Top 5 ODI all-rounders of all time 

#2 Sanath Jayasuriya

He is the greatest one-day batsman that Sri Lanka produced and certainly, one of the greatest opening batsmen in the history of one-day cricket. However, what is often forgotten is that former Sri Lankan great Sanath Jayasuriya was actually an all-rounder, who regularly bowled his full quote of fast left-arm off-spin for most of his career and has, in fact, taken 323 wickets in his 445 games long one-day international career spanning 22 years (1989-2011).

As a batsman, he was perhaps one of the most destructive opening batsmen to have ever played the game and was known for absolutely brutalising bowlers during the initial overs, when the fielding restrictions applied. He scored 13,430 runs for Sri Lanka and averaged 32.36, but the strike rate of 91.20 is proof that he could be an extremely damaging player. He also scored 28 centuries and as many as 68 half-centuries in his career.

It used to be extremely difficult to score quickly off Jayasuriya - the bowler. He was clever, he was extremely accurate and he bowled pretty fast if there was no turn on the pitch. There were times when he even bowled at the death for Sri Lanka and an economy rate of 4.78 is ample proof of his match-turning abilities as a one-day international bowler.