Andy Flower and Kumar Sangakkara were inducted into the ICC Hall of Fame on Sunday. The other notable names include, - South Africa's Aubrey Faulkner and Australia's Monty Noble (pre-1918 era), Learie Constantine of West Indies and Stan McCabe of Australia (1918-1945), Ted Dexter of England and Vinoo Mankad of India (1946-1970) and West Indies' Desmond Haynes and England's Bob Willis (1971-1995). Andy Flower became the first Zimbabwean cricketer to become a part of the ICC Hall of Fame. Some of the notable cricketers in the 103-member Hall of Fame are Sachin Tendulkar, Jacques Kallis, Rahul Dravid, Ricky Ponting, Anil Kumble, Muttiah Muralitharan, Waqar Younis, and Imran Khan.
Andy Flower spearheaded Zimbabwe's glorious era in cricket. In his Test career, the wicketkeeper-batsman played 63 Tests scoring 4794 runs at an average of 51.54 while taking 151 catches with 9 stumpings. His unbeaten 232 against India at Nagpur in 2000 remains the highest-ever score by a wicketkeeper in an innings. Kumar Sangakkara amassed over 10,000 runs in both Tests as well as ODIs scoring 63 hundreds in total. Starting off as a wicketkeeper in a star-studded Sri Lankan side, he gradually began to shoulder a large part of responsibility in the batting department ending up as no.3 by the time he hung up his boots. He is Sri Lanka's leading run-getter in Test cricket with 12,400 runs at an average of 57.40- the highest average among all batters to have scored more than 9000 Test runs. Player of the Match in the 2014 World T20 final, Sangakkara became the first non-British person to be appointed as the MCC president in 2019.
