Cricketers Who Have Been Knighted

Here’s a list of cricketers who received knighthoods. It’s divided into two categories: one for 22 players knighted for their contributions to cricket and another for 8 Test cricketers who were knighted for other achievements.

Knighted for services to cricket

This section lists all administrators, coaches, cricketers, umpires, and writers who have been knighted for their contributions to the game.

Australia

Name	Born	Died	Knighted	Reason for Knighthood
Sir Donald George Bradman AC	1908	2001	1949	Services to cricket

England

Name	Born	Died	Knighted	Reason for Knighthood
Sir Francis Eden Lacey	1859	1946	1926	Services to cricket
Sir Frederick Charles Toone	1868	1930	1929	Services to cricket
Sir Pelham Francis “Plum” Warner MBE	1873	1963	1937	Services to cricket
Sir John Berry “Jack” Hobbs	1882	1963	1953	Services to cricket
Sir Henry Dudley Gresham “Shrimp” Leveson-Gower	1873	1954	1953	Services to cricket
Sir Leonard “Len” Hutton	1916	1990	1956	Services to cricket
Sir John Frederick Neville Cardus CBE	1888	1975	1967	Services to music and cricket journalism
Sir George Oswald Browning “Gubby” Allen CBE	1902	1989	1986	Services to cricket
The Lord Cowdrey of Tonbridge CBE	1932	2000	1992	Services to cricket
Sir Alec Victor Bedser CBE	1918	2010	1996	Services to cricket
The Lord Botham OBE	24 November 1955	–	2007	Services to charity and to cricket
Sir Alastair Nathan Cook CBE	25 December 1984	–	2019	Services to cricket
Sir Geoffrey Boycott OBE	21 October 1940	–	2019	Services to sport
Sir Andrew John Strauss OBE	2 March 1977	–	2019	Services to sport

Knighted for other reasons

This list exclusively features Test cricketers, while many others have played cricket at various levels, including school and first-class cricket.

Country	Name	Details
England	Sir Francis Stanley Jackson GCSI GCIE KStJ (1870–1947)	Knighted in 1927 as Governor of Bengal; became a Knight of Justice of the Order of Saint John and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India in 1932 after an assassination attempt.
	Sir Charles Aubrey Smith CBE (1863–1948)	Knighted in 1944 for services to Anglo-American amity.
India	The Maharajkumar of Vizianagram (1905–1965)	Knighted in 1936 by King Edward VIII; renounced his knighthood in 1947 after India’s independence.
New Zealand	Sir Jack Newman KBE (1902–1996)	Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1977 for services to the transport industry.
Zimbabwe	Sir Murray Bisset (1876–1931)	Knighted in 1928 for services to the Commonwealth; served as Acting Governor of Southern Rhodesia.
	Sir William Henry Milton (1854–1930)	Knighted for his service as Administrator of Mashonaland and later as Administrator of Southern Rhodesia.
West Indies	The Lord Constantine MBE (1901–1971)	Knighted in 1962 for his work as a lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

Other titles

Title	Name	Details
Knighthood	Bill Woodfull	Offered in 1934 for services to cricket, turned it down.
OBE	Bill Woodfull	Received for services to education.
Hereditary Peerage	George Harris	Became the 4th Baron Harris.
Hereditary Peerage	Martin Hawke	Became the 7th Baron Hawke.
Life Peerage	Learie Constantine	Became Baron Constantine.
Life Peerage	Colin Cowdrey	Became Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge.
Life Peerage	David Sheppard	Became Baron Sheppard of Liverpool in 1997.
Baronetcy	Tim O’Brien	Became Sir Tim O’Brien, 3rd Baronet of Merrion Square.
Life Peerage	Rachael Heyhoe Flint	Became Baroness Heyhoe Flint, of Wolverhampton in 2011.
Life Peerage	Ian Botham	Became Baron Botham, of Ravensworth in 2020.
Princely Title	Ranjitsinhji Vibhaji Jadeja	Maharaja Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, known as “Ranji.”
Princely Title	Iftikhar Ali Khan	8th Nawab of Pataudi, known as Nawab of Pataudi Snr.
Princely Title	Mansoor Ali Khan	9th and last Nawab of Pataudi, known as Nawab of Pataudi Jnr.
Princely Title	Sir Vijayananda Gajapathi Raju	Maharajkumar of Vizianagram, commonly known as “Vizzy.”
Princely Title	Yadavindra Singh	Yuvraj of Patiala; became Maharaja of Patiala in 1938.
MBE/OBE	English Ashes Team	Awarded MBEs in 2005 for regaining the Ashes; Vaughan and Fletcher received OBEs.

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