10 players who revolutionised limited overs cricket through innovations

#2 Lasith Malinga

Facing a fast inswinging yorker is a batsman's nightmare. But there is something in cricket worse than that. Slow ball yorker is one of the toughest deliveries to bowl and to play in modern day cricket. None does it better than the man who invented it, Lasith Malinga. He used the slow ball yorkers to brilliant effect in ODIs and T20s.

He is one of the best limited-overs bowlers because of his ability to bowl these type of deliveries. These yorkers are unplayable early in the innings and tough even for a settled batsman.

He deceives it so perfectly that the batsman will know it only at the last second. The ball will dip on the batsman which makes it a lethal delivery to face. Malinga took a lot of wickets with his slow ball yorkers and has dismissed some of the best batsmen in the world.

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#1 Mahendra Singh Dhoni

MS Dhoni played the Helicopter shot for the first time during an ODI game against England in 2006. It derived its name from the way it was played. The bat swing resembles the rotation of helicopter wings.

The crowd was stunned in Goa when he played that shot to James Anderson when he hammered a full-length delivery for a six.

This shot requires a strong pair of wrists and the body weight goes in the opposite direction of the shot making it a tough shot to master. Batsmen like Shehzad and Cutting tried the shot but none could do it successfully on a consistent basis like MSD.