TOP TEN GREATEST ALLROUND CRICKETERS OF ALL TIME

10.Lance Klusener: 

Lance Klusener is an ex South African left  handed batsman and right arm medium pace bowler who was a hard hitting batsman and dangerous bowler. He went on to play 49 test and 171 ODI matches throughout his career and scored more than 1900 test and 3500 ODI runs at good averages and took 80 test and 192 ODI wickets. His all round stats in ODI are unmatched.

9. Shaun Pollock:

Shaun Pollock is an ex South African cricketer who has served South African cricket for a long long time. The brilliant right hand swing bowler and right handed lower order batsman has done wonderful job as a cricketer and a captain also. Shaun has got 393 ODI and 421 test wickets at very best average and has scored many great batting innings also.  He has scored above 3500 runs in ODI and test each at respectable average.

8. Chris Cairns:

No such a list can ever be completed without mentioning the name of Chris Cairns of New Zealand. He was a brilliant right hand bat and right hand fast medium bowler who was brilliant in attacking the bowlers and taking crucial wickets for his team. The guy also held the record for hitting most number of sixes in the test cricket for many years. He took 218 wickets in 62 tests and 201 wickets in 215 ODI at respectable average and scored 3320 test and above 4900 ODI runs at fast strike rate and good batting average.  He was a top class balanced allrounder.

7. Jacques Kallis:

Jack Kallis is a brilliant batting all-rounder of the game. He has been serving south African side since 1995 and plays in middle order batting. He is a master class batsman and a good medium pacer too. He has scored more than 10000 ODI and 12000 tests runs at the very best batting average and has taken a total of over 500 wickets in all formats of the game. His usefulness as a bowler is amazing. His consistent performance makes him greatest all rounder of the last and a half decade.

6. Kapil Dev:

Kapil Dev is an ex Indian cricketer who has been a great medium pacer with extraordinary capability to bowl out swinger, a very serious and laborious cricketer, a super attacking batsman and a brilliant world cup winning captain. He was termed greatest Indian cricketer of the last century. He took 434 test and 253 ODI wickets and played 131 test and 225 ODI matches and scored more than 5200 test and 3700 ODI runs with extraordinary average and strike rate of above 95 in ODI.

Top ten allround cricketers:
(6)  Kapil Dev, (7) Jacques Kallis,(8) Chris Cairns, (9) Shaun Pollock and (10) Lance Klusener

5. SIR RICHARD HADLEE:

Sir R Hadlee belongs to the historical Hadlee cricket family of New Zealand and is the greatest new Zealand cricketer of all time. A right arm medium fast swing bowler and a left arm attacking lower order batsman, Richard was a brilliant all-rounder. He finished his career with 431 test and 158 ODI wickets with average of around 22 and scored over 3000 test runs with average of 27. He was a good hitter and very first bowler to get 400 test wickets.

  4. SIR IAN BOTHAM:

Sir Ian Botham is the ex English cricketer who played 103 test and 116 ODI matches for his national side. A brilliant right arm medium pacer and an attacking right hand batsman, he took total of 383 test and 145 ODI wickets at average of 28 and scored 5200 test runs at average of more than 33. He is the only batsman who has taken 5 wicket haul and scored a hundred in the same test match on 6 occasions. There are many such records in his name that are still unbroken, he deserves to be in top fie all-rounder cricketers in any such a list.

3. KEITH MILLER:

Keith Miller is the greatest all-rounder of Oz history. He was a fine right hand batsman and brilliant right arm fast bowler who scored more than 2900 test runs at average of around 37 and got 170 wickets at nearly 22. He was a tall aggressive cricketer and sex symbol of that time. He scored 7 hundreds and 13 fifties and got 7 five wicket hauls. In first class cricket, his batting average stands at above 48.

 

2. IMRAN KHAN:

Imran Khan is an ex Pakistani cricketer who has played cricket for nearly 20 years for his nation. Imran Khan had all the capabilities of a near to perfect all rounder as he had been a good bowler, good batsman, a great athlete and a great captain who led his team to their only world cup win. As a bowler, he was master of swing bowling with all three kind of swing bowling. He, perhaps, is the only cricketer of the history who could open the inning with both bat and bowl. He finished his career with the ODI and test bowling averages of 26.61 and 22.81 with 182 and 362 wickets respectively and batting average of 33.41 and 37.69 with more than 3700 runs in each format. He is no doubt the greatest all-rounder of the history of cricket.

1. SIR GARRY SOBERS:

 SIR Garfield Sobers was a great left hand batsman and left arm chinaman bowler of 1950s through early 1970s. He is often called the greatest all rounder of all time as he scored more than 8000 test runs at an excellent average of more than 57 and got 235 wickets at the average of 34. He is also known to be the finest left handed batsman of all time and perhaps the greatest cricketer of West Indies ever.

Top ten allround cricketers:
(1) Sir Garry Sobers, (2) Imran Khan, (3) Keith Miller, (4) Ian Botham, (5) Sir Richard Hadlee