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The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame "recognises the achievements of the legends of the game from cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

's long and illustrious history". A hall of fame

Hall of Fame

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, it was launched by the International Cricket Council

International Cricket Council

The International Cricket Council is the international governing body of cricket. It was founded as the Imperial Cricket Conference in 1909 by representatives from England, Australia and South Africa, renamed the International Cricket Conference in 1965, and took up its current name in 1989.The...

(ICC) on 2 January 2009, in association with the Federation of International Cricketers' Associations

Federation of International Cricketers' Associations

The Federation of International Cricketers’ Associations is an organisation that co-ordinates the activities of all the national players’ associations that represent professional cricketers...

(FICA), as part of the ICC's centenary celebrations. The initial inductees were the 55 players included in the FICA Hall of Fame which ran from 1999 to 2003, but further members are added each year during the ICC Awards ceremony

ICC Awards

The ICC Awards is a set of sports awards for cricket. The awards recognise and honour the best international cricket players of the previous 12 months...

. The inaugural inductees ranged from W. G. Grace

W. G. Grace

William Gilbert Grace, MRCS, LRCP was an English amateur cricketer who is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest players of all time, having a special significance in terms of his importance to the development of the sport...

, who retired from Test cricket in 1899, to Graham Gooch

Graham Gooch

Graham Alan Gooch OBE DL is a former cricketer who captained Essex and England. He was one of the most successful international batsmen of his generation, and through a career spanning from 1973 until 2000, he became the most prolific run scorer of all time with 67,057 runs...

, who played his last Test match in 1995. Living inductees receive a commemorative cap

Cap (sport)

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; Australian Rodney Marsh

Rod Marsh

Rodney William Marsh MBE is a former Australian wicketkeeper.A colourful character, Marsh had a Test career spanning from the 1970–71 to the 1983–84 Australian season. In 96 Tests, he set a world record of 355 wicketkeeping dismissals, the same number his pace bowling Western...

was the first member of the initial inductees to receive his. Members of the Hall of Fame assist in the selection of future inductees.

There are more English players in the Hall of Fame than players from other countries. Only ten of the 64 inductees played for nations outside England, Australia and the West Indies. South African Barry Richards

Barry Richards

Barry Anderson Richards is a former South African batsman. A right-handed "talent of such enormous stature", Richards is considered one of South Africa's most successful cricketers. He was able to play only four Test matches - all against Australia - before South Africa's exclusion from the...

played the fewest Test matches

Test cricket

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during his career with four, before South Africa were excluded from participating in international cricket in 1970. Australian Steve Waugh

Steve Waugh

Stephen Rodger "Steve" Waugh, AO is a former Australian cricketer and fraternal twin of cricketer Mark Waugh. A right-handed batsman, he was also a successful medium-pace bowler...

, inducted in October 2009, played the most Tests with 168 in an international career spanning 20 years. In 2010, Rachael Heyhoe-Flint

Rachael Heyhoe-Flint

Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe-Flint, OBE, DL is probably the best known female cricketer in England. She was a member of the English women's cricket team from 1960 to 1982. She was captain of England from 1966 to 1978, and was unbeaten in six Test series...

, former England women's cricket team captain who led the team to victory in the inaugural Women's World Cup

Women's Cricket World Cup

The ICC Women's Cricket World Cup is a Women's one-day international cricket competition. The first tournament was held in England in 1973, two years before the first men's ICC Cricket World Cup....

in 1973, became the first and until 2011, when Belinda Clark

Belinda Clark

Belinda Jane Clark AM is a former female Australian cricketer, who played international cricket from 1991 to 2005...

was inducted, the only woman in the Hall of Fame.

Hall of Fame members

Tests	Last Test	Ref.
West Indies	2011	98	1988	2000
England		27	1901	1914
England	2010	82	1955	1968
India		67	1966	1979
England		51	1946	1955
Australia		63	1952	1964
Australia		156	1978	1994
England		102	1977	1992
England		108	1964	1982
Australia		52	1928	1948
Australia		87	1970	1984
Australia		75	1964	1980
Australia	2011	15	1991	2005
England		78	1937	1957
England		114	1954	1975
Australia	2011	44	1953	1963
India		131	1979	1994
West Indies	2010	58	1977	1987
India		125	1971	1987
West Indies		79	1958	1976
England		118	1975	1995
England		117	1978	1992
England		22	1880	1899
England		79	1951	1969
West Indies		108	1974	1991
Australia	2009	37	1925	1936
New Zealand		86	1973	1990
England		85	1927	1947
Australia		79	1948	1963
West Indies		22	1930	1954
England	2010	22	1960	1979
England		61	1908	1930
West Indies		60	1975	1987
England		79	1937	1955
West Indies		79	1957	1974
Pakistan		88	1971	1992
England		95	1967	1981
England		46	1948	1959
England		21	1926	1933
Australia		70	1971	1984
Australia		61	1946	1960
West Indies		110	1966	1984
Pakistan		55	1952	1969
Australia		96	1970	1984
West Indies		81	1978	1991
England		66	1951	1961
Pakistan		124	1976	1993
Australia		55	1946	1956
Australia		27	1932	1946
South Africa		23	1963	1970
England		58	1899	1930
South Africa		4	1970	1970
West Indies		121	1974	1991
West Indies		47	1974	1983
West Indies		93	1954	1974
Australia	2011	18	1877	1887
England		70	1951	1965
England	2009	54	1924	1935
England		67	1952	1965
Australia	2009	48	1899	1912
England		86	1966	1982
West Indies		44	1948	1960
West Indies	2010	132	1984	2001
Pakistan	2009	104	1985	2002
Australia	2009	168	1985	2004
West Indies		48	1948	1958
England		64	1909	1934
West Indies		51	1948	1963

⁺ Inaugural member inducted in January 2009.

By team

Number of members	Team	Span
25	England	1877–present
17	Australia	1877–present
16	West Indies	1928–present
4	Pakistan	1952–present
3	India	1932–present
2	South Africa	1889–present
1	New Zealand	1930–present

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Hall of Fame members

By team

See also

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