5 players who succeeded in formats they weren't expected to

#2 Mahela Jayawardene (Sri Lanka) - T20s

Jayawardene had profound success in several T20 leagues around the globe

A technically perfect batsman, Mahela Jayawardene, along with Kumar Sangakkara were the faces of Sri Lankan cricket for more than a decade. The middle order batsman was a stalwart in Tests with 34 hundreds in the format including a mammoth 374.

While Jayawardene was expected to scale new heights in Test and ODI cricket, his T20 success came as a shock to most. A batsman known to rely on ground shots and rotation of strike, the former Sri Lankan skipper was not expected to be able to cope with the demands of T20 cricket.

But legendary batsmen have ways of excelling in every format and Jayawardene proved as much in his 55-match T20 career. He averaged 31.76 in the format and scored a hundred aside from nine half-centuries.