Top 5 ODI wicketkeepers of all time

3. Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara was art, flair and class all wrapped into one

Matches: 404

Runs Scored: 14234

Average: 41.98

100s/50s: 25/93

Dismissals: 482

Kumar Sangakkara was an artist. And by any standard, he was one of the best batsmen to have ever come out of the Islands of Sri Lanka.

A couple of World Cup runner-up awards, many batting records to his name - if you look at it from a pure batting perspective, Sangakkara is probably the most complete batsman in this list. The numbers stack up so heavily in his favor that it is very hard to claim otherwise.

What goes against Sangakkara is the fact that he initially entered the team as a batsman, and only later in his career did he don the gloves. In effect, therefore, he wasn't a wicketkeeper-batsman throughout his career, but a wicketkeeper in one half and a specialist batsman in the other half.