5 Bowlers Ended Up As Batsmen: During the beginning of their cricket career, young players are usually seen batting or bowling like a legend, considering them as their idol. However, sometimes his personal decision does not go well, due to which he changes his role on the advice of the coach. However, such changes have been rarely seen at the international level.
Despite this, many cricketers playing at the international level for different countries have achieved this unique feat. These players, who played as bowlers in the beginning of their career, later achieved great success in batting and played important innings for their team with the bat for a long time. Today we are going to tell you about 5 such cricketers.
These 5 cricketers became batsmen from bowlers in international cricket
5. Cameron White
Former Australian player Cameron White started his career as a leg spinner. During this time, he was given a big responsibility in Tests after the retirement of Brad Hogg. White also took the wicket of Sachin Tendulkar during the Indian tour. However, due to lack of much variety, he did not find success as a bowler and White started working on his batting. White, who has played 4 Tests, 91 ODIs and 47 T20 matches for Australia, has more than 3000 runs and 18 wickets in his name.
4. Ravi Shastri
Former Indian player Ravi Shastri started his cricket career as a left-arm spin bowler. During this time he came to bat at number 10. After this, with time he paid special attention to his batting and emerged as a top-order batsman for India. Ravi Shastri has taken a total of 280 wickets and scored 6938 runs while playing 230 matches for India.
3. Steve Smith
Australian cricketer Steve Smith had made his place in the team as a bowler. In the initial phase, he used to bowl leg spin as well as bat at lower order. However, at present, Smith's name is included among the current great batsmen of world cricket. Smith has so far scored 16326 runs in international cricket and has also taken 64 wickets in his name in bowling. As of now, he has been seen bowling less recently.
2. Shoaib Malik
Shoaib Malik, one of the brilliant players in the history of Pakistan cricket, made his debut as an off-spinner at the age of 17. During that time he was seen bowling amazingly. However, later he paid more attention to his batting, due to which he emerged as a batting all-rounder. Malik has played important innings for Pakistan many times while batting in the top order. Playing 446 matches for Pakistan, Malik has scored a total of 11867 runs and also taken 218 wickets.
1. Sanath Jayasuriya
Former Sri Lankan legend Sanath Jayasuriya is known for his explosive batting as an opener. However, in the initial phase of his career, he was given a constant place in the team as a left-arm spin bowler. However, later achieving immense success as a batsman, Jayasuriya also contributed significantly to Sri Lanka's only ODI World Cup victory. Jayasuriya, counted among the best all-rounder players in the world, has scored a total of 21032 runs in his international career while playing 586 matches and has also taken 440 wickets.
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