India’s Harbhajan Singh and Javagal Srinath have been amongst 18 cricketers who have been awarded life membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) on Tuesday.
The MCC at Lord’s is the custodian of cricket legal guidelines.
Both Harbhajan and Srinath loved glorious worldwide careers. Harbhajan is India’s third-highest wicket-taker in Tests, with 417 dismissals in 103 Tests and over 700 worldwide wickets throughout all codecs.
Srinath, at the moment the ICC Elite Panel Match Referee, is without doubt one of the biggest quick bowlers of all time with 315 ODI wickets and 236 Test victims.
“This year’s list represents eight of the 12 Test-playing nations, including some of the most recognized names in the modern game,” the MCC mentioned in a press release.
England’s main Test run-scorer Alastair Cook is joined by fellow countrymen Ian Bell and Marcus Trescothick, with a complete of greater than 39,000 worldwide runs between them.
England’s fourth star, Sarah Taylor, appeared on this 12 months’s Rachel Hehowe Flint Trophy, Charlotte Edwards Cup and The Hundred, and is acknowledged as one of many best wicketkeepers of her technology.
Four South African veterans have been awarded honorary lifetime memberships, with Hashim Amla, Herschelle Gibbs, Jacques Kallis and Morne Morkel all receiving the honour. Kallis’s 13,289 Test runs place him third on the all-time run-scorer checklist.
Women’s batsman Alex Blackwell and Australian fashionable Damien Martin are additionally concerned.
Ian Bishop, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Ramnaresh Sarwan all signify the West Indies. Bishop took 161 wickets in simply 43 matches, whereas Chanderpaul is West Indies’ most capped Test participant (164) and solely seven gamers have scored greater than his 11,867 runs.
Sarwan scored 15 Test centuries, and his 291 towards England in 2009 equaled West Indies’ highest particular person rating on English soil in 1976 by Sir Viv Richards.
Sri Lanka’s Rangana Herath took 433 Test wickets in a profession spanning almost 20 years, and is among the many high ten wicket-takers of all time.
Sarah McGlashan is the one New Zealander on the checklist to have made greater than 200 appearances for the White Ferns throughout a profession spanning 14 years and Zimbabwe all-rounder Grant Flower has been acknowledged for 10,000 worldwide runs in 288 matches.
“After being authorised by the MCC committee, invitation letters are despatched to the particular person to be accepted. There is not any set quantity per 12 months. Nominees will be accepted and honored at any time,” the assertion mentioned.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
