10 oldest players in T20 World Cup 2021

T20 cricket, unlike today’s time, was often earlier viewed as a young man’s game. Especially, during its infancy when the youthful Indians lifted the inaugural ICC World T20 glory, the world was convinced that the format can only be leisured by the juvenile and peppy ones. When players like Chris Gayle and Brendon McCullum started to attain three-digit scores then the world conceived it to be a place of muscular and sturdy hitters.

However, the veterans on the flip side have always perceived T20 as a format of their vintage. Players like Brad Hodge and Michael Klinger were the pioneers to break the notion, especially by prolonging their careers even past the age of 40 effectively. Nowadays even legendary names like MS Dhoni and Chris Gayle are relishing their final playing days only by rejoicing T20 cricket. Perhaps overall even other old masters like Imran Tahir, DJ Bravo and Shoaib Malik are still efficiently active.

Hence with a mega-event like the ICC 2021World T20 also running up its due course, let’s check out the top 10 oldest players playing the tournament.

(Age of players as on 27th October 2021.)

10. David Wiese (Age: 36y 162d)

There’s no doubt that David Wiese can be called one of the very active T20 freelancers. The all-rounder has been a part of the CPL and has represented three different teams. Even in the newly launched ‘The Hundred Men’s Competition’, Wiese was a part of the London Spirits franchise. With regards to his IPL journey, the cricketer has only played two seasons (2015, 2016), he has an impressive tally of 16 wickets from his 15 appearances for the RCB franchise.

In international cricket, the 36-year old earlier represented South Africa from 2013-2016. Wiese has a tally of 24 wickets from 20 games for South Africa, including a fifer against WI. At present, he represents the Namibia national team and the veteran seems to be one of the vital cogs of the side. The all-rounder is expected to bring all his experience on the table precisely while playing against the heavyweight sides.

Overall, he has played 270 T20 games across all global T20 leagues. With the bat, Wiese has amassed a total of 2959 runs along with scalping 211 wickets.