Mahela, Shaun, Janette inducted into ICC Hall of Fame

 

Mahela Jayawardene, Shaun Pollock and Janette Brittin have been inducted into ICC Cricket Hall of Fame.

Their formal induction took place before the T20 World Cup 2021 final between New Zealand and Australia at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium.

Jayawardena received his ICC Hall of Fame commemorative cap from Sir Clive Lloyd.

Jayawardene held many records for Sri Lanka - he captained them, played five ICC finals and won the T20 World Cup in 2014.

He also scored over 10,000 runs in both Tests and ODIs, and is now considered an astute T20 coach.

Pollock, apart from being among the finest allrounders from South Africa, also took over the captaincy at a challenging time from Hansie Cronje and went on to play 108 Tests and became the first South African to 400 Test wickets.

Brittin, who died in 2017, played 27 Tests and 63 ODIs for England Women from 1979 to 1998 and scored 1935 and 2121 runs in the two formats respectively, and holds several records.

She is the most capped Test player among women.

Brittin was the oldest woman to score a Test hundred (at 39 years and 38 days vs Australia in 1998) and the second-oldest to score an ODI hundred (at 38 years and 161 days vs Pakistan in 1997).

She scored the most Test runs in a calendar year (531 in 1984) and she has the most 50-plus scores (16) in women's Tests.