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10 Shortest Cricketers Of All Time

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10 Shortest Cricketers Of All Time
Sachin Tendulkar (Credit: BCCI)

8. Kedar Jadhav, India | 5.41 ft

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Kedar Jadhav (Credits: Twitter)

The all-rounder from Maharashtra is a special player his journey has been very inspiring, even after being a comparatively older player he got his permanent slot in the Indian side. He was regularly given spots in the playing XI until he was dropped from the team for series of poor performances.

The Maharashtrian cricketer since making his debut in the year 2014 has been a regular member of the Indian side. Kedar Jadhav with his multi-dimensional skills even booked his ticket in the 2019 World Cup team. Kedar Jadhav represented the national side in 73 ODI and 9 T20i scorings 1389 and 122 runs respectively and picking only 27 ODI wickets.


7. Sachin Tendulkar, India | 5.41 ft

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Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar is arguably the greatest cricketer of all time. Recently he was even named by the expert 50-member jury as the Greatest Test batsman of all time in the 21st century. From a very young age, he started dominating in cricket everybody knew this child has got everything to become a G.O.A.T which he successfully did.

Across the decades he played he make sure to break every single batting record. The God Of Cricket is the only player with 34000 international runs which still seems like an unbreakable record.

Master blaters’ aura was completely different he was one of the big reasons behind cricket getting popular in India. Sachin was also known as Little Master because of his short height of 5.41 ft. Being short was an advantage for him because it helped him play shots like uppercut and paddle sweep frequently. Tendulkar is a prime example of short height in cricket can stop you from achieving big heights.


6. Gundappa Vishwanath, India | 5.3 ft

He was the OG of Indian cricket he represented India in the 1970s and was a very elegant right-handed middle-order batsman. He provided his services to the nation for 14 long years. Vishy was a very disciplined player even legends like Sunil Gavaskar admired him a lot.

Vishwanath played 90 tests and scored over 6000 runs at an average of over 40. Interestingly he stroked 14 international centuries in his career and all of them came in a winning cause.


5. Mominul Haque, Bangladesh | 5.28 ft

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A very talented left-hand batsman from Chittagong made a very impressive debut in cricket scoring 150runs in the first 4 innings that too against Sri Lankan bowler like Rangana Hearth. Haque was the test specialist he is the only Bangladeshi player to score 11 consecutive 50+ scores in Test Cricket.

The southpaw was master against spin he represented the Bangla tigers in 28 ODI scoring runs 557 at an average of 22.3, 44 TESTS stroking 3279 runs at an average of 42.6 and 6 T20I scoring 6 runs at an average of 20.


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