45 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.

Rohit Sharma

Rohit Gurunath Sharma is an Indian international cricketer known as the captain of the Indian national team. A right-handed opening batsman and an occasional right-arm off break bowler, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding batsmen in limited overs cricket. He chose to play for Mumbai in domestic cricket. He became the captain Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League and they won the tournament numerous times under his leadership.

Sharma set the world record for the highest individual score (264) in a one-day international match and is the first player to have scored three double-centuries in one-day internationals. He won the ICC Men’s ODI Cricketer of the Year award in 2019 after he scored five centuries in the 2019 World Cup tournament. Sharma has received national honours, such as the Arjuna Award in 2015 and the prestigious Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020.

Outside cricket, Sharma is an active supporter of animal welfare campaigns. He is the official Rhino Ambassador for WWF-India and is a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). He has worked with PETA in its campaign to raise awareness of the plight of homeless cats and dogs in India.

Sharma is an aggressive batsman but with style and elegance. He is usually an opening batsman in limited overs cricket but has played most of his Test cricket as a middle-order batsman. In limited overs cricket, Sharma is widely recognized as one of the format’s most outstanding batsmen.

Sunil Gavaskar considers Sharma to have a batting style similar to those of Virender Sehwag and Viv Richards.

While Sharma is not a regular bowler, he can bowl right arm off spin. He usually fields in the slips and has said this is a part of his game on which he works very hard for improvement.

Chris Gayle

Christopher Henry Gayle is a Jamaican cricketer known for playing international cricket with the West Indies from 1999. A destructive batter, Gayle is widely regarded as one of the greatest batsmen to have played Twenty20 cricket, and by some as the best ever. He played a crucial role in the West Indies teams that won 2004 ICC Champions Trophy, 2012 ICC World Twenty20 and 2016 ICC World Twenty20.

He has set numerous records across all three formats of the game. He is one of the most capped players for the West Indies in international cricket and is the first player to score a triplet of centuries – a triple hundred in Tests, double hundred in ODIs and a hundred in T20Is. Gayle is the first player to score more than 14000 runs and hit more than 1000 sixes in T20 cricket. He is also one of the leading run scorers for West Indies in both ODI’s and T20I’s and along with Brian Lara the first player to score more than 10,000 runs for West Indies in ODI Cricket.

In addition to his batting, he has picked up over 200 International Wickets with his Right-arm off-break spin bowling. He was awarded the Most Valuable Player in the 2011 Indian Premier League and held the Orange Cap in 2012. On 23 April 2013, he broke the record for the fastest ever T20 hundred in his landmark knock of 175 runs from 66 balls for Royal Challengers Bangalore against Pune Warriors India in the IPL, which is also one of the highest scores by a batsman in T20 history. He also equaled the record for the fastest 50 in T20 cricket while playing for Melbourne Renegades in the Big Bash League.

Playing Tests, he has scored over 7000 runs at an average of over 42 and captained the West Indian Test side from 2007 to 2010. He last played in a Test match in September 2014, against Bangladesh. After initially expressing his desire to retire from ODI’s after the 2019 Cricket World Cup, he nonetheless played in the ODI series against India after the World Cup playing his final and 301st ODI match wearing the special jersey number 301 in August 2019, against India. In December 2020, Gayle was included in the ICC T20I Team of the Decade.

In September 2021, he was included in the West Indies squad for 2021 ICC Men’s T20 World Cup.

Heinrich Klaasen

Heinrich Klaasen is a South African cricketer known for playing with the South African national cricket team. He was included in the Northerns cricket team squad for the 2015 Africa T20 Cup. He was picked by Rajasthan Royals in 2018, and by Royal Challengers Bangalore in 2019 to play in the Indian Premier League (IPL). In February 2021, Klaasen captained South Africa for the first time in a T20I match.

Alasdair Evans

Alasdair Campbell Evans is an English born Scottish cricketer. Evans is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium-fast. He was born in Pembury, Kent.

Ben Duckett

Ben Matthew Duckett is an English cricketer known for playing with Nottinghamshire. He is a left-handed batsman who can play as a wicket-keeper. He made his international debut for England in October 2016. Duckett has signed for the Brisbane Heat.

Asif Ali

Asif Ali is a Pakistani professional cricketer known for playing with the Pakistan national cricket team. In first-class cricket, Asif decided to represent Northern, and he chose to play for Islamabad United in the Pakistan Super League.

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).

Samiullah Shinwari

Samiullah Shinwari is an Afghan cricketer known for representing Afghanistan in international level. He is a right-handed batsman and part-time leg break bowler. He made his international debut for Afghanistan in April 2009.