• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

Countries with the most overseas born International players over the years??

Line and Length

Cricketer Of The Year
Being born abroad is meaningless - people travel on work. There is a huge difference between someone born abroad who returns to England as a child with or without getting nationality of country of birth (i.e. Strauss who moved back with British parents to the UK at the age of 6) and, say, Pietersen who is clearly South African and became eligible through dodgy rules. It is the same difference between Andrew Symonds and Keppler Wessels. Geraint Jones is hardly Papuan - if anything he is Australian or Welsh - learned his trade in Aus so I would have him as Australian for these purposes.

Australia have had 21 players born overseas play for them as follows:

ENGLAND (10): Charles Bannerman, John Hodges, Tom Kendall, William Midwinter, Percy McDonnell, William Cooper, Henry Musgrove, Hanson Carter, Tony Dell and Andrew Symonds.
SCOTLAND (1): Archie Jackson.
IRELAND (2): Tom Horan, Tom Kelly.
PAKISTAN (1): Usman Khawaja
SOUTH AFRICA (1): Kepler Wessels.
NEW ZEALAND (3): Tom Groube, Clarrie Grimmett and Brendon Julian.
INDIA (2): Bransby Cooper and Rex Sellers.
SRI LANKA (1): Dav Whatmore.
There are at least 4 more names that can be added to that lists and, quite remarkably, they all played in the Sydney Test against Pakiston in 2017.

Matt Renshaw (England)
Usman Khawaja (Pakistan)
Steve O'Keefe (Malaysia)
Hilton Cartwright (Zimbabwe)
 

TheJediBrah

Request Your Custom Title Now!
who was that dude who couldn't crack the aus setup so went to the windies?
Is wasn't because he couldn't crack the aus setup, he struggled to even get a regular game for Queensland. He was never anywhere close to representative cricket afaik.
 

BoyBrumby

Englishman
There are at least 4 more names that can be added to that lists and, quite remarkably, they all played in the Sydney Test against Pakiston in 2017.

Matt Renshaw (England)
Usman Khawaja (Pakistan)
Steve O'Keefe (Malaysia)
Hilton Cartwright (Zimbabwe)
Marnus too, obvz.
 

Starfighter

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Moises Henriques (Portugal) is another for Australia.

The most interesting measure would be most players from other test-playing countries vs non-test playing.
 
Last edited:

Top