All-rounder
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An all-rounder is a cricketer who regularly performs well at both batting and bowling. Although all bowlers must bat and quite a handful of batters do bowl occasionally, most players are skilled in on
Sir Garfield Sobers is considered as one of the most decorated all-rounders of all time.
Jacques Kallis is the only All-rounder in the history of the game to score more than 10,000 runs and take over 250 wickets in both ODI and Test match cricket.
Shakib Al Hasan is considered one of the best all-rounders of all time. He is the only all-rounder in history of the game to score more than 14000 runs and take over 700 wickets.
Flintoff batting in the 2009 Ashes at Cardiff
Jacques Kallis
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Jacques Henry Kallis OIS is a South African cricket coach and former professional cricketer. As a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium swing bowler, he was voted as the greatest cricketer of
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…analysis to argue that there had only been 42 genuine all-rounders in the history of Test cricket. He rated Garry Sobers as the best, followed by Jacques Kallis. One commonly used statistical rule of thumb is that a player's batting average (the higher the better) should be greater than their bowling average…
Kallis in 2009
Kallis bowling against Australia on the second day of the test, at the SCG
Kallis batting at The Oval in July 2012