Top 5 ODI finishers from Australia

#1 Michael Bevan

He was the player for whom the team 'finisher' was first coined and for a decade from 1994 to 2004, Michael Bevan became one of Australia's most important one-day players. Bevan played in 232 one-dayers for Australia during the period and played 144 games at the number 5 or 6 positions.

He was possibly the first player who really understood the role of a finisher in one-dayers and over the course of his superb career he defined it. Bevan had the skill of understanding the match situation fairly quickly and even back in the 1990s, he knew exactly how to approach the innings. It needs to be remembered that it was a time in which such large-scale data mining or analytics was not in vogue.

He could take a single of any delivery, he could bat with the tail and more importantly, Bevan knew when to hit a boundary so that the scoring rate remained sound. He finished plenty of chases for Australia over the cause of his career and in 144 games, he made 5429 runs at a superb average of 51.49. He had a strike rate of 76.82 but at the time when he played, it was an excellent rate of scoring.