contracts were awarded on a full-time basis.

JP Duminy

Jean-Paul Duminy, more commonly known as JP Duminy, is a South African cricket commentator, and former international cricketer. He was vice-captain of the South Africa Twenty20 team. He is a left-handed batsman and a right-arm off spin bowler. Duminy, who is a Cape Coloured, was raised in the Western Cape and played domestic cricket for his home team, the Cape Cobras.

In September 2017, Duminy retired from Test cricket after playing 46 matches between 2008 and 2017. In May 2019, Duminy announced his retirement from domestic cricket and in July 2019, he retired from all forms of international cricket.

Moises Henriques

Moisés Constantino Henriques is a Portugal-born Australian professional cricketer known for playing with Australia, New South Wales and the Sydney Sixers. An all-rounder, he is the first cricketer born in Portugal to play for Australia in an international match.

A genuine all-rounder, Henriques states that he “couldn’t choose” between batting and bowling as his preferred art. Despite this, some have commented that his bowling is slightly better than his batting. As a right-handed batsman, Henriques bats in the middle to lower order, and as a right-arm medium-fast bowler he generally opens the attack. His style has been compared to Australian Shane Watson, but Henriques looks up to South African all-rounder Jacques Kallis as a source of inspiration.

Wes Agar

Wesley Austin Agar is an Australian cricketer. He is a fast bowler who has played for Australia’s national youth team, and has played first-class and List A cricket for South Australia and Twenty20s for the Adelaide Strikers. He is the younger brother of fellow Australian international cricketer, Ashton Agar. He made his international debut for Australia in July 2021.

Agar spent his childhood in Victoria but moved to South Australia to seek more opportunities. He represented the state at under-19 level and was named in Australia’s national under-19 squad for the 2016 Under-19 Cricket World Cup before Australia pulled out of the tournament. He had a rookie contract with South Australia and played his first matches at state level in the 2016–17 Matador BBQs One-Day Cup, after which he also signed with the Adelaide Strikers to play in the Big Bash League. In 2017, he was not given another contract with South Australia and returned to Victoria.

Agar is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm fast bowler. He has focused on bowling quickly, bowling at speeds of up to 130 km/h when he was still a teenager. By 2017, he was aiming to bowl consistently at 140 km/h, a feat that most bowlers can’t achieve. He is also a useful batsman, and Troy Cooley, the coach at the Centre of Excellence, has said that his older brother Ashton adopted his batting approach to improve his own batting.

JJ Smuts

Jon-Jon Trevor Smuts is a South African cricketer known for playing with the Warriors in the South African domestic competitions. He is a right-handed opening batsman and a slow left-arm bowler. In 2010 he was selected for the South African Emerging Players’ squad to tour Australia. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. He is the brother of cricket player Kelly Smuts.

Mohammad Nawaz

Mohammad Nawaz is a Pakistani cricketer. In August 2018, he was one of thirty-three players to be awarded a central contract for the 2018–19 season by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).

Akeal Hosein

Akeal Jerome Hosein is a Trinidadian cricketer known for playing with Trinidad and Tobago in West Indian domestic cricket, as well as representing the Trinbago Knight Riders in the Caribbean Premier League (CPL).