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Charles Beachcroft
Charles Beachcroft, born Charles Beachey Kay and later the music hall entertainer Jack Trent, captained the Devon and Somerset Wanderers to gold in cricket at the 1900 Paris Olympics.
Chennai Super Kings (சென்னை சூப்பர் கிங்ஸ்)
Chennai Super Kings (சென்னை சூப்பர் கிங்ஸ்), CSK, is a 2008 IPL franchise from Chennai with five titles (2010, 2011, 2018, 2021, 2023), ten finals, and a two-year 2015 suspension.
Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited
Chennai Super Kings Cricket Limited (CSKCL) is the unlisted Indian company, formed in 2014 from an India Cements demerger, that owns the Chennai Super Kings IPL franchise, the Super Kings Academy network, and the Texas Super Kings MLC team.
Chetan Sharma (चेतन शर्मा)
Chetan Sharma (चेतन शर्मा), born 1966, Indian fast bowler; first World Cup hat-trick (1987) and first Indian ten-wicket Test haul in England (1986); later BCCI chief selector 2020-2023, resigning after a sting operation.
Cheteshwar Pujara
Cheteshwar Pujara, India's Test number 3 from 2010 to 2023, known as India's modern-day wall. Played 103 Tests, 7,195 runs at 43.60, 19 centuries; retired from all Indian cricket on 24 August 2025.
Chris Cairns
Chris Cairns (Christopher Lance Cairns, born 1970) is a New Zealand former fast-bowling all-rounder: 218 Test wickets and 3,320 Test runs, 200 ODI wickets, and the match-winning 102 not out in the 2000 ICC KnockOut final.
Chris Gayle
Chris Gayle (Christopher Henry Gayle, born 1979, Kingston, Jamaica), the "Universe Boss", is a West Indian left-handed opener, 2012 and 2016 World T20 winner, holder of the T20 record score 175, and a two-time Test triple-centurion.
Chris Jordan (cricketer)
Chris Jordan (Chris James Jordan) is a Barbados-born English cricketer, a fast-medium bowler who took the first England T20I hat-trick and won the 2022 T20 World Cup.
Chris Lynn
Chris Lynn (born 1990, Brisbane) is an Australian right-handed T20 batter, Brisbane Heat captain and later Adelaide Strikers player; 1,329 IPL runs, 4,133 BBL runs, 18 T20Is, and a 2019 decision to play only Twenty20 cricket.
Chris Woakes
Chris Woakes, English all-rounder born 1989 in Birmingham; 217 England caps, 2019 World Cup and 2022 T20 World Cup winner, 62 Tests with 192 wickets; retired 29 September 2025, continuing with Warwickshire.
Claude Buckenham
Claude Percival "Percy" Buckenham (1876-1937), English right-arm fast bowler for Essex 1899-1914 and England in four 1909-10 Tests, who won football gold at the 1900 Paris Olympics with Upton Park FC.
Clive Lloyd
Clive Hubert Lloyd (born 1944, Georgetown, Guyana), West Indies left-handed batsman and captain 1974–1985; won the 1975 and 1979 Cricket World Cups, captained 74 of his 110 Tests, later an ICC match referee and 2020 knight.
Club cricket
Club cricket is amateur cricket played by local clubs, the entry point of formal talent pathways; in Afghanistan it grew from a couple of Kabul clubs to hundreds nationwide.
Clyde Walcott
Sir Clyde Walcott (1926–2006), Barbadian cricketer of the Three Ws with Worrell and Weekes; 3,798 Test runs at 56.68, 314 first-class best, later first non-British ICC chairman (1993–97).
Colin Croft
Colin Croft is a Guyanese former cricketer who played for the West Indies from 1977 to 1982. He was part of the pace attack under Clive Lloyd.
Colin de Grandhomme
Colin de Grandhomme, Zimbabwe-born New Zealand all-rounder (born 1986, Harare); right-hand bat, right-arm fast-medium. Test debut 6-41 vs Pakistan 2016; 29 Tests, 1,432 runs at 38.70; 2021 World Test Championship winner; retired from internationals August 2022.
Connor Esterhuizen
Connor Esterhuizen (born 2001, Johannesburg) is a South African wicketkeeper-batsman, Lions and Proteas T20I debutant (March 2026, Player of the Series), also of Gujarat Titans, Pretoria Capitals, MI Cape Town and San Francisco Unicorns.
Corbin Bosch
Corbin Bosch (born 1994, Durban) is a South African seam-bowling all-rounder, 2014 U19 World Cup winner, Test debutant December 2024 with 4-63 and 81, maiden Test century and 5-43 v Zimbabwe 2025; Mumbai Indians, Titans, MI Cape Town; son of Tertius Bosch.
Corey Flintoff (cricketer)
Corey Leigh Flintoff (born 2006, Wythenshawe) is an English cricketer, son of Andrew Flintoff; a right-hand bat and right-arm fast all-rounder who signed a two-year rookie contract with Kent in March 2025 after Lancashire's academy, debuting against Middlesex in 2025.
County cricket
County cricket: domestic cricket in England and Wales played by the 18 Professional County Clubs, featuring the Rothesay County Championship (first-class, two divisions), the Vitality Blast T20 and the One-Day Cup, governed by the ECB.
Courtney Walsh
Courtney Andrew Walsh, Jamaican West Indies right-arm fast bowler (1962-), first to 500 Test wickets, 519 in 132 Tests, 227 ODIs, ICC Hall of Fame 2010, later Bangladesh and West Indies women's coach.
Cricket Australia
Cricket Australia (CA), formerly the Australian Cricket Board and before that the Australian Board of Control for International Cricket, is the national governing body for cricket in Australia, governing national teams, the Sheffield Shield, and the Big Bash League through six state member associations.
Cricketers banned for corruption
Cricketers banned for corruption are players sanctioned by the ICC or national and franchise-league tribunals for match-fixing, spot-fixing, or related offenses; Hansie Cronjé received a lifetime ban in 2000.
Curtly Ambrose
Curtly Elconn Lynwall Ambrose (born 1963, Antigua), West Indies right-arm fast bowler 1988-2000; 405 Test wickets at 20.99, famous 7/1 spell at Perth 1993, ICC Hall of Fame 2011.
Dale Steyn
Dale Steyn, South African right-arm fast bowler (2004-2021), nicknamed the Steyn Gun; 439 Test wickets at 22.95, best strike rate (42.3) among 200-plus-wicket bowlers, 263 weeks as ICC's top-ranked Test bowler, retired from all cricket August 2021.
Damien Martyn
Damien Martyn, Australian Test and ODI batter 1992-2006, 67 Tests, 4,406 runs at 46.37, 2003 World Cup final 88 not out; retired mid-2006-07 Ashes; survived 2025 meningitis coma.
Dan Christian
Dan Christian (Daniel Trevor Christian, born 1983), Wiradjuri Australian T20 allrounder; 20 ODIs and 23 T20Is for Australia, 2011 Boxing Day Test squad, 5/31 ODI hat-trick, retired 2023, BBL comeback 2025.
Daniel Vettori
Daniel Vettori, born 1979 in Auckland, is a New Zealand cricket administrator and former left-arm spin bowler who took 362 Test wickets, captained New Zealand, and later became a coach.
Danish Kaneria
Danish Kaneria, born 1980 in Karachi, is a former Pakistan leg-break spinner, 261 Test wickets in 61 Tests at 34.79, Pakistan's most successful spinner; banned for life in 2012 spot-fixing case.
Darren Bravo
Darren Bravo, born 1989, Trinidadian left-handed West Indies batsman, half-brother of Dwayne Bravo and cousin of Brian Lara; Test debut 2010, ODI debut 2009, highest Test score 218.