Vote for Kent Spitfires’ Greatest Overseas Star
Monday 13th April 2020
In 1999, the Kent Spitfires were born. Over the 21 years since, the Spitfires have had some of the biggest and best names in world cricket pull on a Kent jersey.
36 stars have represented the Kent Spitfires as an overseas player for at least some of their career with the Club. We have seen huge moments, world records broken, trophies won, all with overseas stars in our Kent Spitfires starting eleven.
But who is the Greatest?
Over the next seven days, you have three individual votes to help decide the Kent Spitfires’ Greatest Overseas Star.
Make your picks now – voting closes at 17:00 on Sunday 19th April >>>
The contenders are as follows:
- Andrew Symonds (1999-2004) – Australia
- 62 List A appearances – 1,690 runs @ 30.17, 69 wickets @ 21.53
- 10 T20 appearances – 322 runs @ 35.77, seven wickets @ 33.28
- Rahul Dravid (2000) – India
- 17 List A appearances – 563 runs @ 40.21
- Daryl Cullinan (2001) – South Africa
- 10 List A appearances – 270 runs @ 30.00
- Steve Waugh (2002) – Australia
- Five List A appearances – 159 runs @ 39.75, two wickets @ 37.00
- Mohammad Sami (2003-2004) – Pakistan
- Six List A appearances – 12 wickets @ 18.66
- Two T20 appearances – two wickets @ 27.00
- Muttiah Muralitharan (2003) – Sri Lanka
- Eight List A appearances – 13 wickets @ 20.69
- Greg Blewett (2003) – Australia
- Nine List A appearances – 235 runs @ 26.11
- Three T20 appearances – 20 runs @ 10.00
- Michael Bevan (2004) – Australia
- Four List A appearances – 128 runs @ 42.66
- Shahid Afridi (2004) – Pakistan
- One List A appearance – did not bat, did not bowl
- Three T20 appearances – 39 runs @ 13.00, one wicket @ 66.00
- Ian Butler (2004) – New Zealand
- Six List A appearances – five wickets @ 44.80
- Two T20 appearances – three wickets @ 17.33
- Andrew Hall (2005-2007) – South Africa
- 22 List A appearances – 819 runs @ 40.95, 32 wickets @ 24.93
- 17 T20 appearances – 335 runs @ 23.92, 21 wickets @ 19.61
- Justin Kemp (2005-2009) – South Africa
- 38 List A appearances – 1,024 runs @ 39.38, 11 wickets @ 43.63
- 31 T20 appearances – 402 runs @ 18.27, 10 wickets @ 23.10
- Tyron Henderson (2006) – South Africa
- Seven List A appearances – 82 runs @ 13.66, 10 wickets @ 23.10
- Nine T20 appearances – 148 runs @ 24.66, seven wickets @ 37.00
- Dwayne Bravo (2007) – West Indies
- Seven List A appearances – 129 runs @ 25.80, eight wickets @ 22.87
- One T20 appearance – 0 runs (not out), 0 wickets
- Yasir Arafat (2007-2008) – Pakistan
- 22 List A appearances – 125 runs @ 17.85, 45 wickets @ 19.22
- 24 T20 appearances – 149 runs @ 21.28, 37 wickets @ 16.78
- Morné Morkel (2007) – South Africa
- Eight T20 appearances – 11 wickets @ 16.72
- Lasith Malinga (2007) – Sri Lanka
- Three List A appearances – two wickets @ 72.50
- Two T20 appearances – four wickets @ 18.50
- Azhar Mahmood (2008-2012) – Pakistan
- 48 List A appearances – 831 runs @ 23.74, 62 wickets @ 27.96
- 64 T20 appearances – 1,128 runs @ 26.23, 70 wickets @ 24.51
- Wayne Parnell (2009 & 2017) – South Africa
- 10 List A appearances – 105 runs @ 21.00, 12 wickets @ 34.91
- Two T20 appearances – 0 runs, two wickets @ 25.50
- Makhaya Ntini (2010) – South Africa
- Four List A matches – three wickets @ 32.00
- Malinga Bandara (2010) – Sri Lanka
- Five List A appearances – 13 wickets @ 11.00
- 16 T20 appearances – 17 wickets @ 22.58
- Wahab Riaz (2011) – Pakistan
- Three List A appearances – nine wickets @ 13.33
- 13 T20 appearances – 20 wickets @ 19.85
- Charl Langeveldt (2011) – South Africa
- One List A appearance – 0 wickets
- 15 T20 appearances – 15 wickets @ 30.85
- Brendan Nash (2012-2014) – West Indies
- 26 List A appearances – 664 runs @ 44.26
- Seven T20 appearances – 84 runs @ 16.80
- Vernon Philander (2013) – South Africa
- Seven T20 appearances – 71 runs @ 23.66, nine wickets @ 23.44
- Doug Bollinger (2014) – Australia
- Seven List A appearances – 15 wickets @ 24.26
- Nine T20 appearances – 15 wickets @ 15.73
- Tom Latham (2016) – New Zealand
- Two List A appearances – 16 runs @ 8.00
- Seven T20 appearances – 128 runs @ 21.33
- Kagiso Rabada (2016) – South Africa
- Six T20 appearances – six wickets @ 27.00
- Adam Milne (2017-2019) – New Zealand
- 28 T20 appearances – 38 wickets @ 19.10
- Jimmy Neesham (2017) – New Zealand
- 14 T20 appearances – 203 runs @ 29.00, 14 wickets @ 33.07
- Matt Henry (2018) – New Zealand
- 11 List A appearances – 16 wickets @ 34.43
- Carlos Brathwaite (2018) – West Indies
- Five T20 appearances – 13 runs @ 6.50, nine wickets @ 18.88
- Marcus Stoinis (2018) – Australia
- Five T20 appearances – 80 runs @ 20.00, four wickets @ 29.50
- Matt Renshaw (2019) – Australia
- Seven List A appearances – 213 runs @ 42.60
- Mohammad Nabi (2019-2020) – Afghanistan
- Nine T20 appearances – 147 runs @ 18.37, eight wickets @ 28.00
- Faf du Plessis (2019) – South Africa
- Two T20 appearances – 92 runs @ 46.00
*The players appearing in this list were registered as Overseas Players for at least a part of their Kent Spitfires career. Stats inclusive of List A & T20 appearances only