5 Cricketers With The Most T20 Titles As A Player
Published - 07 Jun 2021, 03:21 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:47 AM
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Winning the title is a special feeling for any player even if it is a franchise tournament and it is very important that the number of titles adds on in the following years too. Some of the players have been very influential in the successful campaign for the franchises and they do know how to win the titles.
Match winners are very key to building up a team for the next set of years and when the team building is over, the titles count starts to increase. When the performances are good, they can demand more from the franchises to be retained, and here are 5 cricketers with the most T20 titles as a player.
5 Cricketers With The Most T20 Titles As A Player:
Lasith Malinga:
The former Sri Lankan legendary fast bowler Lasith Malinga is fifth in the list with nine T20 titles as a player. Malinga was one of the best in the business while executing his yorkers and deceives the batsman with his slower ones. His uncanny action will be remembered forever and his T20 numbers are outstanding.
Malinga has won four titles with the Mumbai Indians in 2013,2015, 2017, and 2019 and also won two Champions League T20 titles in 2011 and 2013.
He played an important part in the T20 Worldcup win for Sri Lanka in 2014. Malinga was also part of the Rangpur Riders squad in the Bangladesh premier league in 2017 where he won the league.?? In 2007, he won his first T20 title with Kent in the Stanford T20 in England.
Rohit Sharma:
The Indian limited-overs vice-captain Rohit Sharma is fourth in the list with ten T20 titles as a player. Rohit won his first T20 title with the Indian team in the inaugural edition of the 2007 T20 world cup. He won his first IPL title with the Deccan Chargers in 2009 and then was bought by the Mumbai Indians in 2011.
Rohit has been the most successful captain in IPL with five titles while captaining the Mumbai Indians in the tournament in 2013,2015,2017,2019 and 2020. Apart from that, he has also won a Champions League T20 trophy with the Mumbai Indians in 2013.
He won the Asia Cup T20 tournament in 2016 with India and Nidahas’ trophy was very special for the Mumbaikar too who captained India in absence of Virat Kohli and that sums up his title reigns.
Shoaib Malik:
Apart from that, Malik has been a regular feature in the Caribbean Premier League and he has won a title in 2014 with the Barbados Tridents.
He also played a crucial part with the Cummilla Warriors in the Bangladesh Premier League in their title-winning campaigns in 2015 and 2018. His last title came in 2018 in an international T20 Tri-Series for the Pakistan side and he stands third in the list with eleven titles overall.
Dwayne Bravo:
The West Indian all-rounder Dwayne Bravo has played for big franchises all around the globe and he is a match-winner with both the ball and bat. Bravo has won 14 T20 titles so far and there may be more to come. He has won two T20 Worldcup with the West Indies side in 2012 and 2016.
He also won the IPL twice in 2011 and 2018 with the Chennai Super Kings and also won a Champions League T20 tournament with CSK in 2014.
Bravo has been with the Trinidad and Tobago franchise for 16 years as a player and he has won three titles for them in the Caribbean T20 league competition.
Also, he has won four titles with the Trinbago Knight Riders franchise in the Caribbean premier league in 2015, 2017, 2018, and 2020. He also has won two Australian T20 league titles with Victoria Bushrangers in 2009 and Sydney Sixes in 2011.
Kieron Pollard:
Kieron Pollard is one of the game-changing players who can turn the match on its head in quick time. Pollard has won more titles in the T20s than any other player with 15 under his belt. Pollard has won a stunning seven titles with the Mumbai Indians with 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, and 2020 IPL titles and 2011 and 2013 CL T20 titles. Pollard was part of the Stanford T20 cup in England in 2007 where he won the title.
Apart from that, he won the T20 World cup in 2012 for the West Indies and in the same year, he won the Bangladesh Premier League with the Dhaka Gladiators.
He also won a Ram Slam with the Cape Cobras in 2014 and has won two Caribbean T20 league titles for the Trinidad and Tobago franchise in 2011 and 2012.
In the Caribbean premier league, he has won titles for Barbados Tridents in 2014 and the Trinbago Knight Riders in 2020.