Meet the Flames

Mitchell Marsh

All-rounder · Australia

The Flames' first-ever captain, the man setting the standard for everything that follows.

An all-rounder who can change a game with the bat or the ball. Mitch captains Australia's T20 side and leads the Flames into their first-ever season. A World Cup winner who played one of the great final innings when Australia lifted the T20 World Cup in 2021, he brings serious power, an infectious energy, and the kind of leadership a brand-new dressing room needs.

Steve Smith

Batter · Australia

Watch how often the bowler thinks they've got him — and hasn't.

One of the finest batters of his generation, a former Australia captain with a Test record that puts him among the all-time greats. Unorthodox, endlessly inventive and impossible to bowl a plan at, Smith brings a level of class that lifts everyone around him.

Tim David

Batter · Australia

When Tim walks out, stop what you're doing. The last three overs are about to get loud.

A finisher — the batter sent in late to hit the big shots when every ball counts, and one of the most feared in world cricket. Born in Singapore, where his cricket journey began before he rose to Australia's T20 side, Tim is proof the game belongs to every corner of the map.

Michael Bracewell

All-rounder · New Zealand

The quiet one who somehow ends up in every big moment.

A left-handed batter and clever off-spinner from one of New Zealand's great cricketing families, Michael is the sort of calm, three-dimensional cricketer every T20 side is built around — quick runs, tidy overs, and catches that end up on highlight reels.

David Payne

Bowler · England

The man trusted with the final over.

A left-arm quick who has made a career of the hardest job in T20: bowling at the death, when batters are swinging at everything. Yorkers on demand and nerves to match.

Richard Gleeson

Bowler · England

Proof it's never too late — and at full tilt, genuinely quick.

A fast bowler with a story to love: he came to professional cricket late and made up for lost time, troubling some of the world's best batters in an England shirt. Pace, bounce and a point to prove.

Scott Edwards

Keeper-Batter · Netherlands

The local leader — Dutch cricket's biggest night had his name on it.

The captain of the Netherlands and the calm heart of Dutch cricket. A wicketkeeper-batter — he keeps the gloves behind the stumps and anchors the middle order with the bat — Scott is famous for his sweep shot and for one of the great Dutch sporting nights: a match-winning innings against South Africa at the 2023 World Cup.

Max O'Dowd

Batter · Netherlands

The record-holder — the first Dutch batter to reach three figures in a T20 international.

The Netherlands' leading run scorer in international cricket, with more than 2,000 runs in each white-ball format and the first T20 century ever scored by a Dutch batter. Cricket runs in the family — his father played first-class cricket in New Zealand — and Max has carried the family trade to record-breaking heights in orange.

Bas de Leede

All-rounder · Netherlands

A World Cup story handed from father to son.

Cricket royalty by Dutch standards: his father Tim played three World Cups for the Netherlands, and Bas has gone one better — named the ICC's Associate Cricketer of the Year in 2023 after all but carrying his country to the World Cup. One of the rare players who bats in the top order and bowls his full quota of overs.

Kyle Klein

Bowler · Netherlands

Fast, bouncy, and probably knows your batting average better than you do.

The Netherlands' strike bowler — the one thrown the new ball to make something happen early. Since his debut in 2024 nobody has taken more wickets for the Dutch men's side, and he's a self-confessed cricket-stats obsessive who studies the game as hard as he plays it.

Aryan Dutt

Bowler · Netherlands

The teenager who took on the toughest overs — and kept them.

An off-spinner who announced himself in the national side at just 17. Born in The Hague, he sharpened his game in India before coming home to become one of the rarest things in modern cricket: a spinner trusted with the powerplay, when the fielding rules favour the batters.

Tim Pringle

All-rounder · Netherlands

The thinking bowler — less about spin, more about outsmarting you.

A left-arm spinner with cricket in the blood — his father Chris played for New Zealand — Tim chose the country of his birth and repaid it with a Player of the Match performance in the Netherlands' winning start to the 2024 T20 World Cup. Subtle variations and sharp game-awareness over brute force.

Curtis Campher

All-rounder · Ireland

Four wickets. Four balls. Look it up — then watch him bowl.

Owner of one of T20 cricket's most extraordinary feats: four wickets in four consecutive balls at the 2021 T20 World Cup. He's also in the exclusive club of players with both an international century and a hat-trick to their name — the definition of an all-rounder who makes things happen.

Dipendra Singh Airee

All-rounder · Nepal

The fastest fifty ever hit in T20 internationals. Nine balls. It can never be beaten — only equalled.

Known to Nepal's famously passionate fans as "the Tiger". Dipendra hit six sixes in a single over in international cricket — a feat only a handful of players have ever managed — and holds the record for the fastest T20 fifty in history: nine balls. Electric in the field, dangerous with the bat, handy off-spin too.

Yuvraj Samra

Batter · Canada

A World Cup record-breaker before his 20th birthday. Remember the name.

The youngest player ever to score a century at a T20 World Cup — and the first from an Associate nation to do it on the world stage — in his very first year of senior cricket. Named after the Indian great Yuvraj Singh, and batting like the name demands.

Ali Hasan

Bowler · Italy

First ball of a World Cup match. Wicket. That's an entrance.

The face of Italian cricket's rise. At Italy's first-ever World Cup, Ali took a wicket in every match — including the West Indies captain, caught behind, with his very first ball of the game. Left-arm pace, big-match nerve, and useful hitting down the order.

Jordan Neill

All-rounder · Ireland

The youngest of the ones to watch — get in early on this one.

One of Ireland's brightest young prospects — a former Ireland U19 World Cup captain who played senior international cricket in his teens. Started as a batter, added seam bowling, and keeps adding strings to his bow.