List of cricketers who have played for two international teams

Twenty-six cricketers have represented two teams in top-level international cricket.^[1] Of those, fourteen have played Test cricket for two different nations, nine have played One Day International (ODI) cricket for two teams, and four have played Twenty20 International (T20I) matches for two teams and two have played for two teams in different international formats. Four men have represented two team across multiple formats. Uniquely, Gavin Hamilton played his entire Test career solely for one team (England) and his entire ODI and T20I career for another (Scotland) and Ryan Campbell played his entire ODI career solely for one team (Australia) and his entire T20I career solely for another team (Hong Kong). In the late-19th and early-20th centuries, players who had represented two international teams had been born in one country and moved to another with family. There were no clear rules on which nation one could represent, so switching was possible. More recently, citizenship has become the defining attribute as to whether a player can represent more than one international team.^[2]

Billy Midwinter was the first cricketer to play for two nations during his career, playing two Test matches for Australia in 1877 before appearing for England in four Tests in 1881-82. Within a year he was representing Australia once again. The Bulletin noted that "In Australia he plays as an Englishman; in England, as an Australian; and he is always a credit to himself and his country ... whichever that may be."^[3] Four other Test cricketers switched allegiance from Australia to England in the late-19th century: Billy Murdoch, J. J. Ferris, Sammy Woods and Albert Trott. Both Frank Hearne and Frank Mitchell started their international careers playing for England but went on to play for the South African Test team. Three cricketers moved from representing India to Pakistan in the 1950s. John Traicos revived his Test career after playing for South Africa in 1970, albeit briefly, when he featured for Zimbabwe in four Test matches in the early 1990s, more than 22 years after his previous international Test appearance.^[4]

Kepler Wessels played both Test and ODI cricket for South Africa and Australia, while Guyana-born Clayton Lambert became the first cricketer to play just ODIs for two different nations – after playing eleven matches for the West Indies between 1990 and 1998 (also five Tests), he played a single ODI for the United States in 2004. Barbados-born Anderson Cummins made 63 ODI appearances for the West Indies before playing 13 times for Canada after a twelve-year gap. Both Dougie Brown and Ed Joyce began their international careers with England before switching teams, to Scotland and Ireland, while Eoin Morgan and Boyd Rankin made the opposite move, beginning with Ireland before switching to England. Luke Ronchi became the first player since Kepler Wessels to play for two Full Members of the International Cricket Council (ICC), making his ODI and T20I debuts for New Zealand in 2013 after having played for Australia in both formats five years earlier. The most recent cricketer to play for two teams in ODIs is Geraint Jones, who, after representing England in 34 Tests and 49 ODIs between 2004 and 2006, made his ODI debut for Papua New Guinea in November 2014.

Note: These lists include only those players who have played Test matches, ODIs or T20Is accredited by the International Cricket Council.

Key

Test cricket

J. J. Ferris played Test cricket for both Australia and England.

Iftikhar Ali Khan, the 8th Nawab of Pataudi, is the only cricketer to have played for both England and India.

Fourteen players have represented two different nations in Test cricket.

Name	Team	Career	Matches	Runs	HS	Avg	100	Wkt	BB	Avg	5WI	Ct	St	Ref(s)
				Batting				Bowling				Fielding
Midwinter, BillyBilly Midwinter	Australia	1877–87	8	174	37	13.38	0	14	5/78	23.78	1	5	0	[5][6]
	England	1881–82	4	95	36	13.57	0	10	4/81	27.20	0	5	0
Murdoch, BillyBilly Murdoch	Australia	1877–90	18	896	211	32.00	2	–	–	–	–	14	0	[7][8]
	England	1892	1	12	12	12.00	0	–	–	–	–	0	1
Ferris, J. J.J. J. Ferris	Australia	1887–90	8	98	20*	8.16	0	48	5/26	14.25	4	4	0	[9]
	England	1892	1	16	16	16.00	0	13	7/37	7.00	2	0	0
Woods, SammySammy Woods	Australia	1888	3	32	18	5.33	0	5	2/35	24.20	0	1	0	[10]
	England	1896	3	122	53	30.50	0	5	3/28	25.80	0	4	0
Hearne, FrankFrank Hearne	England	1889	2	47	27	23.50	0	–	–	–	–	1	0	[11]
	South Africa	1892–96	4	121	30	15.12	0	2	2/40	20.00	0	2	0
Trott, AlbertAlbert Trott	Australia	1895	3	205	85*	102.50	0	9	8/43	21.33	1	4	0	[12][13]
	England	1899	2	23	16	5.75	0	17	5/49	11.64	1	0	0
Mitchell, FrankFrank Mitchell	England	1899	2	88	41	22.00	0	–	–	–	–	2	0	[14]
	South Africa	1912	3	28	12	4.66	0	–	–	–	–	0	0
Nawab of Pataudi (snr)	England	1932–34	3	144	102	28.80	1	–	–	–	–	0	0	[15][16]
	India	1946	3	55	22	11.00	0	–	–	–	–	0	0
Gul Mohammad	India	1946–52	8	166	34	11.06	0	2	2/21	12.00	0	3	0	[17]
	Pakistan	1956	1	39	27*	39.00	0	–	–	–	–	0	0
Abdul Hafeez Kardar	India	1946	3	80	43	16.00	0	–	–	–	–	1	0	[18]
	Pakistan	1952–58	23	847	93	24.91	0	21	3/35	45.42	0	15	0
Amir Elahi	India	1947	1	17	13	8.50	0	–	–	–	–	0	0	[19]
	Pakistan	1952	5	65	47	10.83	0	7	4/134	35.42	0	0	0
Guillen, SammySammy Guillen	West Indies	1951–52	5	104	54	26.00	0	–	–	–	–	9	2	[20]
	New Zealand	1956	3	98	41	16.33	0	–	–	–	–	4	1
Traicos, JohnJohn Traicos	South Africa	1970	3	8	5*	4.00	0	4	2/70	51.75	0	4	0	[21]
	Zimbabwe	1992–93	4	11	5	2.75	0	14	5/86	40.14	1	4	0
Wessels, KeplerKepler Wessels	Australia	1982–85	24	1761	179	42.95	4	0	–	–	0	18	0	[22]
	South Africa	1992–94	16	1027	118	38.03	2	–	–	–	–	12	0

One Day International cricket

Ed Joyce played 17 ODIs for England before representing Ireland.

Eoin Morgan has played ODIs for both Ireland and England.

Nine men have played international cricket for two different ODI teams. List updated to 19 July 2016 (ODI#3764).

Name	Team	Career	Matches	Runs	HS	Avg	100	Wkt	BB	Avg	4WI	Ct	St	Ref(s)
				Batting				Bowling				Fielding
Wessels, KeplerKepler Wessels	Australia	1983–85	54	1740	107	36.25	1	18	2/16	36.38	0	19	0	[23][22]
	South Africa	1991–94	55	1627	90	32.54	0	0	–	–	0	30	0
Lambert, ClaytonClayton Lambert	West Indies	1990–98	11	368	119	33.45	1	0	–	–	0	0	0	[23][24]
	USA	2004	1	39	39	39.00	0	0	–	–	0	0	0
Cummins, AndersonAnderson Cummins	West Indies	1991–95	63	459	44*	15.30	0	78	5/31	28.79	3	11	0	[23][25][26]
	Canada	2007	13	27	9*	4.50	0	13	3/60	48.53	0	3	0
Brown, DougieDougie Brown	England	1997–98	9	99	21	24.75	0	7	2/28	43.57	0	1	0	[23][27][28]
	Scotland	2006–07	16	220	50*	15.71	0	15	3/37	40.93	0	3	0
Jones, GeraintGeraint Jones	England	2004–06	49	815	80	24.69	0	–	–	–	–	68	4	[23][29]
	PNG	2014	2	47	25	23.50	0	–	–	–	–	0	0
Joyce, EdEd Joyce	England	2006–07	17	471	107	27.70	1	–	–	–	–	6	0	[23][30][31]
	Ireland	2011–15	45	1630	160*	42.89	4	–	–	–	–	16	0
Morgan, EoinEoin Morgan	Ireland	2006–09	23	744	115	35.42	1	–	–	–	–	9	0	[23][32][33]
	England	2009–16	142	4097	124*	36.90	7	–	–	–	–	57	0
Rankin, BoydBoyd Rankin	Ireland	2007–12	39	53	18*	10.60	0	46	3/32	33.08	0	6	0	[23][34]
	England	2013–14	7	5	4	5.00	0	10	4/46	24.10	1	0	0
Ronchi, LukeLuke Ronchi	Australia	2008	4	76	64	38.00	0	–	–	–	–	5	2	[23][35][36]
	New Zealand	2013–16	66	1083	170*	24.61	1	–	–	–	–	83	6

Twenty20 International cricket

Five cricketers have represented two different countries in T20I cricket. List updated to 5 July 2016 (T20I#561).

Name	Team	Career	Matches	Runs	HS	Avg	50	Wkt	BB	Avg	4WI	Ct	St	Ref(s)
				Batting				Bowling				Fielding
Joyce, EdEd Joyce	England	2006–07	2	1	1	1.00	0	–	–	–	–	0	0	[37][38]
	Ireland	2012–14	16	404	78*	36.72	1	–	–	–	–	5	0
Ronchi, LukeLuke Ronchi	Australia	2008–09	3	47	36	23.50	0	–	–	–	–	0	0	[37]
	New Zealand	2013–16	26	312	51*	20.80	1	–	–	–	–	23	5
Nannes, DirkDirk Nannes	Netherlands	2009	2	6	6	6.00	0	1	1/26	56.00	0	0	0	[37][39]
	Australia	2009–10	15	16	12*	16.00	0	27	4/18	14.92	1	1	0
Rankin, BoydBoyd Rankin	Ireland	2009–16	20	29	16*	29.00	0	23	3/17	19.13	0	8	0	[37]
	England	2013	2	–	–	–	–	1	1/24	24.00	0	0	0
van der Merwe, RoelofRoelof van der Merwe	South Africa	2009–10	13	57	48	19.00	0	14	2/14	21.78	0	6	0	[37]
	Netherlands	2015	8	68	40*	17.00	0	12	2/3	13.41	0	5	0

Others

Gavin Hamilton played one Test match for England, also making 50 appearances for Scotland in ODIs (38) and Twenty20 Internationals (12).^[40] Ryan Campbell played two ODI matches for Australia, and also played three T20I matches for Hong Kong.^[41] In women's cricket, at least two players have played One Day Internationals for two international teams – Canada-born Nicola Payne and New Zealand-born Rowan Milburn both began their women's One Day International careers with the Dutch national side, but switched to play for the New Zealand national team later in their careers.^[42][43]

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