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Sports is the best thing to practice in life. No matter where you’re at any age you should never stop playing your favorite sport. Almost everyone in this world will be loving any specific or so many sports and they would have their inspirations from that specific game, but have you ever thought that you are having the same inspiration from different sports. There are many players in the world who’ve played different sports and they became successful in every one of them. Some of these players have switched into cricket and then became Cricket wonders in it too.
We’ve seen many great cricketers like Sachin Tendulkar, Ricky Ponting etc. they’ve played cricket for their whole life and that’s the reason they are considered to be the best in it, but can you imagine any player who has left any other sport for cricket at their middle age and then they played for their country. In this article we’ll dwell about those players who were the cricket wonders but before that they also played other sports and was excellent in that too.
Jonty Rhodes
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South African Fielding wonder Jonty Rhodes is the first cricketer in this list who has been a wonderful cricketer throughout his career but some of you don’t know that he was a hockey player before he made his debut in cricket in 1992. He was selected in the Olympic squad of the South African hockey team but because his team didn’t qualify to go to the Barcelona he switched in Cricket and made his international debut against India in test. Later he became one of the greatest fielders in cricket history and he is also the only one cricketer to receive player of the match award because of his fielding. Despite being the fielder he was also a middle order batter and has scored over 8000 international runs.
Vivian Richards
The great sir Vivian Richards is one of the most aggressive batters in cricketing history. He was the second highest run scorer in the 1979 and 1983 world cup. Two time cricket world cup champion Vivian has also represented his country in the Football World Cup in 1974. He was in the team of Antigua and Barbuda at World Cup qualifiers. After his team finished at the bottom of the table he decided to divert his path to another sport and fortunately that sport was Cricket. It was his dedication and hard work for this sport that made the West Indies to dominate the whole world. He has scored over 15000 international runs.
Ellyse Perry
Australian all rounder Ellyse Perry is one of the greatest women cricketers in the world. When we see him bowling and batting it seems like he is made for this sport but this is not true. There was a time in her career when she had to pick one sport between cricket and football. She has played football for her country and she was picked in the world cup squad 18 times. Besides her national team she has also played for Canberra United and Sydney FC.
In 2007 she was picked by the Australian Cricket team to play full time and became the most important asset in winning the World Cup five times.
Sir Ian Botham
One of the most prominent cricketers from England Sir Ian Botham who used to make an impact in the field with both bat and ball. He has scored over 7000 international runs and more than 500 wickets in his cricketing career to become one of the greatest cricketers in the cricketing history. In his early days of cricketing career he used to play football also, he played for Yeovil United and Scunthorpe United 11 times between 1978 to 1985. Later he chose cricket for the full time as a career and left Football. He played his last international cricket match in 1992.
Yuzvendra Chahal
Currently one of the best leg spinners in the world Yuzvendra Chahal has also represented India in chess between 1997 to 2003. He has won national under-11 championship and has represented in under 12 world championship at Halkidiki. He has played against many nowadays grand masters. Before switching to cricket he made his name in Elo Rating of 1956 on the international chess federation website. Later he made his debut in 2016 against Zimbabwe and now he has become the highest wicket taker in T20 for India. He is a modern Cricket wonders that we’re seeing in the field.
These players are the example of how everyone can make a strong impact in his life by starting anything at any stage of their life. when you choose anything just get best into it and prove everyone that how can you make it possible with your dedication and hard work. sports personalities are the best people to idolize in your life that will make your life more adventurous and achievable.
