10 Shortest Cricketers Of All Time

4. Parthiv Patel, India | 5.25 ft

The supremely talented batsman made his debut for India at the age of 17 making him the youngest wicketkeeper to achieve this milestone. Even after becoming a member of the international team at a very young he wasn’t able to sustain his place on the Indian side due to the presence of legend MS Dhoni. Since Dhoni started wicket-keeping for India no other wicket-keeper got a chance to replace him from the squad.

Gujrat team led by Parthiv Patel won the Ranji title for the first time in 2017. The Southpaw played for Men in blue in 25 Test matches and 38 ODI matches scoring 934 and 736 runs respectively. He also played 2 T20I matches but failed miserably after scoring only 36 runs.

3. Mushfiqur Rahim, Bangladesh | 5.25 ft

The former captain of the Bangladesh team is named among the best cricketers to emerge from the country. He made his debut for Bangladesh in 2005 and has been a regular member of the team for a very long time. He is a very versatile batsman as he can bat at any given position in the squad, Rahim holds the record of scoring two double centuries as a wicket-keeper and he is the only one with this achievement.

Mushfiqur Rahim has played for the Bangla tigers in 387 matches across all three formats including Test, ODI, and T20I scoring 12548 runs at an average of 34.9.

2. Walter Cornford, England | 5 ft

The English cricketer played cricket games when the England Team visited Blackcaps in the 1930s. He was selected as wicketkeeper in the tournament and was involved in 5 catches and 3 stumpings. He was nicknamed Tich because he was barely 5 ft tall. His county in country cricket started in 1921 but it was interrupted when he was called for 2nd World War duties.

Conford scored over 6500 runs in his first-class career and while playing over 496 matches. However, he played only 4 international games scoring only 36 runs at an average of 9.

1. Kruger van Wyk, New Zealand | 4.75 ft

The shortest known cricketer to play the game was kiwi Kruger van Wyk. He was born in South Africa but was unable to get a place in the proteas squad because of the presence of sensational keeper-batsman Mark Boucher. The wicket-keeper batsman started his career with Northern ( now called Titans ) and after playing cricket there for 5 years he moved to New Zealand. He led the team Canterbury Wizards to win a championship title in 2008.

In 2012, Kruger finally got his international call up against his national team; South Africa due to the absence of regular wicket-keeper BJ Watling who was out from the game due to a hip injury.

He scored 341 runs in 9 international contests and With a height of 4.75 ft which makes him the smallest cricketer to have played the game of cricket.