Top 5 modern day all-rounders in cricket

1. Shakib Al Hasan

Shakib Al Hasan

There are few words that can describe how awesome a player he is, and how well he led Bangladesh before the change of leadership. He has had a major contribution in revamping Bangladesh cricket and making it reach where it is today. Be it his captaincy, his batting, or his bowling – no other all-rounder (except probably Kallis) in his age comes even close to the contribution he has made for his national team.

He is without a doubt one of the finest cricketers and gentlemen of the game. He is among the top 5 in the rankings of all-rounders in all formats of the game and is the only Bangladeshi to feature here.

He first became captain at an age of 22 replacing the injured Mortaza. He exhibited excellent captaincy skills which resulted in him continuing as captain, and the Bangladeshis played some amazing result-oriented cricket under his leadership.

He is just 26 now and has a long career ahead of him. As a senior in the team, he will have the role of helping the new talent that enters the team. As far as the youngsters go, they will only be too happy to get guidance from someone like him.

As far as statistics go, he averages above 35 in both Tests and ODIs and has over 2000 and 3000 runs respectively in the formats. His bowling economy is just over 4 in ODIs. As far as T20s are concerned, he has 33 wickets from just 26 games with an impressive strike-rate of 17.

He is one of the calmest characters on the field. His best bowling performance was 7/36 against New Zealand at Chittagong. There is a lot to be learnt from the kind of player that he is, and he may well be the greatest all-rounder at the time he says goodbye to the game.