The England champion who swapped Middlesex for the Lord’s of the North
Dawid Malan was part of England’s team which won the T20 World Cup in Australia in late 2022. He has since retired from international cricket but promises to play a huge part in Yorkshire’s bid for trophies in the coming years.
In September 2020, Malan was ranked as the world’s number one batter in T20 cricket. That was also his first summer with Yorkshire, having moved from Middlesex.
Malan is no stranger to a trophy. He was part of Middlesex’s County Championship triumph in 2016 and helped his first county win the T20 Blast in 2008.
He is also a two-time Hundred winner with Trent Rockets in 2022 and the Oval Invincibles in 2024. At the start of 2025, he won the Bangladesh Premier League T20 competition with Fortune Barishal.
Unfortunately, in that aforementioned T20 World Cup triumph in 2022, he missed England’s final win against Pakistan at Melbourne through injury.
The classy left-hander, now 37, called time on his international career in August 2024. Across the formats, he scored eight hundreds; six in ODIs and one each in T20 and Test Matches. He played 124 times for his country.
In 2023 and 2024, Malan was Yorkshire’s leading run-scorer in the Vitality Blast whilst opening the batting.
In the first of those campaigns, he scored 546 runs with five fifties. In the most recent, he hit 420 with three half-centuries. One of those was a stunning 93 not out as Yorkshire chased down 206 to beat Worcestershire at New Road in mid-July.
Malan has not been a Yorkshire regular during his time at Headingley due to international commitments, and throughout 2024 opted to step away from first-class cricket in order to concentrate on his white ball cricket.
However, he has five four-day centuries to his name whilst wearing the white rose. And in 2025, he has opted to return to the red ball game having signed a new two-year contract through until the end of 2026.
His first three-figure score for Yorkshire was 219 in a draw with Derbyshire in the BWT at Headingley in 2020 before adding 199 and 152 in Championship wins against Sussex and Kent at the same venue the two following summers. In 2023, he scored Championship centuries against Leicestershire and Derbyshire at Headingley and Chesterfield respectively.
Born in Roehampton, South West London, Malan grew up in South Africa and made his first-class debut for Boland in February 2006.
He made his first appearance for Middlesex that summer as well, a county he captained for the two years immediately prior to joining Yorkshire.
A regular on the T20 franchise circuit, Mala, as he is nicknamed along with AC, also helped Sunrisers Eastern Cape win the SA20 title in early 2024. Now the aim will be to add Yorkshire silverware to his decorated list of triumphs.
On the eve of the 2025 summer, Malan was announced as Yorkshire’s new captain for the Vitality Blast.
UPDATED: March 2025.
