All-rounder

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An all-rounder in cricket is a player who does not play either as a batsman or as a bowler , but regularly performs both positions. Although all bowlers have to play as batsmen (usually towards the end of the innings ) and some batsmen bowl occasionally, most cricketers specialize in one of the two disciplines.

Some wicket keepers are also very good batsmen, but are usually not referred to as all-rounders, but as wicketkeeper batsman.

Imran Khan , Shakib Al Hasan, George Hirst , Wilfred Rhodes , Chris Cairns , Shaun Pollock , Keith Miller , Garfield Sobers , Ian Botham , Jacques Kallis , Kapil Dev , Richard Hadlee , WG Grace , Shahid Afridi , Mushtaq Mohammad , Lance Klusener and Walter Hammond are among the best all-rounders in history.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Definition of all-rounders . sports definitions . Retrieved February 16, 2015.