News: The ICC announced seven new additions to the ICC Hall of Fame with a large group of former greats added as the latest inductees.
About ICC Hall of Fame
- Origin: The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame was launched on 2 January 2009 in association with the Federation of International Cricketers Associations (FICA), as part of the ICC’s centenary year celebrations.
- The ICC Cricket Hall of Fame recognises the achievements of the legends of the game from cricket’s long and illustrious history.
- Eligibility criteria
- To be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame, a player must have retired from international cricket for at least five years, and demonstrated outstanding achievements, impact on the game, and long-standing contributions to cricket at the global level.
- Player inductions
- The initial intake of inductees was the 55 players named in the FICA Hall of Fame, which ran between 1999 and 2003.
- This was supplemented by a select group of inductions each year, which started in 2009.
- Ceremony
- Induction ceremonies take place throughout the cricket calendar where the inductees are presented with a commemorative ICC Cricket Hall of Fame cap.
- ICC Hall of Fame 2025 list
- Seven former players to have been inducted by the ICC – M S Dhoni, Australia’s Matthew Hayden, former South Africa captain Graeme Smith, former New Zealand skipper Daniel Vettori, South African Hashim Amla, former Pakistan captain Sana Mir and England’s Sarah Taylor.
- Indians in ICC Hall of Fame list
- Dhoni is the 11th Indian to be inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame after Sunil Gavaskar, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Diana Edulji (women cricket), Anil Kumble, Bishan Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev, Rahul Dravid, Vinoo Mankad and Neetu David (women cricket).
