Bettor.com top bowling all-round players in Test cricket (Part 1)
Although, the sport of cricket includes three playing departments, namely batting, bowling and fielding, only two disciplines are taken under consideration when it comes to selecting a player for the highest format of the game, which are his batting and
bowling credentials. Any player who can perform in the two disciplines is known as an all-rounder.
An all-round cricketer is a much needed version of a sportsman, required at the highest format of the game, in terms of his contribution to the match at hand. For a specialist batsman or bowler, contributions are only made in his specified area of interest
and in the field, but an all-round player can add value to all three departments of the game.
When one talks about an all-round cricketer, he or she can refer to either a batting all-rounder or a bowling all-rounder. An all-round batsman’s strong suit is batting and vice versa for an all-round bowler.
It is difficult to be a bowling all-round player in all formats of the game, as the physical strain is more than for a batting all-round player. Batting all-round players are generally part time bowlers, but a bowling all-rounder is generally the frontline
striker with ball.
The list concluded by Bettor.com includes all bowling all-round players, who have batted in the upper order and bowled with the new ball. Thus, a bowling all-round player is a more physically tiring attribute than a batting all-round player.
Cricket players having one of the two skills are known as a specialist, irrespective of the fact whether he is a bowler or batsman. However, a wicket-keeper all-rounder, all-rounder or wicket-keeper- batsman are those limited wicket-keepers in the international
players, who have performed reasonably well with the bat. The most commonly applied term for a wicket-keeper with batting skills is wicketkeeper-batsman.
When speaking of batting all-round players, one cannot leave out the likes of Sir Garfied Sobers and Jacques Kallis. These two World-class all-rounder’s hold an exceptional record of taking a five wickets haul and a century in the same innings, and the two
have achieved this record twice in their careers. While, Sobers has a massive of 8032 runs and 235 wickets from his 93 Test matches. Kallis has an enormous of 11,126 runs and 266 wickets from his 140 Test matches played.
Nevertheless, World cricket has experienced one of the finest bowling all-round players in the longer version of the game, and it was very difficult to put these cricketing greats in chronological order.
The list of Bettor.com’s top bowling all-round players in Test cricket includes players such as Imran Khan, Shaun Pollock, Ian Botham, Richard Hadlee, Chris Cairns and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Kapil-Dev-c70234.
The top Test bowling all-round players are listed according to the level of their respective international Test careers and the batting and bowling averages they were able to maintain. Not to forget, their differences in averages of the two disciplines and
number of matches played by them.
Imran Khan
Born on 25th of November, 1952, Imran khan is a living cricketing legend of the Pakistani and World cricket fraternity. The veteran all-rounder is a pioneer when it comes to in-swing and out-swing bowling. He is among the eight World cricketers
to achieve an “all-rounder’s Triple” in Test matches, on the basis of his exceptional Test record in both cricketing disciplines.
The veteran led the Pakistani cricket team to their first and only ICC World cup victory in 1992. He has a long international cricket career to his name of 21 years, in which is captained the national team on and off for a period of ten years from 1982 to
1992.
(To be continued in Part 2…)
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