4 jersey number in cricket

The jersey numbers in cricket were first used in the 1999 World Cup, where captain wore the jersey number 1 while others wore from number 2 to 15. Now, the players choose their favorite numbers, some are based on the numerology belief, astrology, birthdate, and some take it as a random.

Paul Reifell

Paul Ronald Reiffel is an Australian former cricketer who played in 35 Tests and 92 One Day Internationals (ODIs) from 1992 to 1999. He was part of Australia’s victorious 1999 World Cup team. After retirement he became a first-class cricket umpire. He is known as a member of the Elite Panel of ICC Umpires.

Reiffel’s career best bowling figures of 6/71 came at Edgbaston in 1993. Throughout his career he took 104 wickets at 26.96 in 35 Tests, taking 5 or more wickets in an innings five times. An accurate bowler whose main attacking weapon was seam bowling, Reiffel was a more than handy batsman. While limited in his shotmaking ability, he had a solid defence. Two notable achievements in his Australian playing career were being members of the winning 1999 Cricket World Cup ODI team and the test side that defeated the West Indies during the 1994/95 Frank Worrell Trophy series. Reiffel was a Victorian cricket captain who was notorious for declaring a Victorian innings closed in 2001 with Michael Klinger on 99 not out.

Amir Hamza

Amir Hamza Hotak is an Afghan cricketer. He is a right-handed batsman who bowls slow left-arm orthodox.

Hotak was part of the Afghanistan Under-19 team which took part in the ICC Under-19 World Cup in New Zealand. He made one appearance, which came against Papua New Guinea Under-19s. He later made his first-class debut for Afghanistan against Canada in the 2011-13 ICC Intercontinental Cup. Hotak later made his One Day International debut in Afghanistan’s first One Day International against a Full Member Test-playing nation, when they played Pakistan at Sharjah in February 2012. Batting at number ten, Hotak was dismissed for a six ball duck by Wahab Riaz in Afghanistan’s innings of 195, while in Pakistan’s innings he bowled four wicketless overs, conceding 22 runs. Pakistan won the encounter by 7 wickets.

He was the leading wicket-taker in the 2018 Ahmad Shah Abdali 4-day Tournament, finishing with 67 dismissals in ten matches.

In September 2018, he was named in Kandahar’s squad in the first edition of the Afghanistan Premier League tournament.

In May 2018, he was named in Afghanistan’s squad for their inaugural Test match, played against India, but he was not selected for the match. In November 2019, he was again named in Afghanistan’s Test squad, this time for the one-off match against the West Indies. He made his Test debut for Afghanistan, against the West Indies, on 27 November 2019. In the match, he became the first bowler for Afghanistan to take a five-wicket haul on debut in Tests.

Aiden Markram

Aiden Kyle Markram is a South African cricketer who captained the South African under-19 cricket team to win the 2014 ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup. In the 2018 South African Cricket Annual, he was named as one of the five Cricketers of the Year. He made his international debut for South Africa in September 2017.

Alex Carey

Alex Tyson Carey is an Australian international cricketer. Formerly an Australian rules footballer, he is known as a wicket-keeper who plays for the Australian national team in all formats. In domestic cricket, he chose to play for South Australia and Adelaide Strikers. He was the captain of the Greater Western Sydney Giants in 2010, but when they joined the Australian Football League in 2012, he was left out of the squad and returned to his home state of South Australia, where he began to play domestic cricket.

Carey initially made his debut as a specialist top-order batsman in 2013, but was unsuccessful and dropped. He moved down the batting order and became a wicket-keeper.

Shai Hope

Shai Diego Hope is a Barbadian cricketer known for playing international cricket with the West Indies cricket team. At the age of 21, he was called into the West Indies squad after he scored a double century against the Windwards Islands at the Kensington Oval on the last day of the 2014–15 Regional Four Day Competition. He made his international debut for the West Indies in May 2015. In June 2018, he was named the Men’s Cricketer of the Year, Test Cricketer of the Year and the ODI Cricketer of the Year at the annual Cricket West Indies’ Awards. The following year, he was named the ODI Player of the Year.

Max O’Dowd

Maxwell Patrick “Max” O’Dowd is a Dutch international cricketer who made his debut for the Dutch national side on June 2015. In the North Sea Pro Series, he has played for the Northern Hurricanes. O’Dowd made his Twenty20 International debut for the Netherlands against Nepal on 1 July 2015.

Akila Dananjaya

Mahamarakkala Kurukulasooriya Patabendige Akila Dananjaya Perera, popularly as Akila Dananjaya, is a professional Sri Lankan cricketer known for playing all forms of the game with the national team. In March 2021, he became the first bowler to take hat-trick and be hit for the maximum of six sixes in an over in the same match, against West Indies.

In December 2018, he was suspended from bowling in international matches after his bowling action was deemed to be illegal, which was later corrected to play in March 2019. However, in September 2019, the International Cricket Council (ICC) suspended Dananjaya from bowling in international matches for twelve months after his bowling action was once again deemed to be illegal, a penalty received for failing a biomechanics assessment twice within a two-year period. He was cleared to bowl in international cricket again on 8 January 2021.

T. Natarajan

Thangarasu Natarajan is an Indian cricketer. He made his international debut for the India cricket team in December 2020. He chose to play for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and for Tamil Nadu in domestic cricket. He became the first Indian cricketer to make his international debut across all three formats on the same tour when he was playing in India’s 2020–21 tour of Australia.