Cricket legends Janette Brittin, Shaun Pollock and Mahela Jayawardene are all set to be inducted into ICC’s Hall of Fame, with an official induction due to take place on Sunday prior to the T20 World Cup 2021 final in Dubai between New Zealand and Australia.
Brittin’s name is included in the esteemed ICC Hall of Fame four years after the former England women’s team cricketer died in 2017. The right-hand batter played 27 Tests and 63 ODIs in a career spanning 19 years. From her debut in 1979 to her last outing back in 1998, she made 1,935 runs at an average of 49.61 in Tests and 2,121 runs at 42.42 per innings in ODIs.
Brittin made five hundreds each in Tests and ODIs, besides scoring 19 international half-centuries. She also bagged 17 wickets at the top level with her off-breaks and maintained an economy rate of 2.09 in Tests and 3.85 in ODIs.
Only 58 when she died, Brittin holds the record for being the most capped woman in Tests and the oldest to score a Test century, besides being the second oldest ODI centurion. She was also the top scorer of the 1993 World Cup final for England versus New Zealand.
Pollock, the former South Africa skipper and allrounder, featured in 108 Tests, 303 ODIs and 12 T20Is in his illustrious career. He is regarded as one of the greatest ever allrounders to have played the game. Pollock took 421 Tests and 393 ODI wickets while averaging 23.11 in Tests and going for only 3.67 runs per over in ODIs.
He backed his exploits as a bowler with 3,781 runs at 32.31 per innings in Tests and 3,519 runs in ODIs at a strike-rate of 86.69.
Jayawardene, the ever-classy right-hand bat and former Sri Lanka captain, made over 10,000 runs in both Tests and ODIs (11,814 at 49.84 and 12,650 at 33.37 in the two formats, respectively). He scored 54 centuries in international cricket and played five ICC finals for Sri Lanka, winning the 2014 edition of the T20 World Cup in Bangladesh.
