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Islamabad United
Islamabad United (Urdu: اسلامآباد یونائیٹڈ), PSL Twenty20 franchise owned by Ali and Amna Naqvi via Leonine Global Sports; three titles (2016, 2018, 2024), best win-to-loss ratio 1.22, home ground Rawalpindi Cricket Stadium.
Jack Hobbs
Sir Jack Hobbs (1882-1963), "The Master," was an English opening batsman for Surrey and England (61 Tests) who holds the first-class records of 61,760 runs and 197-199 career centuries from 1905 to 1934.
Jack Leach
Jack Leach (Matthew Jack Leach, born 1991, Taunton) is an English left-arm orthodox spinner for Somerset and England; 38 Tests, 142 wickets at 34.07, famous for the Headingley 2019 1 with Ben Stokes.
Jacques Kallis
Jacques Henry Kallis (born 1975), South African all-rounder, 1995-2014; only player with 10,000+ runs and 250+ wickets in both Tests and ODIs; 13,289 Test runs at 55.37, 292 wickets; ICC Hall of Fame 2020.
Jagmohan Dalmiya
Jagmohan Dalmiya (1940-2015), Indian cricket administrator and Kolkata businessman; BCCI treasurer 1983, BCCI president 2001-2004 and 2015, and first Asian ICC president 1997-2000 who brought the World Cup to Asia.
Jake Lehmann
Jake Scott Lehmann (born 1992, Adelaide) is an Australian left-handed batter for South Australia, son of Darren Lehmann; 2026 Domestic Player of the Year, Shield and One-Day Cup winner, Hampshire local player.
Jamaica Kingsmen
Jamaica Kingsmen, Jamaica-based Caribbean Premier League (CPL) T20 cricket franchise owned by Fawad Sarwar's Kingsmen Sports Enterprise; launched 2026 to replace the defunct Jamaica Tallawahs, based at Sabina Park, captained by Rovman Powell.
James Anderson (cricketer)
James Anderson (Jimmy Anderson), born 1982, English right-arm fast bowler; 704 Test wickets in 188 Tests for England (2003-2024), most by a fast bowler; knighted 2025; Lancashire captain.
James Faulkner (cricketer)
James Faulkner (James Peter Faulkner, born 1990, Launceston), Australian left-arm medium-fast all-rounder; 2013 IPL leading wicket-taker (28 at 15.25) for Rajasthan Royals and player of the match, 3-36, in the 2015 World Cup final; ODI career 2013-2017.
Jason Behrendorff
Jason Behrendorff, Australian left-arm fast-medium swing bowler (born 1990), Western Australia and Perth Scorchers new-ball specialist, 29 Australia caps, 2019 World Cup Lord's five-wicket haul, four BBL titles, later Melbourne Renegades.
Jason Gillespie
Jason 'Dizzy' Gillespie (born 1975), Australian right-arm fast bowler, 71 Tests and 259 wickets, first acknowledged Indigenous Australian Test cricketer, record 201 nightwatchman; later coached Yorkshire, Sussex, Adelaide Strikers, and Pakistan.
Jason Holder
Jason Omar Holder (born 1991, Bridgetown, Barbados) is a West Indian 6'7" fast-medium bowling all-rounder; former ODI and Test captain, 2019 unbeaten 202, first West Indian with 100 wickets in all three formats.
Jason Roy
Jason Roy (born 1990, Durban) is an English white-ball opening batter, 2019 World Cup winner, 116 ODIs at 39.91, record Roy–Bairstow ODI partnership, left England contract in 2023 for franchise cricket.
Jasprit Bumrah
Jasprit Jasbirsingh Bumrah (born 1993, Ahmedabad) is an Indian right-arm fast bowler for Mumbai Indians; first to 200 Test wickets averaging under 20, 2024 ICC Cricketer of the Year.
Javagal Srinath (ಜಾವಗಲ್ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್)
Javagal Srinath (ಜಾವಗಲ್ ಶ್ರೀನಾಥ್), born 1969 in Mysore, is a former India fast bowler, 236 Test and 315 ODI wickets, four World Cups, now an ICC match referee since 2006.
Javed Miandad (جاوید میانداد)
Javed Miandad (جاوید میانداد), born 1957, Pakistani batsman, captain, and coach; 8,832 Test runs at 52.57, six World Cups 1975-1996, 1992 champion, famous 1986 Sharjah last-ball six, ICC Hall of Fame 2009.
Javed Zaman (جاوید زمان خان) (Pakistani cricketer)
Javed Zaman Khan (جاوید زمان خان) was a Pakistani first-class cricketer for Lahore A and Lahore Greens, later secretary of the Lahore Gymkhana Cricket Club.
Jay Shah
Jay Shah, Indian cricket administrator, BCCI Honorary Secretary from 2019, ACC President from 2021, and unopposed ICC Chair from 1 December 2024; son of Home Minister Amit Shah, associated with the ₹48,390.5 crore IPL rights deal, WPL, and pay parity.
Jaydev Unadkat
Jaydev Unadkat (born 1991, Porbandar) is an Indian left-arm fast-medium bowler; Saurashtra captain who won Ranji titles 2019-20 and 2022-23 with a record 67 wickets in 2019-20, and an India Test, ODI and T20I player.
Jeff Thomson
Jeff Thomson, born Jeffrey Robert Thomson in 1950 in Sydney, is a former Australian fast bowler who took 200 wickets in 51 Tests from 1972 to 1985.
Jemimah Rodrigues
Jemimah Rodrigues, Indian women's cricketer, right-handed batter and off-break bowler for India since 2018; 2025 ODI World Cup winner with a 127 semi-final century; Delhi Capitals WPL 2026 captain.
Jhulan Goswami (ঝুলন গোস্বামী)
Jhulan Goswami (ঝুলন গোস্বামী), the Chakdaha Express, Indian women's fast bowler and former captain, 2002–2022; 355 international wickets, record 255 ODI wickets, Padma Shri 2012, later Mumbai Indians WPL bowling coach.
Joe Root
Joe Root, England Test cricketer and former captain (64 Tests, 27 wins), second-highest Test run-scorer ever behind Tendulkar with 41 centuries; England's leading Test and ODI run-scorer, 2019 World Cup winner.
Joel Garner
Joel Garner, "Big Bird", Barbadian right-arm fast bowler for the West Indies 1977-1987; 259 Test wickets at 20.97, 146 ODI wickets at 18.84, and 5/38 in the 1979 World Cup final, the best final figures ever.
Jofra Archer
Jofra Chioke Archer, born 1995 in Barbados, is an English fast bowler who starred in England's 2019 Cricket World Cup win, bowling the final's Super Over.
Joginder Sharma (जोगिंदर शर्मा)
Joginder Sharma (जोगिंदर शर्मा), former Indian medium pacer from Rohtak who bowled the decisive final over of the 2007 T20 World Cup final, dismissing Misbah-ul-Haq; later a DSP in Haryana Police.
John Arlott
John Arlott (Leslie Thomas John Arlott, 1914-1991), English BBC cricket commentator 1946-1980, Guardian correspondent, poet, and OBE, famed for the Bradman 1948 call and Hampshire burr.
John Symes
John Symes (1879-1944), English cricketer with Devon & Somerset Wanderers and Crediton CC; won gold in the 1900 Paris Olympic cricket match, opening both innings for 16 runs, and preserved the match's only detailed scorecard.
Jonathan Trott
Jonathan Trott (Ian Jonathan Leonard Trott), Cape Town-born England batsman, 52 Tests at 44.08, 2009 Ashes debut hundred, 2010-11 Ashes and India 2012-13 winner; later Afghanistan head coach 2022-2026.
Jonny Bairstow
Jonny Bairstow (born 1989), English wicketkeeper-batter for Yorkshire and England; 2019 World Cup winner, first England batter with three consecutive ODI centuries, 2016 Test keeper run record (1,470 at 58.80).