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West Indies cricket team
The West Indies men's cricket team, run by Cricket West Indies, fields players from across the Caribbean; it dominated Test cricket from 1974 to 1991 before a long decline.
Wisden Cricketers of the Year
Wisden Cricketers of the Year are five cricketers, named almost every year since 1892 in the Wisden Cricketers' Almanack for excellence in or influence on the previous English summer.
World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI
The World Series Cricket Cavaliers XI was a cricket team formed in 1978 to give WSC-contracted players not regularly selected for the main teams match play and prize money.
Wriddhiman Saha
Wriddhiman Saha, born 1984, is an Indian former cricketer and wicketkeeper-batsman who kept wicket in 40 Tests from 2010 to 2021 and was rated the world's best by Virat Kohli.
Yashasvi Jaiswal
Yashasvi Jaiswal, Indian left-handed opening batter for Rajasthan Royals and India across Tests, ODIs, and T20Is; 2024 T20 World Cup winner, Test average 47.49 with 7 hundreds, from Azad Maidan tent to record-breaking double centuries.
Yashpal Sharma (यशपल शर्मा) (cricketer)
Yashpal Sharma (यशपल शर्मा), Indian right-handed middle-order batsman, 37 Tests and 42 ODIs 1978–1985; India's second-highest run-scorer (240 runs) in the 1983 World Cup win; later national selector; died 13 July 2021 aged 66.
Yasir Shah (یاسر شاہ)
Yasir Shah (یاسر شاہ), born 1986 in Swabi, is a Pakistani right-arm legbreak bowler, fastest Pakistan bowler to 50 Test wickets, 10-wicket match haul at Lord's 2016, and former top-ranked Test bowler.
Yograj Singh (ਯੋਗਰਾਜ ਸਿੰਘ)
Yograj Singh (ਯੋਗਰਾਜ ਸਿੰਘ) is an Indian actor, coach, and former cricketer who played one Test and six ODIs for India, best known as Yuvraj Singh's father.
Yorkshire County Cricket Club
Yorkshire County Cricket Club (YCCC), the White Rose, founded 1863, Headingley Leeds; record County Championship titles; hit by Azeem Rafiq racism case, ECB suspension, and Chasing Glory 2026–2036 restructuring plan.
Younis Khan
Younis Khan, Pakistan Test cricketer and former captain; Pakistan's leading Test run scorer with 10,099 runs, 34 centuries, average 52.05, highest score 313; led Pakistan to the 2009 ICC T20 World Cup title.
Yusuf Pathan
Yusuf Pathan (born 1984, Vadodara) is an Indian politician and former cricketer, brother of Irfan Pathan; T20 World Cup 2007 and World Cup 2011 winner, first player with three IPL titles, TMC MP for Baharampur since 2024.
Yuvraj Samra
Yuvraj Singh Samra (born 2006, Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian left-handed batter. Youngest ICC World Cup centurion: 110 off 65 balls vs New Zealand, T20 World Cup 2026, Chennai.
Yuvraj Singh (युवराज सिंह)
Yuvraj Singh (युवराज सिंह), Indian left-handed all-rounder born 1981 in Chandigarh; hit six sixes off Stuart Broad at the 2007 T20 World Cup, was Player of the Tournament in India's 2011 World Cup win, survived mediastinal seminoma, and retired 10 June 2019.
Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal, born 1990 in Jind, Haryana, is an Indian leg-spin googly bowler, former youth chess international, and the first bowler to take 200 IPL wickets (233 total), with 121 ODI and 96 T20I wickets for India.
Zachary Carter (cricketer)
Zachary Nathan Carter, born 2006 in Barbados, is a West Indian cricketer, left-handed opening batsman and slow left-arm orthodox bowler for Barbados Tridents, Desert Vipers, and West Indies Under-19s; not the NFL defensive lineman.
Zaheer Abbas (سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی)
Zaheer Abbas (سید ظہیر عباس کرمانی), 'the Asian Bradman', Pakistani batsman 1969-1985: 5,062 Test runs at 44.79, first Asian with 100 first-class centuries, ICC president 2015, Hall of Fame 2020.
Zaheer Khan (ज़हीर ख़ान)
Zaheer Khan (ज़हीर ख़ान), born 1978, Indian left-arm fast-medium bowler, 2000-2014; 311 Test and 282 ODI wickets, 2011 World Cup winner, 2007 England series player of the series, later Mumbai Indians and LSG coaching roles.
Zak Crawley
Zak Crawley (born 1998, Bromley) is an English opening batter for Kent and England. Scored 267 vs Pakistan in 2020, England's third-youngest Test double centurion; Test average 30.96 after 60 Tests, lowest among openers with that many; dropped May 2026.
Zimbabwe national cricket team
Zimbabwe national cricket team, the Chevrons, ICC Full Member since 1992; first Test drawn vs India at Harare; 1983 World Cup win over Australia; co-hosts 2027 World Cup; Test 10th, ODI/T20I 11th-12th.