Top 5 cricket players in the world?

¹⁾ Kohli captained India Under-19s to victory at the 2008 Under-19 World Cup in Malaysia. After a few months later, he made his ODI debut for India against Sri Lanka at the age of 19. Initially having played as a reserve batsman in the Indian team, he soon established himself as a regular in the ODI middle-order and was part of the squad that won the 2011 World Cup. He made his Test debut in 2011 and shrugged off the tag of "ODI specialist" by 2013 with Test hundreds in Australia and South Africa.[4] Having reached the number one spot in the ICC rankings for ODI batters for the first time in 2013,[5] Kohli also found success in the Twenty20 format, winning the Man of the Tournament twice at the ICC World Twenty20 (in 2014 and 2016).

2) Williamson made his first-class cricket debut in December 2007.[1] He made his U-19 debut against the touring Indian U-19 team the same year and was named captain of the New Zealand U-19 team for the 2008 U-19 Cricket World Cup. He made his international debut in 2010. Williamson has represented New Zealand at 2011, 2015, and 2019 editions of the Cricket World Cup and 2012, 2014, and 2016 editions of the ICC World Twenty20. He made his full-time captaincy debut for New Zealand in the 2016 ICC World Twenty20 in India. He captained New Zealand at the 2019 Cricket World Cup, leading the team to the final and winning the Player of the Tournament award in the process. On 31 December 2020, he reached a Test batting rating of 890, surpassing Steve Smith and Virat Kohli as the number one ranked Test batters globally.[2][3] He was nominated for the Sir Garfield Sobers Award for ICC Male Cricketer of the Decade and the decade's Test cricketer of the decade. Ian Chappell and Martin Crowe have ranked Williamson among the top four or five Test cricket batsmen and Joe Root, Steve Smith, and Virat Kohli.

3) Although he was initially selected for Australia as a right-arm leg spinner, Smith later played primarily as a batsman. After playing five matches from 2010 to 2011, he was recalled to the Australian team in 2013 and took over the captaincy from Michael Clarke in late 2015, after which he predominantly batted at number 3 or 4.

Awards he has won include the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy (ICC Cricketer of the Year) in 2015; ICC Test Player of the Year in 2015 and 2017; ICC Men's Test Player of the Decade: 2011–2020; the Allan Border Medal for the best player in Australian Cricket in 2015, 2018 and 2021; Australian Test Player of the Year: 2015 and 2018 and Australian One Day International Player of the Year: 2015 and 2021. He was named by Wisden as one of their Cricketers of the Year in the 2016 Wisden Almanack.

In 2014, New Zealand batsman Martin Crowe described Smith as one of the young Fab Four of Test cricket and Joe Root, Kane Williamson, and Virat Kohli.[4] On 30 December 2017, he reached a Test batting rating of 947, the second-highest of all time, only behind Don Bradman's 961.

In March 2018, Smith was widely criticized for overseeing ball-tampering in the third Test against South Africa, during which he stood down from the team captaincy and was replaced by Tim Paine. Following an investigation by Cricket Australia, Smith was banned from all international and domestic cricket in Australia for one year starting from 29 March 2018 and considering any leadership role for an additional year.

4) de Villiers began his international career as a wicket-keeper-batsman, but he has played most often solely as a batsman. He batted at various positions in the batting order but predominantly in the middle-order. Noted as one of the most innovative and destructive batsmen in the modern era and one of the greatest of all time, de Villiers is known for a range of unorthodox shots, particularly behind the wicket-keeper.[3] He made his international debut in a Test match against England in 2004 and first played a One Day International (ODI) in early 2005. His debut in Twenty20 International cricket came in 2006. He scored over 8,000 runs in both Test and ODI cricket and is one of the very few batsmen to have a batting average of over fifty in both game forms.[4] In limited-overs cricket, he is an attacking player.[5] He holds the record for the fastest ODI century in just 31 balls. He also recorded the fastest ODI 50 and 150. He has a healthy average of 63.52 in World Cups.

De Villiers captained South Africa in all three formats, although he stepped down from the Test captaincy after a series of injuries. In 2017, he stepped down from captaining the national limited-overs games[6], and in May 2018, he announced his retirement from all forms of international cricket.[7][8][9] However, in January 2020, de Villiers expressed his intention to make an international comeback and play for South Africa in the 2020 T20 World Cup.[10] However, later in May 2021, de Villiers confirmed CSA (Cricket South Africa) that he will not come out of retirement and that his retirement is final once and for all.

5) A left-handed batsman, he plays county cricket for Middlesex and has played for England's Test, One Day International (ODI), and Twenty20 International (T20I) teams. He previously played for the Ireland cricket team in ODIs and was the first player to score an ODI hundred for two nations.

After Alastair Cook was removed from the ODI captaincy on 19 December 2014, Morgan was named the England captain for the 2015 Cricket World Cup, having already captained England in ODIs and T20Is. He is the only England captain to have scored more than 4 ODI centuries.

As of May 2021, Morgan is the all-time leading run-scorer and most-capped player for England in ODI and T20I matches.[2] He also holds the England record for the fastest fifty in ODIs, and during the 2019 ICC World Cup, he scored the highest number of sixes in an ODI inning, with 17 sixes against Afghanistan.

In March 2021, Morgan became the first male cricketer for England to play in 100 T20Is (57 as captain) in the third match against India.