5 cricketers who made a successful transition from Tests to T20s

#1. Brad Hodge - the quintessential T20 player

Hodge used power and strategy to maximise his T20 career

Before the West Indies and Glenn Maxwell proved the importance of power-hitting in T20 cricket, batting in this format was all about eliminating low impact shots and scoring boundaries more frequently.

And nobody excelled in this approach better than Brad Hodge. The Australian batsman followed an effective template to score a mountain of runs in T20s. He would start the innings cautiously, taking the time to settle down and then upped the ante by bisecting gaps. He would keep his high-risk and big shots for the end to provide a flourish.

With this approach, the right-hand batsman enjoyed unprecedented success in T20 leagues across the world and become a top ranked batsman in this format.

All this was achieved after Australia neglected his batting heroics in first-class cricket and offered him very few chances in Test cricket. Hodge amassed more than 17,000 runs in first-class cricket with 51 centuries and in return was rewarded with only six Tests.

So, he focused on T20 cricket and found his mojo in this format. His success lay in his innovative stroke play and ability to milk runs from good deliveries as well.

He has more than seven thousand runs in T20s and has remained a prolific run-scorer in this arena.