5 Best Modern-Day All-Rounders in Cricket

All-rounders add balance to a team. They contribute to the team with their Batting, Bowling, and Fielding, which makes them utility players.

In this article, we will talk about the 5 best modern-day all-rounders who are still playing international cricket.

#5 Jason Holder

Former West Indies captain Jason Holder has been a crucial player since his debut in 2013. A bowling all-rounder, he has taken 382 wickets for the West Indies in 307 innings, combining all three formats.

With the bat, Jason Holder has scored 5525 runs in 271 innings for West Indies in all formats combined, and he has 3 centuries and 24 fifties to his name.

Holder is most successful in Test cricket, where he has an average of 29 with both bat and ball. He has taken more than 150 wickets and scored 4587 runs in 64 Test matches.

#4 Hardik Pandya

Hardik Pandya is India’s first-choice all-rounder in white-ball cricket. Because of his injuries, he has played only 11 Test matches. He last played a Test match in 2018. In the limited Test matches that Hardik played, he averaged 31 with both bat and ball.

Hardik Pandya has an average of 34 with the bat and a strike rate of 110 in 61 innings in ODIs. He has scored 1769 runs so far and taken 84 wickets with the ball in ODIs.

In T20Is, Hardik has scored 1348 runs in 71 innings at a strike rate of 140 and with the ball he has 73 wickets to his name.

#3 Shakib Al Hasan

Shakib Al Hasan is one of the most successful all-rounders in Test cricket and the ODI format, and his numbers are decent in T20I cricket as well. Shakib in ODIs has scored 7570 runs in 234 innings, and he has taken more than 300 wickets in ODIs 

In 67 Test matches, Shakib has taken 237 wickets, including 19 five-wicket hauls. He has also scored 5 centuries and 4505 runs with the bat.

#2 Ben Stokes

Ben Stokes, an all-rounder, has played a match-winning knock in the finals of the Cricket World Cup 2019 and the T20 World Cup 2022. Stokes is known to perform in big matches irrespective of the format because he has done it many times, especially in Test cricket, where he leads the English side.

Ben Stokes isn’t very successful in the T20Is, but in Tests, he has scored over 6K runs with 13 centuries to his name, and he has taken 198 wickets with the ball in 102 Tests. In the ODIs, too, Stokes has 3463 runs to his name with 5 centuries and 74 wickets from 114 matches.

#1 Ravindra Jadeja

Jadeja is a top all-rounder in world cricket; he has always been a wicket-taking bowler in Test cricket. Since his debut in 2018, he has taken his batting one step ahead of all the other all-rounders. Jadeja has averaged above 50 with the bat in Tests. Jadeja, with the ball, is nearing 300 Test wickets. He has played a significant role in India’s dominance at home and in away Tests. Jadeja’s batting contribution has been crucial for India.

In ODIs, Jadeja has scored 2756 runs with the bat from 132 innings at an average of 32. With the ball, he has taken 220 wickets, and his economy rate is below 5. In T20Is, too, he has been very economical with the ball, Taking 53 wickets in 66 matches.

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