Top 6 current batsmen who excel across all 3 formats of cricket

There are a very few batsmen left in cricket who are equally adept across all the three formats of the game. Each format requires a different skill set, and this is why teams, by and large have started picking players in accordance with the requirement of the format.With that being the case, the handful of players who are very important to the side irrespective of the format deserve huge credit for being versatile enough to be able to change their game depending on the format they are playing.These are the top 6 batsmen in world cricket currently who possess the necessary skills to play all 3 formats:

#6 Hashim Amla

The fact that Hashim Amla is the only batsman apart from AB de Villiers to be averaging over 50 in both Test and ODI cricket gives you a fair indication of his genuine class across formats. Amla’s illustrious numbers in Test cricket of over 6000 runs from 79 Tests at 51.32 leads to people overlooking his record in ODI cricket, which has been nothing short of a revelation.

From 95 matches, he has scored 4,621 runs at 54.36 and has a strike-rate just under 90. He is also the fastest to 4000 runs in the history of ODI cricket, having got there head of greats like Viv Richards and Brian Lara.

Even in T20 cricket of late, there have been signs of him finding his feet as he scored 185 runs from 5 matches at the recent World T20 in Bangladesh at an average of 37 and a strike-rate of 131.20 to lead South Africa’s charge to the semi-final of the competition before eventually bowing out to India.