ICC Cricket world cup 2015 was a
two month feast to all cricket loving fans leaving lots of beautiful memories
behind. Brilliant performances by teams and players made the event even more
thrilling.
Michael Clarke, Kumar Sangakkara,
Mahela Jayewardene, Misbah-ul-Haq, Shahid Afridi, Brad Haddin, Kyle Mills and
now, Daniel Vettori - The 2015 World Cup saw stalwarts draw curtains on their
glowing one day international careers.
Cricket will go on but these
players will certainly leave behind an indelible impression on the game.
Kumar Sangakkara

He has shared the number one ICC test batting rank with AB de Villiers of
South Africa for a long period of time and is the second highest run scorer in
ODI’s behind Sachin Tendulkar.
He has won many awards and holds many records.
His passion and commitment for the game makes him different from all other
players.
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Mahela Jayewardene
Mahela Jayewardene,
who retired from ODIs after the World Cup, was one of the finest batsmen to come through the highly competitive school
cricket set up in Sri Lanka.
Jayewardene is well
known for his brilliant captaincy and elegant batsman ship. Despite his relatively
low ODI average (33.37), he is considered as one the best batsman produced by
Sri Lanka and scored more than 10000 test runs. He was a key part of many ICC
events which Sri Lankan team has played since 1998.
He has scored 34 test, 19
ODI and 1 T20 centuries. Jayewardene is the man who took the team from the
Ranatunga/Jayasuriya era and made them a thoroughly professional unit.
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Brendon Taylor
Brendon is a
Zimbabwean cricketer and captain who hung up his shoes by the end of 2015 world
cup campaign. He is one of best recognized Zimbabwean cricketers of all time.
Brendon is known for his performances on and off the field. He brought the
Zimbabwean team back into international reckoning after the 2006 crisis. He was the only player who scored back to
back centuries for Zimbabwein one day internationals and also became the man to
score most number of centuries for them.
He had played
a wonderful world cup tournament in 2015 by scoring more than 400 runs and
reaching in the top 5 run getters list. The averages and statistics may not
look great but his contributions to Zimbabwean cricket will never be forgotten. View Career Statistics
Michael Clarke

The averages
show his talents and how he himself evolved over a period of time to be one of
the greatest Australian cricketers. Check Career Statistics.
Misbah-ul-Haq

More than cricket player he is a very good leader of his team. Under his captaincy and
performance, Pakistan has won many tournaments and games. Amazingly, he has
scored a lot of runs for Pakistan in ODIs without scoring a single century.
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Shahid Afridi

Afridi was more
about entertainment than statistics. A
player like Afridi will be hard to replace.
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Vettori was
one of the few cricketers who became a modern day great by keeping it simple.
He used ancient weaponryto outfox batsmen. He was a consistent performer with
amazing accuracy, flight and guile rather than prodigious turn.
Vettori is a
surprisingly good batsman with over 4000 runs to go with 300+ wickets in test
matches He served his nation for a long 18 years and led New Zealand team nearly
4 years from 2007 to 2011.
Daniel Vettori
is all about respect. Check Career Statistics.
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