Top 10 Most Successful Cricketers in the World

Want to know who are the most successful international cricketers? Check out this list of the top 10 most successful cricketers in the world.

Cricket is one of the most popular games in the world. It’s not just a game between two teams, rather a game of love, passion, and full of feelings of people around the world. That’s why it’s a high-pressure game not just for the audience but mainly for cricketers. And the cricketers who love to perform under pressure, later on, they become the greatest cricketers in history.

The first-ever international cricket match was played in 1844 between the US and Canada since then numerous cricketers from different countries came and went. So, selecting the most successful cricketers in the world in history is one of the most discovering tasks.

As we always do at Top 10 About, we have absolutely prepared a list of the top 10 most successful cricketers in the world on the basis of their cricket statistics. We have created this most successful cricketers list by keeping in mind all the international cricket teams.

If you think that any other cricketer deserves to be here in this list of successful international cricketers, you can suggest to us in the comment section. So, now let’s start with facts and details.

Top 10 Most Successful Cricketers in the World

10. Imran Khan

Imran Khan is one of the most successful Pakistani cricketers and captains. He was also enlisted into the ICC Cricket Hall of Fame in the year 2010. Apart from cricket, he is a great philanthropist who leads the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and currently the Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Pakistani supporters used to call him fighter-jet. He led Pakistan national cricket team as a captain in 1992 when Pakistan managed to defeat England by 22 runs in the world cup final.

Imran Khan is one of the most famous names in cricket history which can not be forgotten if we are talking about the most successful cricketers in the world. He is the most successful captain all-rounder in the world and the following stats prove it.

Batting Career Summary

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	200	50
Test	88	126	25	3807	136	37.7	57.8	6	0	18
ODI	175	151	40	3709	102	33.4	72.7	1	0	19

Bowling Career Summary

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Test	88	142	18644	8258	362	2.66	23	52	23	6
ODI	175	153	7447	4844	182	3.9	27	41	1	0

9. M.S. Dhoni

India’s most successful cricket team captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni is a right-handed batsman and also a super active Indian wicket-keeper. He has been honored with the Padma Shri, Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna, and Padma Bhushan award by the Government of India. Other than cricket records, Dhoni holds several civilian awards, as well.

MS Dhoni is the only Indian captain who led the Indian cricket team to victory in all three major ICC tournaments. He is the only player to win ICC player of the year award twice. He is the only cricketer who has played the most number of matches being a captain. Recently, he becomes one of the world’s highest run-scorers in ODI with surpassing 10,000 runs. He is also regarded as the best wicket-keepers and match finisher in limited-overs in the world. Besides that, Chennai Super Kings won 3 times IPL in 2010, 2011 & 2018 under his captaincy.

Overall, he is the one cricketer with so many extraordinary awe-inspiring records. So, definitely he will always be remembered among the most successful cricketers in the world.

8. Waseem Akram

The list of most successful cricketers in history is incomplete without Wasim Akram. He is the former Pakistani cricketer who has taken 916 wickets in both formats of cricket ODI and Test. He is the only bowler who has taken more than 400 wickets in both the formats after Muralitharan. And he is regarded to be one of the founders of reverse swing bowling in the world. Still, he is called the finest left-arm fast bowler in history.

Wasim Akram is widely recognized as the king of swing and one of the greatest bowlers of all time. On his time, he has made so many fans following across the world.

7. Kapil Dev

Kapil Dev is the man who leads the Indian cricket team to win the 1983 cricket world cup. He was one of the greatest all-rounders who not only has taken more than 400 wickets but has also scored more than 5000 runs in Test matches.

Kapil Dev was also inducted into the “ICC Cricket Hall of Fame” in the year 2011. Let’s talk about one of the very funniest life happening, Kapil Dev was never run out in his 184 Test innings long career. Not only this, Kapil Dev never missed any of the cricket test matches as of fitness or injury issues. Whenever you will ask any of the most successful Indian cricketers from the Indian team, Kapil Dev will be on top.

6. Sanath Jayasuriya

Sanath Teran Jayasuriya was a former Sri Lankan cricketer and was also the captain of the Sri Lankan national team holds several international records. He is the only player to score more than 13000 international runs with more than 300 international wickets in ODI cricket. After Sahid Afridi, Sanath Jayasuriya is the one who has hit 270 sixes up to date.  This is the reason he is recognized as one of the most successful cricketers in the world. Later on, Sanath entered politics as a candidate for Matara District in the year 2010.

Batting Career Summary

	M	Inn	NO	Runs	HS	Avg	SR	100	200	50
Test	110	188	14	6973	340	40.1	65	14	3	31
ODI	445	433	15	13430	189	32.1	91	28	0	68
T20I	31	30	3	629	88	23.3	129	0	0	4
IPL	30	30	2	768	114	27.4	144	1	0	4

Bowling Career Summary

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Avg	SR	5W	10W
Test	110	140	8188	3366	98	2.47	34	83.6	2	0
ODI	445	368	14874	11871	323	4.79	37	46.1	4	0
T20I	31	24	371	456	19	7.37	24	19.5	0	0
IPL	30	21	294	390	13	7.96	30	22.6	0	0

5. Brian Lara

Who doesn’t know about Brian Charles Lara? Yes, every cricket lover. Brian Lara is a former West Indies batsman and among the most successful West Indies cricketers who has several big records under his name. He holds the records of scoring 400 not out runs in a Test match again England which held at Antigua in the year 2004. He was known as the Prince of Trinidad and has scored 745 unbeatable runs after which he got selected to the Trinidad National Under-16 team.

Brian Lara is among such few cricketers who have reached the milestone of 10,000 runs in both Test and ODI formats. He is regarded as the finest left-handed batsmen in history. He is an all-time legend cricketer in the world who has brilliant cricket stats that make him deserving to be on this list.

4. Muttiah Muralitharan

Deshabandu Muttiah Muralitharan is a former Sri Lankan cricketer with a plethora of international and domestic cricket records. He was one of the most successful bowlers of the game. He is one of the most popular cricketers in the world with a record of highest wicket-taking bowlers in ODI and also the highest wicket-taking bowlers in test format.  Murli has a record of 800 wickets in Test matches, 534 wickets in ODI matches, and 13 wickets in T20 matches. Adding up to more than 1300 wickets in international cricket. With such an extraordinary record, he widely acknowledged as one of the successful cricketers in the world.

3. Ricky Ponting

Ricky Thomas Ponting is a former Australian cricket batsman who led the Australian cricket team to won a two-time world cup tournament during his legacy, as a captain. Apart from batting, he was also an active fielder. He is among those four batsmen who have scored over 13000 runs in Test and ODI cricket. He is also considered in the most successful captains in the history of cricket. And he is acknowledged as one of the successful Australian cricketers of all time.

Ricky Ponting’s record consists of 48 wins out of 77 Test as a captain from 2004 to 2010. He has also so many other achievements which make them deserving in this list of most successful cricketers in the world.

2. Sachin Tendulkar

Ten in his name and ten was his jersey number, as well. Sachin Tendulkar famous as Master Blaster was one of the greatest Indian cricket Batsman. He was not only the batsmen with the highest ODI Centuries but also the highest run-scorer of all time in International cricket. Also, he was the youngest cricketer to reach 1000 runs in test cricket in 1992. 15,921 Test runs and 18,426 ODI that makes him an outstanding and extraordinary cricketer in the world. He is also one of the most popular Indian cricketers of all time. No doubt, he is another most successful cricketer in the world.

Bowling Career Summary

	M	Inn	B	Runs	Wkts	Econ	Avg	SR
Test	200	145	4240	2492	46	3.53	54	92
ODI	463	270	8054	6850	154	5.1	44	52
T20I	1	1	15	12	1	4.8	12	15

1. Sir Donald George Bradman

Don Bradman was the greatest Australian cricket batsman, who is also known as “The Don”, has an invincible Test batting average of 99.94. A very interesting fact related to Sir Don Bradman is that The Australian broadcasting corporation has adopted Sir Don Bradman’s Test batting average of 99.94 as their GPO Box number. The GPO Box number is 9994. Cool yeah! He is the most successful international cricketer in the history of all time.