Stats: Cricketers representing two countries (captains, players, umpires)

Eoin Morgan

There are 23 cricketers in the history of the game who have represented two different countries in their international career. Of late, England’s policy of looking for cricketers from their neighbouring minnow countries – Ireland and Scotland – have seen them dishing out national caps to players who have already represented another country at the highest level on a regular basis. This has indeed become a concern for the feeder teams, who are left back to level 1 – assembling a competitive unit again.

England have managed to attract the likes of Eoin Morgan, Boyd Rankin and Edmund Joyce – three of Ireland’s finest players in the last generation. While Morgan has become a permanent fixture in the England side, having even captained them in Alastair Cook’s absence, fast bowler Rankin made his Test debut earlier this year. Joyce, however, after making the initial switch, returned back to Ireland, as he lost his place due to poor showings in England colours.

Dirk Nannes, a veteran by the time he switched cricketing loyalties from the Dutch to Australia, enjoyed a year at helm, representing them in a T20 World Cup, before his age started getting the better of him.

Player	Country 1	Country 2
Billy Midwinter	Australia	England
Billy Murdoch	Australia	England
John James Ferris	Australia	England
Sammy Woods	Australia	England
Frank Hearne	England	South Africa
Albert Trott	Australia	England
Frank Mitchell	England	South Africa
Ali Khan Pataudi	England	India
Gul Mohammad	India	Pakistan
Abdul Kardar	India	Pakistan
Amir Elahi	India	Pakistan
Sammy Guillen	West Indies	New Zealand
John Traicos	South Africa	Zimbabwe
Kepler Wessels	Australia	South Africa
Clayton Lambert	West Indies	United States of America
Anderson Cummins	West Indies	Canada
Dougie Brown	England	Scotland
Gavin Hamilton	Scotland	England
Edmund Joyce	England	Ireland
Eoin Morgan	Ireland	England
Boyd Rankin	Ireland	England
Luke Ronchi	Australia	New Zealand
Dirk Nannes	Netherlands	Australia

Note: Stats updated till June 19, 2014.