ICC World Cup 2019: Top 10  Players who could be playing their last World Cup

#9 Shoaib Malik ( Pakistan) – Age – 37

Shoaib Malik - The senior citizen of cricket

Matches – 279, Inns – 250, Runs – 7379, 100s – 9, 50s – 43, wkts - 156

Shoaib Malik is one of the senior most cricketers in the current lot of players who are still playing. He made his ODI debut way back in 1999. He came into the side as an off-spinner who could bat decently. It was his bowling that kept him in the side for the first four years of his career. One interesting fact about Malik’s ODI record is that he has taken more than 150 wickets in his career which is a decent record even for a regular bowler.

Shoaib Malik’s transformation as a genuine batsman came in the year 2003. After that, he scored more than 600 runs in every calendar year for the next six years. Another dubious record in Malik’s career is that he was not part of Pakistan’s World Cup squad in 2003, 2011 and 2015. The only time he played in a World Cup was in 2007 when Pakistan made an early exit from the tournament.

Malik would look forward to set his record straight in his last World Cup appearance this year.