Men with the golden arm - Top 5 part-time bowlers in world cricket

4. Marlon Samuels

Marlon Samuels

Samuels bowls a lot more than the three mentioned above, and it is with good measure that he does that. With an ODI Economy rate of 4.77, Samuels is a bowler who is not easy to get away. That is mainly because he is not a conventional off-spinner. He is one who prefers to dart the ball in at a flat trajectory, and bowls at the stumps. It is not easy to get such a bowler away, especially one who has a quicker one that can clock up to 120 km/h on the speed gun.

Although the legality of Samuels’s bowling action has been questioned from time to time, he is a useful customer to have, especially when he is running through his overs in the middle of an ODI innings.