5 ODI Legends who had a less successful career in Test Cricket

Michael Bevan (Australia)

The Best Finisher in the History of ODI Cricket.

Before MS Dhoni, Michael Hussey and way before Jos Buttler, there was a man who became a legend of the game by winning games for his team from unimaginable situations and was the best ODI batsman of his time - Australian legend Michael Bevan.

Part of the famed Australian team that ruled the ODI Cricket for the better part of early 2000s, Bevan, although not as prolific run scorer as Ricky Ponting and Adam Gilchrist, was more important than any other player in the Australian team, something that is very well reflected in the record that he boasts as an ODI player.

Between 1994 and 2004, Bevan was a permanent member of the ODI team, playing 232 matches in that period. Scoring 6,912 runs at a record average of 53.58, Bevan acted as the pillar of Australia's lower order during that glorious period. Despite that, he never succeeded in solidifying his place in the Test line up.

With a plethora of other players performing on a regular basis, Bevan's test career was cut short to only 18 Tests, the last of which he played in 1998 against South Africa. His statistics in the longest format - 785 runs at an average of 29.07 - do not present the right image of the player that he was at his prime.