The numbers on cricketers’ shirts help identify a player to the officials, commentators, or even the spectators. The numbers on the front of a player’s shirt indicate the chronological position of their appearance for a particular country. Whereas, numbers on the back are typically self-chosen. However, these numbers are not always just useful for commentators or spectators alone. Sometimes, the jersey numbers of cricketers have much larger personal significance.

Marnus Labuschagne

Marnus Labuschagne is an Australian cricketer known for playing internationally with the Australian national team and domestically with Queensland. He also chose to play for Glamorgan in county cricket and for the Brisbane Heat in the Big Bash League. Labuschagne was also rated as the No.1 batsman in the world in the ICC Test batting rankings.

In August 2019, Labuschagne was the first cricketer to become a concussion substitute in a Cricket Test match, replacing Steve Smith. Labuschagne was the leading run-scorer in Test matches in 2019. He rose to fourth place in the ICC Player Rankings during the year, a rise of 106 places. In January 2020, Labuschagne was named as the ICC Men’s Emerging Cricketer of the Year by the International Cricket Council (ICC), in February as Australia’s Test player of the year, and in April as one of the five Cricketers of the Year by Wisden Cricketers’ Almanack.

Hardik Pandya

Hardik Himanshu Pandya is an Indian international cricketer known as a player for Baroda in domestic cricket and captain for Gujarat Titans in the Indian Premier League. He is an all-rounder who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm fast-medium. His elder brother Krunal Pandya is also an international cricketer.

Mark Wood

Mark Andrew Wood is an English cricketer. Wood is a right-arm fast bowler who also bats right-handed. He chose to represent England internationally in all forms of the game, and play domestic cricket for Durham. Wood was part of the England squad that won the 2019 Cricket World Cup. Wood is known as one of the fastest bowlers in the world, having hit speeds up to 97mph (156kph).

Shane Watson

Shane Robert Watson is an Australian former cricketer, and occasional captain in all formats, who has played for Australia’s national cricket team. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-handed fast-medium swing bowler who played international cricket between 2002 and 2016. He was the world No. 1 T20I all-rounder for 150 weeks, and set the record of 120 consecutive weeks (13 Oct 2011 – 30 January 2014). He was the last player to retire from Australia’s golden era of the early 2000s.

Watson set several records in T20Is, ODIs and T20s. According to Forbes, Watson was the highest-paid non-Indian cricketer in the world for five consecutive years between 2011 and 2015.

He is considered one of the most influential white ball all-rounders in this era and won the Player of the Series or Most Valuable Player award in a number of crucial tournaments, including the 2009 Champions Trophy, 2012 World T20, 2008 IPL and 2013 IPL. He is one of the few players to score a century and take a hat-trick in the Indian Premier League along with Rohit Sharma.

On 2 November 2020, he announced his retirement from all forms of cricket. Ahead of IPL 2022, Watson joined Delhi Capitals as assistant coach of the franchise.

Jayden Seales

Jayden Seales is a Trinidadian cricketer. Seales made his international debut for the West Indies cricket team in June 2021.

Nasir Jamal

Nasir Jamal is an Afghan cricketer. He made his international debut for the Afghanistan cricket team in July 2014.

Chamu Chibhabha

Chamunorwa Justice “Chamu” Chibhabha is a Zimbabwean cricketer who bats right-handed and bowls right-arm medium pace. In January 2020, Zimbabwe Cricket named him as the captain of Zimbabwe’s One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) squads on an interim basis.