Dawid Johannes Malan is an English cricketer who bats left handed and bowls leg break, plays for England and Yorkshire County Cricket Club. As of 20 March 2021, he is ranked first in the ICC T20I batsman rankings, and has achieved the highest ever rating (915 points) in the format. At the age of seven he and his family moved to South Africa, where he subsequently attended Paarl Boys' High School. Shortly after making his first class debut for Boland.