BRADLEY CURRIE

There are few better stories in Associate cricket than that of Brad Currie. A left-arm swing bowler who admits he had "more second XI trials than hot dinners," Currie ground through National Counties cricket for Dorset before Sussex handed him a first-class debut at Lord's in 2022 — where he promptly took a six-wicket haul. In a game obsessed with express pace, his gentle, wobbling swing is a genuine point of difference, one that has yielded 28 T20I wickets at just over twelve apiece, with best figures of 5 for 13 against Ireland. He is also one of the finest fielders in the competition: his diving boundary catch in the 2023 T20 Blast was described by Ben Stokes as "filth" and has been watched more than thirteen million times on social media.