Dawid Malan

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You’ll be hard-pressed to find a more experienced batter still plying his trade at the top of the sport than Dawid Malan.

Eighteen years on from his First-Class debut for Boland (Malan was born in Roehampton but raised in South Africa), the southpaw is still producing match-winning batting displays, now mostly on the franchise circuit.

It was in T20 cricket where Malan first made a name for himself, arriving at the crease as a number six for Middlesex in 2006 as a 20-year-old and walking off with an unbeaten hundred, against a Lancashire attack including Andrew Flintoff, Glen Chapple and Dominic Cork.

The left-hander got his first taste of international action in the shortest format, debuting against South Africa in Cardiff with a blistering 78 from 44 balls, before playing the first of his 22 Tests a month later, against the same opposition.

One of only two English male players to score a century in all three formats, after Jos Buttler, Malan also holds the record for the fastest male player to 1,000 runs in T20Is and is joint fourth-fastest to the same milestone in 50-over cricket.

His Test career came in two halves, a 15-match stint from his debut through to mid-2018, which included a maiden century against the Australians at the WACA.

His pedigree and experience Down Under earned him a recall for England’s 2021/22 Ashes tour, in which he his back-to-back 80s in the first two Tests but would ultimately be dropped after the series.

Now a short-format specialist, Malan has regularly turned out in Pakistan and Bangladesh as well as South Africa, the UAE and Australia.

On home soil the left-hander was the leading run-scorer for the Trent Rockets in 2022 as the side claimed their maiden title.