Paul Collingwood (England)
The late developer has packed a good deal of eventful cricket in his career in all three formats of the game, but in all likelihood, he is not going to be around for the 2015 World Cup.
As a reliable middle-order batsman in Tests and a notable partnership-breaker with his gentle medium pacers, as an excellent utility man in limited overs cricket and as the successful captain of the Twenty20 squad, Paul Collingwood has rendered yeoman service to English cricket.
The crowning glory must be leading England to a notable triumph in the Twenty20 World Cup in the Caribbean last year, but close behind would be his gutsy batting in Tests and his superb all-round show in ODIs where he is one of the few players to achieve the double of 5000 runs and 100 wickets.
Collingwood, who was a member of the England team in the 2003 and 2007 World Cup competitions, announced his retirement from Test cricket at the end of the recent Ashes series.
He will be 35 a couple of months after the end of the World Cup, and it is a safe bet to assume that he will not be around four years from now.
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