Five limited-overs specialists who are perfectly apt for Test cricket

Brutally aggressive players, be it with the bat or the ball are usually confined to white-ball cricket. These cricketers are tagged to be the ‘limited-overs specialists’. Very seldom, they get a chance to play in the whites in the early parts of their careers.

However, it is their immensely brimming talent which proves everyone wrong and helps shrug off the extra tags. Over the years, we’ve witnessed several cricketers take their white-ball game into the longest format and excel more than anyone could ever imagine. Andrew Symonds, David Warner, Rishabh Pant are some of the cricketers in the recent times who many thought would only play the shorter formats of the game.

But when confronted with an opportunity, they ended up proving the entire world wrong. In the present times, we have quite a few ‘limited-over specialist’ cricketers who turned the tables with their talent and could be perfectly apt for Test cricket as well.

Here are five cricketers who fit in perfectly for Test cricket:

1. Rohit Sharma

Rohit Sharma made his international debut all the way back in 2007. A young talent filled-up with immense talent had a start-stop career initially. But he made his mark after he was sent in to open the innings in limited-overs cricket in 2013. In the same year, he made his Test debut and didn’t let the opportunity go out of his hand. Rohit started off with two centuries in the first two games. However, he slowly began to fade away in the format. He didn’t get regular opportunities and failed to capitalize on them whenever he got one.

Furthermore, Rohit was widely looked at as a middle-order batsman in Tests despite the success as an opener in ODIs and T20Is. But with Murali Vijay and Shikhar Dhawan failing; India are having problems to find a reliable opening pair, Sharma is again into the contention and this time to open. Although the management doesn’t seem to have a keen interest in playing him at that spot, he could come good if provided with another opportunity.