Mitchell Santner and Kim Garth will certainly be racking up the airmiles this summer.

Santner, who captains New Zealand in white-ball cricket, hails from Hamilton on the country’s North Island - more than 11,000 miles from Trent Bridge.

Meanwhile, Garth, despite being born in Dublin, is now an adopted Australian based in Melbourne, which is another 10,500 miles away.

In representing the Rockets this summer, the duo, therefore, will log enough miles to circumnavigate the Earth - almost twice over.

Not that such extensive travelling is new to either of the pair, who have a combined 407 international appearances between them for their respective Antipodean neighbours.

Santner, especially, is a seasoned all-format international, and counts three major finals among his 246 limited-overs appearances for the Black Caps.

Touted as the replacement for Daniel Vettori when he made his international debut in 2015, left-armer Santner has matched up to the expectations set by his fellow bespectacled spinner.

He captained his country for the first time in November 2020, just over five-and-a-half years since his debut, and in December 2024, took on the job full-time.

Travel is also nothing new to Garth, who - at the same time Santner captained New Zealand for the first time - switched allegiances and moved from her homeland of Ireland to Australia.

She therefore holds the achievement of having played internationally for two teams, and did so for the first time aged just 14, when she appeared for Ireland against New Zealand.

She was ultimately capped over 100 times for Ireland, earning such honours as Ireland’s Player of the Year in 2015, and Women’s Player of the Decade in the 2010s.

Her exploits were hardly going unnoticed, though, and in 2020, she made the decision to move to Australia to pursue a professional career.

Having signed for Victoria, she would go on to compete in the Women’s Big Bash League for Sydney Sixers, Perth Scorchers and later Melbourne Stars as a domestic player after gaining Australian residency.

A seam bowler with a useful slower-ball option and a handy lower-order batter, Garth became eligible to play internationally for Australia in 2022, making her T20I debut against India.

A Test debut in the 2023 Women’s Ashes, at none other than Trent Bridge, would follow, and she has since gone on to establish herself as one of Australia’s premier bowling all-rounders.

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