Allrounder Feature

Garry Sobers has been named as Cricinfo's Greatest Allrounder

For most of the 17 years Hadlee was a Test cricketer, he singlehandedly carried his side's attack like no other bowler had managed before and only Muttiah Muralitharan has managed since. His action, as smooth as whipped cream, combined menace with meannes

When Wisden Cricketers' Almanack invited 100 experts around the world to vote for their five top players of the 20th century, a few grumbled that two names were shoo-ins: Don Bradman and Sir Garfield Sobers. Because if Bradman is the greatest batsman of a

In an era where most players are labeled as either batsmen or bowlers and handled accordingly, it is unlikely the game will ever throw up another Wilfred Rhodes

He was the first superstar of West Indies cricket. He bowled furiously, batted aggressively and was an outstanding fielder

Few cricketers have played the game and enjoyed as much respect as Richie Benaud without breaking down doors and throwing up flamboyantly eye-catching performances

Keith Miller had the golden touch whether hitting sixes into the stands, bowling unplayable offerings or thrilling people with his pastime

At his peak, Mike Procter's all-round talents were like a force of nature: roaring in like a hurricane, he was the type of fast bowler to give you goose bumps; his batting had all the lethal power of a volcanic eruption. But he also showed the finer skill

Kapil Dev is the finest all rounder to have played for India, and one of the best to have pulled on a pair of coloured trousers anywhere. He was more than a cricketer, he was an inspiration.

Suresh Menon profiles Vinoo Mankad, one of India greatest allrounders

While Alan Knott was keeping wicket for England in 65 successive Tests in the 1970s, there was not a gloveman in the world to touch him. But he was not merely a keeper of impish brilliance: Knott was England's lower-order not-so-secret weapon

Osman Samiuddin profile Wasim Akram in the latest Greatest Allrounder feature

Tony Greig is one of the most colourful and least pigeon-holeable cricketers in the modern game

Blessed with a loose-limbed effortlessness that adds elegance to anything he does, Shaun Pollock glides through his aesthetically soothing action with silky deception and wields a bat as if he were adding a flourish to an autograph

South Africa's leading Test run scorer by the age of 30, Jacques Kallis has established himself amongst the elite in world cricket - and there is plenty more to come

The first Monty to be a crowd favourite, M.A. Noble was the most complete player of the late 1800s and early 1900s

To restrict Imran Khan to mere cricket is to heap an injustice upon him. Undoubtedly, he was a giant on the field

At his peak, he was - for Englishmen of a certain generation - nothing less than a phenomenon

A dour customer capable of bursts of flair on the field, Ravi Shastri was a debonair, straight-speaking individual off it, qualities that didn't exactly endear him to an Indian society

In the first in our series of feature profiles of each of the 20 contenders for the title of the greatest allrounder, we begin with England's colossus, Andrew Flintoff. Click the link below to view the full feature