26 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.

Carlos Brathwaite

Carlos Ricardo Brathwaite is a cricketer from Barbados and a former captain of the West Indies Twenty20 International (T20I) team.

Tabraiz Shamsi

Tabraiz Shamsi is a South African cricketer. He has played first-class cricket for teams such as Dolphins, Gauteng, Gauteng Under-19s, KwaZulu Natal, KwaZulu-Natal Inland, Lions, and Titans. His batting style is right-handed and he is known for his left-arm unorthodox spin bowling.

Imam-ul-Haq

Imam-ul-Haq is a Pakistani international cricketer. On his One Day International (ODI) debut against Sri Lanka, he became the second batsman for Pakistan, and thirteenth overall, to score a century on debut. 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).

Alastair Cook

Alastair Nathan Cook is an English cricketer known for playing with Essex County Cricket Club, and played for England in all international formats from 2006 to 2018. A former captain of the England Test and One-Day International (ODI) teams, he is one of the highest Test run scorers of all time and set a number of English and international records.

Cook is one of the England’s most capped Test players; he has captained the English team in numerous Tests, as well as ODIs. He is one of the leading run-scorers in Test matches for England, and one of the youngest players to score 12,000 Test runs (the sixth overall, and the first Englishman). Cook set the record of 33 Test centuries for England; and he is the first England player to win 50 Test matches. A left-handed opening batsman (one of the highest-scoring left-handers in Tests), he normally fields at first slip.

Cook played for Essex’s Academy and made his debut for the first XI in 2003. He played in several of England’s youth teams from 2000 until his call-up to the Test side in 2006. While touring in the West Indies with the ECB National Academy, Cook was called up to the England national team in India as a last-minute replacement for Marcus Trescothick and he debuted, aged 21, with a century. He went on to score 1,000 runs in his maiden year and made centuries in his first Test matches against India, Pakistan, the West Indies and Bangladesh. Cook played a pivotal role in England winning the 2009 Ashes series, and, after deputizing as Test captain in 2010 and then taking ODI captaincy full-time, in retaining the Ashes in 2010–11.

He was appointed captain of the Test team after Andrew Strauss’s retirement on 29 August 2012. Cook captained England to its first Test series victory in India since 1984–85. During the tour he became the first captain to score a century in each of his first five Tests in charge. On 30 May 2015, Cook became the leading run-scorer in Test matches for England, surpassing Graham Gooch (8900). After England’s 2016 tour of Bangladesh and India, he stepped down as Test captain.

Cook was appointed MBE in 2011 and promoted to CBE in 2016 for cricket services. On 24 May 2018 during the first Test against Pakistan, Cook equaled Allan Border’s record for appearing in the greatest number of consecutive Test matches, with 153, surpassing it a week later in the second Test at Headingley. On 3 September 2018, Cook announced that his twelve-year international career would end at the conclusion of the series against India on 11 September 2018. In the 2019 New Year Honours, Cook was appointed a Knight Bachelor for services to cricket.

On the occasion of England’s 1000th Test in August 2018, he was named in the country’s greatest Test XI by the ECB.

Olly Stone

Oliver Peter Stone is an English cricketer known for playing with Warwickshire and England. Stone is a right-arm fast bowler and right-handed batsman. He was born in Norwich, Norfolk and was educated at Thorpe St Andrew School. He made his international debut for England in October 2018.