Welcome to the CPL 2026 Players category — your complete destination for everything related to Caribbean Premier League players, team stars, and rising T20 talents.
The Caribbean Premier League is known for its explosive batting, world-class all-rounders, and exciting bowling talent from the Caribbean and around the world. In this category, you can explore detailed player profiles, career highlights, match performances, playing styles, records, and the latest updates from the CPL 2026 season.
Shadley van Schalkwyk is a 37-year-old South African-born seamer who represents the United States, following a nearly two-decade domestic career that never earned him a Proteas call-up. He became one of the standout individual stories of the 2026 T20 World Cup, finishing third on the wicket-takers list with 13 scalps, including matching 4/25 spells against…
Charith Asalanka is a Sri Lankan left-handed batting all-rounder and former national white-ball captain, now playing under Kusal Mendis’s leadership. 2026 has been a year of major change: he lost both the T20I and ODI captaincies within five months, but earned his first-ever CPL contract with Saint Lucia Kings. He has no PSL history and…
Maheesh Theekshana is a Sri Lankan mystery spinner (right-arm off-break) born 1 August 2000 in Colombo. He plays for Sri Lanka internationally, the Rajasthan Royals in the IPL, and the Saint Lucia Kings in CPL 2026. Known for his carrom ball and rare spinner’s yorker, he won the 2023 IPL with CSK and the 2022…
Tim Seifert, New Zealand batter. Born on December 14, 1994, in Whanganui, New Zealand, the right-handed wicketkeeper-batter has spent the last decade turning a domestic reputation for hitting fast hundreds into one of the busiest, most well-travelled T20 careers in world cricket. Compact, wristy, and utterly fearless against pace and spin alike, “Bam Bam” —…
Noor Ahmad is an Afghan left-arm wrist-spinner born on 3 January 2005 in Khost Province. He plays for Chennai Super Kings in the IPL and St Lucia Kings in the CPL, where he was 2024’s Player of the Tournament and title winner. He’s also a regular in Afghanistan’s white-ball squads. Noor Ahmad is one of…
Moeen Munir Ali OBE is an English all-rounder who spent a decade as one of the most versatile players in world cricket — a left-hand batter capable of quick runs in the middle order, and a right-arm off-spinner who became a mainstay of England’s Test attack. Between 2014 and 2024, he played 68 Tests, 138…
Glenn Phillips is a New Zealand wicketkeeper-batter and part-time off-spinner, born 6 December 1996 in South Africa. He plays for New Zealand internationally, Otago domestically, and the Gujarat Titans in the IPL. Known for explosive hitting and elite fielding, he scored his maiden Test century against England in June 2026. Glenn Dominic Phillips New Zealand…
Motie was raised in a cricket-first household in Albion, Berbice, the youngest child and only son of Kanhai Motie and Tarmattie Harrilall, with two elder sisters. His father’s early coaching is widely credited as the foundation of his bowling technique. Gudakesh Motie is a 31-year-old Guyanese left-arm spinner who became West Indies’ first-choice white-ball spin…
Imran Tahir is a Pakistan-born South African cricketer known as one of the most enduring leg-spinners of his generation. After failing to break into Pakistan’s national team, he relocated to South Africa, qualified in 2011, and became the country’s leading spin wicket-taker in ODIs and T20Is before retiring internationally in 2019. He has since built…
Shai Hope is a Barbadian wicketkeeper-batter and the current captain of the West Indies in ODI and T20I cricket. Born on 10 November 1993, he holds the record for the fastest West Indian to 5,000 ODI runs and captains the Guyana Amazon Warriors’ top order in the 2026 CPL season. Quick Facts Detail Information Full…